Indholdsfortegnelse for March 10-23, 2025 i New York Magazine

1 New York’s latest cover featured a set of stories detailing the destructive start of the new administration (“Trump’s Purge of Washington,” February 24-March 9). Andrew Rice wrote about how Trump loyalist Kash Patel, the recently appointed director of the FBI, might deal with the bureau that had led investigations into the president (“Vengeance Is His”). Commenter stephen.stirling asked, “Why is anyone surprised … and shocked, shocked! … that they’re doing precisely what they said they’d do during the campaign? Did you think they weren’t serious? That they didn’t really mean it?” Tailline News wondered on X, “Why would someone be worried about payback if the original action was justified? If it wasn’t, it’s not really payback, but justice. Maybe they should be worried about justice?” Commenter venturagirl said, “Patel…

IN FEBRUARY 2024, the New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz was sitting at his desk in Pleasantville, hard at work around 11 p.m., when he shifted to the left and found he couldn’t shift back. The side of his mouth was drooling. Shortz recognized the signs: He was having a stroke. Later, at the hospital, he had a second, larger stroke and then, after thrombolysis to dissolve the clot that caused it, a brain bleed—a rare and serious complication. He spent ten days in intensive care, prognosis uncertain, before he was stable enough to move to an inpatient rehab center, where he would begin the long work of recovery. Early on, Shortz said, the doctors offered him a sliver of good news: The strokes had affected the right hemisphere…

AT 6 a.m. on Wednesday, November 13, eight FBI agents in black windbreakers burst through the door of Shayne Coplan’s Soho apartment with a battering ram, surprising him and his girlfriend in bed. They seized his phone from the bedside table but wouldn’t let him touch it, not even to unlock it, lest he destroy evidence that might criminally implicate him or his company, Polymarket, the popular betting platform that over a week before had set off celebrations at Mara-Lago when it showed Donald Trump winning the presidential election well before the networks did. After grabbing both his and his girlfriend’s devices, the FBI spent hours sifting through his belongings and eclectic art collection. Coplan popped up on X later that day to write, “new phone, who dis?” His irreverence…

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—plus the sweater—in one place, scan the QR code. CELEBRITY SHOPPING Beautiful by Drew Barrymore 14-Cup Drip-Coffee Maker, $59 “I have a lot of things that I’m quite good at, but making coffee was never one of them. Then I bought this and read the instructions carefully. Now, I make gorgeous coffee. I can use it to make one-to-four cups, as opposed to a huge amount of coffee, which I really like.” Arc’teryx Micon 32 Backpack, $260 “This backpack is huge. It can be an outdoorsy camping backpack that can fit a lot of stuff into it, and it’s also the perfect traveling backpack.” Dior Rosy Glow Blush, $40 “It’s…

MARILYN GREENE Superior Court assistant, Morris Park Tell me where you got this outfit. I got it all with a one-day delivery from Amazon. Everything from head to toe, wig and all—except the shoes. I already had these. I can’t do the Diana hair because it gets in my way, so I stay in my lane and do my Minnelli. If I could wear white every day, I would. Everything is either beige or white in my house. Is fashion a big part of your life? I love it. You live in New York City, you can’t help but love fashion. My mom is in her 70s and wears a fur coat and Air Jordans in the projects. I kid you not. THE LOOK BOOK: DIANA ROSS FANS Did you…

WHEN THE PARISIAN department-store chain Printemps opens this month at 1 Wall Street (see p.40), it will have something that its French stores do not: five spots to eat and drink run by Gregory Gourdet. It’s a homecoming for the Queens-born chef, whose career took off in Portland, Oregon, and who achieved national fame on Top Chef. “I know that New York doesn’t need another French restaurant,” he concedes. So the food at the Red Room Bar, Salon Vert, Cafè Jalu, and a fine-dining spot called Maison Passerelle is, the chef says, “French, but through the lens of all its former colonies.” It draws on Gourdet’s Haitian background as much as the store’s French history for dishes such as Creole cassoulet (pictured), oysters with epis mignonette, and akara. A Haitian…

WHEN SOMEONE TELLS you who they are, believe them. Ha’s Snack Bar, a tiny, delicious little pocket on Broome Street, is a snack bar. That’s not to diminish the food, which is ambitious, filling, and meal-size, but to fairly assess the space itself, which is ambitious, full, and minuscule. Forty seats might constitute a petite restaurant. Ha’s, with 24, mostly bar and counter, is a restaurant snack. I share this up front to manage expectations. Since it opened at the tail end of last year, Ha’s has been bursting at the seams. The restaurant takes some reservations, but the method I found reliable was to show up at least half an hour before its 5:30 p.m. opening and line up behind fellow aspirants. Ha’s is scrappy in the winning way…

MARCH 12–26 For more culture coverage and streaming recommendations, see vulture.com. THEATER 1. See A Streetcar Named Desire The belle is back. BAM, through April 6. Director Rebecca Frecknall brings her young and sexy take on Tennessee Williams to Brooklyn for a limited run. Paul Mescal won an Olivier for his Stanley, as did Anjana Vasan for her Stella. Joining them as Blanche DuBois, Patsy Ferran turns the lights down and demands magic. SARA HOLDREN TV 2. Watch The Studio Lights, camera, Seth Rogen. Apple TV+, March 26. The star of Knocked Up—who co-created this series alongside longtime collaborator Evan Goldberg, Frida Perez, and former Veep writers Peter Huyck and Alex Gregory—plays the head of a movie studio who finds new ways to make an ass of himself in every…

IN FEBRUARY 2024, dairy farmers in the northwest corner of the Texas Panhandle noticed that their herds were getting sick. A cow’s temperature would spike, and she would stop eating. Soon, her milk would dry up or turn thick—tests would reveal the milk had twice the normal number of white blood cells. The feverish cows would barely drink any water. As they grew dehydrated, their eyes sank into their heads. Nearly all of them had mastitis: a swollen, painful udder and teats, which made milking difficult. ¶ The disease seemed to be spreading; veterinarians in the region heard from colleagues in Kansas and New Mexico who reported the same constellation of symptoms. On March 14, a group of them got on a conference call with animal-health specialists from around the…

➸ ON THE HUNT for a not-too-expensive, yet well-made, cashmere sweater, Strategist writers Brenley Goertzen and Arielle Avila sought recommendations from 19 people whose taste and expertise they trust, including stylists, clothing-brand founders, and boutique owners, and wore more than a dozen options over many months. The winner was Naadam’s the Original Cashmere Sweater ($98). The cut is classic—a crewneck with ribbing at the collar, cuffs, and hem—and the fabric is soft without being mushy (a sign of a low-quality garment). It held up well for both Goertzen and Avila over the time they regularly wore it, though Avila did note that the arms have stretched out ever so slightly (but that’s mainly because she likes to roll up her sleeves throughout the day).…

TOPOLOGIE The rock-climbing-inspired bag line has boutiques in Paris and Tokyo; here, shoppers can mix and match more than 100 styles of bags and straps that hang from the walls. (23 Prince St.) COBBLER BUSHWICK CO. Bring an old pair of sneakers to this shop, which offers upcycling services—such as swapping out gum soles for derby-style ones—or take a class to learn how to cobble at home. (764 Evergreen Ave., Bushwick) GRACE LING The line of slinky, FKA Twigs–approved ombré dresses and chain-mail purses is now available at the new Hudson Yards showroom. (240 W. 40th St., Ste. 603) NEW FLAGSHIPS FROM VINCE … Two Madison Avenue flagships just moved. One is Vince, now in a space designed with help from the Somerset House’s Alan Eckstein. Shoppers can enjoy complimentary…

WHEN THE CHEF CHINTAN PANDYA and his partners decided to name their restaurant group Unapologetic Foods, they made it clear that they wouldn’t water down their vision for Indian cooking in New York. In 2022, when the group opened Rowdy Rooster (multiple locations; rowdyrooster.com), specializing in fried-chicken sandwiches marinated in Kashmiri chiles, Pandya found himself in an unexpected position: wondering whether he would have to apologize for the food. The sandwiches were offered at five heat levels. When customers ordered the hottest, the chef would try to talk them out of it. “I would tell them, ‘Listen, even I avoid that,’ ” he says. Many would order it anyway and suffer through the pain, sniveling in the dining room before leaving one-star reviews online. The sandwiches were simply too hot, and…

SHE WASN’T HAVING an out-of-body experience—it was more like the opposite—but still she was struggling to maintain her own perspective, a view of the world through her own eyes. She felt looked-at and hollowed-out. In her party dress and scarlet bee-stung mouth on a Tuesday afternoon, she was coming to feel that outfits designed to draw attention might be better confined to situations where distractions were plentiful and attention was hard to come by, such as nightclubs. The scenery consisted of gray concrete sidewalks with granite curbs bordering asphalt in a darker gray, gray trees streaked with black, and façades the color of ashes. Her sensitive, suffering flesh with its chafed red highlights was like a gaping wound that had heaved to its pointy feet and was lurching around. Her…