Dan Greene

Kareem Rahma and Andrew Kuo devised “Subway Takes” to solicit controversial opinions on the train, like why men should sit to pee.

The setting: the second-floor basketball court at Nike’s headquarters near Madison Square Garden, where some Heat players would be gathering to shoot around. Jaquez came straight from the airport, in off-white sweats and matching sneakers. Adewumi had arrived wearing a black Adidas tracksuit. A Nike rep, noticing the attire, provided a new, appropriately branded one instead. (“Much better,” she said, after he changed.) They headed for a chessboard, which was set up at mid-court on a high-top tab…

Eisenberg has now sold hundreds of told-you-so’s, at almost two hundred bucks a pop. While traditional duvet covers open on one side, requiring a bed-maker to awkwardly slide a comforter through a single entry slot, Eisenberg’s Nuvet unzips on three sides. He likens the situation with traditional duvet-cover design to “having two pieces of bread and trying to smush the meat in, or the tomatoes.” He pressed his palms together horizontally to illustrate. “That’s a really stupid way of making a san…

For four hours a day, four days a week, Santana had been filming promos and luring passersby to try Uno Quatro, a new Uno variant that involves connecting four tiles with matching numbers or colors on an upright grid. For this she was being paid the handsome and branding-aligned salary of forty-four hundred and forty-four dollars and forty-four cents a week—more than even most of her apprentice stock-trading contemporaries were making. She demonstrated her pitch: “It combines the concept of four…

The entrepreneurs behind elahni, a “wellness speakeasy” that serves nonalcoholic “adaptogenic tonics,” hit the sauna and the cold plunge before downing some shots.

At the Big Apple Regionals, in Williamsburg, break-dancers like Mucus Marcus and Dom the Bomb compete for a chance at a spot in the 2024 Games.

In Gowanus, a group of comedians raised money for medical-debt relief by walking a sodden red carpet, bedecked in upcycled garbage.

A biography of the W.W.E. boss Vince McMahon ties his post-truth pseudo-sport to “the unmaking of America.”

The influencers behind the VIP List, a social-media foodie account that satirizes social-media foodie tropes, put the two-Michelin-star Daniel to the test.

Gersh Kuntzman, a vigilante who fixes up license plates that have been defaced in order to evade speeding-ticket cameras, confronts a potential perpetrator downtown.