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How NYU students celebrated Lunar New Year

How NYU students celebrated Lunar New Year

From homemade meals to apartment parties, here’s how NYU students from different cultures rang in the Year of the Snake.
Grace Tan and Sherry Chen February 7, 2025

On Jan. 29, millions of people around the world welcomed the Year of the Snake. While the holiday originated in China, many other countries celebrate Lunar New Year, especially...

For these fashion vendors, vintage never goes out of style

For these fashion vendors, vintage never goes out of style

At the Manhattan Vintage Show, a diverse community of fashion lovers prove that vintage hasn’t lost its soul.
Luke Adelson-Yan, Contributing Writer February 7, 2025

The Manhattan Vintage Show took me by surprise. As a student and native New Yorker interested in fashion, I’ve become quite familiar with New York’s vintage scene. From Chelsea...

Cooking up suburban escape

Cooking up suburban escape

A meditation on the transportive power in making comfort food.
Mia Shou, Staff Writer February 7, 2025

Whenever my mom would finish making her Shanghainese chicken broth, she would call out, “Chicken soup for the soul!” as a way of getting us to come to the table. To me, my...

(Suditi Sircar for WSN)

Love at first bite: The best recipes for Valentine’s Day

Spread the love with sweet treats made for date night or Galentine’s.
Kyra Mehta, Contributing Writer February 6, 2025

Roses are red, violets are blue — forget the flowers, dessert is for you! Valentine’s Day is almost here, and what better way to celebrate than with a baking marathon filled...

(Mariana Arboleda for WSN)

This Stern club highlights minority voices in the world of finance

BlackGen Capital builds community and brings professional opportunities to underrepresented students in business and finance.
Mariana Arboleda, Staff Writer February 6, 2025

Playing Family Feud to learn the fundamentals of finance and business is one of the many fun methods that the NYU chapter of BlackGen Capital uses to create community. BlackGen...

(Ruhi Joshi for WSN)

5 record stores near Washington Square Park for discovering new and old music

Replace doomscrolling and fall in love with physical media again by exploring these record stores near campus.
Aryana Arora, Contributing Writer February 5, 2025

With 2025 off to an unnerving start, it’s hard not to fall into an endless pit of doomscrolling. There is no time like the present to enter a time capsule — to travel back...

(Anna Baird-Hassell for WSN)

5 places that make NYC feel like home

As a graduating senior, here are the places that have kept me sane while at NYU.
Anna Baird-Hassell, Deputy Managing Editor February 4, 2025

In the spirit of total transparency, my time at NYU has been a little rough. But through the moments of loneliness and anxiety that often characterize going to school somewhere...

(Kaleo Zhu for WSN)

The Black LGBTQ+ history of NYU’s campus

NYU’s Washington Square campus is home to historic sites of Black LGBTQ+ community’s resistance and expression.
Julia Kim, Deputy Culture Editor February 3, 2025

While we often say that the city is our campus, the history of the neighborhood that NYU inhabits — specifically that of the Black LGBTQ+ community — remains unrecognized by...

(Julia Smerling for WSN)

Ranked: Lunchly

MrBeast, Logan Paul and KSI’s food collaboration is only worth trying if they’re holding a camera up to your face and offering you $1 million.
Dani Biondi, Film & TV Editor February 3, 2025

Do you ever miss the rare occasions when your parents would let you grab a box of Lunchables off the shelf? A handful of crackers, plastic cheese and a candy bar wouldn’t satisfy...

(Mariana Arboleda for WSN)

Is reviving diner culture heroic or corrupt?

The ’70s mid-century modern aesthetic has revived the social cache of diners, but it may be a facade.
Bella Simonte, Dining Editor January 31, 2025

The best advice I ever received was knowing how to tell a good diner from a bad one.  “I’ve only been served excellence in a black or brown mug,” a friend told me during...

(Lianna O’Grady for WSN)

Welcoming Lunar New Year in a new home

It can be hard to celebrate away from family, but don’t let college stop you from enjoying the festivities.
Sherry Chen, Contributing Writer January 29, 2025

Lunar New Year has always been the most important holiday in my family. Growing up in China, I would travel to the northern coastal province of Shandong to celebrate with my dad’s...

(Alisia Houghtaling for WSN)

The perfect day in the West Village

Don’t be intimidated by its bougie reputation.
Bella Simonte, Daphne Zhu, Grace Tan, Julia Kim and Lauren Ng January 27, 2025

Think of the West Village as the East Village’s older, classier cousin. With quieter streets, small boutique stores and historic buildings, this neighborhood is refined yet...