Indholdsfortegnelse for June 30-July 13, 2025 i New York Magazine

1 For the cover story of New York’s June 16–29 issue, Suzy Hansen wrote about the war in Gaza from a legal perspective (“The War Crimes in Plain Sight”). On Piers Morgan Uncensored, the host characterized the article as “very damning,” “extremely thorough and detailed and well researched.” He asked Danny Danon, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, about Hansen’s assertions of war crimes in Gaza. Danon replied, “I have to disagree with this language. I deal with this at the U.N. every day, when people spread lies so easily, blood libels, … and then we have to deal with the consequences, the incitement,” adding that “we are doing our best, even now when we are in the middle of a war with Iran,” to get Palestinians access to humanitarian…

WITHIN 24 HOURS of Zohran Mamdani’s Democraticprimary win, New York City’s ruling class was engaged in a collective freak-out. “The sky is falling, feels like the vibe,” an adviser to one billionaire told me on June 25, as the city awoke to the likely prospect of a 33-year-old socialist mayor. By lunch that day, the Partnership for New York City, a group made up of CEOs, big landlords, and other people who think they own the city, was throwing together an emergency Zoom meeting. With rare uniformity, these interests had coalesced in the primary to support and fund Andrew Cuomo’s muscle-car campaign. Now their chosen vehicle was wrecked, and they were desperately looking for another ride. It was not so much Mamdani’s specific proposals that seemed so objectionable: A stabilized…

DAYS BEFORE I’M expected to fly, a familiar anxiety starts to churn in my gut. I get moody. Then moodier still. As my departure creeps closer, I begin trying to figure out if I really have to travel, gaming the odds of canceling: Can the work be done without going to L.A.? How mad will my friends be if I don’t make it? Will my niece cry if I blow off the family trip? The day before my flight, dread sets in, and instead of doing something useful, like packing, I’ll enact my own obsessive-compulsive-style protocol. I check Turbli, a turbulence-forecast website, and if moderate turbulence is predicted, I’ll try to move my flight or, irrationally, incur credit-card debt to upgrade myself to first class so I can panic in…

I see you’re from Toronto. What’s the chatter about the United States there these days? It’s hard not to pay attention to Trump—he’s pretty loud. Yet when walking around New York, I didn’t hear anyone talk about the mayoral race. It’s like no one brought it up. In Canada when there are elections, you see signs everywhere: on the lawn, the grass, the highway. You hear it. I didn’t even have the feeling that an election was happening here. Any gripes with your trip? My biggest pet peeve is the subway. You’ve got to work on it. Just make a nice subway, make it clean, make it make sense, make the stations appealing, and it’s going to go smoother in the city. I’m telling you. THE LOOK BOOK: VISITORS WITH…

WHEN THE CALIFORNIA NATIVE Eugene Cleghorn opened his first full Mission-style burrito shop, Super Burrito (multiple locations; superburritonyc.com), in the Rockaways in 2020, he began running specials to help attract business during the slower winter months. Dozens of customers soon peppered his Instagram account with requests for a Crunchwrap Supreme dupe. “I really didn’t want to do a Taco Bell thing,” he says. “I’m trying to make this food that’s very precious to who I am.” Cleghorn ignored and deleted the pleading messages for eight months before caving. “I was like, You know what? Give the people what they want.” When Super Burrito debuted its now-famous Dankwrap, the kitchen was slammed. It was the day’s best seller, and tickets rang in until closing. “We all kind of had a deer-in-the-headlights look…

For more culture coverage and streaming recommendations, see vulture.com. TV 1. Watch Too Much Pause your Girls rewatch. Netflix, July 10. A Lena Dunham comedy with Megan Stalter in the Hannah Horvath role and cast members including Emily Ratajkowski and Richard E. Grant, this series is a rom-commy story about that character moving to London, hooking up with a laid-back musician played by Will Sharpe, and being both aspirational and a complete mess. People will talk. KATHRYN VANARENDONK CLASSICAL 2. See Bell-Isserlis-Denk Trio & Friends A chamber-music supernova. 92nd Street Y, July 9 and 12. String quartets are stable; trios form when soloists’ trajectories intersect, and the collision can be explosive. Violinist Joshua Bell, cellist Steven Isserlis, and pianist Jeremy Denk don’t reunite often, so a two-concert series devoted to…

THE SHEER MAGNITUDE of Zohran Mamdani’s victory as the Democratic nominee for mayor was still sinking in for him a day and a half later. “We won College Point, Brighton Beach, Bensonhurst, Bath Beach,” he told me on the phone, ticking through neighborhoods known to be among the most right-leaning in the city. Power brokers across the party who had lined up behind Andrew Cuomo—the labor unions, county bosses, church leaders, and ward heelers—were now calling him, while business and real-estate executives burned up their own phone lines to figure out how to stop him in November. Most of the party and the city’s elite had backed Cuomo, if reluctantly given his personality. The former governor had universal name recognition and a strategy to run a campaign much as campaigns…

INSIDE THE SMALLER of two movie theaters at Los Angeles film mecca Vidiots, Diego Luna is telling me about the time he got stopped by security at Heathrow. It was the day after the Andor wrap party, a raucous event that celebrated the end of six years of work on Tony Gilroy’s critically acclaimed Star Wars series. Tequila was flowing, and after two seasons of strict COVID protocols against socialization, Luna went hard—so hard, in fact, that when he was packing the next morning, he casually threw a memento into his suitcase that he had taken from set: the blaster belonging to his character, Rebel spy and Resistance leader Cassian Andor. He showed up at the airport toting an MW-20 Bryar pistol and a severe hangover, and security didn’t love…

ON ELECTION NIGHT, as the polls for New York’s Democratic primary closed, Melissa Lozada-Oliva was crammed into a watch party at a bar in Gowanus, staring at news updates on a projector screen alongside a blue-and-gold crowd of white-knuckled locals desperate for Zohran Mamdani to win. Lozada-Oliva, a 32-year-old novelist and poet, had never canvassed for anyone before, but she spent the past few months door-knocking for Mamdani in her neighborhood of Crown Heights, moved by his message about a city everyone can afford. She had no idea what to expect. The bar was too loud to hear the news announcer. Numbers flashed on the screen. “And then those big letters of ANDREW CUOMO IS CONCEDING came and it was just—it was a zoo,” she said. “People were crying. Hugging…

➽To get there, opt for the AirTrain. It’s not only cheaper ($8.50, and fares will be $4.25 this summer until Labor Day) than a cab or an Uber; it’s probably faster. Drop-offs, pickups, and parking are more inconvenient than usual (even during off-hours) because of construction. But the AirTrain—which connects with the A/E/J/Z lines and the LIRR—hasn’t been affected. ➽If you’re taking a car, direct it to an AirTrain station—not the airport. Good choices are the Lefferts Boulevard, Howard Beach, and Jamaica stops, says Allison Thompson, a JetBlue in-flight supervisor at JFK who does this to ensure a prompt arrival at her gate. Look for parking near Jamaica as it’s typically cheaper there than at the airport. ➽Don’t expect express lines to save you much time. You may think that…

LONG AGO, the Fedorables, as they were known, gathered at 239 West 4th Street, under a neon sign saluting their patroness, for red-sauce prix fixe on the tables and Wheel of Fortune on the TV. Fedora, which opened in 1952, remained for nearly 60 years an unspoiled, if overripening, institution, christened not for the hat but for its owner, Fedora Dorato, one of three Florentine sisters named for opera heroines. (Fedora, in Umberto Giordano’s opera of 1898, is a Russian princess out to avenge her lover’s murder.) The Fedorables seem to have been girls in the camp, pre-Stonewall sense who, according to a later news item, passed the time placing quarter bets on the color of Vanna White’s dress. Much of the restaurant’s early success was credited to the efforts…

EARLY IN JUNE, after anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles had swelled in size and fury, the Department of Homeland Security posted a video of an immigration raid in El Monte, California. Over a generic hip-hop beat, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement Special Response Team serves a warrant to arrest a bald man wearing a black sweatshirt who walks out of a residential home with his hands up. The man, described in the Instagram as a “Mexican illegal alien,” is handcuffed on the side of a hulking black armored military vehicle. Slow-motion footage pans across closeups of split-second associative images: red and blue lights flashing on a huge tactical vehicle, officers in helmets and gear striding forward, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem posing on the sidelines wearing a tactical vest with…