Notes from All Over
Cinematic stories from around the world.
New York, Etc.
Culture
Domenico DeMarco has been making pizzas at Brooklyn’s famous Di Fara Pizza since 1965.
Politics
In 2002, Mohammad Razvi started the Council of Peoples Organization to help his community.
Business
A new law threatens the livelihoods of those who scavenge scrap metal on the street.
Culture
Thierry Despont has transformed New York City landmarks like the Statue of Liberty, and now the Cartier mansion.
Culture
Tour a collection of treasures plucked from thirty-four years’ worth of New York City garbage.
Culture
In our increasingly light-polluted world, what does it take to glimpse a truly dark night sky?
Culture
At eighty-seven years old, Richmond Shepard has devoted his life to the art of nonverbal communication.
Culture
A cinematic farewell to the days when the phone booth was an urban icon and a New York City necessity.
Culture
John Scioli, the owner of the Community Bookstore, in Brooklyn, prepares to shutter a neighborhood institution.
Culture
New York City’s shortest and oldest subway line, the Shuttle train, may also be the most musical line.
Politics
Hundreds of people gathered at the 9/11 memorial to pay tribute to the victims of last week’s Paris attacks. The French Consul General, Bertrand Lortholary, spoke of resilience and unity.
Culture
They’re recognizable by their overstuffed backpacks, dogs, and cardboard panhandling signs. They’ve been given many labels: gutter punks, crusties, street kids; when the weather grows cold, many will hitchhike or “hop freight” to warmer cities in the South or out West.
Culture
In his first public appearance in New York, Pope Francis took part in evening prayers at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, on Thursday evening. The service, attended by about twenty-five hundred clergy members, was in sharp contrast to the festive scene outside the cathedral.
Culture
New York was once the world capital of track cycling. Today, only one velodrome remains: the bumpy oval in Kissena Park, which is home to a summer racing series.
Culture
Thirty years ago, John McDermott and John Wren were young daredevils in need of union benefits, so they signed up for one of New York’s most dangerous professions: high-rise-window washing.
Culture
Between 9 P.M. and midnight on August 1st, the southern face of the New York City skyscraper became a giant projection screen filled with images of a snow leopard, a manta ray, and other imperilled land and sea creatures.
Culture
The five boroughs contain more than six thousand miles of streets. William Helmreich and Matt Green plan to walk each one.
Culture
Elizabeth Streb’s action heroes rehearse “Ascension.”
Culture
Who would have thought that New York has its own surfing community? It's in the Rockaways, and the Rockaway Beach Surf Club plays an integral role. On a recent Saturday, Brandon d'Leo, the club's co-owner, showed us around.
Business
Karen and Teddy Sadaka, the co-owners of Apparel Production Inc., discuss the decline of the garment district in the past four decades and their skepticism toward corporate promises to bring mass garment production back to the United States.
Culture
New York City's entire history is managed by the Department of Records, in downtown Manhattan. Eileen Flannelly, the deputy commissioner, and Kenneth Cobb, the assistant commissioner, show us around.
Business
Ulli Rimkus, the owner of the Lower East Side bar Max Fish, gives a tour of the art on its walls and considers the future of her business.
Culture
Photographer Zach Gross captures Diana Vishneva and Natalia Osipova as they dance in the Metropolitan Opera House's performance of “Onegin.”
Culture
Sarah Sze on her installation for the High Line, “Still Life with Landscape (Model for a Habitat).”
Culture
Officer Wayne Rothschild talks about his bond with his partner—a German shepherd named Danz—and instructs Danz to leap over hurdles and climb obstacles in one of the N.Y.P.D.’s canine-training courses, on Roosevelt Island.
Culture
Paul Goldberger tours three of New York's greenest offices.
Culture
The photographer Christopher Anderson documents New York City ten years after 9/11.