Eric Wasserman Stern and Evan Michael Zuzik figure they have eaten more than a thousand scoops of ice cream together, at least. “Our favorite place is Mitchell’s in Cleveland,” said Mr. Stern, where they had lived before moving to Durham, N.C., in 2019. Mr. Stern’s go-to flavors were amaretto cookie, when it was in season,…
Two years ago, at the checkout counter of a five-and-dime store in Guerneville, Calif., Ted Boerner and Rabbi Oren Postrel looked down into the display case and saw rings in black velvet boxes for sale, at $7.99, $8.99 and $9.99. They were in town to attend a wedding, Mr. Boerner explained, so perhaps commitment was…
Caroline Anderson and Robert Parisot can point to the day they almost met in 2011. They were both students at Harvard Law School at the time, and Ms. Anderson, who was in her third year, was participating in Harvard Law School’s Ames Moot Court Competition, a competition for appellate brief writing and advocacy. Mr. Parisot,…
Danielle Day was watching her bridesmaids get their hair and makeup done a few hours before her July 18 wedding when the alert came in. “I looked at my phone and said, ‘Oh, there’s a structure fire,’” she said. Her four wedding attendants, in various states of updos, sensed what was coming. “My sister tried…
When Lauren Maillian joined the New York Sports Club in Harlem, her intention was to work out. Robert Palmer had the same desire. In January 2017 that goal changed for both. “I had seen Lauren around. She’s one of the few women who lifted weights and she was stunning,” said Mr. Palmer, 30, the owner…
A classic best-friend’s-boyfriend connection brought Danica Gould and John Stamatis together, in 2015, but it eventually emerged that their connections went back another generation. Just a coincidence? The couple isn’t convinced. On the Saturday after Thanksgiving in 2015, Ms. Gould’s closest friend from college was in New York, and invited a group of friends to…
Betsy Zeidman and David Kleeman were a year apart at Sidwell Friends School in Washington in the 1970s, though both were on the school newspaper and so knew each other casually. Their awareness of each other over the ensuing decades was limited to occasional Sidwell alumni updates. “I certainly was not tracking him,” said Ms.…
When Victoria Michelotti first saw Alán Weinfeld in October 2010, he was sitting at a Manhattan bar with another woman — his mother. “I thought that was just so adorable,” said Ms. Michelotti, 34 and the director of brand strategy and new market development at the Cambridge Information Group, an investment firm in New York.…
Spring to Summer 2020 Photographs by Daniel Arnold Text by Dodai Stewart Aug. 7, 2020 The restaurant was empty, save for two other tables. Spoons slid through our dessert, split three ways. We were anxious but determined to enjoy it, somehow. It was March 10, and the coronavirus had just hit New York City. We…
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. My reporting obsession with medical bills started with a bandage. A very, very expensive bandage. Four years ago, before I worked for The New York Times, a reader emailed me a surprising story. He had…