Made in New York: the Dog Dresser
New York’s pooches will look downright fetching if designer Rebecca Fadden has anything to say about it
NY City Scene
Forget the Apps: Dating Brought to the Stage
A couple years ago, Harrison Forman was living and working in San Francisco and dating around, as many twenty-somethings do, but he was doing it differently: he was broadcasting his dates via Facebook live. Forman, who was working at Facebook at the time, was using the company’s new technology to date in a new way. […]
Made in New York: The Shoemaker
The Brooklyn Shoe Space allows shoemakers to teach and create
What It’s Like To Be a Man with Breast Cancer
For minority health awareness month, a black male breast cancer survivor tells his story of how he fought the stigma
When Table Tennis Meets Disc Jockey in Midtown New York
A resurgence of ping-pong in the Big Apple
An Abuse Victim Turns Her Pain Into Poetry
Veronica Gonzalez was a victim of domestic violence for over five years, but she’s used her pain for poetry and music
The Oldest House in Manhattan is Rich with Culture and History, and Maybe Even Ghosts
Have the historical figures who used to inhabit the Morris-Jumel Mansion ever left the premises? NYCity Lens went on a paranormal investigation to find out.
Harlem’s Swing Dance Society Keeps “The Lindy Hop” Alive
The dance was born in Harlem during the Great Depression, and that’s where some residents are keeping it going.
Can a Local Winner Go All the Way?
Tacitus wins the Wood Memorial at the Aqueduct in Queens, and is now leading among Kentucky Derby contenders
Orchid Overkill
Orchids are one of the oldest flowering plants on the planet, but due to the increasing threats to the environment they’re starting to head to extinction.
The Meaning of Spelling
When nine-year-old Fatima Ali is restless, and she has trouble falling asleep, she lays down in bed and spells out words in her head to help her get to sleep. She often does it alongside her mother, who isn’t a native English speaker and uses this bedside exercise to practice her pronunciation too. Mom tucks […]
The Right To Their Roots, Literally
The new NYC guidelines giving black people the right to wear their hair however they like will likely drive profits for natural hair influencers and entrepreneurs.
Can an American Become a K-pop Star?
A Jamaican-American woman wants to become a star in the Korean pop music industry. Can she make it as a foreigner?
Climb Vessel, Take a Vesselfie
Postcards from the first weekend at New York City’s newest playground, Hudson Yards
The Women in the Waves
The few female surfers in New York are building their own tight-knit community
The Last Stop
Derrick Richard began his adventure on the subway as a 2-year-old boy taking the hour-long trip with his family from their old home in Brooklyn to their new home in the Bronx. Along the way, Richard, now 22, remembers watching people enter and exit the train cars at each stop. When it was their turn, […]