A New York state court on Thursday blocked Texas from filing a legal action against a New York doctor for prescribing and sending abortion pills to a Texas woman. The unprecedented move catapults the interstate abortion wars to a new level, setting the stage for a high-stakes legal battle between states that ban abortion and … Read more
Good morning. It’s Wednesday. Today we’ll look at proposed changes in rules governing a seemingly permanent part of the streetscape in New York City: sidewalk sheds around construction sites and buildings undergoing repairs. We’ll also get details on a letter that raised questions about a Justice Department official’s testimony on the corruption case against Mayor … Read more
For at least a few days most weeks, Mei Kawajiri makes hotel calls to celebrities like Cardi B, Heidi Klum, Ariana Grande and Bad Bunny to whip up viral creations, often shared with her more than 343,000 Instagram followers. Her medium might be even more impressive: extravagant nail art — minutely detailed 3-D pastries, hand-drawn … Read more
It was 1965, and Joseph Kosuth was a 20-year-old undergraduate at the School of Visual Arts when he made the pieces that made his career. Their premise was simple enough: He’d take an object, like a crate, a wooden door, or a shovel, and either hang it on or lean it against a wall. To … Read more
Fairfield | 93 Downs Avenue, Stamford, Conn. Shippan Point House $998,000 This three-bedroom, two-bath, 2,028-square-foot, colonial-style house built in 1935 on 0.2 acres in the Shippan Point neighborhood features arched doorways and hardwood floors. The main level includes a living room with a bay window and fireplace, a formal dining room, an updated kitchen and … Read more
Manhattan | 613 East Sixth Street, No. 5C East Village Prewar Walk-up $949,000 This two-bedroom, two-bath, roughly 850-square-foot duplex has a windowed kitchen, an open living/dining area, a skylight and a washer/dryer on the upper level, an en suite bedroom with a windowed walk-in closet on the lower level, plus built-ins and mini-split heating and … Read more
Gray — who would go on to become a celebrated film actor and monologuist before taking his own life in 2004 — is the most elaborately represented member of the original “Nayatt” cast. (Ari Fliakos reincarnates Vawter, who died of complications from AIDS in 1994.) Gray’s words and gestures are replicated, as much as the … Read more
Good morning. It’s Thursday. Today we’ll look at a museum guard-turned-author-turned playwright who is making his Off Broadway debut. We’ll also get details on a pair of socks with heart-shaped notes that were sent to Luigi Mangione, who is facing murder charges in the killing of an insurance executive on a Midtown street. After his … Read more
The Center for Art and Advocacy, a nonprofit that assists artists who have served time in prison, will inaugurate its first physical space on Thursday. The hub, in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, opens to the public with an exhibition, “Collective Gestures: Building Community Through Practice,” featuring works by the organization’s fellows. Jesse Krimes, the … Read more
The 5-year-old boy was a fixture on that New York City playground basketball court. Almost every day, he and his father would go to the Booker T. Washington schoolyard on West 108th Street. They played for hours, but his father, an accomplished New York City high school player himself, insisted they stay until the boy … Read more