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 Cry for the lives unlived. By Adriane Quinlan
  1. The Best Day Spas in New York From midtown to Governors Island.
    By Monica Mendal
  2. The Look Book Goes to Tatiana A recent Wednesday night at chef Kwame Onwuachi’s consistently booked Lincoln Center restaurant.
    By Kelsie Schrader and Jenna Milliner-Waddell
  3. Delancey Is Getting a Desperately Needed ‘Road Diet’ To the tune of $21 million in federal funds.
    By Clio Chang
  4. Why Is the Floor of the Oculus Already Crumbling? Eight years in, the marble slabs are chipping and flaking. It didn’t have to be this way.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  5. L.A.’s ‘Green Alley’ Experiments Are Working The city’s efforts to become flood- and drought-resilient are ready to be scaled up.
    By Alissa Walker
  6. To Dream of Pickleball City The sport’s die-hard fans are fighting for courts they can call their own.
    By Bindu Bansinath
  7. The Bean, Once Half, Is Now Whole Four years later, Anish Kapoor’s legume at 56 Leonard is complete.
    By Clio Chang
  8. Joan Didion’s Apartment Is for Sale Missed out on the estate auction? Seven and a half million dollars will get you the whole house.
    By Kim Velsey and Christopher Bonanos
  9. What the Gallerists Brought Home How Patrick Parrish and Alex Gilbert decided what they wanted to live with in their Clinton Hill apartment.
    By Wendy Goodman
  10. Does New York’s Chinatown Really Need an Arch? Hochul has granted the money to build one, but younger residents ask whether the money would be better spent on other community needs.
    By Wilfred Chan
  11. A Writer’s Book-Stuffed Greenwich Village Studio A photo of Rimbaud looks down from the bathroom ceiling.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  12. Clearing Vendors From the Brooklyn Bridge Won’t Solve Its Overcrowding Problem The bridge deserves a more comprehensive plan.
    By Diana Budds
  13. The Rainbow Hellerware Revival, Artist-Made Dream Houses, and More Design Finds Plus, an architect’s quest to perfect the tiny wood stool.
    By Diana Budds
  14. The NYCHA Chair Position Is Likely Getting a $255,000 Pay Cut Good-bye, inflated salary, and good luck with all the repairs and back rent.
    By Clio Chang
  15. New Yorkers Never Came ‘Flooding Back.’ Why Did Rents Go Up So Much? Getting to the bottom of a COVID-era real estate mystery.
    By Lane Brown
  16. Julia Fox Gave a ‘Maximum Transparency’ Tour of Her Apartment We also have a hallway where “nothing happens.”
    By Clio Chang
  17. The Tiny Newspapers at War in the West Village Featuring alleged graphic-design theft, 9/11 truthers, and Sarah Jessica Parker.
    By Clio Chang
  18. ‘Use That Time As a Meditation Time’: The MTA’s New, Very Long Escalator Ten stories down into the new Grand Central Madison terminal.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  19. An EV in Every Driveway Is an Environmental Disaster We can’t lithium mine our way out of climate crisis.
    By Alissa Walker
  20. What George Santos Was Really Like as a Roommate “He was home all day.”
    By Bridget Read
  21. The Upper West Side’s Zone of Pedestrian Death The area around 96th Street is dangerous. And it’s hardly the worst in town.
    By Justin Davidson
  22. Floating Bedrooms in a Williamsburg Loft Matt Spangler asked architect Keith Burns for more space and light in his new place: Before and after photos.
    By Wendy Goodman
  23. How a Rikers Unit That Protects Trans Women Fell Apart A decade ago, New York set out to lead the nation in efforts to support incarcerated trans people. Now they are stranded in all-male housing units.
    By George Joseph
  24. A Turtle Bay Townhouse With Wall-to-Wall Windows And a 400-square-foot balcony on every floor
    By Adriane Quinlan
  25. Working for New York City When Everyone Else Is Leaving Empty cubicles, giant caseloads that leave low-income tenants without rent aid, and “no end in sight.”
    By Ross Barkan
  26. U.S. Department of State Cuts Diplomatic Ties With Serifs For memos, Times New Roman is out, Calibri is in.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  27. The Problem With Boston’s MLK Memorial Isn’t That It Looks Like a Penis It’s how it reminds us of how little Boston — and other cities — have advanced the civil-rights leader’s racial-justice agenda.
    By Diana Budds
  28. There Are Dolphins in the Bronx River Maybe you don’t want to swim there, but the Parks Department says it’s good news.
    By Zach Schiffman
  29. If You’re So Good at Real Estate, Stephen Ross … Three years and a 50 percent price cut later, the Hudson Yards developer finally sold his penthouse.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  30. One Way to a Better City: Ask Disabled People to Design It Wouldn’t everyone fare a little better if (to take just one example) airport luggage-screening counters were lower?
    By Justin Davidson
  31. A $400,000 Studio With a Working Marble Fountain It’s the former reception room of a home once occupied by Ulysses S. Grant’s widow.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  32. A Queens Co-Op Full of Electricians It remains basically as it was imagined in 1949: a surprisingly affordable city-within-a-city.
    By Kayla Levy
  33. The Best Niche Bookstores in New York Exquisitely esoteric bookstores.
    By Kelsey Borovinsky
  34. The Look Book Goes to a Samoyed Meetup For eight years, NYC Samoyeds has arranged regular park gatherings for owners of the cheerful Siberian breed.
    By Kelsie Schrader and Jenna Milliner-Waddell
  35. Here’s Why Everything at Walgreens Is Suddenly Behind Plastic The recent spike in shoplifting is both overblown and real. And almost everyone is profiting from it (including you).
    By James D. Walsh
  36. The Mammoth Bone Hunters of the East River “We were looking for the big boys and the small stuff, too,” says one fossil hunter. “Any kind of bones.”
    By Matt Stieb
  37. Al Roker Is at War With His Tesla He can’t get in, and he can’t get out.
    By Alissa Walker
  38. Get Ready to Be Propanefluenced It’s more than HGTV hosts. Meet the #vanlife, #cottagecore, and #milkmaid influencers boosting liquefied petroleum gas.
    By Zach Schiffman
  39. Push and Pull on a Park Avenue Co-op Renovation Interior designer Olivia Song’s clients were a couple with “polar opposite” tastes: he liked contemporary, she was more traditional.
    By Wendy Goodman
  40. The East Village Standoff I Missed In 1995, I was oblivious to the drama in my neighborhood. Today, the East Village squatters’ battle for their houses is at the center of my novel.
    By Dan Kois
  41. How Did a Plastic Box Come to Symbolize Everything Wrong with Retail? The Keeper’s unlikely journey from record stores to guarding Spam at your pharmacy.
    By Diana Budds
  42. California’s Lost Trees After the current storms end, the state will face a new challenge: restoring an already diminished urban canopy.
    By Alissa Walker
  43. 24 Hours in the Life of a Discarded Christmas Tree The end of Christmas doesn’t mean the end of your tree.
    By Colin Schappi
  44. A Two-story Condo in a Former Parish House The doorman stand is the original priest’s pulpit.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  45. ‘We Were Killing Them With These Little Pitchforks’ Talking to Matt Deodato, rat specialist.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  46. Two Supportive-Housing Projects Make the Case for Building Many More They’re cheaper than the alternatives, acceptable to the neighbors, and successful among people who were living on the street.
    By Justin Davidson
  47. Rent It for the James Turrell Installation Hugh Jackman’s East Hampton retreat asks $500,000 for the summer.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  48. Listening in at Goldman Sachs Again Hours after the largest round of layoffs since the financial crisis began.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  49. The Casino–Apartment–Ferris-Wheel–Hotel Proposal for Midtown East Is Stefan Soloviev’s plan a jackpot or a bust?
    By Christopher Bonanos
  50. The Entirely Affordable, Cheerfully Modernist El Borinquen in the Bronx Nonprofit developer Comunilife teamed up with Alexander Gorlin Architects.
    By Wendy Goodman
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