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Manhattan’s Future Jail Looks a Lot Like a Corporate HQ

Cubicles you really don’t want to inhabit. By Justin Davidson

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This Week’s Worth-It New York City Apartment Listings

A lot of action in Brooklyn Heights. And have you considered a barn in Katonah? By Nora DeLigter

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Norman Foster Wouldn’t Let the Obamas Rent His Summer House

And other details we learned in the architect’s 14,727-word New Yorker profile. By Adriane Quinlan

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on set Building the Corporate Menace of Severance Saarinen’s impeccable Bell Labs campus conveys the terror of utopian office design. By Diana Budds

street view Daniel Libeskind Tries His Hand at Affordable Housing The Atrium, in Bedford-Stuyvesant, is a fine proof-of-concept, but does it scale? By Justin Davidson

scions Is Barron Trump Really Launching His Own Real-Estate Company? The 18-year-old registered one with a prep-school friend and an Idaho real-estate scion before the election. By Kim Velsey

the hamptons In East Hampton, Zero Bond Is Out and ‘The Colony’ Is In After a brief scare over a Scott Sartiano takeover, the Hedges Inn sold to a pair of Palm Beach hoteliers. By Adriane Quinlan

on set Building the Corporate Menace of Severance Saarinen’s impeccable Bell Labs campus conveys the terror of utopian office design. By Diana Budds

street view Daniel Libeskind Tries His Hand at Affordable Housing The Atrium, in Bedford-Stuyvesant, is a fine proof-of-concept, but does it scale? By Justin Davidson

scions Is Barron Trump Really Launching His Own Real-Estate Company? The 18-year-old registered one with a prep-school friend and an Idaho real-estate scion before the election. By Kim Velsey

the hamptons In East Hampton, Zero Bond Is Out and ‘The Colony’ Is In After a brief scare over a Scott Sartiano takeover, the Hedges Inn sold to a pair of Palm Beach hoteliers. By Adriane Quinlan

On The Market

listings edit This Week’s Worth-It New York City Apartment Listings

townhouses The Parsley-Green Dining Room on Clinton Street

under a million An Art Deco One-Bedroom on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade for $995,000

on the market The Jeff Bezos Effect on Indian Creek Island

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Cityscape

los angeles wildfires Rebuilding After Fire It’s not enough to fireproof a single home. How can a community raise its odds of survival? By Justin Davidson
the housing crisis Life After Floyd Bennett As the former airfield turned emergency shelter empties out, a family of six tries to figure out what’s next. By Luis Feliz Leon
look book The Look Book Goes to an All-Nighter at The Clock Those lucky enough to get tickets viewed the evening portions of Christian Marclay’s 24-hour time-themed film at the MoMA. gallery By Emily Leibert
landmarks Carrie Bradshaw’s Stoop Will Get a Gate The Landmarks Preservation Commission granted the Perry Street homeowner’s request for a little buffer against the TikTok hordes. By Christopher Bonanos
getting around Every Question We Could Think of About Congestion Pricing How to run errands in the zone, find your toll rate, and figure out if you’re eligible for an exemption. By Clio Chang

look book What brings you here? I contributed to the last issue. I wrote about the misuse of music in public, specifically the mind-numbingly bad soundtrack they play at Crunch Fitness in Tribeca. The first song I ever heard there was an EDM tropical-house cover of “Mr. Brightside.” The Look Book Goes to a Literary Launch Party

Design Hunting

great rooms John Derian’s Apartment Is Full of Wonderful Things Papier-mâché birds, découpage, flea-market finds from Paris, antiques, furniture he designed himself that was inspired by antiques — and more. By Wendy Goodman
design edit The Furniture that Rick Owens and Michèle Lamy Designed for Their Paris Home Plus, a look at the recording booth they designed for Travis Scott’s world tour. By Osman Can Yerebakan
great rooms ‘I’m Not Designing for You. I’m Not Designing for Me.’ Nine years after turning down a role on Queer Eye, Jeremiah Brent on joining the show and decorating on a $40,000 budget. By Wendy Goodman
great rooms Two Texans in Williamsburg David Nuss and Sarah Martin-Nuss tried to decorate their house on their own — until they realized they needed help. By Wendy Goodman

The Real Estate

apartment hunting Are Kamala and Doug Really Moving to West 61st Street? We’ll believe it when we see it. By Christopher Bonanos
encounter Does the World Need Another Real-Estate Reality Show? Eleonora Srugo, friend to Mayor Adams and star of Netflix’s new Selling the City, thinks so. By Bridget Read
los angeles wildfires What’s Burned Down Joshua Jackson’s home, a Richard Neutra house in the Palisades. A running list of celebrity homes and architectural institutions lost. By Kim Velsey and Clio Chang
get out of town A Smartly Restored Stone House and Bonus Party Barn in Kingston Plus, a New City estate designed by Henry Varnum Poor. By Clio Chang
the housing market Elite Co-ops Are Begrudgingly Accepting LLCs Boards of the old-line buildings have long been loath to approve them. But financial necessity may force their hands. By Kim Velsey