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Making Money: The Fruit Vendor
Video: Rahman Khandker describes being a fruit vendor as part of The New Yorker’s “Making Money” series, which documents the different ways people throughout New York City make a living: http://nyr.kr/19FhSCk
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J.R. documented his “Inside Out” project in Times Square on our Instagram account. Check out the behind-the-scenes photos: http://nyr.kr/YLeFBB
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Inequality and New York’s Subway
New York City has a problem with income inequality. And it’s getting worse—the top of the spectrum is gaining and the bottom is losing. Along individual subway lines, earnings range from poverty to considerable wealth. The interactive infographic here charts these shifts, using data on median household income, from the U.S. Census Bureau, for census tracts with subway stations: http://nyr.kr/11mEy8m
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Matthew McKnight writes about a case challenging the N.Y. Police Department’s stop-and-frisk policy: “The relationship between law enforcement and communities that the N.Y.P.D. has determined contain high concentrations of crime—thus requiring a heightened police presence—is a complicated, quarrelsome one”: http://nyr.kr/Zy8Rsb
Here, see a selection of photojournalist Nina Berman’s work documenting community outrage around the N.Y.P.D.’s controversial stop-&-frisk policy: http://nyr.kr/NWEGWY
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"More than just a physical space, he explained, a city is a set of cultural norms. “It’s kind of a shared dream.” Stop dreaming, stop continually making decisions to maintain it, and ivy creeps up the walls."
— Jason Fagone goes on Neil Freeman’s tour of Bushwick, Brooklyn, and looks at his alternative geography: http://nyr.kr/10bT1Rs(Source: newyorker.com)
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“When I visited New York, one of my favorite things to do was to explore the various flea markets,” says Birgit Schössow, the German artist behind this week’s cover, “City Flair.” “And in the last few years, I’ve even ordered some beautiful costumes and dresses from the forties and fifties from New York’s vintage shops online. These little works of art are simply beautiful to look at from time to time, and to wear every now and then. There’s so much history in a costume that is already nearly seventy years old! It allows you to fantasize each story.”
She concludes: “I love the very feminine styles of that era; my cover was inspired by the fashion drawings of that time. But jeans are much more practical, of course.”
Cover of the May 6, 2013 issue. Get the story behind this week’s cover, “City Flair” by Birgit Schössow as well as a slide show of other New Yorker covers depicting city flair: http://nyr.kr/18827FZ
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Pari Dukovic, a regular contributor toThe New Yorker, will see his first solo show open at Giacobetti Paul Gallery in Dumbo tonight.
Over the course of two years, Dukovic photographed burlesque performers in New York City. His interest in the scene was fuelled by the contrast between an artist’s public and private persona: “A burlesque performer takes a piece of themselves and builds a character in their fantasy world,” he writes. “While these performances take place in public, performers actually share a very private story.”
The resulting photographs are emotional and quite intimate: “I wanted my viewer to enter the emotional state of the performer’s character and psyche.” For Dukovic, the biggest challenge was “to capture the most ethereal moments of the performers and to have the sense of looking into a private world.”
I think he succeeds.
“Burlesque” opens tonight at 111 Front Street, Suite 220, at 6 P.M. There will be an encore opening, to coincide with the Armory art show, on Saturday, March 9th, from 6 to 9 P.M.
Click-through to see a selection of Dukovic’s work: http://nyr.kr/13Jt82g
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There’s No Business Like Shoe Business
“Making Money” is a series on the different ways that people throughout New York City make money. This is the first installment.
Kelly Stout observes one of New York City’s shoe shiners at work: http://nyr.kr/14q9Sm7
Photograph by Ilona Szwarc.
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I <3 Brooklyn Brewery
“Good beer is work! Appreciating beer is work! (At least, on this day.) And, highest of all, there is the motto printed above the door on Glaser’s building, glanced at while stepping into the winter evening: ‘Art is Work.’”
Michael Agger chats with Milton Glaser, the designer behind Brooklyn Brewery’s logo, on the 25th anniversary of the brewery: http://nyr.kr/12rKLE8
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