Innholdsfortegnelse for October 21-November 3, 2024 i New York Magazine

1 New York’s latest cover story, by Andrew Rice, examined Mayor Eric Adams’s ongoing corruption scandal (“City Haul,” October 7–20, 2024) and was illustrated with a grid of administration insiders under investigation. Many readers, including former mayor Bill de Blasio’s press secretary, Bill Neidhardt, noted that “it took 1 hour for this cover to be outdated (Phil Banks has now resigned).” In a NY1 interview, Rice said, “We should have distributed small stickers that said ‘Resigned’ or ‘Indicted’ on them so that readers could update the cover at home … Some people joked that it looked like an indictment Advent calendar.” @jtp2106 tweeted, “Damn, who could have predicted a cop mayor would be brazenly corrupt.” Adams was pressed on the story during a previously scheduled Fox5 Good Day New York…

IN THE LATE 1930S, NEW YORKERS barely into middle age could remember a very different Fifth Avenue. The boulevard, a mere decade or so earlier, had been a residential neighborhood of immense Gilded Age houses. It had since been fully given over to commerce, represented by department stores like Saks Fifth Avenue and Bergdorf Goodman as well as the immense Rockefeller Center complex. In March 1939, the city tried to restore a wisp of grace to the limestone canyon. “That business section of Fifth Avenue, which has not known the sight of trees since the days of the stately mansions and the horse and buggy,” one press outlet wrote, “took its first step in arboreal recovery” when a “50-foot elm tree, the first of eight to be planted at Rockefeller…

CELEBRITY SHOPPING Spanx AirEssentials Half Zip, $118 “I was on a retreat and saw these women all wearing this Spanx sweatshirt, so I got one. Now I have five or six of them. I wear it everywhere. I keep two in my office for Zoom meetings. I wear one when I’m having my coffee. People ask me about it all the time.” Hario V60 Buono Drip Kettle, $60 “My roommate had a version of this kettle, but I left the house with the stove on and it caught on fire. I got another one for myself, and I use it every day for my multiple mugs of tea or coffee. It feels classic and elegant. I’ve used it a million times, and there’s no discoloration or weird burning on the…

SO MUCH OF what’s considered American cooking has been influenced by Africa that the debt is omnipresent and often unacknowledged. As the Nigerian American chef Kwame Onwuachi of the still-nighunbookable Tatiana has written, Nigeria’s suya spice blend, prickly with chiles and onion, is “the grandfather of American barbecue.” Yet when many people try to conjure an image of American food, they may picture something like Rochester’s infamous garbage plates: the squidgy pile of meat, hash browns, and macaroni salad that was until recently a specialty of the house at Brooklyn Hots in Clinton Hill. That shop closed in 2022 and was replaced by the Nigerian American Radio Kwara, where dinner might include fiery pepper soup and thick slices of sweet, plush agege bread. No disrespect—my own father is from Rochester—but…

I’M WAITING for Kieran Culkin at the tip of the Greenpoint ferry platform, where he’s suggested we meet on a Friday morning to get on the boat, take it a few stops to Dumbo, then walk across the Brooklyn Bridge into Manhattan—a sort of hung-over New Yorker’s triathlon. He’s late and sending me self-effacing riffs about it: “I was just about to text you to see if you were also running late or if you were the kind of person that was professional and an actual adult, unlike myself.” The ferry pulls into the dock at the exact moment that I spot him on the horizon. He is instantly recognizable, clad in all black and wearing a pair of sunglasses, eyebrows perma-arched, hair like an inverted comma, walking with distinct…

According to 57 of the Most Powerful People in Media. IMRAN AMED, founder and editor-in-chief, The Business of Fashion. WILLA BENNETT, editor-in-chief, Cosmopolitan and Seventeen. JEREMY BOREING, co-founder and co-CEO, The Daily Wire. GRAYDON CARTER, founder and co-editor, Air Mail. SEWELL CHAN, executive editor, Columbia Journalism Review. LEROY CHAPMAN JR., editor-in-chief, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. CHARLAMAGNE THA GOD, co-host, The Breakfast Club. EVA CHEN, vice-president of fashion, Meta. JOANNA COLES, chief creative and content officer, The Daily Beast. KAITLAN COLLINS, anchor, CNN’s The Source. SAM DOLNICK, deputy managing editor, the New York Times. MATHIAS DÖPFNER, CEO, Axel Springer SE. STEPHEN ENGELBERG, editor-in-chief, ProPublica. BRYAN GOLDBERG, CEO, Bustle Digital Group. EMILY GREENHOUSE, editor, The New York Review of Books. GLENN GREENWALD, host, System Update; co-founder, The Intercept. JOHN HARRIS, co-founder and global…

You arrived in the U.S. in Anchorage, Alaska, when you were 28 years old. It was 1977, and you had previously been running restaurants in South America. Why did you make the move? After four years working in Peru, then Argentina, I wanted to work in another country one more time before returning to Japan. When I was introduced to a partner in Anchorage, I thought it was my last chance, so I went to Alaska. Anchorage was a pipeline for oil and gas, so business was very good. It was a Japanese restaurant, and it was an early success. What went wrong? I took my first day off 50 days after the restaurant opened. It was the last Thursday in November, Thanksgiving. My family and I were celebrating my…

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How are you feeling about the college-application process so far?I got more excited when I got here. I just know this is super-important. I’m not getting scared, but I’m not getting too excited, either. Do you know where you want to go? Albany. I went on a senior trip there, and I just liked it. I liked the way they spoke to us, and it was so large. I want to study psychology or hospitality tourism. Why psychology? I found out I need a degree to become a flight attendant. Why a flight attendant?Because of my height. I’m five-ten. I also like the way they move when I go to the airport. And I want to travel around. I want to be a model, but it’s hard to be a…

GIGI LOIZZO AND ANGEL MOLINA met on a blind date in 2002 and married soon after. It was the second marriage for both. Molina moved into Loizzo’s rent-stabilized apartment in the East Village, and a year later his son, Jared, joined. They became a cozy blended family with Loizzo’s daughter, Mary (both kids were in junior high), plus Gigi’s dogs. Maybe it was a bit too cozy: Three years later, they decided to look for a bigger place. Loizzo’s landlord offered to buy them out with the caveat that they would have to move in 60 days. “You can’t find anything in 60 days,” Loizzo says. They found a house on City Island. “I hated the commute, but it’s what I could find in 60 days.” Still, they wanted to…

LAST YEAR, the British Palestinian novelist Isabella Hammad delivered the Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture at Columbia University. That talk has now been collected in a short book, published in September, called Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative. As a novelist, Hammad tells us there, she finds herself drawn to the “turning point” of a story, the moment when a fateful truth suddenly dawns on a character, often with tragic results—what Aristotle called “anagnorisis.” She points to perhaps the most famous instance of this in all of western literature: the scene in Oedipus Rex when Oedipus realizes that, by trying to defy the prophecy that he would murder his father and marry his mother, he has ended up doing just that. “When a character realizes the truth of a…

OCTOBER 23–NOVEMBER 6 For more culture coverage and streaming recommendations, see vulture.com. MUSIC 1. Listen to Evergreen Heartsick love songs. Loma Vista Recordings, October 25. Singer-songwriter Soccer Mommy taps into the same balance of sweetness and tartness driving classics from icons like Rilo Kiley and the Breeders. Her fourth studio album peels back the vivid synth accompaniments bolstering 2022’s Sometimes, Forever, revealing the still-gripping songcraft underneath. CRAIG JENKINS THEATER 2. See Romeo + Juliet Youthquake. Circle in the Square, opens October 24. In Sam Gold’s Verona, the eternal feud between the Capulets and Montagues is aggressively Gen Z-coded. Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler star in a production featuring baggy jeans, bellybuttons, and music by Bleachers’ Jack Antonoff. Will the cool kids break hearts? SARA HOLDREN TV 3. Watch Somebody Somewhere…