The New Yorker Magazine – May 12 & 19, 2025 Preview

A series of images about New York City featuring a bagel a pigeon the subway and a baseball game.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE (May 5, 2025): The latest issue features Christoph Niemann’s “Spotted in New York City” – Small moments that span a century.

The Promise of New York

Other cities have better infrastructure, fewer rats, cleaner streets, plentiful public toilets, more elbow room. Yet people continue to flock here.

By Alexandra Schwartz

Ed Helms Dives Into Disaster

In a new book, the boundlessly curious “Hangover” star probes history’s greatest blunders—like how the C.I.A. tried to make Castro’s beard fall out—as a way to face the present.

By Henry Alford

Why Can’t New York Have Nice Mayors?

As the Trump Administration encroaches on the city, Andrew Cuomo and Eric Adams try to salvage their political careers.

By Eric Lach

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