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neighborhoods

What Subway Shutdown?

It is seemingly not affecting people’s appetites for Greenpoint apartments. By Adriane Quinlan

maintenance

What the Massive NYCHA Corruption Sting Really Reveals

The drip-drip process of small-scale repairs, instead of full-scale renovations, is the underlying problem. By Clio Chang

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

We traipsed around Harlem this week. By Nora DeLigter

The Latest

the approval matrix

The Approval Matrix: Fast Cars and Dork Goggles
neighborhoods

What Subway Shutdown?
maintenance

What the Massive NYCHA Corruption Sting Really Reveals
listings edit

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

Village Cigars Has Closed After Decades on Christopher Street

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brick and mortar Village Cigars Has Closed After Decades on Christopher Street The shop owner wanted a ten-year lease, but the landlord said he had stopped paying rent since last year. By Ella Quittner

operators The Ugliest Divorce in Manhattan Real Estate HFZ’s luxury developers staked their futures on Bjarke Ingels’s High Line debut and lost everything. By James D. Walsh

street view A Brewery Conversion in Harlem That Looks Like DUMBO At the Manhattanville Factory District, the very old fuses with biotech and movie production. By Justin Davidson

getting around The Kids in Therapy for Subway Anxiety Riding solo — a rite of passage — has turned into a terrifying routine for some. By Beth Greenfield

operators The Ugliest Divorce in Manhattan Real Estate HFZ’s luxury developers staked their futures on Bjarke Ingels’s High Line debut and lost everything. By James D. Walsh

street view A Brewery Conversion in Harlem That Looks Like DUMBO At the Manhattanville Factory District, the very old fuses with biotech and movie production. By Justin Davidson

getting around The Kids in Therapy for Subway Anxiety Riding solo — a rite of passage — has turned into a terrifying routine for some. By Beth Greenfield

On The Market

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

a truly terrific new york listing Stephen Sondheim’s Turtle Bay Townhouse Is for Sale

on the market A Duplex is For Sale in the Coveted Villa Charlotte Brontë

on the market The Wing’s Office (and Furniture) Is for Sale

Best of New York

Cityscape

fashion Fashion Week Gets Breathing Room at the Starrett-Lehigh Building Editors, buyers, and influencers should have plenty of space (and enough elevators) at the industrial-scale Chelsea behemoth. By Christopher Bonanos
stadiums The 2026 World Cup Final Is Coming to ‘New York’ Well, technically, it’s New Jersey, where the metro region’s only suitable soccer stadium is located. By Clio Chang
trash talk ‘Things That Work Throughout the Country Don’t Work in New York City’ A sanitation expert on the city’s new garbage trucks. By Adriane Quinlan
parking wars Not Just Any Beach Pass The scramble to get the most coveted parking permit in the Hamptons. By Stephanie Krikorian
look book The Look Book Goes to a Dance Battle As part of the Motion/Matter: Street Dance Festival, the Perelman Performing Arts Center hosted voguers, break-dancers, and waackers, among others. gallery By Kelsie Schrader and Jenna Milliner-Waddell

look book What’s this move?It’s called a Nike Pike. It’s done at the end of your dancing set. So think of it as if me and you were having a conversation; instead of me just getting up and walking away, that would be the equivalent of me adding an exclamation point at the end of my sentence. The Look Book Goes to a Dance Battle

Design Hunting

great rooms The Empty Dry Cleaner That Became a Printing Studio Artist Leslie Diuguid needed a larger space to work (and her bedroom back). By Wendy Goodman
great rooms The Yoga Teacher Living Over an East Village Karaoke Bar Alex Schatzberg also teaches in his apartment, in an 1833 building on St. Marks Place. By Wendy Goodman
great rooms A Serene Gut-Reno in the East Village, Six Flights Up Magdalena and Jonathan Keck wanted to live on the top floor no matter what. By Wendy Goodman
great rooms Federico de Francesco Gave up Finance to Be an Artist (and Live Like One) A visit to his Bohemian Tribeca loft By Wendy Goodman

The Real Estate

operators Nir Meir Has Been Arrested in Florida The former HFZ developer, who oversaw a $2 billion debacle along the High Line, is facing extradition to New York. By James D. Walsh
who’s selling John Barrett’s Apartment Is for Sale The celebrity hairstylist of Martha Stewart, Hillary Clinton, and countless socialites passed away last year. By Clio Chang
who’s selling A Frankenmansion Sets a New Downtown Record A double-wide townhouse in Greenwich Village is apparently worth $73 million. By Kim Velsey
brick and mortar The Luxury Flagship War on Fifth Avenue Why Prada, LVMH, and other luxury brands are buying up real estate. By Kim Velsey
brick & mortar The Lidls Are Coming Soon there will be almost a dozen locations of the discount European grocery chain in New York City. By Clio Chang