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☆ How a Designer of Upcycled Fashion Spends Her Sundays
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-20 | by ( Kaya Laterman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

For many years, Rebecca Chamberlain designed clothes for famous brands, mostly to make ends meet. During the coronavirus pandemic, she started doing it for herself — by turning old garments into modern, sophisticated pieces. “When I was ghost-designing for mainstream clothing companies, it felt like we were always racing — towards what, a markdown?” said Ms. Chamberlain, 53, adding that she disliked the amount of waste the fashion world created. In 2020, Ms. Chamberlain said, she felt at peace back at the sewing machine as she “frantically” made hundreds of masks for a nearby hospital from her upstate home in Andes, N.Y. While many people found comfort in sweatpants, Chamberlain found herself hunting for old military gear, quilts, jeans and men’s shirts.

Persons: Rebecca Chamberlain, ”, Chamberlain, “ Locations: Andes, N.Y, sweatpants

☆ Not to Jinx It, but Is the Commute Easier Lately?
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Kaya Laterman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Ms. Sanders, 40, recently shocked her firm’s summer interns when she mentioned she could almost always be found in the office on Fridays. “It’s become my most reliable office day, because my drive now is that much easier.”Ms. Sanders is hardly alone in her quest for a Zen commute. On average, drivers in the New York metropolitan area lose about 132 hours per year in traffic, according to a recent survey by CoPilot, a car-buying app. “You’re guaranteed a seat,” said Ms. Gorman, 49. According to to publicly available data from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Monday is now the easiest weekday to travel around the metro region.

Persons: Sanders, It’s, Ms, Laura Gorman, “ You’re, ”, Gorman, “, “ Don’t Organizations: Grand Central, Jamaica, Metropolitan Transportation Authority Locations: New York, East Northport, Grand

☆ How a Master of Japanese Ink Painting Spends Her Sundays
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-15 | by ( Kaya Laterman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When the war was over, Ms. Yamamoto said, she was given a bus ticket to travel to any location she wanted. Her work has been shown most recently at the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum and at the Leonovich Gallery. After living in Greenwich Village for about five decades, Ms. Yamamoto moved to a nursing home in Forest Hills, Queens, last winter. There was a time when I used to think too much late at night, like my mind was working too much. ORDINARY MORNING I wash my face, put on clothes — you know, the ordinary things.

Persons: ”, Yamamoto, Isamu Noguchi, I’m Organizations: Isamu Noguchi Foundation, Garden Museum Locations: New York, Greenwich Village, Forest Hills, Queens

☆ How a Food, Drink and Lifestyle Expert Spends His Sundays
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-23 | by ( Kaya Laterman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

“Your eyes work differently when you become a parent, and you start seeing things in your city that you never saw,” Maneesh Goyal, the Manhattan businessman and restaurateur, said of fatherhood. Last year, he and his husband adopted a baby boy, now 20 months old. For many years he said he had a lot of identities, most of which seemed to circumvent parenthood and his Indian American roots. But in 1999, he moved to New York and became “an events guy, a marketing guy, an entrepreneur and a gay New Yorker,” he said. “Now I’m all about teaching what I took for granted from my cultural heritage.”

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