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  1. Sagaponack Is Losing It Over a Porta-potty The public toilet is across the street from the mayor’s house, and he likes it.
    By Clio Chang
  2. Listening In at the Mark Hotel Just before the holidays.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  3. The Hardest-Working Santa in Northeastern Queens My day with Dana Friedman, a 63-year-old Jewish civil litigator and Kris Kringle for hire.
    By Clio Chang
  4. The Upside-Down Building Is No Longer Novel At Greenpoint’s new Eagle + West, cantilevers are just one more architectural gimmick.
    By Justin Davidson
  5. In Praise of the ‘Good Life’ Modernism of Barbie’s 1979 A-Frame An excerpt from Barbie Dreamhouse: An Architectural Survey
    By Wendy Goodman
  6. Elon Musk Is Selling Off Twitter’s Cafeteria And some Eames chairs too. But the office beds are staying put.
    By Brock Keeling
  7. The Status Submarine’s Time Has Come “If you’re just going on a yacht in some fancy place, that’s one thing,” says Ray Dalio of going bullish on submersibles.
    By Clio Chang
  8. The Wing Is Being Sued for Back Rent Again The deceased co-working space is allegedly in hot water with three of its New York landlords.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  9. Hamish Bowles’s Over-the-top Co-op Is for Sale The Greenwich Village two-bedroom has a trompe-l’oeil doorknob.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  10. The Best Gifts for Design-Minded Kids From a Keith Haring play mat for babies to a highly adaptable jumpsuit for teens.
    By Fiorella Valdesolo
  11. Julius’, the Gay-Elder Dive Bar of the Village, Gets Landmarked Just as the TikTok twinks have discovered its charms.
    By Matthew Schneier
  12. ‘Let’s Play Getting Doored!’ Lego and Playmobil’s ambulance sets each come with an injured cyclist. But don’t worry — they’re smiling.
    By Clio Chang
  13. I Lost My Brother Twice First to schizophrenia, then forever to the city.
    By Alex Brook Lynn
  14. ‘It Was a Struggle. I Lost All My Revenue.’ Bronx business owners were left behind in an early COVID-relief program, according to a new report from the city comptroller’s office.
    By Clio Chang
  15. Eric Garcetti’s Broken Sidewalks If you want to know what kind of mayor he’s been for Los Angeles, just look down.
    By Alissa Walker
  16. The Crumbling Building Where No One Claims to Be the Landlord A real-estate deal that went bad has left rent-stabilized tenants in legal limbo.
    By Wilfred Chan
  17. The Kuwaiti Government Raised Carolines’s Rent A surprising end for the beloved comedy club.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  18. The Best Movie Theaters in New York Specialty theaters beloved by cinephiles across the city.
    By Jasmine Vojdani
  19. The Look Book Goes to a Padel Club With the opening of Padel Haus, the racquet sport — a cross between tennis and squash — now has a home in Williamsburg.
    By Kelsie Schrader and Jenna Milliner-Waddell
  20. The Queens Native Tasked With Making Legal Weed Work Christopher Alexander is building New York’s budding market from scratch.
    By Mychal Denzel Smith
  21. Libbie Mugrabi Has Mansion Problems The socialite is facing eviction on the Upper East Side. Her Water Mill compound is an even bigger mess.
    By Clio Chang
  22. In Praise of the Subway Exit Gate The MTA may redesign it to stop fare evaders, but it’s the only thing that lets parents ride the subway in the first place.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  23. Secrets of the Christmas Tree Trade Turf wars. Protection money. Scientology. And my boss, a man who’s half-convinced he really is Santa.
    By Owen Long
  24. What Is Going on With Twitter’s Horrible Headquarters? The company’s San Francisco landlord is struggling to refinance. And workers are being invited to sleep in conference rooms.
    By Clio Chang
  25. New St. Nick: The Glowed-up Greek Church at Ground Zero The tiny marble Greek Orthodox church next to the World Trade Center finally opens, 21 years after its predecessor was destroyed.
    By Justin Davidson
  26. Mashed Potatoes Meet Monet Climate activists have been celebrated for defacing great paintings. Why?
    By Jerry Saltz
  27. Eric Adams Has Rats According to an unpaid summons for his Bed-Stuy townhouse.
    By Clio Chang
  28. 39 Reasons to Love New York Right Now Every time it’s been confronted, New York has returned, more impossibly and unpredictably itself than ever, because we wanted it to.
    By The Editors
  29. Do You Know These Famous New Yorkers? Take our cover photo quiz.
    By The Editors
  30. One Intersection, 72 Celebrities, 10,912 Clicks of the Shutter The making of our ‘Reasons to Love New York’ cover.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  31. La Guardia Is Kind of Ritzy Sky bridges have become something of a status symbol for airports around the world. La Guardia has two.
    By James D. Walsh
  32. Eric Adams Is Certainly Enjoying Himself Performance is an inherent part of politics. But perhaps no prior mayor has ever leaned so far into spectacle.
    By Clio Chang
  33. Why I Want the Marijuana Dispensary License Here, some applicants on their high hopes.
    By James D. Walsh
  34. All This Hero Wanted Was to Stay Here Francisco Puebla was among the people who spotted the suspected subway shooter. He was offered a monetary reward but told the city he didn’t want it.
    By Rachel Handler
  35. He Transformed His LES Apartment To Feel Like His Minnesota Childhood Home. Artist and set designer Steven Hammel’s cozy nostalgia.
    By Wendy Goodman
  36. Where Is the Tesla Bus? Elon Musk announced it alongside the Tesla Semi all those years ago. So what gives?
    By Alissa Walker
  37. No, That Wasn’t Danny DeVito You Just Saw at a Party in Bushwick Just hundreds of semi-bald lookalikes.
    By Megan Paetzhold
  38. Is the American West Finally Ready to Kill the Lawn? A historic agreement to save the Colorado River by tearing up more grass is a small step, but a crucial one.
    By Alissa Walker
  39. Ding-Dong, Here Comes Legal Weed Delivery As storefronts race to open, the state is clearing a path to getting those pre-rolls brought to your door ASAP.
    By Clio Chang
  40. The City’s Listing for a Rat Director Is a Bit Much The right candidate will have a “general aura of badassery.”
    By Clio Chang
  41. Sloths Are Tearing Apart Suffolk County A storefront across from a Carvel is perhaps not an appropriate environment for the animals.
    By Clio Chang
  42. Now You Can Live in a Crypto Office A crypto-mining firm’s former Hudson Yards space is marketed as the $19.5 million home of your dreams.
    By Clio Chang
  43. From the Archives: When Soho Was Imperiled “Artists came to Soho because it was ignored and cheap. Now it is no longer ignored, and soon it will not be cheap.”
    By Peter Hellman
  44. The Messy Real-Estate Fallout From FTX’s Implosion A running list.
    By Curbed Staff
  45. Is New York’s Crypto-Mining Moratorium the Start of a Trend? The two-year ban is the first of its kind, possibly not the last.
    By Clio Chang
  46. The Day Wendy Goodman Moved Out of Her Apartment of 27 Years “I’d always thought that I’d be carried out feet first.” Then the brownstone she rented in was sold, and she had to sort through life.
    By Wendy Goodman
  47. The Look Book Goes to Kathy Hochul’s Election Night Party The governor and fellow New York Democrats hosted a crowd of hundreds at Capitale as the midterm results came in.
    By Kelsie Schrader and Jenna Milliner-Waddell
  48. The Best Vintage for Men in New York Knit beanies and Army jackets at the city’s best vintage stores for men.
    By Max Berlinger
  49. The Six-Way Race for One New York Casino License And a closer look at the Hudson Yards option.
    By Audrey Wachs
  50. The Upper East Side Is Thrilled at Barnes & Noble’s Return Which tells us something about what a neighborhood needs (besides books).
    By Christopher Bonanos
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