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How a Drum Line Director Spends Her Sundays
Stacy Kovacs, who founded Fogo Azul NYC, totes her drums around the city, fends off her cat and never watches TV.
By Nancy A. Ruhling
Stacy Kovacs, who founded Fogo Azul NYC, totes her drums around the city, fends off her cat and never watches TV.
By Nancy A. Ruhling
Alessandro Zamperla, the president of the group that manages the park, makes time for espresso and snacks while keeping an eye on all the rides.
By Paul Frangipane
George Gaffney, the top concierge at the Beekman hotel, goes restaurant hopping for breakfast with his family, then helps tourists find the best brunch spots.
By David Gardner
She makes children laugh during the week, but on Sundays it’s her turn to enjoy herself: movies, fancy treats and museum trips with her 6-year-old son.
By Lia Picard
Dr. Alex Arroyo, a director of pediatric medicine in Brooklyn, gets to live out his “Star Wars” dreams, practice jujitsu and make a big mess while cooking for his family.
By Sarah Bahr
Lynn Bodnar Kelly, executive director of Bette Midler’s New York Restoration Project, e-bikes through Brooklyn and roller skates to the beat of Beyoncé.
By Alix Strauss
Regina Rocke makes snowballs for her sauna classes, snuggles with her cats, works on her towel dances and texts with her fiancée nonstop.
By Tammy LaGorce
Mr. Williams loves people-watching and pasta with his wife. But when he’s writing on Sundays? No judgment allowed.
By Andrew Cotto
Mr. Rainey starts his day with tea, and then it’s time for fancy cars, making beats and Call of Duty with his friends.
By Ilana Kaplan
Rafael Rodriguez works at one of the few libraries open on Sundays in New York City. That means his day is busy, but he still finds time for a little “Mad Men.”
By Alix Strauss
Ms. Laney-Hamilton, who plays for the New York Liberty, is often in the gym for hours on Sundays, for practice or games. But when she’s not, it’s time to shop and pray.
By Claire Fahy
Tembe Denton-Hurst delivers fresh-baked biscuits all over New York City, then curls up with a comfort movie when it’s time for bed.
By Vivian Ewing
Ms. Lauren hangs out with bunnies, grabs some ice cream and makes time for a workout — all while scouting new ideas for her candy business.
By Ilana Kaplan
Before Mr. Cato gets ready for his week with Stephen Colbert, he’s playing games with his daughter, hiding in hoodies and making music of his own.
By Tammy LaGorce
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Stef Dag, host of “Hot & Single,” goes cafe-hopping with friends, boxes in the park and gets ready for a comedy set at The Stand.
By Inge Oosterhoff
Dani Lubnitzki, who is better known as Dani Luv, puts his own spin on Sinatra during the week, but on Sundays he shops for his grandchildren and has a jam session with friends.
By Rachel Sherman
Before he hits the stage for an improv show, Mr. Cherry cuddles with his rescue dog, Shrek, battles his wife in video games and heads to the movies.
By Sarah Bahr
Angel López, who goes by Monxo, fills his Sundays with art, music, gardening with his daughter and TV classics.
By Alix Strauss
Katie Davis McCarthy, the only woman to regularly compete in the New York Racing Association, spends the day racing thoroughbreds in Queens, often alongside her husband and brother.
By Scott Enman
Yannick Benjamin has been training for the wheelchair race at the New York City Half Marathon, meditating and taking breaks to enjoy (but not critique) wine with his wife.
By Lia Miller
There weren’t many female jazz musicians when Carol Sudhalter started her career. Now she spends her Sundays sharing what she has learned.
By Nancy A. Ruhling
Dirk McCall de Palomá starts his day with Diet Coke and ends with RuPaul. In between, he is bound to be trying a new restaurant in Queens.
By Alix Strauss
Jose LaSalle is known as the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s “weekend service czar.” That keeps him racing across the city on Sundays, and trying to grab lunch with his wife.
By Tammy LaGorce
Scott Goldshine has worked at Zabar’s in Manhattan for decades. He roams the aisles on Sundays, snacks on rugelach and makes it home for dinner with his wife.
By Vivian Ewing
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Shannan Ferry, who co-anchors “Weekends on 1” for NY1, wakes up in the middle of the night to head to work, then spends her day on dates or with friends.
By Alix Strauss
Talia Scott also attends New York University’s business school, in between working out and helping other Black women get started with legal careers.
By Alix Strauss
The actor, singer and reality TV personality fills his day with video games, comfort food with friends and a teary trip to the movies.
By Sarah Bahr
Rebecca Chamberlain doesn’t like the waste in the fashion industry, so she turns old clothes into new outfits. But on Sundays, she also makes time for soccer and reading.
By Kaya Laterman
For Kelindah Schuster, who performs as Theydy Bedbug and helps people develop their own drag characters, Sundays are “a sacred day of rest.”
By Arielle Domb
Ayo Balogun, the owner of the Dept of Culture restaurant in Brooklyn, devotes Sundays to pancake hunting with his 13 year-old son and art with his partner.
By Jackie Cooperman
Peter Goldwasser, the executive director of Together for Safer Roads, spends his weekends running around Brooklyn — literally.
By Tammy LaGorce
The ESPN host tries to avoid sports talk until it’s time to watch football. That leaves time for brunch, books and Taylor Swift.
By Kaya Laterman
Vichet Chum, a Cambodian American playwright, often focuses his work on Khmer identity and queerness. His Sundays are spent with fellow artists and his dog, Lucy.
By Tammy LaGorce
Ian Devaney and Aidan Noell are two-thirds of Nation of Language, a synth pop band.
By Tammy LaGorce
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Hall, the talk show host and author, has a lot on her plate: TV, fiction writing and her family. Somehow she still has time for her parrot, too.
By Tammy LaGorce
Tricia Shimamura keeps busy by welcoming immigrants, helping women get into politics and chasing around her two young children on the Upper East Side.
By Jackie Cooperman
Alix Brown immerses herself in records, cinema and books before preparing a favorite Italian dinner.
By Julia Bozzone
Allison Chase leads tours of Brooklyn’s gruesome history, hidden cemeteries and paranormal sightings in a replica Victorian trolley.
By Paul Frangipane
Aly Stoffo knows where to find wild mushrooms, berries and other edible plants on Staten Island. But the location of her favorite paw paw patch is a secret.
By Tammy LaGorce
Marco Vacchi runs several coffee shops and a wine bar where Alec Baldwin is a partner. But Sundays are for family walks and working in his photography studio.
By Jackie Cooperman
Known for “Law & Order” and now starring in “Chicago Med,” the actor can be found most Sundays at home in her favorite place: a bedroom she converted into a quilting studio.
By Tammy LaGorce
The director of “Dalíland” and “American Psycho” loves the Cloisters, secondhand furniture from Housing Works, and New York’s old-school movie theaters.
By Alix Strauss
On top of caring for dozens of adoptable cats, Anne Levin once raised an orphaned baby subway rat. She named him Alexander Hamilton.
By Abby Ellin
After founding a nonprofit organization to end “period poverty,” and then a Gen Z menstrual-products company, Nadya Okamoto has learned the value of slowing down.
By Devorah Lev-Tov
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Pierre Serrao, co-founder of the Bronx culinary collective Ghetto Gastro, catches up with friends over a homemade feast.
By Ilana Kaplan
L. Jon Wertheim cherishes an hour of writing without distractions at a local diner and a weekly trip to Trader Joe’s.
By T.M. Brown
Denzel Rodriguez, a 21-year-old from Harlem, works every summer at a local ice cream shop in between TV and film gigs.
By Alix Strauss
Judy Gold loves Provincetown, Mass., where she has been performing since 1992, but she hates the slow drivers.
By Alix Strauss
The author and host of “Extraordinary Birder” enjoys a meditative moment, complete with lute music, among the native plants in his rooftop garden.
By Tammy LaGorce
Rain or shine, Erika Elliott drives from borough to borough to check in on the performances happening in city parks as part of the annual music festival.
By Alix Strauss
Kate Rosante, who co-founded the bourbon company Boss Molly, makes themed cocktails for movie nights at her summer house in Amagansett.
By Alix Strauss
Marc Rebillet, who became known during pandemic lockdowns for livestreaming improvised songs featuring electronic loops, takes his grooves to the streets.
By Lia Miller
Koho Yamamoto studied her art in an internment camp for Japanese Americans during World War II and then opened a school. At 101, she still finds time to teach.
By Kaya Laterman
For Divya Anantharaman, who runs a taxidermy business in Brooklyn, regular manicures are part of the job.
By Arielle Domb
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Toddrick Brockington, who works at the Henry Street Settlement, tends to his mental health and his sneaker collection.
By Tammy LaGorce
Ryan Castalia, the head of the nonprofit “Sure We Can,” is also part of an experimental theater group.
By Alix Strauss
For Rocky Bucano, who fell for the music after buying a Salt-N-Pepa CD in 1986, his work in the Bronx “doesn’t feel like work.”
By Tammy LaGorce
There is usually a matinee in store for Michael Presser, who is the founder of Inside Broadway.
By Tammy La Gorce
Sarah Kaufman writes, acts, sings and makes podcasts and TikToks — and not to mention works a day job.
By Alix Strauss
As James Corden learned, you don’t want to end up in Zouheir Louhaichy’s shift report, which he writes in the morning before training for Ironman.
By Tammy La Gorce
Mariana Velásquez likes to take long strolls through her new neighborhood and have friends over for a casual one-pot meal.
By Julia Bozzone
Jon Alpert has shared his love for documentaries with New Yorkers for more than 50 years.
By Alix Strauss
The actor has analog tastes, like listening to records and walking in the park. He will sneak in a little “Flight Simulator,” though.
By Tammy La Gorce
After tennis, swimming and some time in the sauna, Peter Gelb and Keri-Lynn Wilson work at their adjoining desks.
By Tammy La Gorce
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Maneesh Goyal, a bar and restaurant owner, is now intrigued by the city’s parks and playgrounds and has an earlier bedtime.
By Kaya Laterman
Between walking the dog and Zoom workouts, Erica Schwartz Werber gets the family to stop and smell the Late Fees at the Library.
By Alix Strauss
Donna Lieberman, head of the New York Civil Liberties Union, “steps back” from job pressures with family outings and a swim.
By Alix Strauss
Linda Pagan, who runs a popular hat shop in SoHo, likes to stroll and visit neighborhood spots like Fanelli Cafe and Film Forum.
By Nancy A. Ruhling
Natalia Paruz, a musical saw player who is also a bell ringer for her church, tends to her garden, her six cats and the neighborhood birds.
By Nancy A. Ruhling
Wendy Kaplan takes her daughter for a bicycle ride and then for dinner at her workplace, where there is always a busy kitchen.
By Jane Margolies
Aria Hughes likes to stay close to her home in Harlem, where she’ll enjoy an Ethiopian lunch, a park bench and maybe a matinee.
By Gina Cherelus
Originally from Milan, Angie Valentino honors her Italian heritage with flair in New York City.
By Andrew Cotto
The Dane is into cargo bikes, making pancakes and spiffing up the mysterious top floor of an Art Deco hotel.
By Paige Darrah
It’s all about grocery shopping and cooking for LaChena Clark, who likes to serve afternoon tea in her home.
By Tammy La Gorce
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KalaLea is a listener. Often, in her free time, she will tune in to a podcast, or the sounds of her neighborhood, or a friend’s story.
By Vivian Ewing
The actor Stephen Lang is known for his tough-guy roles, but he keeps it wholesome off screen, with walks in the park, yoga, naps and family dinners.
By Tammy La Gorce
“I wish I could put being sober on a résumé because it’s my biggest achievement,” said Janie Deegan, who credits baking with helping her get there.
By Alix Strauss
The singer, who is expecting her first child, spends hours strolling through Brooklyn and reading.
By Tammy La Gorce
Jeanna Kadlec cherishes rituals like Tarot card readings, book store outings, buying offerings for her altars and lighting candles.
By Vivian Ewing
Rachel Sterner awakes to any manner of theater crisis. By midday, she’s in a headset, calling the shots. But by night, her “weekend” has begun.
By Alix Strauss
Nicholas D. Lowry from ‘Antiques Roadshow’ likes to keep things low-key — even his ordinarily bold outfits. And he always makes time to visit the flea market.
By Rachel Felder
The style icon is a news obsessive, a reader, a salsa dancer and a churchgoer (he skips the sermons, though).
By Paige Darrah
The performer enjoys rituals that are both old-school (park bench workouts) and New Age (cryotherapy treatments).
By Paige Darrah
Jasmine Garsd explores what it means to be from Argentina as its star soccer player competes in what could be his last World Cup.
By Tammy La Gorce
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Gilbert T Small II devotes the weekend to cooking, walking and connecting with his partner and pets in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn.
By Tammy La Gorce
Matthew Cortellesi roams the city, photographing its reflection in water and glass. When the evening comes, he’ll sing a few show tunes, too.
By Alix Strauss
Tal and Oren Alexander start with a morning workout, then frequent exclusive clubs, show million-dollar-plus listings and watch football.
By Tammy La Gorce
Jackie Faherty is a people person, but the sky is a “familiar and safe friend,” too.
By Alix Strauss
Andrew Ousley, a classical music and hamburger devotee, will often run in the park or eat at Raoul’s, a nostalgic favorite.
By Abby Ellin
Trish Mann keeps her walks and cultural outings local. Her taste in breakfast sausage and television, however, is decidedly British.
By Lia Miller
The recent Los Angeles transplant is opening a restaurant at Lincoln Center. But he still finds time to “vibe out.”
By Paige Darrah
If he’s not greeting arrivals from Texas at the Port Authority Bus Terminal, Murad Awawdeh is with his family.
By Alix Strauss
What gets this best-selling novelist going? Cappuccinos, movies with her grandchildren and her go-to notebook.
By Julia Bozzone
The parenting expert tries to fit it all in, from workouts and pancakes to game time and play dates.
By Tammy La Gorce
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An avid city cyclist, Félix V. Matos Rodríguez also manages to fit in some work, a lunch outing, a movie and a call to his mother.
By Alix Strauss
Asad Syrkett stays close to his Brooklyn home, doing Pilates, seeing friends, burning incense and reading fiction.
By Paige Darrah
Walter Odom, a fixture in Fort Greene Park, makes sure players respect the hourly schedule and keep their T-shirts on.
By T.M. Brown
Alice Feiring devotes the day to her mother, her boyfriend, playing folk music, shopping for food and yes, visiting wine bars.
By Robert Simonson
Matthew Garrison codes, composes, performs and produces as he pushes the boundaries of music.
By Kaya Laterman
The founders of EV Loves NYC, which kicked off during the pandemic, oversee the making and distribution of 2,000 meals every weekend.
By Tammy La Gorce
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