NEW YORK ā Nearly four years ago, I began following six people over age 85 to see what their lives were like: what kept them going, what they hoped for or feared. This past year, I asked Jonas Mekas, now 96, about death and the afterlife.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York took aim at President Donald Trumpās immigration policies Monday, issuing pardons to 22 immigrants who were at risk of deportation or blocked from citizenship because of criminal convictions.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York took aim at President Donald Trumpās immigration policies Monday, issuing pardons to 22 immigrants who were at risk of deportation or blocked from citizenship because of criminal convictions.
NEW YORK ā The Paris Theater had its concession stand in the basement and a purple velvet curtain in front of the screen, and when it closed last week after 71 years, it was the last single-screen theater in New York City.
NEW YORK ā From a tidy glass office in Midtown Manhattan, Darren Walker gives away $650 million a year of other peopleās money, and is paid nicely to do so. When he got this job in 2013, as president of the Ford Foundation, he set his sights on tackling inequality.
If you see a logo for New York magazine or a Brooklyn Brewery beer, for the Rainbow Room or Grand Union, youāre living in Milton Glaserās New York.
NEW YORK ā Here is a vision of New York the way many people dream it: a packed room of neighbors on a Saturday afternoon, diverse in age and race and class, talking about community.
NEW YORK ā Fifty years ago, Sister Paulette LoMonaco, a young nun from Queens, went to work for a small social services agency called Good Shepherd Services, serving as a house mother at a group home for teenage girls in crisis near Union Square.
āI had to do stuff to deal with the anger,ā she said. āWorking out and meditating, and trying to breathe. I did anything to try to not focus on the anger.ā
NEW YORK ā Jonas Mekas did many things in his long life, but one thing he did better than almost anyone ā the last thing he did ā was model how to live as a vital New Yorker at age 95.