Innholdsfortegnelse for June 8-21, 2020 i New York Magazine

The killing of George Floyd magnified the worst excesses of police brutality and set off protests and demonstrations that have only intensified. Here, we listen to the voices of the people out in the streets and those who will help the country chart a path forward, including Ilhan Omar on how Minneapolis’s inequality was a tinderbox, John Lewis on the necessity of optimism, shop owners commited to staying open for their community, the protesters who’ve been galvanized by what they’re seeing, the police officers they’re marching against, and Stacey Abrams, Cory Booker, and Maxine Waters on where we go from here. 16…

JOHN LEWIS HAS SEEN a lot in his 80 years, from a modest youth as the third of ten children in an Alabama sharecropping family, to a brutal and exhilarating early adulthood in the civil-rights movement, to his storied tenure in Congress, where he’s represented Georgia’s Fifth Congressional District since 1987. But his later years have been marked by novelty, much of it lamentable: the election of Donald Trump, who he believes is the worst president for civil rights in his lifetime, and a more intimate struggle—his diagnosis in December with stage-four pancreatic cancer. Neither the ups nor the downs have much swayed his sense of optimism. Even this latest test—the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police and the protests, rioting, and often violent police crackdown that followed—has engendered…

YOU’D NEVER KNOW, walking by the 19th-century factory building in Brooklyn’s Clinton Hill, that there is a lush and shady oasis, alive and secluded, just behind its walls. The leafy compound is planted with dogwood, Japanese maples, azaleas, rhododendrons, and ferns, but it’s the decades-old twisted, climbing, implacable wisteria that defines this communal Eden that Yolande Milan Batteau, an artist and designer, shares with two other families. Batteau first rented a basement space—which she calls her “cave”—on the property as her studio in 2004. That was just the beginning of her real-estate takeover. Over the next several years, she annexed the entire wisteria-covered triplex across the garden. Today, she and her 17-year-old daughter, Leilani, and their two dogs, Kitsune and Misaki, live in a bucolic confluence of studio and residential…

SHATIA DAVIS Seven years in the Postal Service, lives in Far Rockaway, Queens How has it been lately? Really hard. I do have two kids at home. One is a newborn; she just turned 8 months. My other daughter is 5. I work six days a week, 12 hours a day. By the time I get home, it’s late. Then I have to do everything I have to do and come back the next day. I’m scared. My daughter has asthma. I know a lot of people that have passed away from the virus. I just wish it would go away. I wish people would use their masks. The amount of packages going out is crazy, but I’d rather people order online than go to the stores. How many a…

After fumbling about our tiny, straitjacket kitchen for two months, we found Ignacio Mattos’s “Take Us Home” meal-kit box to be a gourmet godsend. High marks for the quality and freshness of ingredients, the variety of foods, and just enough required prep work to make us feel useful. NOTE: For less of a commitment, the restaurant just started offering a limited à la carte menu for pickup and delivery via Caviar. OPEN: Boxes are available to preorder a week in advance for Wednesday pickup or delivery. PRICES: $195 plus $30 for delivery.…

DEATH WAS FINE TO think about, but to get too close I felt would infect me somehow. It would change me. Walter’s dead body had been bad enough, and I hadn’t seen him looking dead for very long. One moment his body was there, he was alive inside of it, and the next moment he wasn’t. It was horrifying, just that. If I’d found Magda mangled and bloodied, I would have had a nervous attack. It might spoil my mind, I thought. I could go crazy. And I couldn’t afford to do that. I had to take care of Charlie. My garden was already growing. And who was I? I was just one person, a woman of 72. Could it be? Was I so old? I had problems of my…

1 New York’s latest issue was dedicated to listening to the very old. Many readers responded to the special issue by emphasizing the importance of their elderly friends and family. Andie MacDowell wrote, “It’s been interesting to watch how people speak about older people during the pandemic. I have felt in the last few years that society no longer respected the elderly—not in the way that I was taught as a child. I hope that we come through this with a deep respect and reverence towards our elderly.” @lisascrandall added, “We didn’t do nearly enough to protect them—it’s maybe one of our greatest failures during this pandemic.” On Instagram, @rlaarthur wrote, “Anything I’ve ever learned that was worth knowing, I learned from someone older than me.” In the accompanying essay,…

I HAVE THIS PET THEORY about book recommendations. They feel good to solicit, good to mete out, but someone at some point has to get down to the business of reading. And there, between giving and receiving, lies a great gulf. No one can quite account for what happens—reading, hopefully, but you never can be sure. It’s that time again. Race is happening. Never mind that race is always happening, but it is especially happening now, urgently happening, and God help you if you’re not paying attention (though history will probably pardon your procrastination, for history too is belated). I should clarify that “happening” here indicates an agreement, a collective bargain that something has risen to the level of a thing by degrees of egregiousness or luck. It applies to…

Youth Protesters In Minneapolis, they peer into the future, and the abyss. Essence, 20 I woke up at 5:30 a.m., watched the video, and couldn’t go back to sleep. I’m black—that could’ve been anyone. My friends hit me up, and we went to the Third Precinct in Minneapolis. I didn’t care about the coronavirus, honestly. The shutdown has people pent up and aggravated, but most of all they’re tired of the same situations and outcomes. The racism in Minnesota, being tired of it, is bigger than being sick. Why does it matter if you can die at the hand of the police anyways? It’s almost like picking the lesser of evils. Sucdi, 24 I haven’t slept for more than three hours in two days. My friend got hit with a…

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ROSE MATHEWS 14 years, lives in Ozone Park, Queens THOMAS LAM 19 years, lives in Fresh Meadows, Queens What is your favorite part of the job? Well, I’m the No. 1 trainer in the nation. It makes me proud to help people become better postal workers. And the second-best trainer in the nation is my best and dearest friend. She’s like a sister to me. I’m retiring in two days, so now she’ll be the No. 1. NANCY L. COOPER 32 years, lives in Jamaica, Queens LATISHA HOWARD-BUSSEY Seven years, lives in Springfield Gardens, Queens What is your route? Route 40, which I’ve been on since 1987. I’m actually the senior carrier now. Took 21 years of getting bumped up as guys retired. What it means is nothing, I’ll tell…

SHIRLEY is available for streaming. A DECADE AGO, ON a warm night in May, a young woman took off her dress in the atrium of the Museum of Modern Art. A murmur rose from the startled crowd. For an exhilarating moment, she stood there naked. In front of her, the renowned performance artist Marina Abramovic sat in a wooden chair, her head bowed, her white dress stretching all the way from her neck to the floor. Abramovic had been sitting in that chair for two and a half months. Thousands of visitors had taken turns sitting across from her, bathing in her gaze. But the young woman would never get a chance to take part in this singular ritual. As she began to sit, a phalanx of guards surrounded her,…

A LITTLE MORE THAN a year ago, President Trump made one of the most terrifying and prophetic statements of his presidency. “You know, the left plays a tougher game; it’s very funny. I actually think that the people on the right are tougher, but they don’t play it tougher,” he told Breitbart. “I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump. I have the tough people, but they don’t play it tough—until they go to a certain point and then it would be very bad, very bad.” There are two remarkable things about this statement. One is Trump’s casual conflation of the state security forces (police, military) with extremely unofficial political activists (“Bikers for Trump”). In his mind, they all…

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NOTE TO SELF: Never get quarantined with Ignacio Mattos. The chef-owner of Estela, Altro Paradiso, and Flora Bar will make you look bad. Before we ordered one of the new “Take Us Home” provisions boxes he started selling about a month ago at Altro Paradiso in Hudson Square, we had deluded ourselves into thinking that the dishes flying out of the bustling Underground Gourmet quarantine kitchen were actually pretty good. Now, having feasted for a couple of days on the contents of Altro’s to-go box after months removed from the pleasures and refinements of the restaurant world, we know better. Here we were, thinking we were pretty slick ordering ingredients from the wholesale suppliers to restaurants like Mattos’s that have pivoted to home delivery. Here we were, stirring pots. Here…