Indholdsfortegnelse for May 9-22, 2022 i New York Magazine

1 After the first mass shooting on the New York City subway in nearly 40 years, Reeves Wiedeman went underground to capture the percolating fear (“The Subway Is Scary Again. To Some People. Sometimes.” April 25–May 8). Street Plans co-founder Mike Lydon responded, “This is a well written article, but ‘you’re far more likely to be hit by a car in New York City than pushed in front of a train.’Who’swritingthatstoryandputting it on the cover?” Commenter cags added, “I’m more afraid of getting creamed in one of the bicycle lanes by an electric bike.” Journalist Olivia Messer wrote, “I was always embarrassed by how much the subway scared me. I was groped on my way to work, caught in the crossfire of a physical fight that left me bruised, and…

THREE DAYS AFTER the Supreme Court leak heard round the world, the crowd at Alison Leiby’s one-woman show about abortion was ready to laugh. “My mom told me to kill it tonight,” the 38-year-old comedian deadpanned as she took the stage at the Cherry Lane Theatre in the West Village. “I already did.” The theater was packed, the buzzy crowd a near-even split of men and women, from college students to well-dressed senior citizens posing for photographs in the lobby. Out front, I spotted Queer Eye’s Antoni Porowski as well as Midori Francis from The Sex Lives of College Girls. Nearby, three young women discussed egg freezing—“Are you gonna?” “Yassss!” “My friend did”—and everywhere I turned there were more spring dresses than visible dread. Jasmine Holloway, 31, manages a boutique…

WHEN MARJORIE DANNENFELSER FIRST CAME to Capitol Hill, before she became the most politically relevant voice of the anti-abortion lobby, before she extracted from the host of The Apprentice a promise to appoint antiabortion judges, and before those judges tilted the Court decisively against a constitutionally protected right to an abortion, she was a young assistant to West Virginia Democrat Alan Mollohan. While out for a sandwich, Alan Mollohan had once been handed a flyer depicting an aborted fetus, a moment he recalled as having pressed upon him a certain undeniable horror. In 1989, he was head of the pro-life caucus in the House. “He was good to me,” Dannenfelser told me, “like a father. He cared about me.” He let her ignore her boring responsibilities to focus on the…

IT IS BARELY 8:30 ON A BRISK winter morning, the city still on the groggy rise, but Nell Diamond, who is building an empire on the desire never to leave bed, is unmistakably up. Peppy and personable in a red tartan Prada puffer, she had asked that I meet her here, at a Tuscan-themed café near her townhouse in the West Village, before she deposited Henry, the 5-year-old at her side, at his nearby school and then off we’d march to her office. She’s smiling and unharried, effortlessly embodying the agile dream of the entrepreneurial Manhattan mom in perfect control of the morning school-work shuffle. She collects her cappuccino and slips a hand to Henry, who tells me that he has already been fed and watered: “Eggs and prunes and…

GWENDOLYN MASON-TYNES Minister, Baychester How’d you find out about the event? I ran into the lead singer, and she gave me a flyer. I love gospel singing. I go to a lot of concerts like this. How was the food? Great. I had fish, potato salad, and mac ’n’ cheese. The pastor on the left of me had some apple pie and a beautiful red-velvet cake. But I’m trying to watch my weight. I went to the doctor yesterday, and I didn’t know he was going to do a cholesterol test, but he did. I know he’s gonna fuss when the results come back. What’s the best part of being a minister? Watching people change for real. Like my sister. At one point, she went astray; she had a substance-abuse…

LIKE SO MANY love stories gone bad, this one started with a Craigslist ad. “Pizza Chef Available Brooklyn/Manhattan,” read the headline. “I’m not just pizza,” continued the poster, adding that he was also a “pasta Jedi Master. And I make the Best NY cheesecake you’ve ever had.” The man behind the job listing was one Andrew Bellucci, a snowy-haired 58-year-old from New Jersey with watery blue eyes, deep worry lines, and a wide grin. Bellucci is well known in pizza circles not just for his pie prowess but for his historic partnerships. Although his Jedi mastery of pasta may be hyperbolic, he is an undisputed Yoda of dough. At various points in his 30-year career, Bellucci has overseen the pie at Lombardi’s, Joe’s, and Rubirosa. He was, and is, acclaimed…

THE SCENE OPENS ON A kid named Milton. He lives in a poor neighborhood near the coast of Veracruz, Mexico, where there is a gang that strikes such fear into civilians that they refer to its members only as aquellos, or “them.” One night, a group of gang members abducts Milton in front of his home and interrogates him with electric shocks until he pees himself. Then they give the terrified kid clean clothes and send him on his first job as a professional killer. But they need a car. So one of the sicarios hails a taxi, puts a gun to the driver’s head, and throws him into the trunk. Four guys pile in, and they start driving, knocking delivery people off their motorbikes, making off with the bikes…

about how to end pregnancies are going to require calculations they have rarely had to do before: about their own risks of criminal prosecution and about state-enforced systems that are there not to work on their behalf but to limit and punish their choices. And don’t be fooled: While scrutiny will be sharpest on poor and Black and brown people, women and people with uteruses of every race are going to be questioned not only about their unintended pregnancies but about the miscarriages of their wanted pregnancies. In states where post-Roe trigger bans begin at conception, various forms of birth control—including IUDs—could be considered abortifacients, and there will be strenuous attempts to make them inaccessible or illegal. For similar reasons, people undergoing IVF treatments may find that their embryos have…

FOR THE PAST COUPLE of years, the corporate members of the Partnership for New York City have been fond of paraphrasing Mark Twain in stating that reports of the metropolis’s demise, as measured by vacant storefronts and empty office buildings, are greatly exaggerated. Now, as masks in the city have largely come off indoors and out, the executives in the organization are trying to broadcast another message: It’s high time New Yorkers go back to work in person. Many of them have already issued a similar directive to their own employees, whether as an ultimatum or something softer. “We have a lot of type A people, and they figure out pretty quickly what it takes to get ahead here,” says Henry Kravis, executive co-chairman of KKR, the private-equity giant, who…

JOHN C. REILLY has played lots of sidekicks, supporting the ambitions of great men like Dirk Diggler and Ricky Bobby. But in HBO’s Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, he’s the one with the vision, starring as Jerry Buss, the real-estate mogul who bought the L.A. Lakers in 1979 and—with the help of cheerleaders (rare in the NBA back then) and a fast-break offense—turned pro basketball into a show. Winning Time executive producer Adam McKay directed pivotal Reilly performances in Talladega Nights and Step Brothers and here again shows us new sides of the actor (including most of his torso, on display under a period wardrobe of wide-open shirts). Over two conversations in mid-April, Reilly shared the secrets to a 70-plus-role career. It’s not the industry that typecasts…

How’d you choose your outfit? The way I dress, everything matches head to toe, so I always prepare a day or two before—just in case anything happens, my outfits are ready. But picking them is easy; I go by feeling. It’s a gift from the Creator to me. Are you two religious? KWAME GRAYSON: We’re not, but we believe in God. The way we look—we’re so tall and so identical—we know that didn’t happen for any old reason. When did you know you’d be a preacher? At a young age. When I was 7 or 8, I used to line up my G.I. Joe action figures like they were part of the church. And when any of them fell, I’d run around the house and say, “Grandma, my G.I. Joe…

RECOMMENDED DISHES: Pan con tomate, Ibérico and Serrano hams, anchovies and boquerones, head-on prawns, lobster à la plancha, pintxos morunos (chargrilled chicken), patatas bravas, gâteau Basque, cheese plate. NOTE: Table reservations fill up fast, and so does the bar, so if you’re in the mood for a proper Sid-and-Nancy drinking session, best to belly up at 5 p.m. or so. OPEN: Dinner nightly. PRICES: Appetizers, $9 to $24; mains, $23 to $72 for the paella de temporada for two (or four).…

JOE ALWYN CURRENTLY OCCUPIES one of the strangest spaces in the greater celebrity matrix. He’s not yet the sort of movie star your parents would recognize at the airport and text you about, nor does he have the box-office draw of a Chalamet or Pattinson, at least not yet. The 31-year-old has been working steadily in film and television since his straight-out-of-British-drama-school debut as the lead in Ang Lee’s 2016 high-def experiment Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk. He racked up a series of well-received supporting roles in big period Oscar dramas and small critically appreciated indies, usually playing a Ken-doll-faced dick or a blushing Brit from a bygone era. Now, his first lead role since Billy, in Hulu’s second Sally Rooney adaptation, Conversations With Friends, threatens to make him fully…

DID IT MATTER TO LUZ, what was about to be lost? What already had been? Mami had asked her if she understood what was at stake. As if, already, Mami found Luz lacking because she’d been able to thrive in the face of their early loss. Home, she told herself, could be a place, a person, a feeling; at times, a profession, the end result of a long pursuit. A fluid thing, for sure, but precious. She did care about Nothar Park, just as she’d cared so deeply for her job. But wasn’t the whole point of life to turn each loss into a win? If that was true, then what was the use of wasting time mourning? (Ballantine Books, May 24)…

AT 7:40 A.M. ON a Saturday morning earlier this year, Neesha Davé answered a knock at her door. A process server handed her a stack of papers. The documents called her “the leader of an organization that helps women in Texas abort their unborn children.” Davé is the deputy director of Lilith Fund, an abortion fund in Texas. It stood accused of having “knowingly and intentionally aided or abetted at least one post-heartbeat abortion in violation of the Texas Heartbeat Act,” or SB8, which allows anyone to sue anyone else who facilitates an abortion after around six weeks of pregnancy and which the Supreme Court allowed to go into effect last fall. A local woman named Sadie Weldon was demanding she sit for a deposition and provide the names of…

YOU LOVED THE MOVIE, and you want more. The studio loves money, and it wants more too. That’s how sequels come into existence—and this year we’re being bombarded with them: The new Sonic the Hedgehog and Fantastic Beasts installments are already in theaters, with a Top Gun sequel, Hocus Pocus 2, another Jurassic World, another Downton Abbey, more Minions, more Thor, even more Marvel and DC, and Avatar 2, among others, still to come. It’s easy to feel cynical about sequels since they often seem like cash-grab retreads of their inspirations. But in the right hands, they can deepen the relationship we have with characters and the worlds they populate. Here, our 101 choices showcase sequels that introduce new ideas and behaviors—and filmmakers who set the precedent for not only their…