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As we entered Slate Café in Midtown East, Mamdani checked his Casio watch, a gift from his wife — it was already 10:34 — and quickly dropped any more talk of Adams and Cuomo outside the door.

“There was a kind of dance between photographer and model,” says Brinkley via Zoom from a hotel suite in midtown Manhattan.

Kaufman, who conceived and directed the play for his New York-based company, Tectonic Theater Project, was sitting in a Midtown Manhattan office with co-writer Gronich just a couple of days before they left for Los Angeles, where “Here There Are Blueberries” will be performed at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts through March 30 before it heads to Berkeley Rep in April.

Equally misleading are his preview thumbnails, which now exclusively feature images that appear to have been created by generative A.I. tools to depict throngs of gangs or rioters flooding every corner of the city, evoking scenes reminiscent of The Walking Dead rather than bustling Midtown Manhattan.

I was glad I was wearing sneakers because I ended up running from the subway station to the midtown Manhattan building.