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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. Trump or Epstein: Which Depraved House Would You Buy? A $50 million dilemma.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  2. We Unearthed the 45 Best Rent Deals in NYC Right Now Spotted this week: a few extremely spacious kitchens in Crown Heights, Williamsburg, and Greenpoint.
    By Jenny Xie and Katy Schneider
  3. The NYPD’s New Robot Dog Can’t Hurt Us. Yet. Everything you wanted to know about the latest police pet.
    By Diana Budds
  4. L.A. Startup Advertises Nonexistent One-Quarter Bedrooms in Brooklyn Heights Is Brownstone Shared Housing a disruptive new housing solution or a neo-flophouse operator? It’s hard to say.
    By Jack Denton
  5. Inside the Fight to Save Jing Fong Workers rally to keep Chinatown’s largest restaurant alive.
    By Chris Crowley
  6. The Vaccine Selfie: Encouraged at Javits, Tolerated at Medgar Evers Don’t let the ‘no photography allowed’ signs confuse you.
    By Willy Blackmore
  7. Wait Long Enough and Almost Anything Shows Up on Facebook’s Buy Nothing Groups Are you decluttering, recluttering, or both?
    By Ivy Eisenberg
  8. First Pictures of the Original ‘Real World’ Loft, 2021 Edition Revisiting the apartment where things started getting real.
    By Willy Blackmore
  9. 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
  10. How to Sign Up for a COVID Vaccine in New York Two of the state’s largest vaccination centers are now operating at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn and York College in Queens.
    By Matt Stieb
  11. 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
  12. North Brooklyn Locals Do Not Like the Plastic Mural Proposed For Their Park It’s fake flowers versus new green space at Marsha P. Johnson State Park.
    By Caroline Spivack
  13. Artist Emily Mason’s 4,700-Square-Foot Studio Is Just As She Left It Inside the sunny Flatiron District loft where the late artist painted for 40 years.
    By Wendy Goodman
  14. Slouchy Ceramics, Deconstructed Furniture, and Other Things I Liked This Week Selected pieces from four new design exhibitions and one crowdsourced Instagram account focused on graphic design finds
    By Diana Budds
  15. The Outlaw History of Arturo Di Modica’s Crosby Street Studio It’s the Charging Bull sculptor’s largest yet least obvious New York work.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  16. Call in the Brutalists! Biden Implodes Trump’s Classical Architecture Mandate Good riddance to “Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again.”
    By Diana Budds
  17. How We’ll Be Able to Hear Live Music This Summer Lincoln Center and other institutions embrace the distanced outdoor concert.
    By Justin Davidson
  18. The Real-Estate Listings Author Rebecca Makkai Likes to Stare At “The one thing that I look for in all these listings is the closet that’s the size of an entire room.”
    By Rebecca Makkai and Jenny Xie
  19. The Cecil Hotel Docuseries Is a Crime Story in Search of a Crime Cops, web sleuths, and other unreliable narrators drive the show.
    By Willy Blackmore
  20. Sure, Laugh Away. But Every Big Vehicle Should Look Like the New USPS Truck We admit it’s goofy-looking, but it’s a much safer design for crowded cities.
    By Alissa Walker
  21. Pearl River Mart Isn’t Closing After All The new Soho location will be its sixth in 50 years.
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  22. Secretary Pete Is Already Coming Through for New York City on Congestion Pricing Federal approval is finally coming for the MTA-funding traffic-reducing program.
    By Alissa Walker
  23. 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
  24. Awol Erizku Brings His Afrocentric Symbolic Universe to NYC’s Bus Shelters Courtesy of a new Public Art Fund exhibition.
    By Diana Budds
  25. After the Strike Fear and tension inside the Hunts Point Produce Market.
    By Alexandria Misch
  26. At Amazon’s HQ2, Pretending to Be Green Takes a Lot of Energy All those trees can’t cancel out the costs of growing them on a tower.
    By Audrey Wachs
  27. Two Musicians Renovated Their Home to Fit a Baby Grand Piano Singer Sarah Elizabeth Charles and pianist Jarrett Cherner transformed their Fort Greene three-bedroom into two to accommodate his baby grand piano.
    By Wendy Goodman
  28. Landing a Rover on Mars Proves We Have the Smarts to Fix Earth If we can master interplanetary, zero-emission transportation, are high-speed trains and EVs really too hard?
    By Alissa Walker
  29. NYC Bumps Indoor Dining Up to 35 Percent Starting Next Friday “Now’s the time to start doing more reopening,” says Andrew Cuomo.
    By Rachel Sugar
  30. A Vegan Community Fridge at a Boxing Gym? No drinking raw eggs here.
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  31. 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
  32. Century 21 Is Returning, But You Can’t Get There on the Subway Because … it’s in Busan, South Korea.
    By Caroline Spivack
  33. The Gut Renovation of Ryan Serhant He was a real-estate striver slinging cheap rentals until Million Dollar Listing — and a pandemic market — made him the plutocracy’s broker of choice.
    By Andrew Rice
  34. Watching Trump Go Down The view from an implosion in Atlantic City.
    By Olivia Nuzzi
  35. Why Did Texas’s Energy Grid Fail So Spectacularly? Bad weather and bad policy.
    By Jeff Andrews
  36. 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
  37. New York Takes On Amazon Over COVID Safety Measures In a lawsuit, State Attorney General Letitia James alleges that the company put workers at risk of infection.
    By Sarah Jones
  38. 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
  39. 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
  40. 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
  41. Maybe You Should’ve Been Wearing a Mask in the Subway All Along Air pollution at some stations is so bad that it’s like inhaling wildfire smoke.
    By Alissa Walker
  42. A Large One-Bedroom on Central Park West for $745K and a Cobble Hill Duplex Loft Plus, a corner two-bedroom with park and river views in Tudor City.
    By Jenny Xie
  43. An Upper East Side Apartment Full of Rock-and-Roll Memories Music journalist Lisa Robinson has lived in this rental, where she’s kept an archive of her interview tapes, for 45 years.
    By Wendy Goodman
  44. 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
  45. 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
  46. Giving Vaccines to Prisoners Won’t Be Enough to Get Prisoners Vaccinated “We just don’t want to be the lab rats.”
    By Rebecca McCray
  47. 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
  48. 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
  49. Meet Jim McDowell and His Face Jugs The ceramicist keeps his ancestors’ traditions alive from his home studio in North Carolina.
    By Wendy Goodman
  50. Ikea’s New Gaming Chair Is Not Hideous Level up.
    By Diana Budds
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