Innholdsfortegnelse for July 31-August 13, 2023 i New York Magazine

1 For New York’s latest cover story, Andrew Rice investigated the post-pandemic real-estate panic that’s causing megalandlords to sell off their commercial properties (“New Glut City,” July 17–30). ProPublica’s Alec MacGillis said it was “deeply reported” and “definitive,” while Rob Schwartz, the founder of ad agency TBWA, called the article “clarifying, insightful, and sobering … We need to radically rethink the city.” “If you had told someone five years ago that Manhattan office buildings would be considered ‘worthless,’ ” the showrunner and writer Julie Bush noted, “no one would have believed you. You’d be thought insane.” Journalist Helen Barrett highlighted how “one developer told New Yorkers it was their ‘civic responsibility’ to get back to the office—that’s the level of market desperation.” Many readers engaged with the complicated proposition of…

ONE AFTERNOON IN late July, J. B. Pritzker reclined in a conference room high above Chicago and considered the curious case of Ron DeSantis. Pritzker, the 58-year-old governor of Illinois, was in light-blue shirtsleeves and a neatly knotted bright-pink tie— “My Barbie tie,” he quipped to business leaders earlier, revealing he’d watched the movie with his wife and daughter. He was slightly bewildered by the Florida governor’s misfortunes in the GOP presidential primary, which had recently led DeSantis to lay off a huge chunk of his staff amid cratering poll numbers. “I had never really paid a lot of attention to his manner and his personality so much, only to his policies and his hype and the extremist positions,” Pritzker told me, speaking carefully as he settled into pundit mode.…

ON THE DAY I meet Dan Doctoroff, I walk across Manhattan from the Shed, which he created, to the East River Esplanade, which he planned; catch a ferry, which he launched; get off at the Long Island City waterfront, which he reclaimed from industrial neglect; and enter a café overlooking Hunters Point South Park, where he once envisioned an Olympic Village. Eventually, I leave him by Citi Bike, which he dreamed up. Those verbs are a shorthand, of course. He didn’t create, plan, launch, reclaim, envision, or dream up anything single-handedly. His role as deputy mayor for economic development and rebuilding in the Bloomberg administration was to adopt ideas (some his, many not), convince others that they were feasible and good, then maneuver those fantasies into reality. Even so, it…

For Yard-Sale-Style Haggling REMIX MARKET, 10-39 44th Dr., Long Island City; 929-302-3954; remixmarketnyc.com WALKING INTO Remix Market “feels like you’re in the Harry Potter Room of Requirement,” says interior decorator Taylor Migliazzo. It has rooms filled with art, a hall of mirrors, and a lofty warehouse stacked high with furniture—all of which is sourced from the junk-removal service Junkluggers. “Because everything comes from donations, it’s really a huge mix in terms of style and not especially curated,” which is part of the appeal, says writer Sarah Leon. “There’s everything from antique to contemporary.” One is as likely to find a gently used West Elm Haven sectional as a 19th-century Windsor chair. Leon has bought “some great leather-and-chrome chairs for less than $100 each,” a metal planter, and a vintage…

IT’S A HAZY early-June day in Santa Monica, and Reneé Rapp is drinking a muddy purple smoothie—the strawberry probiotic from the notoriously healthful, exorbitantly priced grocer Erewhon. The 23-year-old actress and singer moved from New York to Los Angeles in 2021 to film the Max series she is now preparing to exit early. This is where her “white woman shines,” she says. “Not the real, amazing, beautiful, culturally dense Los Angeles. I mean Erewhon. I work solely so I can go to Erewhon.” This is the blasé take-it-or-leave-it attitude that has become Rapp’s signature in her two short years in Hollywood. Her permanently skeptical eyebrows are often deployed to withering heights as a performer, attracting praise and pockets of fandom in every medium she has tried. Someone who can barely…

“PICKETING IS LIKE when you get to a party and you’re like, I don’t think this is the cool party,” one actor said. “There must be another party where people are having a blast and there’s shade and Champagne.” Even if there’s no Champagne, each L.A. picket line is different. Striking writers and actors fill us in on the vibes. NETFLIX 1456 N. Van Ness Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90028 Everyone agrees that Netflix, which is located near Los Feliz, is “where you go to see and be seen.” The streamer’s picket line “is the sexy, hot-people pick,” says one writer. “You’re likely to see people who host your favorite podcast there.” FOX and SONY Corner of Pico Blvd. and Motor Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90064 (Fox), and 4080 Overland…

I CAN SPOT IT a mile away out here,” says Vivian, who has spent her summers in the Hamptons for decades. “I noticed the grift when I was a kid working in Westhampton. These kids come in from the city, drink a lot, befriend someone, and stay for the night—then a week.” She saw it again this summer at a pop-up in East Hampton: The woman was “acting a little strange, chatting everyone up.” Soon enough, they were talking about Vivian’s house. Then came the ask: Just a night, won’t be a bother. Vivian isn’t the only one who can recognize the type—which is maybe why it seems like everyone in the Hamptons is reading The Guest, Emma Cline’s new novel about a young woman named Alex who drifts from…

CHRISTOPHER GRAVAGNA Entrepreneur, Long Island City Where are you headed? I’m going to Southampton with friends. We’ll go to Surf Lodge and Gurney’s in Montauk, but we’re staying in Southampton. I used to own 1Oak, so I know a lot of people out there. Do you take Blade a lot? Yes, because my time is valuable and I value my time. So what kind of entrepreneur are you? I own a company called the Gravagna Group, and I’m big in the health-and-wellness space and the private-debt space. The health-and-wellness brand is Kinrgy—I own it with Julianne Hough. Little bit of a name-drop. THE LOOK BOOK: BLADERS How early do you show up for the flight? At least 15 minutes before to either finish my work or partake in “rosé all…

FOOD IN 1907, WHEN Joel Russ sold herring from a barrel on the Lower East Side, Tenth Avenue was known as Death Avenue, owing to the freight trains that struck pedestrians with alarming regularity. Today, the area is home to Hudson Yards and the newest location of Russ & Daughters (502 W. 34th St., at Tenth Ave.; russanddaughters.com), the direct descendant of Russ’s herring business. The 4,500-square-foot store—under the care of the current owners, Niki Russ Federman and Josh Russ Tupper (both great-grandchildren of Joel)—isn’t a re-creation of the East Houston location. To start, there are places to sit: 12 tables, a curving drink rail, and a six-seat bar. A custom-made 40-foot cold display case holds smoked salmon, sturgeon, sable, silvery rollmops, quarts of borscht and matzo-ball soup, whitefish salad,…

EVERYONE AT THE ALAMO Barbie Blowout Party advance screening I attended had come ready to Barbie party, decked out in head-to-toe pink, high heels, and blonde wigs. As the soundtrack blared, moviegoers yelled “Hi, Barbie!” to strangers, snapped pictures in their promotional pink berets and heart-shaped sunglasses, drank watermelon margaritas, and seat-danced to Dua Lipa. A male photographer roamed the room taking pictures of everyone vibing on the anticipation that was building to a near frenzy thanks to a relentlessly ecstatic monthslong marketing campaign. As he stopped to take a photo of the woman next to me, and the new Margot Robbie Barbie she’d purchased, he asked if the movie was supposed to be lighthearted or cerebral—he couldn’t tell from the trailer. Her advice: “It’s the Barbie movie. Just leave…

. . . . . . . . . THE LOOK BOOK GOES TO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A HELICOPTER LOUNGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BEST VINTAGE-FURNITURE SHOPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RUSS & DAUGHTERS OPENS IN HUDSON YARDS . . WHEN STRATEGIST writer Dominique Pariso reached out to bar owners and winemakers to find…

BACK IN 2017, when designer Ellen Van Dusen bought this 1899 brownstone in Bedford-Stuyvesant, the backyard was a tumble of weeds and concrete. “It was painted green, probably 30 years ago,” she recalls. “It was fun, but it didn’t feel warm.” Van Dusen is known for the colorful modern prints on everything she designs, from clothing to homewares and bedding. In keeping with that, she decided to turn the yard into a big mosaic. She’d already tiled the fireplace in her kitchen by herself when she decided to enlist the help of her friend the artist Matt Chambers, who had taught himself how to tile when fixing up his house (a one-time barn) in Montana. “I think she liked that there is just so much chaos in the way that…

A COUPLE OF MONTHS ago, a crowd of 20- and 30-somethings packed into the Three Decker Diner in Greenpoint, eventually spilling onto the sidewalk as the night went on. Among them were Paul Schrader’s assistant-producer–protégée and a former sex columnist for The Drunken Canal, the now-defunct Dimes Square chronicle. The occasion: Olive Night, a roving party that brings together New Yorkers who share, if nothing else, a common interest in bright-green, buttery Castelvetranos. “It has no real purpose other than, We love olives,” says Paige Kozak, one of the co-hosts. Olives are nothing new, of course, but they have lately catapulted from being the thing that’s consumed before the main event to the main event itself. Emma Rose Legér, who covers fashion and beauty and started selling her own jars…

HOLLYWOOD WRITERS AND actors are striking together for the first time since the Eisenhower administration in what many guild members see as an existential battle against a corporate class they suspect wants to trim labor costs down to zero. Writers’ rooms have shrunk. Residual checks that once provided a living wage now amount to a handful of dollars. So how’s everybody feeling? We spoke to 15 workers from every corner of the industry—from actors to writers to camera operators. They shared their salaries, their meager residuals, and what they’ve been doing to survive during the strike. Even those who have ostensibly “made it” are stretching their paychecks as far as they’ll go. Hollywood’s lower-middle class, meanwhile, is doing the uncomfortable math: How much longer until I have to go back…

TV 1. Watch The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart From a producer of Big Little Lies. Prime Video, August 4. The gorgeous seven-part series based on Holly Ringland’s novel follows Alice Hart after she moves to her grandmother’s (Sigourney Weaver) flower farm in rural Australia, where her love life gets tangled up in her family’s mysterious past. ROXANA HADADI MOVIES 2. See Passages Moving and complex. In select theaters, August 4. In Ira Sachs’s masterful new drama, Franz Rogowski plays a director who cheats on his husband with a female schoolteacher (Adèle Exarchopoulos). Unpredictable and earthy, this is already one of the year’s best films. BILGE EBIRI ART 3. See rafa esparza Site-specific. Artists Space, 11 Cortlandt Alley; through August 19. See a walk-in reimagining of L.A.’s 110 Freeway, a…