Initiation Dear Diary: It was the early 2000s. I had been resisting my friends’ invitations to join them in a night of dancing at one of those only-in-New-York, late-night parties held in the kind of dark, crowded clubs that were tucked into quiet streets along the Hudson River at the time. Intense, sweat-soaked group experiences … Read more
This article is part of our Design special section about how food inspires designers to make and do surprising things. In 2019, the artist Allan Wexler moved from the Manhattan brownstone where he had lived with his wife and collaborator, Ellen, for 40 years. While packing up, he uncovered a black bicycle among the detritus … Read more
Good morning. It’s Friday. Today we’ll look at amateur astronomers and a cemetery in Brooklyn that is giving them a permanent place to look up at the sky. We’ll also get details on a deal in Albany to weaken a law that mainly affects all-boys Hasidic Jewish schools, known as yeshivas. “It seems incongruous, doesn’t … Read more