Innholdsfortegnelse for March 24-April 6, 2025 i New York Magazine

1 Five years after the COVID-19 lock-downs, Christopher Cox wrote about bird flu (“The Way the Next Pandemic Works,” March 10–23). On Bluesky, Thor wrote, “Get ready to get sick again. Oh, and don’t expect the price of milk products, eggs, chicken and turkey, and beef to come down anytime soon, if ever,” while ethicist Angela Hvitved said, “H5N1, antibiotic resistance, groundwater pollution, GHGs … the interests of animal ag always supersede human health.” Commenter One_mouthy_ sandwich_girl noted the “terrible disease to be ruminating just as the US has an administration that actively punishes expertise.” Back on Bluesky, the Food Animal Concerns Trust, which advocates for humane farming, noted that the story “does not really address the failure to put in place a decent surveillance system for the virus across…

You might be pleasantly surprised to find that your local independent drugstore is cheaper than Duane Reade and CVS. It also probably doesn’t imprison the Advil in plastic lockdown. Not enough people realize Chinatown’s street vendors have incredible produce at very good prices. The best birthday cake you can buy is the malted-chocolate-caramel cake from Lady Wong in the East Village. A great butcher shop— Prospect Butcher Co.’s two locations, Paisanos in Cobble Hill, Ottomanelli & Sons on Bleecker— is about more than good meat. The best will happily take care of any fussy task you want done—whether butterflying a turkey, deboning skin-on chicken breasts, or just talking through the best way to cook a porterhouse. Once you find a favorite, become a regular and make sure it stays in…

For special occasions, ask your restaurant of choice about low- or no-corkage-fee nights and bring your own bottle. On Monday evenings, for instance, corkage is only $10 per bottle at Hawksmoor; its cheapest glass is $17. (Restaurant wine markups are typically in the range of 300 percent.) Flatbush Vet is a nonprofit clinic that offers affordable vaccinations and spaying and neutering, and the ASPCA Animal Hospital provides low-cost urgent care for those making $50,000 or less. Fridays, Acme Smoked Fish in Greenpoint—a Zabar’s supplier—sells at wholesale prices direct to consumers. Preorder and get there at 8 a.m. to dodge the post-run-club lines. The 40 & Under membership at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center might be the best deal in town. A $20 sign-up fee brings the cost of…

LOOEY PEREIRA Ninth-grader, Fairfax, Virginia It’s quite an interesting time to represent Canada. Yeah, I go to an online school, and we were assigned Canada; each school got a country. I was on the Habitat Committee, and we discussed how to make sporting events like the Olympics more sustainable—it didn’t really impact much. But what’s happening in the news has shown up in a lot of my other classmates’ committees and brought on a lot of colorful conversations. And I love your red coat—it reminds me of the Canadian flag. I really, really like this coat because I thrifted it in Finland for €5. And I have a few special pins—a Spider-Man pin, a South Park pin, two queer ones, plus a HE/HIM pin. The kids still like South Park,…

ROCHESTER’S FAVORITE grocery store is expanding its suburbia-in-the-city fantasy from oversize prepared-food sections to a modest restaurant: Fittingly called Next Door (770 Broadway, at E. 8th St.; wegmansnextdoor.com), the project will open later this spring as part of the chain’s Manhattan store. The Wegman family already operates a location of the restaurant in Rochester, and, as at that one, this outpost will feature a Japanese menu that is, according to a representative, “meticulously sourced through Wegmans’ deeply established relationships.” In practice, that means king-crab legs with citrus butter and vegetarian nigiri living comfortably beside A5 Wagyu charred on a robata grill. Will it feel strange to settle in for dinner at the same place downtown families stock up on cereal and seltzer? It worked for Chef ’s Table at Brooklyn Fare.…

EVERYBODY’S LIVE WITH JOHN MULANEY streams weekly on Netflix. NINE DAYS BEFORE the debut of Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney, Mulaney and the writing staff are gathered around a table at Sunset Gower Studios in Hollywood. It’s mid-afternoon, and the writers are kicking around ideas they imagine might come up during the first episode, which Mulaney has decided will be on the topic of lending people money. Within minutes, they start throwing out hypotheticals and personal experiences. “If you lend a relative money to build a greenhouse and they end up building an addition to their home with it, is that okay?” Mulaney asks the group. Quickly it’s clear that this happened recently with Mulaney’s mother-in-law, whom he calls Miss Kim. “I don’t mean to sow division, but she fucked…

MARCH 26–APRIL 9 For more culture coverage and streaming recommendations, see vulture.com. TV 1. Watch The Handmaid’s Tale The end of Gilead? Hulu, April 8. Why not escape the daily horrors of living in an oppressive society by watching a drama about the daily horrors of living in an oppressive society? Since it’s the final season, there should be some type of closure for June (Elisabeth Moss). Plus there’s bound to be plenty of darkly comic dialogue, like this line from the premiere: “It’s not a good time to be an American in Canada.” It’s funny, and sad, because it’s true. JEN CHANEY MUSIC 2. Listen to Forever Is a Feeling Working the night shift solo. Geffen Records, March 28. The first album from Lucy Dacus since the world-beating 2023…

Buy your Broadway-theater tickets in person at the box office, not online, to avoid the fees. If you just need one ticket, walk up to the theater 15 minutes before a show and see if it has a cancellation. Now and then, it works. If you want to see something new, weird, scrappy, ambitious, and usually cheap, try the Brick in Williamsburg, the Tank or Theaterlab on 36th Street, the Bushwick Starr, or Target Margin in Sunset Park. Don’t see ‘Shen Yun.’ If you have tickets to a hot show, arrive early and observe who walks toward the house seats about eight rows from the stage at center. It’s great people-watching. The best night to see a Broadway show is Tuesday because there are fewer tourists and, if the show…

When driving, take 18th, 20th, 35th, 39th, or 51st Street to get crosstown. Major cross streets (34th, 42nd) are for amateurs, 36th and 37th Streets always have traffic because of the Queens-Midtown Tunnel, and 22nd and 65th Streets also always have traffic. Avoid 49th Street because of Rockefeller Center. There’s a giant fan at the end of the northbound Union Square Q platform that’s a lifesaver on really hot days. If you’re lost in Central Park, find a lamppost. The first two or three numbers on it will tell you what cross street you’re closest to. If you live on the Upper East or Upper West Side and own a car, some doormen or porters will move your car on alternate-side-parking days for about $40 a week, so your monthly…

WHEN NHU TON—the chef and a co-owner at Bánh, a small Vietnamese restaurant on the Upper West Side—first visited Nam Dinh, Vietnam, about an hour and a half southeast of Hanoi by scooter and said to be the birthplace of pho, she was immediately impressed by the region’s famous noodle soup. “There are different styles, but in general the soup is a lot more peppery and there’s a lot more fish sauce,” she says. She also knew what had to be done: She’d bring Nam Dinh to New York. At Ton’s new shop, Bánh Anh Em (99 Third Ave., nr. E. 13th St.; instagram.com/banh.anhem), that pho is the centerpiece of the menu. She and her business partner, John Nguyen, are all in: In 2024, Ton returned to Nam Dinh to learn…

IT’S NOT ALL RICHARD MEIER’S FAULT, but I blame him anyway. The architect of the Getty Center in Los Angeles transformed New York about 25 years ago, when he designed three glass-and-steel apartment buildings that line up along West Street between Perry and Charles like TVs stacked in a big-box store, hi-res lives flickering on every floor. When that trio of habitable devices came online in the early aughts, it brought us the California romance of the see-through home—and turned the concept inside out. Mid-century L.A. architects like Richard Neutra had put the world on display for their clients; Meier put his clients on display for the world. What followed was a stampede of glass. Most everyone wanted to live the aquarium life, preferably up high. The result was a…

IN THE SPRING, this magazine publishes a “Best of New York” issue, which attempts to make living here easier by surfacing the best florists, butchers, plumbers, and eyebrow waxers. This year, we took the idea in a more existential direction: What knowledge set is required to live in the city like someone who grew up here? And can we teach the newish New Yorker how to beat the system in everything from errands to entertainment to the emergency room? We set out to assemble a big collection of municipal tips and tricks. We reached out to doctors, traffic attorneys, and particularly New York–y New Yorkers like Alison Stewart and Gay Talese, but most of the advice comes from the New York Magazine editorial hive mind. What began as a small…

GUEST EXPERT MICHAEL KORS on the Normcore West Village Restaurant “I love the old-school restaurants that are the antithesis of social media. Creamed spinach, steak, a martini, and the piano playing make for a perfect night at Knickerbocker Bar & Grill on University Place, and who doesn’t love a Hirschfeld caricature? My husband and I love the cheeseburger at Elephant & Castle. And there is no place like Gene’s. You can have a cozy dinner at the bar or sit in the dining room with murals of Italy, a relish tray, a perfect shrimp cocktail, and chicken parm.” For the nights you can’t think of anything to cook: The Brooklyn Public Library has a fantastic collection of e-cookbooks, meaning everyone has access to thousands of professionally tested recipes, instantly…

a collection of expert-vetted, spotted-around-town, or otherwise just especially excellent products that recently appeared on thestrategist.com. To shop all these items in one place, scan the QR code. STRATEGIST EXPLAINS What’s the Difference Between $30 Jeans and $300 Jeans? HOW MUCH A pair of jeans costs depends on how it’s marketed, where it’s sold, profit margins, and the process by which it’s produced. More expensive jeans are usually all cotton, which makes them weightier. (Polyester, a filler commonly seen in less costly jeans, often produces thinner fabric.) Pricey jeans tend to have more stitches per inch of seam and to be made in the U.S. or Japan. But the location of the factory isn’t always an indicator of quality. Instead, note whether a company lists its ingredients, including the cotton’s…

La Tête d’Or 318 Park Ave. S., nr. E. 24th St. latetedorbydaniel.com WALK WEST ON 24th Street at twilight, as I recently did, and it’s hard not to notice the glow d’or. Emanating from the recently completed One Madison, a refurbished office tower home to IBM and the global investment firm Franklin Templeton, the warm light is luxury in lumens: a flame for high-spend moths. They have lately fluttered, from upstairs and outside, to La Tête d’Or, an expansive steakhouse from Daniel Boulud. Officially, according to the chef ’s site, the restaurant “bridges Daniel’s two worlds: New York and France.” (Parc de la Tête d’Or is the elegant, English-style garden in Boulud’s native Lyon.) Unofficially, it seems designed to fill a gap in the Bouludian business portfolio. Ours is a…

BRITT LOWER FACED a nesting doll of an acting challenge in Severance’s second season by portraying disparate characters: Helena Eagan, the cold, calculating heiress to the Lumon corporation, and her defiant Innie, Helly R. You get the sense that Helly—who possesses free will, acerbic wit, and close bonds with her colleagues in macrodata refinement—is someone Helena could have become if she hadn’t been groomed by her father, Jame, to take over the family empire. In the combustible finale, directed by Ben Stiller and written by showrunner Dan Erickson, both Mark S. (Adam Scott) and his redheaded love make drastic choices that will inevitably set off further hostilities between the Innies and the Outies. Lower says the show has been planting seeds for this since the first season—and the narrative twist…