Dan Saltzstein

Dec 23, 2024 | nytimes.com | Dan Saltzstein

That all changed when I married Nancy, a Catholic. I've got plenty of company: In a 2020 Pew Research Center study, 42 percent of all married Jewish respondents indicated they have a non-Jewish spouse; remove Orthodox Jews and, for those wed after 2010, the number spikes to 72 percent. This year, us interfaith couples face a bit of a challenge. The Jewish calendar is based on the lunisolar cycle, which does not sync with the Gregorian one. So Hanukkah and Christmas rarely end up on the same dates.

Sep 6, 2024 | nytimes.com | Dan Saltzstein

This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. On March 21, 1924, a group of artists, writers and intellectuals filled the distinguished Civic Club in Manhattan for a dinner party, one that would turn out to be a pivotal moment in the early days of the Harlem Renaissance.

Mar 17, 2024 | bkmag.com | Dan Saltzstein

When I was a kid growing up in Westchester County—just forty-five minutes north of Manhattan, but a world away—I had a poster hanging on my bedroom wall of a photograph by the great Andreas Feininger, one of many he took for Life magazine in the 1940s and ’50s. It’s nighttime. Tenement buildings in the foreground are dwarfed by downtown skyscrapers, aglow like thick, gridded lamps. The whole image is hazy, as if viewed through a clouded window.

Mar 12, 2024 | bookshop.org | Zibby's Bookshop |Dan Saltzstein

Charming, poignant, and occasionally salacious, That's So New York is brimming with little snapshots of humanity that make one thing clear: There's no place like New York. New York Times editor and lifelong New Yorker Dan Saltzstein compiles hundreds of distinctly New York moments for this peek at the city that never sleeps.

Mar 8, 2024 | memoirland.substack.com | Dan Saltzstein

This essay is adapted from “That’s So New York: Short (and Very Short) Stories about the Greatest City on Earth,” out March 12 from Chronicle Books. It can be pre-ordered here. For me, the best New York celebrity sightings aren’t the marquee names. They are the ones you know by sight, but may or may not even know their names—and if you do, you feel a special pride in recognizing them. Seeing the late, great character actor Bruno Kirby in a West Village bakery.