Rosalie R. Radomsky

1 day ago | nytimes.com | Rosalie R. Radomsky

Ayo Janeen Jackson made it clear to Leon Pelzer Kirkland that she was the “riffraff handler,” as she put it, at the 50th birthday party for twin friends two years ago. “‘I’m going to have to ask you to leave,’” she recalled telling Mr. Kirkland after he crashed the party in the backroom at Sisters restaurant in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, on his way home from Fort Greene, where he had been barhopping.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Rosalie R. Radomsky

As Leland Holt Vittert’s plane was taxiing at O’Hare International Airport in May 2021, a college friend, determined to find him a wife in Chicago, texted him. “Thank you, but no,” replied Mr. Vittert, 42, who was then rebuilding his life in Chicago as a news anchor at NewsNation, then a start-up cable news channel. He had recently left Fox News as a Washington anchor and correspondent, became single and was hospitalized with Covid.

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Rosalie R. Radomsky

After Ms. Moore reached out to him a few months later, they began texting. In July, when she visited New York, where she rented a loft for the weekend in Red Hook, Brooklyn, they reunited for dinner at Fort Defiance restaurant nearby. "It was very loud, but kind of cozy and romantic," said Mr. Moore, thanks to sitting on the same side of the table so they could hear each other. "He seemed like the same fun-loving person," she said.

Mar 28, 2025 | nytimes.com | Rosalie R. Radomsky

Harry Hoffman and Anne Hardee spent much of their youth in the water, on the water or by the water, often snacking on mangoes. Harry Andrew Hoffman met Anne Katherine Hardee in 2004 while they learned to sail an Optimist dinghy, or Opti, during summer sailing camp in St. Croix, V.I. They were both 8. The dinghy "was the closest thing to a bathtub with a mast and sails," said Mr. Hoffman, 28, now a lieutenant in the U.S. Coast Guard in Washington.

Mar 19, 2025 | nytimes.com | Rosalie R. Radomsky

Before Bill Cunningham rode his bicycle around the city taking photos of fashionable New Yorkers for The New York Times, he helped dress some of them as William J., the milliner. Along with socialites and Old Hollywood stars - Doris Duke, Joan Crawford, Marilyn Monroe and Ginger Rogers among them - his fans included people like Venera Macaluso of Queens, who died in 2018 and went by Netty.