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6 days ago | 
nytimes.com | Alexis Benveniste |Amir Hamja
Washing machines hum in the background as customers at Pearl Lee’s Washtub in Crown Heights sip beer, work on laptops and eat on the patio, waiting for spin cycles to finish.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Jenni Lee |Matt Ruby |Amir Hamja
One night, $31 million, hundreds of celebrities and your six favorite looks. On Monday, stars including Madonna and Rihanna walked down the blue carpet to celebrate the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute show "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style."Every year we round up photos from the Met Gala. But this year we gave readers the ability to choose their favorite looks from the carpet. And last night, 30,000 readers like you hit the save button 100,000 times.
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1 month ago | 
bloomberglinea.com | Paige Smith |Amir Hamja
Bloomberg — Las ganancias del primer trimestre de Mastercard Inc (MA) superaron las expectativas ya que los consumidores siguieron gastando a pesar de las turbias condiciones macroeconómicas espoleadas por la guerra comercial del presidente Donald Trump. La compañía de pagos reportó US$3.410 millones en ingresos netos ajustados, o US$3,73 de ganancias diluidas ajustadas por acción, para los primeros tres meses del año. Los analistas habían esperado un BPA ajustado de US$3,58.
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2 months ago | 
nytimes.com | Joshua Barone |Amir Hamja
The pianist Jeremy Denk tests three Steinways that the Frick Collection is considering for its auditorium. Watch, listen and guess which the museum picked. The pianist Jeremy Denk tests three Steinways that the Frick Collection is considering for its auditorium. Watch, listen and guess which the museum picked. Credit... On a recent morning, the pianist Jeremy Denk got an early look at the renovated Frick Collection.
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Mar 30, 2025 | 
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.
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Mar 24, 2025 | 
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.
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Mar 16, 2025 | 
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.
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Mar 10, 2025 | 
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.
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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.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
milenio.com | Freda Moon |Amir Hamja
Avancé por la oscuridad hacia la única ventana de la habitación, un hueco en forma de media luna en los gruesos muros de piedra. La abertura tenía barrotes —un vestigio de los días de la conquista de las tierras altas del centro de México por Hernán Cortés a principios del siglo XVI—. Si no hubiera sido porque el espacio, con tres camas grandes en dos habitaciones cavernosas, competía en tamaño con alguno de mis departamentos anteriores, podría haber sentido claustrofobia. Me sentía eufórica.
