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1 Bill de Blasio appeared on the latest cover of New York Magazine, along with our prediction that he “is going to be mayor again, whether you like it or not”— an outcome that seemed even more certain after he routed Sal Albanese in the September 12 primary (“In Conversation: Bill de Blasio,” September 4–17 ). While the cover image raised eyebrows—“I’m going to need some convincing that Andrew Cuomo didn’t design this cover himself,” tweeted BuzzFeed’s Saeed Jones—many weighed in on what the mayor told interviewer Chris Smith. For the New York Times, William Neuman wrote, “Poor Bill de Blasio—so good at being mayor and so misunderstood … As he appears to be cruising toward a likely reelection without strong opponents, [his tone] is remarkably both self-aggrandizing and self-pitying.”…

RIGHT NOW, at your fingertips, you have access to the interior monologue of the president of the United States—or, as former press secretary Sean Spicer called @realDonaldTrump’s digital feed, “official statements.” Unless, that is, you’re blocked. Trump and his staff have now stopped dozens of citizens from reading his dispatches, seemingly because they disagree with or insulted him. Several Twitter users (including those at right marked with an * ) have filed a lawsuit with Columbia’s Knight First Amendment Institute, claiming a violation of their right to free speech. The DOJ has counterargued that tweeting is a modern presidential duty and you can’t sue the president for doing his job. New York asked those #BlockedByTrump about the experience. The White House had no comment for this story, on Twitter or…

LOCATION VISITED: 42-02 Northern Blvd., Long Island City ORIGIN STORY: Founded in 1988 as Bogopa (Korean for “yearning for you,” and now the parent-company name) by Francis An, a Korean-born immigrant who arrived in New York via Argentina. When he couldn’t find the Latino and Korean ingredients he needed, he opened his first store, in Corona. BRANCHES: 24 in the tristate area, including 15 in Queens, Brooklyn, and the Bronx. IN A NUTSHELL: The Long Island City location distinguishes itself by providing one-stop shopping for just about everyone, with the widest variety and greatest number of international foods you’ve probably ever seen in one place, plus serious meat, produce, and seafood departments spread out over 75,000 square feet of a former Pathmark. Perhaps most exotic for the cloistered Manhattan shopper:…

LOCATION VISITED: 97-10 Queens Blvd., Rego Park FOUNDED: Born from an importing company launched by Uzbek father-and-son team Sam and Eduard Shnayder, the first shop opened in 2000 in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. BRANCHES: Six citywide, one in New Jersey, two in Philly, with Miami and two more tristate locations on the way (plus an outpost of Gourmanoff, the high-end spinoff known for such amenities as that Brighton Beach luxury, valet parking). IN A NUTSHELL: As befits a community inhabited by immigrants from all corners of the former Soviet Union, this solitary Queens outpost of the southern-Brooklyn-based chain has everything an expat could hunger for, from Lithuanian black bread to Russian black caviar, plus Georgian tkemali, Turkish beer, Siberian pelmeni, Bulgarian white cheese, Azerbaijani eggplant salad, and Polish poppyseed rolls. Although…

LOCATION VISITED: 8121 New Utrecht Ave., Bensonhurst FOUNDED: The first Jmart opened inside Flushing’s New World Mall in 2010, followed by this Brooklyn branch in June; a second Queens location is being planned. IN A NUTSHELL: It’s got the bones of the sprawling, surburban-size Waldbaum’s it once was, complete with parking lot and spacious spick-and-span aisles. Inside, it’s all Chinatown—especially the bountiful produce department and writhing, squirming seafood section. Plus: miles of noodles (instant, dried, and fresh); frozen buns and dumplings; myriad varieties of rice by the box, the bag, and even the 49-cents-a-pound barrel. The mix of grocery items is 60 percent Asian (mostly Chinese) and 40 percent Western, according to a manager. BEST SELLERS: Gai lan (Chinese broccoli), fresh salmon. YOU WON’T FIND THIS AT WHOLE FOODS: Jellyfish…

Do you live in the neighborhood? We travel here from Brooklyn for Korean food. What are you shopping for? Perilla leaves. We coat them with soy sauce and spices—green onion, garlic, hot red pepper—and let them ferment a couple days. The cucumber is to put in cold noodles. The radish is for kimchee. That’s a lot of vegetables. I used to eat meat, but my daughter read a book. I’m diabetic, trying to be vegetarian, but it’s hard to do alone. So my family’s trying to be vegetarian too. Our two daughters, Janet and Ann, live with us. They make a Korean sauce they sell at Whole Foods called We Rub You.…

The Maker Mackenzie McAlpin PHILADELPHIA “My mom made minis out of polymer clay, starting in the ’80s—holiday stuff: Santa Clauses, Valentine’s hearts. Four years ago, the coffee shop where I worked had an art show. The owner asked us to make something that reminded us of our youth. I thought of my mom, who’d recently passed away, and I decided to make a miniature version of my orange tabby cat. I loved it. I started making more contemporary things than what my mom made. The boob pot by Isaac Nichols. Big Gulps, iPhones. Julia Bornefeld art, an Ai Weiwei urn. A miniature of a girl in sweats taking pictures of her cats. I sell them online. I work full-time, but I could make this my sole source of income if…

You’ll need a quail egg. RECIPE (Makes five) 1/3 cup flour 1 tsp. sugar 1 quail egg 2 tbsp. milk 1 tbsp. butter 1 pinch yeast 25 nonpareil sprinkles Roll dough into dollops the size of shirt buttons, cut holes with a straw, and cook for 10 seconds in a pot of boiling-hot canola oil, over a tea light, until brown. IN 2014, Jay Holzer, then head of production at recipe video site Tastemade, called the company’s Tokyo office and asked them to send a box of tiny props—pots, pans, knives—so they could try their hand at the tiny-recipe videos that were becoming popular in Japan at the time. Their versions—a mini stack of pancakes, a tiny hamburger, a plate of spaghetti—became so beloved that an entire channel, Tiny Kitchen, was…

I Get the Bag Gucci Mane, feat. Migos This collaboration between Mane and Migos (the latter having released “Bad and Boujee”) has hit 4 million weekly streams. Bank Account 21 Savage  The Atlanta rapper released his debut this year; this song reached No. 4 on Spotify’s weekly Top 200. X Lil Uzi Vert Lil Uzi Vert has four songs currently on RapCaviar, including this and the hit “XO Tour Llif3” (see below). Perplexing Pegasus Rae Sremmurd This duo from Tupelo, Mississippi, also had the 2016 hit “Black Beatles,” which reached No. 1 on Billboard’s “Hot 100.” Roll in Peace Kodak Black, feat. XXXTentacion Black’s collaboration with controversial rapper XXXTentacion currently has over 8 million YouTube views. Fuck Love XXXTENTACION  One of two XXXTentacion songs now in Spotify’s Viral Top 50;…

January 10, 1977 Demographers predict the millennial baby-boom. “The baby bust has, of course, affected all segments of American society and it has been in progress since 1957, the year that is considered the official climax of the post–World War II baby-boom. From that date forward, family size began to shrink, as did the national birthrate, which fell from 25.3 in 1957 to 17.5 in 1968 to 14.8 in 1975. Thus, given the precedents, one might predict that the future of babies in America is dim … But according to the boom theorists, this is far from what is going to happen. Demographer Richard Easterlin, professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania and father of today’s most accepted baby-boom theory, says, ‘The trend is now going to reverse itself.’”…

SPRAWLING FROM Bushwick to Bedford, where Ralph Lauren served up burgers and tweeds at his private garage in Westchester, New York Fashion Week gave the stiletto crowd quite a workout. Not only did the shows seem to pay unusual homage to the city, with presentations held in gyms, museums, and a garden, but the best also dug into American culture, from its palmy dreams to its darker, tougher depths. Here, a glance at the most remarkable moments and fashion of the spring 2018 collections. WITH MORE SHOWS shifting uptown this season—RACHEL COMEY at Flora Bar at the Met Breuer, Oscar de la Renta at Sotheby’s, Derek Lam at the Pool at the former Four Seasons—the collections seemed to acquire more polish. This was certainly Comey’s most sophisticated collection to date:…

LIGHTNING ROUND Age: 70. Born in: Queens. “I’ve lived in all five boroughs, even Staten Island!” Favorite place to bike: Marcus Garvey Park. Favorite TV show: Maury. Romantic partner? “I’m not romantic these days, no ma’am.” Former job: “I was a certified nurse assistant.” Church: Mother AME Zion Church. Nice bike! When I saw someone else riding an electric bike a few years ago, I thought, I have to have this. My three sons said I’d get hurt, and yes, I had a couple of falls in the beginning. But now I’m riding almost every day and doing fine. I get so many people stopping me, and they say, “Look at Grandma, coming through on her bike!” I put my Pomeranian, Simba, in the…

How long have you worked at Food Bazaar? Twenty-four years at various branches, and at this store since it opened three years ago. What do you like about working here? I always learn a lot. I’m from Ecuador, and I used to work in Corona, where I cut meat a certain way for mostly Hispanic customers. When I came here, I had to learn how to cut for Korean customers; they like short ribs cut L.A. style, thin across the bones. What’s your favorite cut of meat? A really good rib-eye steak. What about an underrated cut of beef? Picanha, otherwise known as top-sirloin cap. Brazilians love this cut. It’s great on the grill, since it has the right amount of fat to give it amazing flavor. How do you…

What do you like about shopping here? They have everything I need, and there’s the cultural part—I’m Russian and Turkish. What are you buying? Ground turkey and beef: Turkish people eat halal and kosher, without pork. This is Russian pasta; my son loves it. I make it with meat tomato sauce. Greek feta, because it’s similar to Turkish. Beef salami. Russian wheat flour called Makfa to make cakes. And rice for plov, which I make with dried fruits and meat. What’s the Philly cream cheese for? Spreading on bagels.…

What’s your main responsibility? Making sure that everything looks right, that every item is put back in its proper place. What’s your favorite thing to eat at Jmart? Fruit. There’s so many types I’ve never tried before—like jackfruit, which tastes like bubble gum. Any recent security breaches? Four teenage shoplifters on skateboards rode down this aisle the other day. You mean the beer aisle? What’d they get? No beer; they were after those little bottles of milk, you know, flavored milks. Sounds like a pretty tough gang. Who else do you have to be on the lookout for? Old ladies. They mess up the displays and sample everything, which isn’t allowed. And they’re always fighting for the freshest stuff. Three of them were just ripping cauliflower out of a box…

We asked Sunny Lee, chef-owner of the forthcoming Williamsburg restaurant Ajjuma, what to buy at H Mart. “One of my favorite products is a Korean gochujang (fermented hot-chile paste) imported by T-Up Trading Inc. It’s the one I prefer to use for the spicy-sticky squid snack I will be making for Ajjuma. It isn’t overly sweet like most gochujang and has great heat and depth of flavor. I actually wasn’t a big fan of gochujang until I came across this particular product.”…

DRIVE A PETITE CAR In March, New York City voted to allocate hundreds of public parking spaces to car-share services like Car2Go, whose vehicles are a mere 106 inches long—about half the size of your average sedan (car2go.com). RENT A MICRO-APARTMENT  Ollie at Carmel Place, New York’s first all-micro-unit building, opened in Kips Bay in 2016. A second location will soon open in Long Island City, and registration for the $2,200-or-so-a-month shared micro-suites (with space-saving Murphy beds and tuck-away tables) begins in early 2018 (ollie.co). RESCUE A FOUR-AND-A-HALF-INCH TURTLE In 1975, the FDA banned the sale of turtles with shells under four inches over salmonella concerns, meaning those adorable four-inch turtles being sold near Canal Street are, sadly, illegal. Instead, adopt a slightly larger one (legally) from the Turtle Rescue…

“PEOPLE OFTEN SAY our love of miniatures is about control—that we find pleasure in being large and able to manipulate the small. We learn it as children, with doll-houses—you are empowered to put the bed in the bedroom, or put the toilet in the bedroom, if you want. I think there is something to that, but in terms of our psycho-emotional relationship to tiny things, I think it relates to the way you feel when you’re in a cathedral. The enormity and intricate detail of the space are awe-inspiring, and humans can experience a flipped version of that awe when looking at meticulously reproduced tiny things. That something can be that small is a wonder.”…

When is terrine of foie gras not terrine of foie gras? When it’s molded to resemble the Swiss cheese Tête de Moine, twice frozen, power-drilled down its center in order to fit onto the rustic cheese-slicing gizmo called a girolle, and shaved into dozens of razor-thin petals to form what looks like a maitake mushroom or maybe an elaborate beige bow. This is how it’s done at the Pool, Rich Torrisi’s seafood redo of The Four Seasons’ Pool Room. Initially, he thought it was too precious and showy for his light, streamlined menu, but he and chef de cuisine Joe Cash came up with a suitable presentation: on a frozen glass cube meant to be passed around the table, the foie spread onto orange “chips” and generally devoured with the…

Lil Uzi Vert Born Symere Woods, Lil Uzi Vert is a rapper whose stage name combines “Vert,” as in vertical, with “Lil Uzi,” a nickname given him by an admirer describing his rapid-fire delivery. “Lil” has been a popular hip-hop nickname at least as far back as Lil’ Troy in 1988. Lil Peep Lil Peep is the stage name of 20-year-old Gustav Ahr from Long Beach, New York. Peep has found success with a style of emo-saturated rap that recalls late-’90s nu-metal bands such as Linkin Park and Korn. His hits include “Awful Things.” He also plays the trombone. “Li’l Folks” The predecessor to “Peanuts,” “Li’l Folks” was a comic strip created by a then-24-year-old Charles M. Schulz. Several characters were inchoate versions of “Peanuts” stalwarts, including a boy who…

COLORS is out October 13. “FOR THIS ALBUM, I wanted to make something that was uplifting, had a lot of energy, and made you want to sing along. How do you do that legitimately, from a real musical place? You can go through the motions, but that doesn’t always make for inspiring music. Colors is not really related to other records I’ve made. I had to invent a new formula. The difference between this album and [2014’s acoustic] Morning Phase was the difference between playing a team sport and taking a long hike through the middle of nowhere by yourself. [Colors producer] Greg Kurstin has played with me for years, but this is the first time we sat down to write songs together. I write a lot on my own,…

NICOLE KRAUSS’S NEW NOVEL, Forest Dark, her fourth, is split into two narratives about New Yorkers who go to Israel in search of epiphanies. One is a wealthy 68-year-old Manhattan lawyer named Jules Epstein, recently retired and divorced and a father of three. The other is a 39-year-old Brooklyn novelist named Nicole, mother of two boys and spouse in a marriage that’s entered a terminal stage. Both characters pass through the Tel Aviv Hilton; both go to the desert; both are interested in trees; both regard the moments of their own conception, each in Israel, with a sense of wonder; both consider the conventional arcs of their lives to be at odds with their true natures; both yearn to return to a state resembling childhood. Beyond that, the narratives don’t…

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What do you like about Food Bazaar? Everything. When I lived in Boston, I went to H Mart for Asian food, Star Market for regular food, lots of specialists, fishmongers. I discovered Food Bazaar last summer, when I was doing an internship. Now I’m obsessed with this place. I tell everyone I know, “You should move to LIC and shop at Food Bazaar.” Are you sure you’re not the owner of Food Bazaar? No, I just love talking about this place. Ask my wife. What have you got there? New York Kimchi, dry-aged steaks—today’s my birthdaymultigrain rice, belt fish, the Korean rice wine makgeolli, yogurt, ground pork. Produce is priced very competitively. When’s the best time to shop, other than on your birthday? It’s open 24 hours, so sometimes I…

When you think of all the blinis that need stuffing and dumplings that require dipping, you understand the integral role that dairy—specifically sour cream and farmer cheese—plays in Russian culinary life. Fittingly, a great portion of the dairy aisle at NetCost is devoted to those two items. A closer inspection, though, reveals a third product that’s just as important if not as well known hereabouts: tvorog, a sort of drier, more soulful precursor to today’s cottage cheese. No less an authority than Anne Mendelson, author of the scholarly Milk, is a fan, calling it “the most consistently good commercial fresh cheese that I know.” She makes attempting a Russian Easter cake or even a noodle kugel without it sound like the height of folly. Tvorog, we’ve learned, is also delicious…

LOCATION VISITED: 156-40 Northern Blvd., Murray Hill, Queens ORIGIN STORY: Launched in 1982 in Woodside, Queens, as Han Ah Reum, which means “one arm full of groceries” in Korean. The phrase has become the parent-company name of the H Mart brand, plus its Super H Mart and M2M affiliates. BRANCHES: 59 nationally, including ten in New York and four in Flushing alone (including this one in the Murray Hill subsection). Manhattan has one in Koreatown and another under way at 2828 Broadway in Manhattan Valley. IN A NUTSHELL: Situated in the back of a shopping center and across the street from an IHOP, this location has the vibe of a strip-mall supermarket in Anywhere, USA—until you walk in and are confronted with three-dozen kinds of rice cookers and a “Let’s…

Gulliver’s Gate (216 W. 44th St.) This 50,000-square-foot museum opened this summer to showcase work from a global cast of miniature-makers who built tiny replicas of landmarks from their home countries. Panorama of the City of New York at the Queens Museum (Flushing Meadows–Corona Park) The model of the city was built at a scale of 1:1,200 and includes every street and park and each of the city’s 895,000 buildings constructed prior to 1992, when it was last updated. Tiny Dollhouse (314 E. 78th St.) The last New York shop dedicated just to dollhouse wares sells everything from miniature chandeliers to bags of M&Ms. Museum of the City of New York (1220 Fifth Ave.) Carrie Walter Stettheimer’s fastidious 12-room dollhouse includes a three-inch Nude Descending a Staircase, crafted for…

Third millennium B.C.: Ancient Egyptians are buried in tombs with tiny wooden models of their furnishings, boats, and livestock, to ensure comfort in the afterlife. 1400s: Painters like Jean Fouquet paint early miniature portraits, measuring 7.5 centimeters across. 1600s: A manufacturing center in Nuremberg, Germany, makes early dollhouses, with cooking pots, brooms, and hearths, to teach young girls how to manage a house. 1700s: In England, wealthy families commission carpenters to build tiny replicas of their lavish homes. These so-called Baby Houses contain diminutive versions of the owners’ luxury wooden furniture and family heirlooms. 1851: To show visitors the entire world at one time and place, the Crystal Palace at the London World’s Fair displays a wide range of miniatures, from tea sets and pistols to models of Niagara Falls…

BACK TO THE TRAP HOUSE debuted in 2007 at No. 57 on Billboard’s “Top 200,” selling fewer than 32,000 copies in its first week. My major-label debut was a dud. I knew those beats were not suited to my style. I’d taken too much outside advice. I should have stood up for myself and put out the album I wanted. The label planned on following the “Freaky Gurl” remix with “I Know Why,” featuring Pimp C, Rich Boy, and Blaze1—the song Polow and I had been working on when he said Waka [Flocka Flame] was going to be a star. But two weeks before the album came out Pimp C died. Something about a sleep-apnea disorder, compounded by drinking lean [soda mixed with codeine-based cough medicine]. My own habits with…

You’ve Got Mail (Amazon Prime) No movie has stronger fall vibes than this Nora Ephron rom-com set in New York City (above). Watch with a cup of mulled cider and a cozy blanket. The Village (Netflix) This M. Night Shyamalan thriller about an isolated rural community and the “monsters” that stalk its surrounding woods hits the season in two ways. It’s creepy enough to watch in the lead-up to Halloween, but not so frightening that you forget to appreciate all those fall colors. The Trouble With Harry (Amazon, iTunes rental) A killer New England foliage tour disguised as a black comedy, this 1955 film about a dead body that won’t stay buried is Alfred Hitchcock’s lighter take on the murder mystery. Dead Poets Society (Netflix) No matter your age, it’s…