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The Sunday Metropolitan Section |
| Good morning, New York Times readers. |
| Here’s what we have to offer in Sunday’s Metropolitan section. |
| Our cover story is a revealing portrait of Riddick Bowe, the two-time heavyweight champion of the world. Once mentioned as a possible heir to Muhammad Ali, Bowe – like many prizefighters – fell on hard times after leaving the sport. After his retirement in the 1990s, he endured bankruptcy, prison time and a humiliating single bout as a kickboxer. But lately Bowe has found a measure of peace, in the unlikely role of owner of a tiny rotisserie-chicken joint in Harlem. |
| He gives a very forthcoming interview to Alex Vadukul, even agreeing to tour his old haunts in Brooklyn, which makes for some tense moments at the housing project he lived in as a teenager, the notoriously nicknamed Gunsmoke City. |
| Ginia Bellafante’s Big City column addresses the Times Square desnudas. She places them in the context of the crucial New York archetype of the hustler, alongside every striver, go-getter and wide-eyed aspirant. She reasonably wonders: What did you expect to find in the city? |
Enjoy your New York weekend!
Wm. Ferguson
Deputy Editor, Sunday Metropolitan |
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Houzaifa Konditamdé, a native of Burkina Faso, became deaf at age 6, but that did not stop him from dancing, as the photographer Arthur Nazaryan has been documenting since 2014.
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