The long-standing “Famous Original Ray’s Pizza” in Chelsea has closed. It was one of the handful of locations left of the fabled NYC pizza chain. It’s signage, featuring the red crown logo, still hangs above the shuttered address. If left untouched, it might become a ghost sign.

For Styles, my A1 story about the last day on the job for Walden Pond’s longtime resident Henry David Thoreau impersonator. After 26 years, he has finally hung up his straw hat🌳🎣 nytimes.com/2025/09/11/sty…

My profile for Styles, "The Downtown Ventriloquist." In New York's bars and nightclubs, Sophie Becker is reviving a lost art form, one wisecrack at a time. Feat. a surprise cameo from Candice Bergen. nytimes.com/2025/09/05/sty…

Very grateful to have my journalism and feature writing at NYT Styles recognized by the historic annual Silurians Press Club awards🙏🗞️ Honored to be recognized with Times journalists like Luis Ferré-Sadurni, Emma Goldberg, Todd Heisler, Willy Rashbaum, and Dana Rubinstein 📰🏆

Felt honored to attend the inaugural Tom Wolfe Prizes for Fiction & Reportage. A special New York evening 🗞️🌹🗞️ airmail.news/issues/2025-10…

My NYT Styles report on the Great Jones Street naming of Jean-Michel Basquiat Way 🌹🎨👑 nytimes.com/2025/10/22/sty…

Dropping this week in The Metropolitan Review, a very special project 🗞️🙏🌹 substack.com/@metropolitanr…

"The ones that actually stick with me, like Feed Me, Magasin, A Small and Simple Thing, have a real point of view and, more importantly, a reason to exist. They’re smart, practical, and don’t waste your time." Chris Black forever <3 gq.com/story/what-i-m…

Today in The Metropolitan Review, a gem by André Aciman. He reflects on a mysterious photograph taken by his father nearly a century ago. Though its meaning was never divulged, Aciman, master of irrealis moods that he is, finds possibility in his father's silence. metropolitanreview.org/p/my-fathers-p…

Renato’s Piccolo Angolo, a petite and beloved West Village institution, closed after over thirty years. Founded in 1992, the soulful little trattoria specialized in Ligurian cuisine and it shuttered due to rising rents.

Closed quietly last month was Coppola’s, which had a modest yet loyal Murray Hill following. Opened in 1998, it witnessed the neighborhood’s transformation into a boulevard of frat bars. It rode some buzz in 2010 after Jessica Simpson went there for an engagement celebration.

My nightcap recs for Feed Me 🌹🍸 Thanks for having me EMILY SUNDBERG 🙏 open.substack.com/pub/emilysundb…