Rachel Sklar

Feb 10, 2025 | nymag.com | Paula Aceves |Julia Edelstein |Alyssa Shelasky |Rachel Sklar

When you live in the wealthiest city in the world, it's not hard to come up with people you suspect have access to their parents' money. But when we set out to put faces to the generational wealth that sustains - and inflates - New York's economy (and which is projected to be in the trillions over the next few decades), finding people who would be willing to talk about it in minute detail was a very different project. See AllThe rejections were swift and often vague.

Mar 27, 2024 | thecut.com | Rachel Sklar

Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photos: Shiiko Alexander/Alamy, Issarawat Tattong/Getty Images A few months ago, I flew with my daughter and boyfriend from New York to Palm Springs on Alaska Airlines. A week and a half later, a door on the same aircraft we’d flown, the Boeing 737-Max 9, fell off in the sky and sucked some teenager’s shirt clean off him. It freaked me out.

Nov 22, 2023 | vulture.com | Rachel Sklar

As far as preshow reception spreads go, this one exceeds expectations. There’s not only your standard “cheese plate with grapes and two kinds of melon” fare but a variety of hot options, plus wine. “That’s the teacher swag we need, that’s it right there,” says Malvia Rowe, a math teacher at Montauk Junior High School in Borough Park, Brooklyn. It is early in the evening, and she is clearly the hype person in her swishy baby-pink dress and sneaker slides, holding her bedazzled iPhone.

Nov 7, 2023 | journals.plos.org | Rachel Sklar |Elizabeth M. Noth |Ada Kwan

DiscussionOur study describes ventilation conditions that were measured at CDCR facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Notable findings include low per-person ventilation rates compared to WHO standards, worsened ventilation rates in winter months, and positive static pressure in cells (potentially moving infectious air from cells to common areas), all of which may heighten the risk of COVID-19 transmission among residents and staff.

Aug 13, 2023 | tuenight.substack.com | Rachel Sklar

Remember when we were growing up, how all the guys used to rag on Eric Clapton for writing a love song about George Harrison’s wife? Ugh. Tough to enjoy those guitar licks in “Layla” when it was about Clapton’s dopey, messy love life. And yikes, Bob Dylan, write about Joan Baez much? Or Suze Rotolo much? Or Edie Sedgwick much? Or Sara Lownds much?