Matthew Sedacca
The New York Times
New York, NY, United States
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Col. Steven dePyssler, Who Aided Veterans’ Families, Dies at 101
He acquired everything from toilet paper to plane parts for Air Force squadrons. Later, he advised widows on their benefits. He died of the coronavirus. → Read More
They Tried to Start a Union During a Pandemic, But They Were Fired. What’s Next?
Workers at Trader Joes, Augie’s Coffee, Whole Foods, and more are facing furloughs, layoffs, and other impediments to organizing unions during the pandemic → Read More
Why Are Insurance Companies Denying Restaurant Claims in Wake of Pandemic?
As government mandates force restaurants to close their dining rooms to create social distance in the coronavirus pandemic, operators face virus exclusion clauses and other reasons why insurance won’t help. → Read More
Mysterious Fire and Death of Charity Leader Rattle a Brooklyn Block
L. Antonio Litman, who recently bought hoverboards for children in the neighborhood, was found dead after an overnight blaze at his home. → Read More
A Different Way to Show Readers the World
In Dispatches, our international correspondents tell highly visual stories that say more about the places they cover than the day’s news. → Read More
How Aging Shapes Narrative Identity
It’s not just our flesh and bones that change as we get older.Photograph by dirkmvp41 / FlickrIn 2010, Dan McAdams wrote a biography… → Read More
For Some Food-Service Workers, Unions Are Finally Gaining Steam
Fight for $15 has been pushing for fast-food unions for years. Along the edges, some employees at breweries, coffeeshops, and burger joints are finding success → Read More
Meeting the Neighbors, One Photograph at a Time
Benjamin Norman has moved in New York 8 times in the past 13 years, never knowing his neighbors. In Bushwick, he’s trying to break this cycle. → Read More
Better Local Journalism, by Local Reporters, Is the Goal of a New Database
Shoeleather aims to connect journalists outside New York, Washington, Los Angeles and San Francisco with editors across the country. → Read More
Now Serving Pie. And Only Pie.
How The Times created a print special section that opens up to reveal a kaleidoscopic, 48-inch array of life-size pastries. → Read More
Living Beneath the Ground in an Australian Desert
For about a century, residents of Coober Pedy have escaped the searing heat by building their homes underground. Tamara Merino captured life beneath the earth. → Read More
Your Monday News Briefing: Kavanaugh, Brexit, Sky
Here’s what you need to know to start your day. → Read More
How the NYT Cooking Team (Obsessively) Tests Recipes
It starts with reporting and research — sometimes through centuries of variations on a dish. Then comes trying it out, sometimes over and over. → Read More
In the 1950s, a Jewish Family Fled Egypt. Their Brooklyn Bakery Offers a Taste of That World.
Mansoura has been serving Turkish delight, baklava and other kosher treats in Gravesend, Brooklyn, since 1961. → Read More
Patent Pending in Nomad is a Cafe by Day, Speakeasy by Night
The space, which occupies the basement of the Radio Wave Building in Manhattan, was designed to honor the inventor and engineer Nikola Tesla. → Read More
Eating for Peace
It’s a cold evening in New York City and I’m making Nepalese donuts. Or, I should say, Rachana Rimal, a cheerful woman with a… → Read More
With the Slice App, Local Pizzerias Get a Bigger Piece of the Market
Ilir Sela is building a national online delivery service, called Slice, focused on mom-and-pop pizzerias like the ones his family has owned for three generations. → Read More
Fatal Shooting Follows High School Graduation Outside Atlanta
Two people were shot, one fatally, near the Clayton County Schools Performing Arts Center, in Jonesboro, Ga., according to local reports. → Read More
Lee Holley, Cartoonist of Teenage Life in ‘Ponytail,’ Dies at 85
He was helping with “Dennis the Menace” when he created “Ponytail,” about a spirited girl in a postwar suburban world of boys, burgers and phone chats. → Read More
Deborah Carrington, 58, Dies; Actress and Stuntwoman
Her dwarfism allowed her to play Ewoks and Geex, and she was admired as a stunt double, but she was happiest to get work as a character actress. → Read More