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It’s Thursday.
Weather: Rain, with temperatures in the low 40s, rising to the mid-40s tonight.
Alternate-side parking: In effect until Wednesday (Lincoln’s Birthday).
In the last two weeks, Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial has included graphic accounts of sexual assault and photographs of the defendant in the nude. But yesterday afternoon, the prosecution’s presentation neared completion.
The trial, in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, has been widely seen as a watershed moment for the #MeToo movement and has delved into complicated issues of consent and power dynamics in Hollywood.
Mr. Weinstein, an Oscar-winning producer, has pleaded not guilty to five felony counts, including rape, criminal sexual act and predatory sexual assault. The last offense carries a maximum penalty of life in prison.
The prosecution
The Manhattan district attorney’s office has put six women on the stand, and each has offered testimony — often in excruciating detail — about having suffered some sort of sexual assault by Mr. Weinstein, 67.
A pattern has emerged in their accounts. Many of the women have told the jury that Mr. Weinstein first tested his boundaries with them by making sexual gestures like asking for massages or by sending inappropriate gifts — in one case, a box of chocolate penises.
What followed, the women have maintained, were unwanted, sometimes violent, encounters in hotel rooms and apartments. Some of Mr. Weinstein’s accusers have said he raped them; others that he forcibly performed oral sex on them.
Their testimony has included allegations that Mr. Weinstein masturbated in front of them and tried to leverage his power in the film industry to induce them to take part in threesomes.
The witnesses
The charges Mr. Weinstein faces are based on the accounts of only two of the six women: Miriam Haley, a production assistant who worked on the TV show “Project Runway,” and an aspiring actress from a small town in Washington State, Jessica Mann.
The other four women — among them an actress from “The Sopranos,” Annabella Sciorra — were asked to testify to show that Mr. Weinstein engaged in a pattern of sexual predation.
The defense
Mr. Weinstein’s lawyers have pointed out repeatedly on cross-examination that even after the alleged attacks, most of the women kept in touch with him, sometimes to the point of willingly having sex with him.
The lawyers have sought to convince the jury that the encounters, as described in court, were not crimes because they occurred in the context of broader consensual relationships.
What’s to come
Mr. Weinstein’s lawyers are expected to begin their defense as early as Friday morning.
They plan to call at least five witnesses, some of whom may bolster their contention that their client’s accusers remained in contact with him even after the alleged assaults took place.
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What we’re reading
A woman wearing a face mask was attacked at a subway station in an episode apparently sparked by coronavirus fears. [New York Post]
Her family founded Barneys New York, and she’s saying goodbye to the store at which she “could never, not even once, afford to shop.” [Vox]
Data shows that more money has come from the New York area for four Democratic presidential candidates — Pete Buttigieg, Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Andrew Yang — than from any other metro area in the country. [Gothamist]
Coming up today
Attend the opening reception of Alicia Grullón’s exhibition “Presence,” which addresses topics including gentrification and immigration, at the Old Stone House in Brooklyn. 7 p.m. [Free]
Film Comment magazine hosts a discussion called “For Your Consideration: Actors of Color” at Film at Lincoln Center in Manhattan. 7 p.m. [Free with R.S.V.P.]
Celebrate Mike Fu’s English translation of “Stories of the Sahara” by the Taiwanese author Sanmao. Mr. Fu will read from Sanmao’s work and discuss her legacy with the writer YZ Chin at Greenlight Bookstore in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. 7:30 p.m. [Free]
— Melissa Guerrero
Events are subject to change, so double-check before heading out. For more events, see the going-out guides from The Times’s culture pages.
And finally: ‘An Unexpected Theater of Flyness’
The Times’s Melissa Guerrero writes:
A repair shop might be where you go to mend a pair of boots, but at the decades-old Rainbow Shoe Repair on the Lower East Side, people also stop by for an old-fashioned portrait.
Now, a free exhibition of those portraits, called “Rainbow Shoe Repair: An Unexpected Theater of Flyness,” is opening tonight at the Abrons Arts Center.
The showcase, which displays portraits of neighborhood people from the late 1980s to the early 2000s, celebrates the shop and how it became a staple in the community — not only for its repair services, but also for its portrait studio.
“I was taking passport photos, family pictures, and some people were coming by for graduation pictures,” said Ilya Shaulov, the photographer behind some of the portraits. “I was also taking communion photos.”
Over 30 years ago, Mr. Shaulov said, he moved from Russia, where he worked as a photographer, to New York. He had trouble finding a photography job, so he drove a cab before working at the shop from 1997 to 2006.
Although many of Rainbow Shoe Repair’s visitors stopped by for business, he said, locals also saw it as a space to hang out.
“Some people just want to talk,” Mr. Shaulov said. “Some people just want to sit.”
At the opening of the exhibition, which is curated by Brooke Nicholas, Kimberly Jenkins and Ali Rosa-Salas, visitors can have Mr. Shaulov take their portraits.
“I’m looking forward to people seeing themselves and folks that they know, or being sparked to talk about their own memories of the neighborhood,” said Ms. Rosa-Salas, the director of programming at the Abrons Arts Center/Henry Street Settlement. “That’s the most exciting part for me. The nostalgia.”
Ms. Jenkins, a fashion scholar, will also moderate a talk tomorrow at the arts center about fashion and the power of portraiture.
It’s Thursday — take a picture.
Metropolitan Diary: Near a hydrant
Dear Diary:
I was walking home when I found a car key and fob on the sidewalk. Wanting to return the key to its rightful owner, I clicked the fob to see whether the car it belonged to was parked nearby.
It was, just up the block and directly in front of my own car. Its rear bumper was nearly touching my front one.
My rear bumper was close to a hydrant. The car was probably O.K. where it was, but it was in the kind of spot that might earn it a ticket from an officer in the wrong mood.
Meanwhile, the car in front of mine — the one I was holding the keys to — had a glorious four feet of space in front of it.
As I continued on to my apartment, I considered whether I should use the key I had just picked up to move the car in front of mine so that I could secure myself a little more space and ensure that I would not get a ticket.
I won’t tell you what I decided. I’ll let you debate the issue, as my wife and I still do months later.
— Benjamin Marcus
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