As is often the case in New York, housing crises can lead to life-altering changes in direction. For Matei Varga, 41, being kicked out of an apartment led to an unexpected romance with Melissa Gibbs, 84. In late 2005, Mr. Varga was a candidate for a master’s degree in piano performance at Mannes College: the New…
Tess Alexandra MacVicar Owen and Andrew Blaise Campbell were in Charlottesville, Va., in August 2017 to cover the violent “Unite the Right” rally of white nationalists, or, as Ms. Owen called it, “a brazen display of hatred.” What neither expected to find was love. On the day after the rally, Ms. Owen, 33, a senior…
Experts weigh in on how long immunity lasts after an infection — or vaccination.
They are extremely rare, he added, and the new warning should not be cause for widespread alarm. The realization that A.L.C.L. was linked to breast implants had already “enabled us to be more cognizant that other things could be happening in that area,” Dr. Clemens said. “If A.L.C.L. is uncommon, these are very rare,” he…
Misophonia, a little-known syndrome, is characterized by strong negative emotional reactions to certain sounds or visual cues.
Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-serving monarch, who died on Thursday, remained resolutely mum about her political leanings throughout her time on the throne, as her role in her country’s constitutional monarchy decreed. Yet an indelible part of her legacy — along with her steadfast dedication to her country, its traditions and the symbolism of a…
The fall art season has arrived, with its manic harvest of exhibitions, and also The Armory Show, the major art fair in New York City that shifted its schedule and venue last year, moving to this early-September date and the Javits Center. With some 240+ galleries showing, and solid delegations from every continent, the fair…
It doesn’t seem like a titillating photograph: an orderly queue of Germans, waiting to enter a nondescript industrial site. It is dark. Just a single light illuminates the door. What does it look like? Like a color remake of Depression-era imagery: the factory entrance, the bread line. But the men in single file — they…
The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new drug that reduced the appearance of facial wrinkles for about six months, spurring competition in a market that for decades has been dominated by Botox. Revance Therapeutics, the maker of the new treatment, Daxxify, announced the approval on Thursday morning, saying its effects — by injection…
The butcher shop Schaller & Weber, a vestige of the German American culture that once flourished in the Yorkville section of the Upper East Side, plans to add a little Austrian flavor to its stretch of Second Avenue. Jeremy Schaller, the third-generation owner of the business, plans to open Jeremy’s, a narrow cocktail bar that…