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Storied and Sordid: The History of Jeffrey Epstein’s Just-Sold Mansion

 Whoever bought it will be only the second real occupant. By Jeff Andrews
  1. Wait Long Enough and Almost Anything Shows Up on Facebook’s Buy Nothing Groups Are you decluttering, recluttering, or both?
    By Ivy Eisenberg
  2. The Look Book Goes to S&T Auto Body A Friday morning at the 46-year-old car-repair shop in the Bronx’s Little Italy.
    By Jane Starr Drinkard and Brock Colyar
  3. 6 Knicks Fans Describe What the First Game Back Was Like “I came home and said to my wife, ‘I had three and a half hours of feeling normal.’”
    By Jeff Andrews
  4. How We’ll Be Able to Hear Live Music This Summer Lincoln Center and other institutions embrace the distanced outdoor concert.
    By Justin Davidson
  5. Pearl River Mart Isn’t Closing After All The new Soho location will be its sixth in 50 years.
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  6. The Other Side of Rent Debt: Five Small-Time Landlords Who Are Stuck “The building will still be standing, but I won’t be.”
    By Caroline Spivack
  7. Awol Erizku Brings His Afrocentric Symbolic Universe to NYC’s Bus Shelters Courtesy of a new Public Art Fund exhibition.
    By Diana Budds
  8. A Vegan Community Fridge at a Boxing Gym? No drinking raw eggs here.
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  9. Would You Want to Live in a Mid-Century Office Tower on East 38th Street? We asked an architectural firm to game out a (theoretical) conversion.
    By Justin Davidson
  10. Why Did Texas’s Energy Grid Fail So Spectacularly? Bad weather and bad policy.
    By Jeff Andrews
  11. The High-Tech Upgrades of the Pandemic Office Are Mostly for Show Thermal scanners, UV lights, and fewer grout lines won’t save us.
    By Caroline Spivack
  12. Maya Wiley, the Crisis Candidate She believes a traumatized city deserves a progressive mayor — and she is certain she’d be better at it than her former boss Bill de Blasio.
    By Rebecca Traister
  13. The Look Book Goes to Junior Rangers Practice On a Saturday morning at the Learn to Play program at Prospect Park, where children 10 and under were slip-sliding on the ice.
    By Jane Starr Drinkard and Brock Colyar
  14. A Q.A. Q&A: Quemuel Arroyo, the MTA’s New Accessibility Chief The agency’s first CAO says he hears a lot of support within the MTA, but “I need to make a cultural shift here.”
    By Justin Davidson
  15. Cuomo Will Allow 4,000 Sports Fans Per Night to Expose Themselves to COVID Basketball and hockey will return, with masks and required tests.
    By Jeff Andrews
  16. Change Is Coming to the McGraw-Hill Building’s Fantastic Deco Lobby. Or Is It? Preservationists sound the alarm; architects swear they’re not trashing a treasure.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  17. Here’s a Handsome Solution to New York’s Bike-Parking Crisis Oonee’s pods can securely store seven bikes in one car’s worth of parking.
    By Alissa Walker
  18. Could the Florida Water-Supply Hacking Happen in New York City? Good news: There are a lot of checks and tests that go on here. But that doesn’t mean we’re careful enough.
    By Alissa Walker
  19. Scott Stringer Has Big Ideas About Your Street And your sidewalk, and your commute. A first look at his comprehensive transit plan.
    By Justin Davidson
  20. The MTA Put Back the Benches at the 23rd Street Station The tweet about removing them to deter homeless people was, apparently, “in error.”
    By Caroline Spivack
  21. Trump’s D.C. Hotel Wants to Charge QAnon Supporters $1,745 for a Room Will they pay? Depends on what Q says.
    By Jeff Andrews
  22. Murals on 9 City Buildings Will Help You Process Your Pandemic Feelings “How we’re experiencing this time is something we’ll be unpacking for years to come.”
    By Diana Budds
  23. If Your City Were Really Dying, You Probably Wouldn’t Know Visiting Annalee Newitz’s Four Lost Cities.
    By Justin Davidson
  24. I Cannot Decide If I Love or Hate This Sink-Reviews TikTok Sink Reviews, reviewed.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  25. Here’s Everyone Running for New York City Mayor (So Far) Forty plus and counting.
    By Caroline Spivack
  26. What Are Those Purple Pantries Popping Up Around Central Brooklyn? “There’s joy in fruit snacks. There’s joy in the little things.”
    By Caroline Spivack
  27. The Look Book Goes to a 24/7 Vaccination Center We chatted with people who got late-night appointments — between 8 p.m. and 2 a.m. — at 125 Worth Street.
    By Jane Starr Drinkard and Brock Colyar
  28. The Tower Replacing the Grand Hyatt Is an Absolute Behemoth One more big shadow over Grand Central.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  29. GRT Architects Designs Streeteries That Can Outlast the Pandemic Outdoor dining spaces at Cote, Don Angie, and Quality Eats demonstrate how the firm is experimenting.
    By Diana Budds
  30. The Nightmare Share She posted an ad for a roommate. What’s the worst that could happen?
    By Bridget Read
  31. Turns Out Robinhood, Wall Street’s Nemesis, Wants to Move to New York After a year of explosive growth, Robinhood needs more office space.
    By Jeff Andrews
  32. How to Vaccinate Everybody: The Same Way the Census Counts Us Get close to the ground, and the job gets done more equitably.
    By Justin Davidson
  33. Even Before COVID, Superstar Cities Were Shrinking In London, Paris, Tokyo, and New York, the population is steady or falling. But that doesn’t mean they’re in trouble.
    By Justin Davidson
  34. Lawsuit Against Zoom Meetings Could Derail the Gowanus Rezoning (and Much More) The challenge, if successful, could create a legal opening to stall developments.
    By Caroline Spivack
  35. Barge Full of Gowanus Sludge Sinks Into Gowanus Sludge Toxic material dredged up from the canal is now at the bottom of the nearby bay.
    By Caroline Spivack
  36. Trump-Branded Buildings in Manhattan Have Lost 21 Percent of Their Value An indication that the gold-plated name has become a toxic asset.
    By Jeff Andrews
  37. What Does Polly Trottenberg’s NYC DOT Tell Us About What She’ll Do in D.C.? Trottenberg moved the needle forward on street safety, but some say she could have done more.
    By Caroline Spivack
  38. The MTA Has a New Citywide Memorial for Its Workers Lost to COVID-19 “It’s so important for New Yorkers to understand the price that has been paid by so many.”
    By Diana Budds
  39. Upper East Siders Embrace a Homeless Shelter, Unlike Their Crosstown Neighbors “No fanfare, no problem. The men can stay,” said one local official.
    By Caroline Spivack
  40. Huh, the Port Authority Bus Terminal Could Get Less Bad Opening in 2031 (est.).
    By Christopher Bonanos
  41. Thousands in Rent Debt, No End In Sight: Five New Yorkers’ Stories “I feel like if COVID doesn’t kill me, the stress will.”
    By Caroline Spivack and Valeria Ricciulli
  42. On an LES Block, One’s Got to Go: Streeteries, Construction, or Cars Guess which one the DOT picked.
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  43. New Union Square Plan Takes Over Streets to Make a Bigger, Greener Park The $100M proposal would make the area more pedestrian-friendly.
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  44. John Wilson’s Favorite Spots in Ridgewood Chicken pupusas, a special occasion strip club, and a used bookstore with great coffee.
    By Louis Cheslaw
  45. Is a High Line Extension Really What We Need on the Far West Side? Even if improving pedestrian access is the point, levitating over the city is not the solution.
    By Justin Davidson
  46. Looks Like the Rich Aren’t Abandoning New York After All High-end Manhattan apartments are finally moving again.
    By Jeff Andrews
  47. A Look Inside the New Uber Eats–Funded Streeteries in Harlem Local designers and artists teamed up to create custom structures for six Black-owned businesses.
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  48. The Look Book Goes to Grand Central Terminal On a much quieter than usual morning, we spoke to commuters, and even a few tourists, who were passing through.
    By Jane Starr Drinkard and Brock Colyar
  49. Andrew Yang, Who Is Absolutely a New Yorker, Went to His New York Deli “I love bodegas.”
    By Christopher Bonanos
  50. Being a Trump Is a Liability Now – Even If You’ve Sued Donald Fred Trump III was asked to leave his position at Cushman & Wakefield.
    By Jeff Andrews
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