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We Unearthed the 55 Best Rent Deals in NYC Right Now

 A rare Chelsea townhouse two-bedroom, a Red Hook loft with concrete floors, and more. By Jenny Xie and Katy Schneider
  1. We Unearthed the 55 Best Rent Deals in NYC Right Now A rare Chelsea townhouse two-bedroom, a Red Hook loft with concrete floors, and more.
    By Jenny Xie and Katy Schneider
  2. People in COVID Testing Lines Are Turning on Each Other Line-cutters, it turns out, aren’t treated kindly by those waiting six hours for a nose swab.
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  3. A $695K Soho One-Bedroom and a Prewar Apartment With Gramercy Park Access Plus, a $349K studio in Beekman, a spacious two-bedroom in Prospect Park South, and more.
    By Jenny Xie
  4. What You Need to Know Now About the Upper West Side Homeless-Shelters Saga The latest: A judge ruled that the city is allowed to transfer the over 200 Lucerne Hotel residents to the Radisson in the Financial District.
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  5. New York’s Approval System for New Building Is a Recipe for Mediocrity In Gowanus, we’re dredging for an idea everyone can live with.
    By Justin Davidson
  6. The Remaining Rockettes on Their Spectacular-less Christmas “Our kick lines look the same, but we are doing them socially distanced.”
    By Matthew Schneier
  7. From Community Organizer to the Ultimate Insider Kathy Wylde, the longtime head of the Partnership for New York City, has a message for today’s young socialists.
    By David Freedlander
  8. David Dinkins Deserved Better His mayoralty was not the overt failure it once seemed.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  9. That Time I Walked Princess Diana Through the Henry Street Settlement in 1989 “I didn’t get a chance to be nervous.”
    By Verona Middleton-Jeter and Valeria Ricciulli
  10. McKim, Mead & White Designed This Castle, the Olmsted Brothers Did the Grounds The 24,000-square-foot mansion overlooking Tuxedo Lake has 14 bedrooms and 11.5 baths.
    By Megan Barber
  11. Chess Forum’s Imad Khachan Talks 25 Years on Thompson Street With @NewYorkNico “It’s something that time forgot, I feel like — the place — and me in it.”
    By Nicolas Heller
  12. What Happens If Outdoor Dining Pauses in New York? People need spaces to gather. Do we want to see what happens when those go away?
    By Rachel Sugar
  13. Howard Wolfson Among the (Unlikely) Investors Keeping Astor Hair Open The 75-year-old barbershop will no longer be family run.
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  14. The Look Book Goes to The Chelsea Flea After a nearly nine-month closure, the 44-year-old market is back.
    By Jane Starr Drinkard and Brock Colyar
  15. Upper West Side Home Has 4 Floors, 3 Spiral Staircases, and a Catwalk The lower half of the 1,700-square-foot apartment used to be the operating room of a former hospital.
    By Jenny Xie
  16. For Millions Facing Eviction, There’s a Lot Riding on Trump’s Lame-Duck Period Just one more thing to worry about before January 20th.
    By Jeff Andrews
  17. A Lounge in the Sky in the West Village How architect Alexander Gorlin turned a badly renovated studio into a sunny and starlit day-to-night home — with enough space for 30 Dutch soldiers.
    By Wendy Goodman
  18. New York Nightlife Never Stopped. It Just Moved Underground. After hours in the contagious city.
    By Brock Colyar
  19. Developer Honors Dorothy Parker With Building She Would Have Been Evicted From Builders seldom make passes at writers’ broke asses.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  20. Artist Shaun Leonardo Is the New Co-Director of Recess “For change to happen, folks have to move aside and actually allocate power to the people.”
    By Diana Budds
  21. Should Parking Snitches Get Riches? A new bill would give New Yorkers a 25 percent cut of fines for tattling on illegally parked cars.
    By Caroline Spivack
  22. Nobody Wants to Buy Trump’s D.C. Hotel No one wants to buy a hotel right now, and especially not this one.
    By Jeff Andrews
  23. Norman Teague Invites You to Find Your Groove With His Furniture The designer makes his mark by letting you make yours.
    By Wendy Goodman
  24. Hideous? Perhaps. But It’s Time to Accept the Gaming Chair. “To invest in what you are actually doing — where you are actually sitting — might seem like capitulation but is also self-care.”
    By Alexandra Lange
  25. What’s the Best Doormat? “They are, hands down, the coolest doormats you’ll find right now.”
    By Leah Muncy
  26. Curfews Will Do Almost Nothing to Stop the Spread of COVID The virus doesn’t know what time of day it is.
    By Alissa Walker
  27. Anatomy of a Streetery: Rangoon It’s kinetic and inspired by Burmese design.
    By Diana Budds
  28. Will You Someday Want to Live on Rikers Island? Once new jails rise elsewhere, the island could become a built-from-scratch neighborhood.
    By Caroline Spivack
  29. Carrie Mae Weems Made a COVID PSA Now at Lincoln Center.
    By Diana Budds
  30. The Rockefeller Center Tree Is Just Fine. It Starts Out This Way Every Year. In previous years, it was just as janky-looking till the lights went on.
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  31. How Do You Chop 20 Stories Off a Too-Tall Building? The tower at 200 Amsterdam may have to come partway down.
    By Justin Davidson
  32. Nick DeMarco Imagines a Future in Which Plastic Comes Alive “It’s kind of like making the best of a bad situation.”
    By Diana Budds
  33. The MTA Has a Non-Choice: Risk the Health of New Yorkers or Lose Tons of Money Mostly empty trains allow safe distancing, and cost billions.
    By Jeff Andrews
  34. The Viral Pig Ad Is Fake. The Couch Is Real. We Spoke to Both Creators. A visit to “liminal space” Craigslist.
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  35. The Eco-Yogi Slumlords of Brooklyn Are Getting Sued The City of New York has filed a lawsuit against the couple at the center of an eviction scandal this summer.
    By Bridget Read
  36. What Caused the Design World Meltdown Over Tiny Wooden Stools? Three days of antiquarian-related hysteria.
    By Diana Budds
  37. The Real-Estate Listings Tech Reporter Taylor Lorenz Likes to Stare At “I literally know every house in Chagrin Falls, Ohio.”
    By Taylor Lorenz and Jenny Xie
  38. Stone, Stucco, and Chimneys Galore: A Chateau in Litchfield County for $2.2M On the market for the first time in 26 years.
    By Megan Barber
  39. What Happens When Snowplows Meet Streeteries Restaurateurs brace for the bleak winter ahead.
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  40. Blue’s Clues Steve Is Selling His (Blue!) Converted Garage in Williamsburg The Williamsburg home has a huge courtyard surrounded by glass walls (and two more big roof decks).
    By Jenny Xie
  41. It’s Not Your Imagination: Manhattan Rents Really Have Fallen a Lot And it’s likely to continue for a while.
    By Jeff Andrews
  42. Room Enough to Be Homebodies How Designer Courtney Sloane and artist Cheryl R. Riley perfected the live/work scenario in Jersey City’s post-industrial Powerhouse Arts District.
    By Wendy Goodman
  43. The $99,900 Studios on Billionaires’ Row Carnegie House residents are racing to offload their apartments. Why?
    By Hilary Reid
  44. Why Did Rockaway’s Community Fridge Get Dragged out to Sea? A mutual-aid mystery.
    By Caroline Spivack
  45. Buy One of These Artist-Designed Plates and Help Feed the Unhoused Tauba Auerbach, Glenn Ligon, Kenny Scharf, and more made them for the Coalition for the Homeless.
    By Diana Budds
  46. A Crane Picked Up Another Crane and Put It On Top of Tiffany & Co. A real-life Tonka moment.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  47. Flowers Win Over Towers (for Now) in Shade Lawsuit A judge has paused plans for two 39-story buildings that would starve the Brooklyn Botanic Garden of sunlight.
    By Caroline Spivack
  48. The Holiday Gifts Regular Visitors Founder Daniel Sorg Would Stock in His Store The shop owner who shuttered his beloved corner spot this fall shares the products from small businesses he would carry this season.
    By Daniel Sorg
  49. A Pandemic Winter Is Coming to New York, and It’s Going to Be Unimaginably Hard During the last surge, New Yorkers could at least spend a lot of time outdoors.
    By Justin Davidson
  50. The Year in Design That Would Have Been As seen in a new exhibition at Friedman Benda.
    By Diana Budds
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