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curfews

Weeknight Parties, Weekend Clampdowns, and Angry Neighbors in Washington Square

Monday through Thursday, the revelry goes on. By Tim Donnelly

getting around

Why Your Uber Ride Is Suddenly Costing a Fortune

Driver shortage, customer surplus, and harsh financial reality. By Alissa Walker

rodents

Get Ready for Flat-Rat Summer

Rodents and cars do not mix. By Willy Blackmore

The Latest

curfews

Weeknight Parties, Weekend Clampdowns, and Angry Neighbors in Washington Square
getting around

Why Your Uber Ride Is Suddenly Costing a Fortune
design edit

A Nick Cave Installation, a Squiggly Lamp, and Other Things I Liked This Week
rodents

Get Ready for Flat-Rat Summer
street view

Look! Books! The Tired Old Mid-Manhattan Library Gets a Sharp New Renovation

See All See All See All

neighborhoods The Free Food Pantry Gets the Subscription Box Treatment Wellfare is delivering jackfruit chips, grass-fed turkey jerky sticks, and other snacks and drinks to NYCHA residents in Williamsburg and Bushwick. By Caroline Spivack

design edit A Nick Cave Installation, a Squiggly Lamp, and Other Things I Liked This Week Including the city’s best new rooftop. By Diana Budds

safer streets Grim New Numbers: Traffic Deaths Highest Since 2007 Speeding, mostly, seems to be the cause. By Alissa Walker

street view Look! Books! The Tired Old Mid-Manhattan Library Gets a Sharp New Renovation An understated top-to-bottom rehab puts open access — and open books — front and center (and a café on the roof). By Justin Davidson

design edit A Nick Cave Installation, a Squiggly Lamp, and Other Things I Liked This Week Including the city’s best new rooftop. By Diana Budds

safer streets Grim New Numbers: Traffic Deaths Highest Since 2007 Speeding, mostly, seems to be the cause. By Alissa Walker

On The Market

listings edit We Unearthed the 43 Best Rent Deals in NYC Right Now

under a million A Lower East Side One-Bedroom for $495K and a Park Slope Floor-through Condo

set spotting The Turreted Royal Tenenbaums House Is for Rent

a truly terrific new york listing A Bed-Stuy Brownstone With Tons of (Well-Preserved) Hand-Carved Wood

Cityscape

street view

Look! Books! The Tired Old Mid-Manhattan Library Gets a Sharp New Renovation An understated top-to-bottom rehab puts open access — and open books — front and center (and a café on the roof). By Justin Davidson
vaccine resistant

Buildings Want to Require Vaccinations. The Doormen’s Union Says No. The union, along with many buildings, are encouraging doormen to get the jab. But requiring it for the job is where it draws the line. By Daniel Clemens
neighborhoods

The Free Food Pantry Gets the Subscription Box Treatment Wellfare is delivering jackfruit chips, grass-fed turkey jerky sticks, and other snacks and drinks to NYCHA residents in Williamsburg and Bushwick. By Caroline Spivack
coworkville

Co-working Is Back, But This Time It’s Really Boring Commercial real-estate developers are plowing money in new, utilitarian shared office spaces. By Allegra Hobbs

Design Hunting

design edit

A Nick Cave Installation, a Squiggly Lamp, and Other Things I Liked This Week Including the city’s best new rooftop. By Diana Budds
great rooms

A Visit to the Soon-to-Open Museum of American Restaurant China It’s upstairs at Fishs Eddy on 19th Street and Broadway in the private sanctum of proprietor Julie Gaines. By Wendy Goodman
investigation

Who Made That Ear-Shaped Mirror That’s All Over Instagram? Trying to solve a mystery, 40 years on. By Diana Budds
great rooms

Barbara Jakobson Thinks of Her Art-Filled Townhouse As Her Autobiography She’s lived here since 1965 and now gets up and down its five floors on her spiffy new stair-climbing “worm.” By Wendy Goodman

The Real Estate

makeovers

My Toilet Is My Office In April of 2020, about a month into full-time working from home with her husband and two kids, Niamh Sproul decided something had to change. By Jenny Xie
on the market

Rufus Wainwright’s Self-Described ‘Dump’ of a Pied-à-Terre Is for Sale The Gramercy Park studio, which Wainwright once called “a total dump,” is pretty tiny (but it still has thousand-dollar wallpaper). By Jenny Xie
#theapartment

You Can Now Rent Alison Roman’s Apartment It’s located in Boerum Hill, or, as Roman calls the neighborhood, “the Paris of Brooklyn.” By Brock Colyar
getting approved

Overshareholders! Co-op Boards May Have to Disclose Why They’re Rejecting People They’re bracing for lawsuits. By Caroline Spivack