EditorialBlank Slate Coffee + Kitchen, which changed its name to Slate Cafe to avoid being confused with the rapidly-expanding chain Blank Street, in New York on June 27, 2023. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times)
EditorialBlank Slate Coffee + Kitchen, which changed its name to Slate Cafe to avoid being confused with the rapidly-expanding chain Blank Street, in New York on June 27, 2023. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times)
EditorialBlank Slate Coffee + Kitchen, which changed its name to Slate Cafe to avoid being confused with the rapidly-expanding chain Blank Street, in New York on June 27, 2023. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times)
EditorialBlank Slate Coffee + Kitchen, which changed its name to Slate Cafe to avoid being confused with the rapidly-expanding chain Blank Street, in New York on June 27, 2023. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times)
EditorialBlank Slate Coffee + Kitchen, which changed its name to Slate Cafe to avoid being confused with the rapidly-expanding chain Blank Street, in New York on June 27, 2023. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times)
EditorialBlank Slate Coffee + Kitchen, which changed its name to Slate Cafe to avoid being confused with the rapidly-expanding chain Blank Street, in New York on June 27, 2023. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times)
EditorialBlank Slate Coffee + Kitchen, which changed its name to Slate Cafe to avoid being confused with the rapidly-expanding chain Blank Street, in New York on June 27, 2023. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times)
EditorialBlank Slate Coffee + Kitchen, which changed its name to Slate Cafe to avoid being confused with the rapidly-expanding chain Blank Street, in New York on June 27, 2023. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times)
EditorialBlank Slate Coffee + Kitchen, which changed its name to Slate Cafe to avoid being confused with the rapidly-expanding chain Blank Street, in New York on June 27, 2023. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times)
EditorialBlank Slate Coffee + Kitchen, which changed its name to Slate Cafe to avoid being confused with the rapidly-expanding chain Blank Street, in New York on June 27, 2023. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times)
EditorialBlank Slate Coffee + Kitchen, which changed its name to Slate Cafe to avoid being confused with the rapidly-expanding chain Blank Street, in New York on June 27, 2023. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times)
EditorialBlank Slate Coffee + Kitchen, which changed its name to Slate Cafe to avoid being confused with the rapidly-expanding chain Blank Street, in New York on June 27, 2023. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times)
EditorialBlank Slate Coffee + Kitchen, which changed its name to Slate Cafe to avoid being confused with the rapidly-expanding chain Blank Street, in New York on June 27, 2023. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times)
EditorialBlank Slate Coffee + Kitchen, which changed its name to Slate Cafe to avoid being confused with the rapidly-expanding chain Blank Street, in New York on June 27, 2023. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times)
EditorialBlank Slate Coffee + Kitchen, which changed its name to Slate Cafe to avoid being confused with the rapidly-expanding chain Blank Street, in New York on June 27, 2023. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times)
EditorialBlank Slate Coffee + Kitchen, which changed its name to Slate Cafe to avoid being confused with the rapidly-expanding chain Blank Street, in New York on June 27, 2023. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times)
EditorialBlank Slate Coffee + Kitchen, which changed its name to Slate Cafe to avoid being confused with the rapidly-expanding chain Blank Street, in New York on June 27, 2023. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times)
EditorialBlank Slate Coffee + Kitchen, which changed its name to Slate Cafe to avoid being confused with the rapidly-expanding chain Blank Street, in New York on June 27, 2023. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times)
EditorialKirk Linder, right, a co-owner of the bar Hey Sailor! and a transplant from Portland, Ore., at the bar in Searsport, Maine, Jan. 20, 2023. (Tristan Spinski/The New York Times)
EditorialGuo Meiyan and a nurse wait for the elevator ahead of an in vitro fertilization procedure (IVF) at Beijing Perfect Family Hospital, on Nov. 23, 2022. (Andrea Verdelli/The New York Times)
EditorialEvan Stephenson, with his wife, Heather, at Providence Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif., April 18, 2022. (Isadora Kosofsky/The New York Times)
EditorialCasey Likes, center aloft, as William Miller in the musical “Almost Famous” at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater in Manhattan, Oct. 1, 2022. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)