By Ilyssa Panitz Photography by Jonathan Baskin The year was 1988. It was a sunny fall afternoon in New York City when Audrey Zinman, who was 27 years old and working as a marketing manager for a family business, entered a flea market on West 26th Street, not far from where she lived. As Zinman strolled up and down the ...

By Liz Colombini Photography by Justin Negard At 27, Olivia Vining stands in the pastry corner of The Inn at Pound Ridge’s kitchen, orchestrating desserts for up to 350 guests per night. Her hands move with precision as she plates salted caramel sundaes topped with caramelized popcorn and house-made fudge. The bursting flavors showcase a culinary mastery made all the ...

By Kayla Schmidt Artwork by Aeneas Eaton Photography by Gia Miller Meet Lucy Moore, a second grader at Coman Hill Elementary School, who loves pink, sings in a band and wants to be BETTER than Taylor Swift when she grows up. What’s your favorite band? Charming Disaster. It’s a spooky band, and I made a costume for it for Halloween ...

When artists refuse to be confined to galleries, the public space becomes their canvas, and we become the curators. By Liz Colombini I have become a walking art gallery, but that was never my intention. Covered in tattoos from my neck to my ankles, I’ve watched strangers become unwitting critics in grocery store lines, coffee shops and restaurants. They glance, ...

Writing and photography by Justin Negard Images courtesy of Michael Bierut / Pentagram You know Michael Bierut’s work. You’ve seen it, read it, held it, visited it, flown with it, cheered for it and possibly even voted for it. Bierut is a designer—a graphic designer, to be precise. “If I say that I’m a designer, people sometimes get excited because ...

By Gia Miller Photography by Justin Negard "We get to do whatever we want here, which is kind of amazing for a bagel shop,” says chef Gary King about himself and his wife, pastry chef Emily King, one Monday evening in late August. Earlier that afternoon, when the Kings’ restaurant, Ridgefield Bagels & Bakes, closed at 3 p.m., they locked ...

Artist Vicente Saavedra’s path was once conventional, until art set him free. By Isabella Aranda Garcia Photography by Justin Negard The walls of Peekskill artist Vicente Saavedra’s Dobbs Ferry studio are lined with unfinished canvases, paint-splattered sketchbooks and scattered stacks of well-loved brushes. Classical or jazz music hums in the background. The space is an in-between, neither pristine nor chaotic, ...

By Ilyssa Panitz Photography by Rianjali Bhowmick & Fay Fox When Pound Ridge resident Sharbari Bose Kamat was a journalism student at NYU, she had a vision to write a piece of fiction, in the form of a novel or a short story, or possibly even an essay. She even came up with a title for it, “Incarnations of I.” ...

By Elijah Willner In 2020, brothers Rowan and Christian Dias approached their mother with an idea. They loved that their younger sister, Elle, who was diagnosed with a rare genetic neurodevelopmental disorder called MED13L Syndrome, always enjoyed playing lacrosse with them. However, her disabilities meant she was unable to participate in the same children’s lacrosse classes as her neurotypical peers ...