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  1. The Grown-up Hysteria Around TikTok’s Devious Licks The hottest new teen trend is stealing from your school. But not everything you see on the internet is real.
    By Brock Colyar
  2. This Pristine ’60s Ranch Is Actually From … 2021? It came together with dead-stock appliances and a half-century-old blueprint.
    By Emma Alpern
  3. The Apple Expert Who Turned New York City Into His Personal Orchard “Some of the best fruit I’ve ever tasted has been from the you-might-die places … ”
    By Emma Orlow
  4. A Metallic Living-Room Set Inspired by … the Elevator An exclusive first look at the latest monochrome furniture from Harry Nuriev of Crosby Studios.
    By Osman Can Yerebakan
  5. A $369K Sunnyside One-Bedroom and a Hudson Heights Convertible Two-Bedroom Plus a Park Slope one-bedroom with a sunken living room.
    By Jenny Xie
  6. Some Under-$500 Architect-Approved Side Chairs A cousin to the popular CB2 Gwyneth Chair, a crushed velvet swivel, and more.
    By Ming Thompson
  7. ‘That’s What Hurt the Most: The Things You Can’t Replace’ Five East Elmhurst residents on what they lost to Hurricane Ida.
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  8. Is Brian Benjamin the Person Who Can Turn NYCHA Around? Among advocates, there is cautious optimism.
    By Caroline Spivack
  9. A Brooklyn Storefront Church, Resurrected As a Family Home Virginie Sommet’s latest project, in Ocean Hill.
    By Wendy Goodman
  10. Robert Durst Found Guilty of Murdering Friend The real-estate heir was convicted of first-degree murder for killing Susan Berman in 2000 in an attempt to conceal how he had murdered his wife.
    By Chas Danner
  11. Change of Plans: You’ll Still Be Able to Browse the NYPL’s Picture Collection Researchers howled and the library reversed itself.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  12. What a Spectacularly Decrepit Greenwich Village Apartment It’s being inundated with interested buyers.
    By Jenny Xie
  13. Will World of Interiors Get a Gut Reno Under Hamish Bowles? The British magazine gets its third editor in 40 years, with a mandate to bring it into the digital age.
    By Matthew Schneier
  14. Post-Recall, California Governor Gavin Newsom’s Next Big Win Is Against NIMBYs California also says “no” to single-family-only zoning.
    By Alissa Walker
  15. Climate Change Is Putting More Poop in New York’s Waters A crappy side effect of all this rain.
    By Lauren Vespoli
  16. How Kenny Rivero Went From Night Doorman to Armory Art Fair Artist It was a snooty building near Gramercy Park. Not everybody was nice.
    By Carl Swanson
  17. I Wish I Liked the New Brooklyn Bridge Bike Lane More A hard-won symbolic victory that’s a baby step.
    By Diana Budds
  18. Continuum’s Towers Were Nixed by the City. So the Developer Is Suing. The Botanic Garden fight may go another round.
    By Kim Velsey
  19. We Unearthed the 27 Best Rent Deals in NYC Right Now Looking for a two-bedroom under $3,000? We found several this week, including ones in Bed-Stuy and Turtle Bay.
    By Jenny Xie
  20. Will a Post-Bankruptcy ABC Carpet & Home Still Be Over-the-Top Maximalist? A store whose retail experience is a maximalist performance.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  21. The Look Book Goes to the Obama Portraits During a preview party at the Brooklyn Museum, guests got an early look at Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald’s presidential portraits.
    By Daniel Varghese and Louis Cheslaw
  22. River Ring Gets Okayed, With 13 Conditions Smaller towers, more affordable apartments, and a slew of other requirements.
    By Kim Velsey
  23. The Lower East Side Tailor to the Scene Clients have generally found Ramon Tailor through word of mouth. Now — suddenly — there are lines out the door for his custom pants.
    By Louis Cheslaw
  24. How Clean Is the Air in Your Classroom? Your Theater? It’s Not Easy to Find Out There’s little transparency about what we breathe inside big congregate spaces.
    By Justin Davidson
  25. We’re Falling Short on Even the Simplest Fix for Storm Flooding Plugged-up drains should be the most straightforward problem to solve, and the city can’t keep up.
    By Diana Budds
  26. The Pope of Gloop For 60 years, Gaetano Pesce has been preaching the gospel of uncertainty in design. Finally, the world has caught up.
    By Matthew Schneier
  27. The Fake Vaxx Card Next to You The proliferation of vaccine mandates is creating a black-market boom for counterfeit proof.
    By Paula Aceves
  28. Revolt of the Delivery Workers Exploited by apps. Attacked by thieves. Unprotected by police. The city’s 65,000 bikers have only themselves to count on.
    By Josh Dzieza
  29. La Revuelta de los Repartidores Robados, apuñalados, golpeados, con mala paga y demasiado trabajo. Ya están hartos.
    By Josh Dzieza
  30. The Bingo Heiress’s Fantastical Duplex With its Fragonard staircase, koi-pond bathroom, and rodeo-themed kitchen, Gail Ann Lowe Maidman’s home is like nothing else on the Upper East Side.
    By Wendy Goodman
  31. Visiting the Visitors: Photographs at the 9/11 Memorial Some tourists are more respectful than others.
    By Shaughn and John
  32. What Went Wrong With NYC’s Emergency Alerts, and How Can We Do Better? Contextual warnings, explicit directions, and better outreach before the storm could all help.
    By Alissa Walker
  33. If You’re Worried About Mold After the Flooding, Get In Line “You don’t have enough pumps, you don’t have enough dehumidifiers, you don’t have enough fans.”
    By Jack Denton
  34. Is Chinatown’s Largest Housing Nonprofit a Bad Landlord? Protests over a recent lockout are just the latest problem for Asian Americans for Equality.
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  35. The Leaning Tower of Seaport May Finally Break Its Bad Luck But it’s still tilting ever so slightly to the north.
    By Caroline Spivack
  36. The World Trade Center, Before, During, and After Remembering architect Minoru Yamasaki through the afterlife of his most famous buildings.
    By Justin Beal
  37. In the Vanderveer Projects, Michael K. Williams Was Another Kind of Star “He was someone who never forgot the hood. He used his influence as much as possible to lift up people beyond him.”
    By Saki Knafo
  38. Charlie Watts’s Drawings, 58 Cities Named Columbus, and Other Design Finds Plus an exhibition of Push Pin’s posters.
    By Diana Budds
  39. A $22.5M Apartment at 740 Park Goes From a Mnuchin to a Tisch Lacey Tisch, the daughter of Loews magnate Andrew Tisch, is the buyer of Steve Mnuchin’s apartment. Oddly placed black toilet included.
    By Kim Velsey
  40. In Defense of Browsing The NYPL’s imperiled Picture Collection supports a kind of research where keywords don’t find the story.
    By Leanne Shapton
  41. This Park Dancer Is Literally an Ad for NYC. The NYPD Keeps Shutting Her Down. NO STOPPING NEW YORK, the poster says, promoting recovery. But Kanami Kusajima’s park experience says otherwise.
    By Saki Knafo
  42. A Horse Trailer Named Beauty Gets a Makeover Graphic designer Laura Valenzuela’s upstate pandemic project (she learned how to weld!)
    By Wendy Goodman
  43. Ida Death Toll Rises to 45 in New York Area President Biden has approved federal aid for multiple affected counties in New York and New Jersey.
    By Intelligencer Staff
  44. A $375K Forest Hills One-Bedroom and a Carroll Gardens Loft This week’s picks also includes a 1910 Cypress Hills rowhouse and a renovated two-bedroom in Morningside Heights.
    By Jenny Xie
  45. Scenes from Ida’s Chaotic, Tragic Night in New York City The bus driver stuck in raw sewage, a delivery worker who biked through a foot of water, and other stories from the flood.
  46. How Does An Elevated Highway in New York City Even Flood? It’s a road that’s above ground. Shouldn’t it drain?
    By Alissa Walker
  47. Those Flooded Basement Apartments are a Deadly Part of the Housing Crisis The most dangerous place to be last night was on the ground floor.
    By Kim Velsey
  48. What to Do When Your Basement Floods, According to Disaster Experts Plus how to prevent future water damage.
    By Karen Iorio Adelson
  49. To Stop Flooding, New York Needs Spongy Streets The city does the equivalent of mopping up an overflowing toilet with a rock. We have alternatives, and should use them.
    By Justin Davidson
  50. New Orleans’s Levees Held Up This Time — But That’s Not Enough No matter how tall you build a wall, a flood can go higher.
    By Jake Bittle
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