Meet the e-girls selling European decline to America
Earlier this year, a striking 28-year-old woman, dressed head to toe in a vivid shade of crimson, stepped up to…
Trader Joe’s is a way of life
A young woman recently approached me as I stood outside Trader Joe’s on the corner of 93rd Street and Columbus…
Dispatch from an unloved borough
Once a year, Nick, a surgeon who lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, visits Staten Island. Almost as…
Drinking during pregnancy just isn’t the same
There are many cruel ironies in life. One of them is getting pregnant (and intending to keep it) at just…
New York is a people pleaser’s hell
Oh, New York, New York. So nice they named it twice. It never sleeps. It’s New York or nowhere, they…
Business schools are dating apps for the super-rich
“D’you know what the acronym MBA stands for?” The twenty-seven-year-old who asked me this had a deep tan and fluorescent…
