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My last indoor dining experience of 2020 was in early March. I had crispy roast duck, watercress and assorted dumplings at Wu’s Wonton King, at the junction of Chinatown and the historic Jewish Lower East Side. Located at the foot of the Forward Building, Wu’s occupies the site of the old Garden Cafeteria, what used to be the center of New York Jewish intellectual life. Where tanks of jostling Alaskan king crabs are found today, Forward writers and Yiddish literati once kibitzed over kreplach and kugel. Wu’s wasn’t a random dinner choice. The day before, I heard Wellington Chen, execu...

Type keyword(s) to search Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Jeremy O. Harris at Home, Ready to Go The provocateur behind the most Tony Award-nominated play in history plots the year ahead in culture, including a new film and TV projects, from his creative bubble in Dimes Square. Mar 11, 2021 Jeremy O. Harris wears a cardigan, shirt and pants by friend Emily Bode in his writing room, designed by her partner Aaron Aujla of Green River Project LLC, which made the furniture throughout this ar...

In April of 1947, readers of this publication flocked en masse to our building at 175 E. Broadway, rolled up their sleeves, and got stuck with a vaccine. The scene, replete with bespectacled gents, women in house dresses and young children, was part of something bigger: a rapid, mass vaccination against smallpox. By the time the first two weeks of the effort were over, 5 million New Yorkers had been inoculated thanks to the city’s new health commissioner, Dr. Israel Weinstein, and his rapid response; Mayor William O’Dwyer’s expediting of vaccine supplies; and the millions of residents w...