On Halloween, Piccola Cucina Osteria Siciliana in SoHo served one last dinner in the little house that it built on Spring Street during the first year of the coronavirus pandemic. Lila Barth for The New York Times The next morning, the owner, Philip Guardione, took everything he could save from the structure: 11 tables, chairs,…
Natale Adgnot didn’t always see the appeal of owning a cabin in the woods. For years, her husband, Sebastien Adgnot, browsed listings for rustic homes in upstate New York and New Jersey from the couple’s apartment in Brooklyn. “But my wife told me, ‘There’s no way I’m going to spend my weekends in a lake…
In late 2022, as thousands of migrants began to arrive in New York City, city officials scrambled to find places to house them. They quickly found takers: hotels that were still struggling to recover from the pandemic-driven downturn in tourism. Dozens of hotels, from once-grand facilities to more modest establishments, closed to tourists and began…
In her new video series, the comedian Rachel Coster explores some of the foulest, most unsightly corners of New York City. No, not the grimy sidewalks of Times Square or the platforms of especially smelly subway stations. Ms. Coster trains her critical eye on the squalid apartments of male 20-somethings. Dusty shelves, sweat-stained pillowcases and…
