Amir Hamja

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Sadiba Hasan |Amir Hamja

Her daughters then stepped away from the kitchen to set up the dining table with a new tablecloth purchased on a trip to Morocco. They had also changed the bedsheets and cleaned the curtains, a practice that Ms. Diallo carried on from her own mother in Thiès, Senegal. "There is a myth that said that Eid should find everything clean," explained Ms. Diallo, who moved to New York with her family in 2006. "No dirty clothes, nothing.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Gia Kourlas |Amir Hamja

"Y'all" is pleasant enough on its own, but to hear it more than a dozen times during a ballet class in New York City is a happy find. As in: "I want y'all to move a lot more. If you fall off your pirouette that is ohhh- kay."That voice, that word, that Southern sound - Jenifer Ringer is back in town. Ringer, a former principal with New York City Ballet, is now the director of the intermediate and advanced divisions and artistic programming at the company's School of American Ballet.

1 month ago | i-d.co | Amir Hamja |Nicolaia Rips

On a stage sandwiched between the Literary Criticism section and the Poetry books, journalist Alex Vadukul looked out at the crowd and declared, “We’re in the presence of greatness.” He could have been referring to the audience or the readers of the evening’s programming, but that night, greatness came in the form of the writer Gay Talese.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Alix Strauss |Amir Hamja

Harried New Yorkers might easily miss the brown door on the platform separating the street from the subway at the station on 28th Street at Seventh Avenue - home to the No. 1 train. Half a flight of stairs up, and you have the street. Half a flight down, the turnstiles. This intriguing experience is brought to you by Jey Perie, 41, who grew up in France and moved to New York in 2012. Eight years later, he opened La Noxe, a 600-square-foot hidden bar in between the street and the uptown train.

Jan 13, 2025 | wsj.com | Amir Hamja

Two brokerage units of Robinhood HOOD -1.22%decrease; red down pointing triangle Markets agreed to pay $45 million to settle an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission into a range of alleged violations, including one stemming from a 2021 data breach that exposed millions of customer names and emails. The settlement is the latest in a string of big penalties paid by Robinhood as it has grown from a disruptive startup into a more established financial firm.