Innholdsfortegnelse for May 19-June 1, 2025 i New York Magazine

1 In New York’s latest cover story, features writer Brock Colyar documented the rise of the West Village Girl (“Her Town,” May 5–18). The Spread newsletter wrote, “Colyar crystallizes the latest crop of young women to treat New York’s most young-woman-idolized neighborhood like they’re on their semester abroad.” Michael J. Miraflor called the feature “a pantheon read that people will refer to far into the future to explain how TikTok molded a whole generation, or in this case, a neighborhood.” Heidi N. Moore said, “This specific type of transplant is load-bearing for this city. This is what Carrie Bradshaw was.” The comedian Steven Phillips-Horst countered, “The West Village Girl is not the modern day Carrie Bradshaw … She would never dream of posting an affiliate link.” Predictably, the cover generated…

IT’S HARD TO SAY that I learned a lesson,” Aidan Maese-Czeropski tells me recently over FaceTime, staring somewhere off-camera and scratching an eyebrow. He’s calling from a hostel in Australia, where he’s sitting poolside under palm trees. It’s 10 a.m. and already 80 degrees on the island continent, but as far as I can tell through the screen, he doesn’t break a sweat, even while recounting the salacious chain of events that led him 10,000 miles away from Washington, D.C., where, not that long ago, the 25-year-old worked on Capitol Hill. In 2021, Maese-Czeropski was hired by the office of then–Maryland senator Ben Cardin. He worked for Cardin until December 2023, when a sex tape Maese-Czeropski recorded at work and shared with friends leaked, causing a ruckus in D.C. It…

On a rainy Sunday evening in May, the mood inside Brooklyn Steel was, like the candidate, jubilant and young. Around 1,500 people had gathered for Zohran Mamdani’s campaign rally for mayor of New York City. This was a congregation of true believers, the evangelists who not only plan to vote for the 33-year-old democratic socialist and three-term Queens assemblyman but are trying to convince everyone else to do so. The evening’s roster was a concentration of power and cool and changing winds. Before the event began, Julian Casablancas dropped by to say hello with his kids. Ella Emhoff and Councilmember Chi Ossé did a joint endorsement video on the step-and-repeat. Family friend Kal Penn emceed, and Jaboukie Young-White told some jokes. State Senator and “work BFF” Jabari Brisport led the…

➸ WHETHER YOU want to drown out the clattering of a subway car or mask the smacks of a loud-chewing colleague, the headphones for the job are the Bose QuietComfort Ultra ($449), which Strategist tech writer Jordan McMahon cites as the gold standard for noise cancellation. Before crowning this pair, McMahon wore eight different options over dozens of hours, listening to music and making phone calls in a range of settings, from his home office to a bustling coffee shop. He says this Bose set has the most intuitive on-device controls of any model he’s ever tried. One multifunction button on the back of the right earcup manages PLAY, PAUSE, SKIP FORWARD (a double press), and SKIP BACKWARD (a triple press). To adjust the volume, simply slide your finger along…

CHARLES KADISH AND HERSHEY Commercial-real-estate investor, Old Westbury Best Citi Field memory? The Mets were playing in Milwaukee for the playoffs last year, and they hosted a watch party at Citi Field. It didn’t look like the Mets were going to win, and my son was crying. I said to him, “It’s okay if they don’t make it. This is what it means to be a Mets fan.” And then Pete Alonso hit the go-ahead home run and his tears of sadness turned into tears of joy. And I said, “This is also what it means to be a Mets fan.” Is Hershey a fan too? The highs and lows of being a Mets fan—these are things that Hershey will never know. Hershey just knows hot dogs. She doesn’t have…

ADDA 107 First Ave.; addanyc.com The LIC favorite has relocated to the East Village with explosive chutneys and cushioned seats. The pork fry (pictured) serves two, and the tableside “Butter Chicken Experience” should be ordered ahead of time. PASSERINE 36 E. 20th St.; passerinenyc.com Chef Chetan Shetty’s $140 seven-course tasting menu starts with caviar-topped tuna tartare and melon with prosciutto. It finishes with chicken ghee roast and a hunk of korma short rib. CHATTI BY REGI MATHEW 252 W. 37th St.; chattinewyork.com Regi Mathew, a celebrity chef back home, poses with families and greets everyone here. The food—battered curry leaf mushrooms, beef dry fry—is inspired by Kerala’s toddy shops. MADAM JI KI SHAADI 154 Bleecker St.; madamjinyc.com Floral garlands decorate the room, and club remixes provide the soundtrack. A bright-yellow,…

For more culture coverage and streaming recommendations, see vulture.com. CLASSICAL 1. Hear Gustavo Dudamel The city fêtes a new fixture of its music scene. David Geffen Hall, May 22 through June 1. The conductor’s coronation as future music director of the New York Philharmonic continues for two weeks. First up is Stravinsky’s neoclassical Symphony in Three Movements, the world premiere of Kate Soper’s Orpheus Orchestra Opus Onus, and Philip Glass’s Symphony No. 11. Then Dudamel returns for the season-ending blowout: Mahler’s massive Seventh Symphony. JUSTIN DAVIDSON TV 2. Watch Sirens A long weekend on a luxe island turns sinister. Netflix, May 22. You may have seen some version of this show before. There’s a powerful lady who’s maybe a cult leader or maybe just a wealthy weirdo, and she’s in…

IT WAS ONLY AFTER my father died that I got access to his conversations with the creatures who fleeced him. He was so enamored by the members of what he jokingly called his “harem”—women online who may not have existed in real life but who nonetheless ran off with his money—that he printed the transcripts of their dialogues and filed them in metal cabinets in his office in Cobble Hill. ¶ This was in keeping with his diligent habits of organization and documentation. My father, Brian Ketcham, had been a transportation engineer and urban planner of some renown in New York. Upon his death in 2024, the New York Times thought his life and work important enough to run a 1,100-word obituary, in which he was declared an “influential environmentalist.”…

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ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF AGO, the designer Juan Carretero found a 750-square-foot Sheetrock box of an apartment in the former General Electric factory on Bank Street. “It was an absolute nightmare, in real disrepair,” Carretero says. The location was everything, though. He had been renting on Barrow Street and always loved the building. This was a gut reno worth taking on. He opened up the small, formerly closed-off kitchen and added a second entrance to the bathroom. But it’s really the two pale-mint French doors separating the bedroom and the living room that transport you to another place. “What I did was copy my grandmother’s doors in her house in Oaxaca, Mexico,” Carretero says. “It was in my family for many years, and my great-grandfather converted it from…

SINCE OPENING King in 2016 with her partners, Jess Shadbolt and Clare de Boer, Annie Shi has also been looking to do something on her own. “This has been my dream,” she says. Shi grew up in Queens frequenting Flushing’s markets and restaurants, and she wanted to find a space in Manhattan’s Chinatown. She jumped when a small storefront above a mahjong social club landed on the market, and she signed the lease in December a few days before her daughter was born. To get the signatures for her wine-and-beer license, she had her father, who was born in Shanghai, hit the streets and activate his friends. “Half of the signatures were from elderly residents,” Shi says. In June, she’ll open her 28-seat wine bar, called Lei (15-17 Doyers St.; instagram.com/lei.wine),…

I SHOUTED to Axel, several headlamps ahead, that we were throwing away the past week of work. “It’s part of the job,” Axel replied. “You’ll get used to it.” His reply evoked a hotshot adage: You learn to let go of hope, or you get crushed. ¶ As we walked, our headlamps cast beams through clouds of smoke and dust, illuminating the trees around us like pillars supporting another world. Forced to retreat, I felt like we were abandoning that world. Just before reaching our vehicles, I stopped to look back at the megafire. It was a billowing column of shadow and light. Briefly, I doubted what I’d seen: through a gap in the trees, a lone flame rose and flickered above the rest. ¶ Only a sequoia—a tree that…

THE SUN IS EVIL. Sure, it keeps the planet running, provides food for plants, and looks pretty when it sets, but the sun also makes people ugly, and that is unforgivable. And if you think using sunscreen is enough? You’re lazy and wrong. I make it my mission to shield the entirety of my exposed, vulnerable, high-risk skin, including hands, forearms, chest, neck, and knees. Yeah, people mock me. But we’ll see who’s laughing when my knees look sexy forever! 1. Lack of Color Holiday Bucket Hat, $99 For moments when I don’t want to look like a farmhand, I reach for a bucket hat from the fancy Australian brand Lack of Color. Every time I wear one, I get tons of compliments. I love the canvas material, the oversize…

BLESSED ARE THE pasta-makers. That is the message of Santi, chef Michael White’s return to the city’s semolina trenches. The name comes from an old saw of his former mentor, Gianluigi Morini: “Le mani degli chef sono come le mani dei santi” (The hands of the chef are like the hands of the saints). That’s what we call setting the bar high. But White, the founding chef of Marea and Ai Fiori, among others, delivers. In a ritzy alcove off 53rd Street nearby MoMA but nearer by the investment banks (Jefferies is just upstairs), he is back, turning out some seriously excellent pasta. White is one of the city’s pasta eminences, a man who has put his thumbprint on our collective orecchiette. After leaving Marea and Ai Fiori’s Altamarea Group,…

IN 2023, SUFJAN STEVENS shared on Tumblr that he’d been diagnosed with Guillain-Barré syndrome, a quick-working autoimmune disorder with a vast symptom set that includes persistent pain and muscle weakness. Unable to walk on his own for a while, the prolific singer-songwriter began documenting his physical-therapy journey on his blog. Then, that October, in a shattering dedication note for his tenth album, Javelin, he revealed that his partner, Evans Richardson IV, formerly chief of staff at the Studio Museum in Harlem, had died that April. ¶ Stevens is a jarringly autobiographical storyteller but also a famously private person. Suddenly, someone who had never felt compelled to publicly reveal his romantic history, even as he wrote beautiful songs of love and faith, had done so in the most heartbreaking fashion. He…