EditorialRyan J. Haddad, left, and Dickie Hearts, a Deaf actor, play parallel versions of a character called Ryan in “Dark Disabled Stories” at the Public Theater in New York, March 2, 2023. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
EditorialA blend of fresh dairy products is layered between phyllo for the tall, spongey cheese pie served at the Serbian restaurant Kafana in New York, Aug. 5, 2022. (Lanna Apisukh/The New York Times)
EditorialThe Elena Ruz sandwich in New York, Nov. 8, 2021. Props styled by Getteline Rene. Food styled by Roscoe Betsill. (Kelly Marshall/The New York Times)
EditorialA 22-foot-wide, two-layered neon sign spells out the show’s title at “Moulin Rouge! The Musical” at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre in New York, Sept. 1, 2021. (Justin J Wee/The New York Times)
EditorialThe richly layered living room of Gloria Vanderbilt’s apartment on Beekman Place in Manhattan on March 23, 2016. (Ike Edeani/The New York Times)
EditorialA view through glass plate of a nearby building is layered with reflections of video screens and studio lighting at the Fox Network’s newsroom in Manhattan, Aug. 8, 2019. (Ryan Jenq/The New York Times)
EditorialA dining room at Ever restaurant, which incorporates wooden slats, layered plaster walls that evoke an eroded canyon and tables distanced from one another, in Chicago on July 10, 2020. (Joshua Lott/The New York Times)
EditorialAlan Grinberg pays for a wall of intricately layered boulders to slow the erosion of the bluff below his home in Pacifica, Calif. (Chang W. Lee/The New York Times)