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When writer Erin Chack realized her marriage was over, she was suddenly faced with a problem she’d never anticipated she’d have at 36: She had no place to live. Before then, she had only ever lived with her ex, whom she had met as a teenager. A few months after crashing with a friend, Chack decided to strike out on her own. She booked a flight to Costa Rica, where she shared a room with a 24-year-old named Charlotte. “We lived like the millennial–Gen Z Bert and Ernie: sleeping together, eating together, sometimes brushing our teeth side by side,” Chack writes. And that Costa Rica trip awakened some magic. From then onward, the roommates followed. In the past year, Chack lived with two cats in Prospect Heights, with a giant hissing Maine Coon in Oakland, with a tiny black cat in Rockaway Beach, with a man she was seeing in his bungalow in Echo Park and in his truck in Ojai, on a trailer on her parent’s property in the Hudson Valley, with skateboarders in Greenpoint, and with a les

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At almost every milestone of the Alexander brothers’ decade of success in luxury real estate, there is now an allegation of assault, whether by Oren, or Tal, or Oren and Alon, or Tal and Alon and Oren. But the allegations go all the way back to 2003, when the brothers were in high school. More than 60 women told prosecutors they were raped by the brothers, sometimes as a pack. Eleven women testified at their trial. In 2024, the Real Deal reported on a pair of civil suites filed by women against Oren and Alon. “They really thought it was all going to blow over,” a broker who knew the brothers says. But dozens of commenters on the Real Deal’s posts started adding their own experiences or what they had heard about the brothers. “I’ve waited 22 years for this moment, since I was 15 years old,” one woman wrote. People in the industry couldn’t stop talking about how long it had all taken to come out. It was so blatant. So known. But of course it did. The Alexanders built their business on

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“Never has the roller coaster of prospective consumption — the magnetic pull of targeted ads, the resentment of those ads, the obsessive research — hit me so hard as it did with the On the Loose Work Pants, a garment made by a Bay Area–based brand called Ruti,” writes Carrie Battan. Somewhat unremarkable at first glance, the pants are cut in a slimmer-fit barrel leg that is ever so slightly cropped. Battan first learned of these pants two summers ago, when they were recommended enthusiastically to her by an interior-design influencer. Since then, they wouldn’t leave her. There they were, in targeted Instagram Stories and in banner ads on New York ‘Times’ recipes. There they were, being hyped on Instagram and TikTok. “Usually when I want something that’s been advertised to me, I can wait out the urge and it’ll slip from my mind. Not these pants — I couldn’t stop thinking about them. Were they a feat of aggressive marketing or something more?” writes Battan. After going a full year w

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Over its first weekend in wide theatrical release, A24’s Nathan Fielder–embedding, Elizabeth Holmes–interrogating “movie of the year” ‘You Can See Everything’ opened Hollywood’s eyes to the box-office power of mindfuck documentary. The film grossed a massive $19.5 million in North American theaters. In an era when nonfiction film is considered box-office kryptonite and the genre skews millennial-through-boomer in whatever rare instances it can be found on screens larger than Netflix’s or Hulu’s, ‘You Can See Everything,’ co-directed by Fielder and 30-year-old filmic phenom Lance Oppenheim, is on track to become one of the most successful documentaries in history. It’s easy enough to forget that less than two months ago, ‘You Can See Everything’ still wasn’t yet finished. It had zero prerelease awareness, no marketing campaign, and for most of its three-year production, fewer than ten staffers within A24 even knew of the film’s existence. “Studio executives maneuvered to synergize it

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Jalen Brunson may have been the catalyst, and OG Anunoby’s game-four tip might be the moment fans remember most about the NBA Finals this year. “But the true story behind the Knicks’ magical title run is one of two outsiders — a Black kid from Camden and a Jewish kid from Cherry Hill — coming together and conquering the sport,” writes Yaron Weitzman. “And it’s a story that doesn’t begin in a glamorous gym but in a run-down shoe store on a nondescript stretch of South Jersey road.” In 2020, when Leon Rose became the president of the Knicks, the team was one of the most embattled franchises in sports. He said he’d start with the simple stuff. He’d be patient with his roster. Build a relationship with team owner James Dolan. Come in asking questions and being ready to learn. And there was one more thing. Something he could bring to the table that no one before him could. “He thought Wes would be really important,” Mike Dunlap, a longtime coach and one of Rose’s earliest clients, said.

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David Wallach was walking to his Lower East Side apartment on Tuesday around 8 p.m. when he craned his neck up at one of Lower Manhattan’s latest after-hours spectacles. At the corner of White and Centre Streets, in Chinatown, he watched as a clutch of giant drill rigs across the street bored into the site of the borough’s forthcoming 335-foot-tall jail. Over the next five-plus years, residents and businesses surrounding the former site of the Manhattan Detention Complex, known as the Tombs, will have their days and nights filled with earsplitting drilling and vibrations. The project is already running behind schedule: The city is all but guaranteed to blow past its legally mandated deadline to close Rikers Island and replace it with four new jails across the boroughs by 2027. And the 1,040-bed Manhattan jail looks to be the last of the four, opening in 2032. To meet that target date, the project’s design-build team has to follow an intense construction schedule that has led to the

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Ladies, would you get it on with a man-shaped wicker basket? He’s never heard of podcasts. You won’t have to cook for him. He has a stiff and pleasing, uh, log. But on the other hand, he *is* highly flammable. ‘Wicker’ is a new surrealist comedy about a spinster fisherwoman (Olivia Colman) who finally gets her dream husband (Alexander Skarsgård) — one woven from willow. After years of wish-fulfillment fantasies about men falling for sex-bot companions, women are flipping the script on objectification. ‘Wicker’ is the most mainstream entry in the burgeoning category of modern romances between woman and thing. It adds to a canon of similar films, including Guillermo del Toro’s ‘The Shape of Water,’ about a woman who has a relationship with a fugitive amphibian, and Julia Ducournau’s ‘Titane,’ about a showgirl who has dangerous sex with a car. “Absurdist romances, which overwhelmingly pair human women with male creatures and objects, infuse levity into the depressing topic of modern (he

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Esther Choi’s (@choibites) debut cookbook, ‘Hand Taste: Cook Like a Korean Grandmother,’ out next week, celebrates the power of sohn-mat, the idea that experienced cooks season their food with their hands. “Each family has their own sohn-mat, so when you taste kimchi from different families, it tastes different,” she says. “It’s your palate, but it’s also something that you can learn to hone over time.” Choi has become something of a celebrity in the Korean food world since opening @mokbar_nyc in 2014; the restaurant remains a stalwart among the carousel of rotating Chelsea Market vendors. She now lives in Flatiron with her husband and their 2-year-old son. Motherhood has deepened her love for home cooking, she says, but she isn’t ashamed to call in the obligatory Chinese food delivery order when a nasty hangover demands it: “I’ve ordered Chinese takeout everywhere else, and it never tastes the same as New York’s.” Read Choi’s full #GrubStreetDiet at the link in our bio. Illustratio

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“Innocent people are already paying the price of City Hall perennially starving ambulance first responders of the salaries, benefits, and work conditions they deserve,” writes Errol Louis. Over the last decade, response time on life-threatening medical emergencies has jumped by nearly four minutes, an increase of more than 41 percent, according to a recent report. Non-life-threatening response time has more than doubled, by almost 15 minutes. That extra time can be the difference between life and death. The root of the problem is the absurdly low pay that New York’s frontline “street doctors” get. First-year emergency medical technicians (EMTs) make only $43,932, far lower than the entry-level salaries of firefighters ($54,122) and cops ($55,942), and less than first-year sanitation workers ($47,752). And while other uniformed personnel hit $100,000 within five and a half years, EMTs have smaller increases and top out at $68,700, with paramedics capped at $86,348. “You have EMTs st

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Last weekend, Hollywood descended on the Academy Museum Gala. For an event that’s not widely known, this year’s red carpet was so well received that the New York Times asked if it was “better than the Met Gala.” And by and large, it was impressive: Most attendees looked elegant but interesting, like they were flexing their taste rather than trying hard to make a social-media-friendly statement. “And then there were the men. While the gowns impressed, the tuxedo lineup left me scratching my head, wondering why nothing fit quite right,” writes @SamuelHine. “You would think that famous guys with personal stylists would be able to find suits that sat calmly on their shoulders and draped nicely down their legs. And yet, it looked like every tailor in Hollywood took the night off.” For the latest installment of New York Look, Hine writes about why movie stars can’t find tuxedos that actually fit, answers questions from readers, and more. Sign up for his free newsletter at the link in our

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For a specific variety of listener, Nirosta Steel was the hot new artist of the summer. It just so happened that Steven Hall, which is his real name, was almost 70 and most of this “new” music on the record ‘My Skyscraper’ was decades old. The album’s earliest inclusions date back to Hall’s day in Poets’ Building days in the early 1980s. “It feels like I’m playing a part in this movie about myself,” he says. “Like being in a parallel dimension.” When decades-old music or books are excavated and celebrated, the artists are often long gone. The difference now is that Hall is still here, posting stories and telling them — with complex effects on his legacy. Hall’s past played first out as an opportunity for nostalgia. Then, it threatened his sudden fame. At the link in our bio, Jack Denton spends time with Nirosta Steel and unpacks how his rise set off a fractured discourse. Photo: @evealpert

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Until recently, Max Miller, the 37-year-old Republican congressman from Ohio, has gone somewhat under the radar — a former Trump protégé, moderately effective in Congress, and little known outside Washington and Ohio. But over the past five months he’s entered the national stage through a series of alarming allegations. As he summarized it in August: “I’ve been portrayed as an abusive husband, an abusive father, and a violent man.” His ex-wife, Emily Moreno, the daughter of Republican senator Bernie Moreno, has accused Miller of throwing her against a wall, scalding her with boiling water, and holding a gun to her head. This winter, Miller was investigated after their two-year-old daughter was discovered to have a broken collarbone. Miller is in many ways a middle-of-the-road Republican. His constituency, taken as a whole, is likewise red but moderate. Some of the biggest towns in his district area swung for Obama in his first presidential run. Miller won his seat comfortably in 2022

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@dillonmaxwellclarke is a 26-year-old model and tailor with a budding bespoke practice. His way of working, based on the practically artisanal Florentine tradition, is incomparable to that of most working tailors in New York. Each suit is almost entirely hand-stitched, taking upwards of 120 hours to complete. He can make only about a dozen a year — 15 at most. It’s rare that Clarke gets an order from someone he hasn’t previously met at a gallery opening, group dinner, or Fashion Week after-party. Many of his clients first encounter the lanky Brit on the dance floor in one of his signature suits with a cigarette dangling from his mouth. “I’m wearing it, and I’m enjoying it, and I feel good in my suit. I think people see that and are like, ‘Wow, that’s pretty cool,’” he says. Subtlety is especially critical in Florentine tailoring, which, unlike English or Neapolitan traditions, does not rely on vertical darts running down the breast to shape a jacket. “It’s a style in which the major

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