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Will Train Daddy Finally Get Us High-Speed Rail?

 Andy Byford is joining Amtrak to oversee the system’s high-speed network. By Alissa Walker
  1. Pickleball Will Soon Swallow Central Park Whole From April to October, Wollman Rink will be taken over by 14 pickleball courts.
    By Clio Chang
  2. Los Angeles’s Metro Is Using Classical Music as a Weapon The loud volume is part of the agency’s effort to push unhoused people off the system.
    By Alissa Walker
  3. Why Is NYC’s New Tourism Logo Shouting at Me? It doesn’t say ‘Welcome,’ it yells “STOP.”
    By Steven Heller
  4. ‘The Floor Just Dropped and Then Started Bouncing’ Talking to someone inside One Vanderbilt when the 93-story midtown tower began to shake.
    By Clio Chang
  5. What Does the Mayor Have Against Windows? Natural daylight is not the enemy of affordable housing.
    By Alissa Walker
  6. ‘We ♥ NYC’ Is Here. Why? No one asked for this.
    By Zach Schiffman
  7. Tenants of New York’s Worst Landlords Already Knew Signature Bank Would Fail The bank’s model incentivized eviction and neglect. Something had to give.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  8. They Wanted a Backyard. Now They Hate It. Outdoor space was the city renters’ pandemic dream. Then came the rats.
    By Clio Chang
  9. The Look Book Goes to a Cool-Kid Bowling Tournament Nolita Dirtbag, a niche Instagram meme account, played host at the Gutter, where teams representing Noah, Shy’s Burgers, and Sinclair faced off.
    By Kelsie Schrader and Jenna Milliner-Waddell
  10. The Mushroom-Zombie Mall From The Last of Us Is Getting Redeveloped Yes to Walmart; no to apocalyptic cordyceps.
    By Zach Schiffman
  11. The La Guardia AirTrain Is Dead. Now What? It’s a bus lane to the airport for now, and maybe a hard-to-build subway extension in the far, far future.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  12. The 9 Best Architecture, Design, and Urbanism Books Out This Spring Including a compendium of Milton Glaser’s illustrations and a delightful collection of underground weed ads.
    By Curbed Staff
  13. Elon Musk Is Building a Montessori The Boring Company’s Texas preschool will educate the children of the hard-core.
    By Alissa Walker
  14. The New Taxi Commissioner Is Doing an Undercover-Boss Thing And if you manage to hail David Do, the ride is free.
    By Clio Chang
  15. Donald Trump Wants to Build a City “Freedom Cities” and the rise of conspiracy urbanism.
    By Alissa Walker
  16. The Brooklyn Democratic Party Is Being Sued by Its Landlord Over a broken lease and $82,000 in back rent.
    By Clio Chang
  17. City to Tom Ford: Don’t Move That Door The Landmarks Preservation Commission decides his Paul Rudolph–designed house will keep its deep vestibule. Sidewalk urinators can rest easy.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  18. What If We Made It Easier for Renters to Buy Their Buildings? A new bill in Albany, the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act, would give them time and funding to be the first in line.
    By Wilfred Chan
  19. What the Prospect Park Loop Really Needs Competitive cyclists must be banned from public space and possibly the entire city.
    By Katie McDonough
  20. Dumbo Is Displeased With Its Giant New Building “Olympia looks like a cruise ship. Meanwhile it’s literally positioned next to one of the greatest landmarks in all of the United States.”
    By Adriane Quinlan
  21. Eric Adams Wants to Fight Shoplifting With Mask-Lifting “Do not allow people to enter the store without taking off their face mask.”
    By Clio Chang
  22. Is a Coney Island Casino a Good Idea? Could be a recipe for job growth, could be the next Atlantic City dead zone.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  23. The Look Book Goes to Housing Works Cannabis Co A Friday afternoon in line at New York City’s first legal recreational-weed dispensary.
    By Kelsie Schrader and Jenna Milliner-Waddell
  24. Will You Get a 212? They’re finally handing them out again. With a little luck, you could be one of the elite several million.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  25. Everything We Know About Ron DeSantis’s Disney Takeover “There’s a new sheriff in town,” the governor announced this week.
    By Alissa Walker
  26. Williamsburg Is Entering Its Fifth Avenue Era Chanel Beauty is opening on North 6th, down the street from Bottega and Hermès pop-ups.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  27. The Modular Public Toilets Are Coming A city-run pilot will roll out five prefab kiosks — one for each borough.
    By Clio Chang
  28. A Brief History of Elon Musk’s Master Plans Part 1 was a practical post-gasoline vision, Part Deux was more like rambly billionaire futurism, and Part 3 arrives next week.
    By Alissa Walker
  29. There’s a War Going on in Your Local Buy Nothing Group Behind that free Ikea bookshelf, splinter groups are breaking away from the founders’ vision of a “gifting economy.”
    By Clio Chang
  30. The Bronx Children’s Museum Is Just Antic Enough Like a peek into a happy kid’s brain.
    By Justin Davidson
  31. Listening In on Line at Glossier Opening day at its new Soho flagship.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  32. It’s Been a Tumultuous Two Weeks for Flaco The Eurasian eagle-owl has survived a vandalized enclosure, life as a celebrity, and a new diet of free-range rats.
    By Clio Chang
  33. O’Flaherty’s Is Back, This Time With Tubs of Vaseline The East Village gallery inaugurated its new space with naked men sculpting themselves into a messy copy of a Greek statue.
    By Diana Budds
  34. MoMA’s ‘Architecture Now’ Exists in Some Other New York One that has fewer impediments and more money.
    By Justin Davidson
  35. New York City Finally Has a Public-Realm Czar Ya-Ting Liu, a former transit advocate, will work on projects like Open Restaurants and the pedestrianization of Fifth Avenue.
    By Diana Budds
  36. Did Tesla Just Admit Its Self-Driving Feature Is Dangerous? The company is issuing a 300,000-vehicle voluntary recall in the form of a mass software update.
    By Alissa Walker
  37. Police Crashes Cost New Yorkers a Lot of Money And the growing number of NYPD SUVs on the road isn’t helping.
    By Alissa Walker
  38. The Look Book Goes to EMS Training The FDNY’s newest emergency medical technicians gathered for their final day of instruction at Fort Totten.
    By Kelsie Schrader and Jenna Milliner-Waddell
  39. What Is Going On in East Palestine, Ohio? Parsing the most reliable information circulating about the catastrophic train derailment.
    By Alissa Walker
  40. Eric Adams Will Pay $300 for His Rats The mayor needs to bin his recyclables.
    By Clio Chang
  41. The Manhattan Parents Who Won’t Let Their Teens Outside Alone Mom does drop-off, a sitter does pickup. An Uber takes care of the rest.
    By Julia Edelstein
  42. A Whale Beaches in the Rockaways Why are so many leviathans washing up on the shore?
    By Laura Thompson
  43. City Austerity Has Come for the Herman Miller Desk Chair As Adams pushes for budget cuts, lawmakers are singling out a contract with the Aeron-famous furniture company.
    By Clio Chang
  44. Why It Costs So Much to Build Our Subways An NYU study finds that most of the overspending isn’t where you think it is.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  45. Elon Musk Is Building a Neighborhood Project Amazing is the company town reimagined!
    By Alissa Walker
  46. Ekene Ijeoma Has Removed All Bad Design From His Life (Except for Streets) The artist answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
    By Diana Budds
  47. Welcome to the Neighborhood™ A couple has announced plans to move up to 1,000 like-minded people into their corner of Bushwick.
    By Clio Chang
  48. A Fight About Putin’s Reach Erupts at the Cooper Union A show about a century-old Soviet school is at the heart of a debate over academic freedom and the school’s relationship to its Ukrainian neighbors.
    By Diana Budds
  49. Will a Casino Finally ‘Tame’ Times Square? The developer promises a massive, 13-block security operation, care of Bill Bratton.
    By Karrie Jacobs
  50. Good Luck Switching to an Induction Stove in the City The process, as it turns out, is a gauntlet.
    By Adriane Quinlan
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