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“Maybe She Had So Much Money She Just Lost Track of It”

It started with money, as it so often does in New York. A crisp $100 bill slipped across the smooth surface of the mid-century-inspired concierge desk at 11 Howard, the sleek new boutique hotel in Soho. Looking up, Neffatari Davis, the 25-year-old concierge, who goes by “Neff,” was surprised to see the cash had come from a young woman who seemed to be around her age. She had a … [Read More]

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Cynthia Nixon Has Already Won

They say politics is Hollywood for ugly people, so it’s understandable that the question of why exactly Cynthia Nixon is running for governor of New York is one that … [Read More]

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The Hustlers at Scores

In another life, Roselyn Keo might have liked to work on Wall Street. “I’m smart enough, I know,” she told me, sitting in the immaculate white kitchen of her … [Read More]

Cynthia Nixon Has Already Won

They say politics is Hollywood for ugly people, so it’s understandable that the question of why exactly Cynthia Nixon is running for governor of New York is one that keeps coming up. After all, Nixon has had the kind of career most actors dream about. The past … [Read More]

“Maybe She Had So Much Money She Just Lost Track of It”

It started with money, as it so often does in New York. A crisp $100 bill slipped across the smooth surface of the mid-century-inspired concierge desk at 11 Howard, the sleek new boutique hotel in Soho. Looking up, Neffatari Davis, the 25-year-old concierge, … [Read More]

The Plot to Bomb Garden City, Kansas

   For all of Patrick Stein’s life, Southwest Kansas — “God’s country,” he called it — had looked basically the same. Golden fields, white grain elevators, blue sky. But lately it was starting to look different. “Here come a couple of fucking raghead … [Read More]

Meet Herman Weisberg, the Mistress Whisperer Who Handles Affairs Gone Wrong

  He waits for her where they have agreed to meet, at a wine bar on the Lower East Side. It’s not the sort of place he’d run into anyone he knows, but still he’s nervous, right up until she walks in. She spots him immediately—he’s the only guy in a … [Read More]

The Hustlers at Scores

In another life, Roselyn Keo might have liked to work on Wall Street. “I’m smart enough, I know,” she told me, sitting in the immaculate white kitchen of her suburban home. She’s organized, she pointed out, and good at math, and there is little doubt she has … [Read More]

 
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Jessica Pressler JESSICA PRESSLER is a staff writer at New York magazine. She is the the former editor of the magazine’s news blog, Daily Intelligencer, and a regular contributor to GQ and Elle. In 2015, Pressler was nominated for the National Magazine Award. Read More...

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