Innholdsfortegnelse for 11/12-11/25/18 i New York Magazine

1 Dozens of survivors of school shootings from the past 72 years allowed photographer Michael Avedon to document their scars for New York (“The Class of 1946–2018,” October 29–November 11). Zach Schonfeld tweeted, “We’re conditioned to shrug off injured survivors of mass shootings, because headlines usually focus on death counts.” Neil Redlien wrote, “Thank you, New York, for the best story I have read about the forgotten survivors of shootings. These people need way more attention in the press.” Amy J. Goldberg, surgery chair at Temple University’s medical school, responded, “It wasn’t that long ago that I was quoted in reference to the Sandy Hook shooting of schoolchildren, saying, ‘If people had been shown the autopsy photos of kids, the gun debate would be transformed.’ I have been a Trauma…

I Larissa Boyce was 10 when her coach, John Geddert, forced her legs into a split so hard she cried. He pulled her right leg up toward his torso, sending shooting pains through her groin and hamstrings, and he kept pulling. “Racking,” as it’s called, was common practice at the gym, but it was evidently too much for Larissa’s mother, who marched onto the mats and told Geddert to take his hands off her daughter. From then on, Larissa would train under Kathie Klages, a relatively low-key coach with unruly red hair and glasses at Michigan State University’s Spartan youth gymnastics team. Klages, like Geddert, considered herself a dear friend of an athletic trainer named Larry Nassar and sent her gymnasts to him. ¶ When, six years later, Larissa felt…

NYC & COMPANY—New York City’s official tourism organization—predicts that, all told, the city will welcome some 65 million tourists in 2018, up from 62.8 million the year before. Most of these millions of sightseers will be visiting the same places, from old hats like the Statue of Liberty and the Empire State Building to newer-ish stops like the 1,776-foot-tall One World Observatory. Many are destinations that your average beleaguered New Yorker—out of some city-dwelling cynicism or just a plain old aversion to crowds—tends to bypass (unless an in-law or great aunt is in town). With this in mind, we charted a slightly different course—for tourists planning their itineraries, as well as for locals who could use a reminder that people trek the globe to see these sites/sights and they shouldn’t…

“HEAD TO THE ELEVATED ACRE, at 55 Water Street in Manhattan, a hidden plaza tucked between two office buildings that has a very High Line feel to it. If you’re standing at the railing looking over the East River, you just have to turn to your left and there it is: the full span from Brooklyn to Manhattan. It almost feels like a diorama. On the Brooklyn side, there’s Empire Stores in Dumbo, which is also coincidentally on Water Street—it has a public roof park as well. But nobody ever goes up there, because the trip up to the roof is really weird. You’ve got to go out into the courtyard, then go up a series of stairs that scale the outside of the building. You almost feel like you’re…

Forgo the operatic Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street entrance. It’s grand, but it’ll cost you as much as a half-hour of antsy waiting. Use the 81st Street door one block to the south. Not only is there no wait for tickets, there are lots of empty restrooms. Just upstairs from this secret entrance is a revelation of painting, a room decorated with frescoes on all four sides. They date from 50 to 40 BCE and were found after being buried in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. If you’re hungry for old masters, visit perhaps the most beautiful painting in the Met. Giovanni di Paolo’s 1445 Creation of the World and the Expulsion From Paradise is a dazzling masterpiece of Italian Renaissance Sienese painting. For yet another type…

See the Tree From the Fika Café To get an aerial view with as few gawkers as possible, head to Saks Fifth Avenue: On each floor, the central window on the building’s north side will give you at least a partial view of the tree; inside the Fika café, on the fifth floor, a window-adjacent table gives a perfect view of the spruce shimmering in the sun. Tool Around With the Lady in Red Former NBC Rockefeller Center guide Sibyl Groff now leads Christmas-themed tours, detailing the famed tree’s history and the Rock’s Art Deco influence and stopping at the ‘21’ Club, known for its decades-old Salvation Army Christmas musical performances (tours $25–$75; nychristmas.com). Train With JoJo Starbuck Every Tuesday from October to April (except for peak holiday weeks), two-time…

Minetta Tavern The funky dry-aged $33 Black Label Burger gets all the attention, but its subtler sibling Minetta Burger is a contender. Plus: It’s $8 cheaper and comes with cheese. GREAT NEW YORK NOODLETOWN Yeah, yeah, yeah. Everyone with a hangover goes to this old, lovable late-night dive for the David Chang–approved ginger-scallion noodles. But the salty, greasy, compulsively edible “salt fish w. chicken fried rice” has a mysterious restorative zing of its own. JOE’S PIZZA The quintessential New York slice-joint slice. Skip the Sicilian squares and the fresh-mozzarella slices: They don’t have as high a turnover rate and thus aren’t as fresh as the “plain cheese” slices, or what aficionados call “regulars.” Grand Central Oyster Bar They could serve Mrs. Paul’s fish sticks in this architectural gem and get…

“THIS IS THE WEIRDEST project we’ve ever done,” says Momofuku’s David Chang, regarding his new takeout spot Bang Bar. What’s weird about it is: (a) It’s located at the so-called Shops at Columbus Circle at the Time Warner Center, hard by a Solstice Sunglasses; (b) its focus is griddled flatbreads Chang calls “bang,” which are filled with meats carved off vertical spits; and (c) one of these carved meats that gets wrapped up in a bang along with mustard and American cheese is mortadella. So yes, you could say Dave Chang is selling bologna sandwiches for breakfast in a mall. Which is not to suggest they aren’t the best bologna sandwiches you’ve ever had for breakfast in a mall, or anywhere else, for that matter. On the menu at Bang…

AT ETERNITY’S GATE, Julian Schnabel’s don’t-call-it-a-biopic on Vincent van Gogh, is a course correction, a different look at the artist that overturns some long-held, but inaccurate, assumptions perpetuated through history (and by lots of other more on-the-nose van Gogh movies, including the 1956 Kirk Douglas stinker, Lust for Life). On the phone with Jerry Saltz, Schnabel addressed a few common myths. TRUE OR FALSE? He was crazy. FALSE: “I don’t think he was crazy at all, and these myths that have been propagated are a disservice—[people] think artists have to be nuts to be good. If you really look at [van Gogh’s] paintings, they’re not the works of a madman.” TRUE OR FALSE? He died a failure. FALSE: “I didn’t think he was failed artist. He was doing exactly what…

A Star Is Born (1937, 1954, and 1976) Predecessors to the buzzed-about Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga charmer. Chungking Express (1994) The film that made Wong Kar-wai an icon. City Lights (1931) A lovable silent film showcasing the steadfast talent of Charlie Chaplin. Godzilla films (1954, 1955, 1956, 1964, 1967, 1974, and 1973) Where else could you find seven Godzilla films in one place? Westworld (1973) While you wait for season three of the eponymous HBO series.…

THE YEAR IS 2019. California’s new governor, Gavin Newsom, recently elected on a platform that included support for the creation of a single-payer health-care system, now must figure out how to enact it. A prior nonpartisan analysis priced it at $400 billion per year—twice the state’s current budget. There appears to be no way to finance such a plan without staggering new taxes, making California a magnet for those with chronic illnesses just as its tax rates send younger, healthier Californians house-hunting in Nevada and big tech employers consider leaving the state. ¶ But Newsom is not alone. Other governors have made similar promises, and Newsom calls together the executives of the most ideologically like-minded states—Oregon, Washington, New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maryland. What if they banded to create a sole…

BROADWAY AND Pay Less for Tickets by Wearing Pink (and Other Bargain Approaches) If You’re Undeterred by Blizzards … The harder it is to get to midtown, the easier it is for you to get a ticket, especially to shows that tend to sell out. Shows sometimes offer weather-related discounts, which you can find by checking sites like Playbill’s. If You Own a Lot of Pink … In a wink to the dress code of the Plastics, Mean Girls 1 offers rush tickets to people wearing pink on Wednesdays starting at 10. Or Just Go See The Band’s Visit 2 Ticket sales went up nearly 400 percent in the 24 hours after the show swept the Tonys. With some distance from the awards, it’s now possible to…

Statue of Liberty 1 Main St., PH This Dumbo space sees Lady Liberty through nearly floor-to-ceiling windows. Woolworth Building 8 Spruce St., No. 73R This Frank Gehry building’s sundeck has a direct view of Cass Gilbert’s tower. Chrysler Building 310 E. 46th St., PHJ A 1,886-square-foot terrace has 360-degree views of the city’s skyline. Central Park 25 Columbus Cir., No. 72B There are views of Central Park from every single room in this 3,491-square-foot duplex.…

CENTURY 21 “The downtown store has the best Calvin Klein lingerie. It feels like it’s from a decade ago, which I love.” —Batsheva Hay, designer BERGDORF GOODMAN “Their shoe department stocks Chanel ballet flats in a size 42—perfect for my huge English feet.” —Plum Sykes, writer BLOOMINGDALE’S “I buy my hard-to-find white Le Creuset cast-iron pots from their home department.” —Stephen Sills, designer BARNEYS “The ninth floor has one of the city’s best selections of high-end office supplies.” —Alyssa Kapito, designer SAKS FIFTH AVENUE “The XL kids’ Burberry trenches fit me—they’re half the price of the adult-size version.” —Caroline Vazzana, fashion editor…

ON A SUNDAY AFTERNOON in September, Olivia Jaimes was hiding in a storage closet at the Columbus Metropolitan Library in Columbus, Ohio. She’d been in there for two hours, watching episodes of The Good Place on her laptop and dressed like a chic fugitive—sunglasses, hair beneath a hoodie, face obscured by a scarf. In a few minutes, she would emerge to greet a crowd of admirers as the closing act of the Cartoon Crossroads Columbus comic convention, her first and only public appearance to date. The library wasn’t really built for staged events, though, so the musty closet was the closest thing to a greenroom where a reclusive headliner could take shelter. It was filled with stuffed animals and puppets for the children’s section of the library, and an idea…

REPRESENTATIVE BARBARA LEE of California had spent the morning on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, giving a speech—word for word—that she’d given 17 years ago. “Let’s just pause … and think through the implications of our actions today, so that this does not spiral out of control.” She’d first uttered those words on the House floor back in September 2001, when she opposed the Authorization for Use of Military Force, which granted President George W. Bush—and every president who’s come after him—the authority to go to war without congressional approval. Lee was just three years into her role representing her Oakland district when she became the only member of Congress to oppose its passage. As she sat at a table in the Rayburn room of the House…

Where are you headed? Home. I live across the street, in the Trump Tower. Though my French poodle, Madam, seems to think we live here, in Bergdorf ’s. Whenever we’re walking, she begins pulling me toward the store. Everyone at Bergdorf ’s loves Madam. Like who? Everyone there is family. There’s Françoise from the sixth floor, who has helped me forever. Michael, the director of restaurants, who knows my order: scallops. Annie, who once found a piece for me that was missing from my Armani coat. Nobody, not even Armani, could find it. She said, “Joan, I will find it for you.” And she did: in Milano, I believe. Really, Bergdorf ’s is the total picture. Have you started your Christmas shopping? Of course. Naturally, I do most of my…

Few people know this, but as of 2016, the Empire State Building started admitting the first 100 visitors before the official opening of 8 a.m. The doors open 30 minutes before sunrise—which is, for example, at 6:49 a.m. on November 20. The line is usually short, and you can stay as long as you want. As the minutes pass, you can see offices come alive; those interested can photograph the buildings as the gray hues give way to vibrant light.…

CROWN TICKETS usually book up months in advance. But sometimes you can get lucky. Check statuecruises.com in case of cancellations, or show up first thing in the morning at the ferries in Battery Park or Liberty State Park and check with the ticket office. If you do buy in advance, book the last time slot of the day (1 p.m. in the fall, winter, and spring, and 3 p.m. in the summer). The crowds are thinner because many people tend to get the crown out of the way in the morning. In general, the offseason—late fall, winter (except December), and early spring—are better times to visit the crown than during the summer. It’s not only that the space is extra crowded in July—it also just gets very steamy up there.…

BIRDER JEFFREY WARD “Using an Audubon Society field guide will help you identify the most birds. So will a really nice pair of Swarovski binoculars. But even with those things, it’s a lot of looking. If you’re patient, there’s a lot to see. This year, I’ve seen over 200 species: cerulean warblers, orange-crowned warblers, Kirtland’s warblers.” Ghost Hunter, PETE KANDEL “There’s a surprising amount of paranormal activity in the park, so if you want to find it, your best bet is to stop at Cleopatra’s Needle. We’ve had a lot of luck there. Once, we heard an unexplained grunt on an EVP recorder.” Forager STEVE BRILL “Near the 79th Street overpass, look for curly dock, a member of the buckwheat family; its leaves add a lemony taste to tofu or…

“THERE’S REALLY NOT a bad seat in the house, but I particularly like the third mezz. Tickets are not that expensive, and it’s great for viewing our precision choreography from a bird’s-eye view. If you’re more toward the edge of the aisle, you see all the digital mapping on all the walls; it feels like you’re touching the ceiling. But if you want to get a more global view, sit in the center, which is seats 401 to 413. “We have a new finale this year called ‘Christmas Lights,’ which features 100 drones with twinkling lights. They dance on top of the Rockettes and the band car of the orchestra. They don’t go into the audience, but it feels like they do; that’s why it’s great to sit where you…

THE ACTOR WILLEM DAFOE and I knew each other back in the early 1980s, when he was already an outstanding actor at the downtown avant-garde Performing Garage and I was someone trying to be an artist—or anything—in that same growing scene. But we hadn’t seen much of one another before we sat down to talk about his riveting performance in At Eternity’s Gate, Julian Schnabel’s new movie about the last days of Vincent van Gogh, in which Dafoe plays the artist less as the tortured legend he has become in the popular imagination and more as the seeking, striving, ecstatic man he was in life. accumulate and then boom—it becomes something. And it’s not a good likeness, but it captures the soul, captures the experience of those shoes, and the…

“In my lifetime, the most unfairly maligned and dynamic person to rest their head in the White House was not an American president. It was Michelle Obama. I’m excited for Obama’s memoir Becoming (Crown; November 13), because I do not know of another American who has publicly withstood the worst of America while consistently being expected to conjure the ‘best’ of themselves. I’m interested in who Michelle Obama thinks she was before the eight-year detour into the White House. Who was she becoming? Who did she become? I cannot wait to read this book. It feels like an event.”…