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 “I’m not promising to take New York City back to normal. I’m promising something new.” By Valeria Ricciulli
  1. My Favorite Design Book: Bruno Munari’s ‘A Flower With Love’ Fleurotica founder Robin Rose Hilleary goes back to this 1973 out-of-print volume again and again.
    By Camille Okhio
  2. Climate-Change-Related Lawsuit Nixes Huge California Development Not in my backyard, says Planet Earth, backed by a judge.
    By Alissa Walker
  3. MoMA’s ‘Reconstructions’ Show Changed My Relationship to Space and Cities Should Black designers revise a history that erased them? Or should they revolt?
    By Kimberly Drew
  4. Harriet Tubman’s Lost Family Home Has Finally Been Found Archaeologists say they’ve discovered the site where the abolitionist’s family lived in the early 1800s.
    By Amanda Arnold
  5. The Stylish Tailor Shops of Christopher Street Angel Ramos, Jake Mueser, and Frederick Castleberry are bespoke tailors and friends.
    By Wendy Goodman
  6. The Complete Guide to Legal Weed in New York Where to smoke, how to buy, and more.
    By Aaron Short
  7. A Tarantula Stool, a Molded ‘Dragon’ Chair, and Other Things I Liked This Week Plus ceramic relics that comment on plastic waste and Memphis-y wall hooks.
    By Diana Budds
  8. Lincoln Center Wants You to Lie Down on Its Plaza How comfortable will that plastic grass really be?
    By Christopher Bonanos
  9. What the Museum of 2020 May Look Like Curators and archivists on the items they’ve acquired from our pandemic year.
    By Diana Budds
  10. Does the Metaverse Need a Zoning Board? As new crypto investments flood online worlds, conflicts between virtual neighbors are on the rise.
    By Sophie Haigney
  11. Overshareholders! Co-op Boards May Have to Disclose Why They’re Rejecting People They’re bracing for lawsuits.
    By Caroline Spivack
  12. What It’s Like to Work in Chinatown Right Now “I get looked at a little differently. I feel the stares on me.”
    By Cathy Erway
  13. One More Thing Bernie Madoff Helped Ruin: The Mets Author Devin Gordon on Madoff’s effect on the Mets and their tortured fanbase.
    By Joe DeLessio
  14. So Long to the Hotel Pennsylvania Once lovely, now dowdy, soon to be gone.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  15. What It Takes to Open a Bar in a Subway Station Multiple agency approvals, and unlocking a door that’s been sealed since the 1970s.
    By Willy Blackmore
  16. Don’t Worry, the Cinerama Dome Won’t Get Demolished (Probably) But it might need a savior like Netflix to stay intact.
    By Alissa Walker
  17. No, 3-D Printing the Suburbs Is Not the Future of Housing But the process is certainly mesmerizing to watch.
    By Alissa Walker
  18. The Look Book Goes to the Rockaway YMCA Checking in with masked members at the gym.
    By Jane Starr Drinkard and Brock Colyar
  19. At Home in an Old Hotel in Nomad After 15 years, Julie Chartoff and Irene Glezos finally really renovated their apartment inside the historic Gilsey House.
    By Wendy Goodman
  20. Mr. Cyclone Is Back in the Front Car At 5:30 this morning, the roller coaster’s first rider of the season arrived for his 15th opening day.
    By Caroline Spivack
  21. A New Network of Little Free Libraries Stocks Exclusively BIPOC Authors “A lot of people don’t have exposure to Black authors; I didn’t.”
    By Diana Budds
  22. One of the Best Furniture Stores in New York Is Run by a Staten Island Commune “The radical-honesty thing happening in the store was getting in the way of running a store.”
    By Katy Schneider
  23. ‘Chief Pencil Lady’ Caroline Weaver’s Week in Zillow Saves “My three strongest home fantasies are: buying an old Girl Scout or Boy Scout camp, a Usonian house, or a really, really, really old house in Italy.”
    By Jenny Xie
  24. A Brooklyn Building Is Screeching. We Asked an Acoustician Why. Wind is creating an effect like “when you blow over the top of an empty soda bottle.”
    By Caroline Spivack
  25. The Brooklyn Bridge Finally Gets Its Own Bike Path! Except … It’s gonna be a little snug.
    By Alissa Walker
  26. A Hot New Restaurant Moved In. That Made Its Neighbors Nervous. A gentrification battle erupts in Ridgewood.
    By Chris Crowley
  27. Barbara Kavovit’s Plan for Rikers Sounds Uncomfortably Like an Internment Camp A colony for the homeless, isolated on an island in the East River.
    By Caroline Spivack
  28. Volunteers Are Funding Open Streets Programs. Why Isn’t the City? Locals and donors are doing the day-to-day work of making it happen.
    By Caroline Spivack
  29. The Bronx Bodega Founded by a Former Music Executive “You have to support the people who support you.”
    By Caroline Spivack
  30. What If Compass Is Basically Just Like Every Other Real-Estate Brokerage? Except with a nicer logo and an over-leveraged IPO.
    By Reeves Wiedeman
  31. A Pop-up Bookstore Honors a Man Who Intended to Give It All Away Tom Burgess’s immense library of books gets recirculated.
    By Camille Baker
  32. Geffen Hall’s Renovation Will Be Finished Two Years Early The pandemic closure allowed Lincoln Center to fast-track the rebuilding of the Philharmonic’s main auditorium.
    By Justin Davidson
  33. Introducing Wyldlands: Surrealist Bunkers to Survive the Apocalypse Doug Meyer’s show imagines a fantastical escape from future pandemics and other threats.
    By Wendy Goodman
  34. Immigrant Cleaners Are Tired of Working On Their Hands and Knees A new campaign by women day laborers is pushing for better working conditions, cleaning supplies, and PPE.
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  35. MoMA’s First Show on Race in Architecture Chooses Lofty Ideas Over Pragmatism “Why settle for the probable when we could instead imagine what is possible?”
    By Justin Davidson
  36. A Carefully Crafted Mid-Century Time Capsule on the Concourse The two-bedroom apartment is packed with details inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright, Joseph Eichler, and Eero Saarinen (among others).
    By Jenny Xie
  37. Whitney Hu’s Favorite Spots in Sunset Park Yemeni breakfast, unlimited hot pot, and the perfect parking lot for events.
    By Amy Zhang
  38. The Chinatown Block Watch, One Year Later Including local grandmothers and men in combat gear, this 40-member patrol watches for anti-Asian attacks in the neighborhood.
    By Eveline Chao
  39. The Best Housepainters in New York An architect favorite who has been likened to Jackson Pollock, a downtown go-to with a knack for color combinations, and more.
    By Trupti Rami
  40. How to (Legally) Smoke Marijuana in New York City What you can do now and what will happen over time.
    By Rachel Sugar
  41. The Best Upholsterers in New York For restoring mid-century chairs, pattern-matching a couch, and more.
    By Trupti Rami
  42. The Best Therapists in New York We asked 31 notable New Yorkers about their therapists and are publishing their referrals in their own words.
    By Louis Cheslaw and Liza Corsillo
  43. The Best Playgrounds in New York Giant geodesic climbing nets, ravines full of sprinklers, and a variety of slides.
    By Caroline Spivack
  44. The Best Custom Woodworkers in New York Whether you want a Judd-like plywood bench, a full wall of bookshelves made of rift-cut oak, or just some simple, inexpensive cabinets.
    By Diana Budds
  45. Smorgasburg Will Take Over the Former Hester Street Fair Space And it will now be called Hester Flea.
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  46. The Best Toy Stores in New York A Harlem fixture owned by a former schoolteacher, the packed-to-the-gills shop in Cobble Hill, and more.
    By Lauren Ro
  47. The Best Homeware Stores in New York Affordable vintage furniture, Japanese gifts, Brimfield-quality quilts, and more.
    By Hilary Reid and Louis Cheslaw
  48. Is a Covid Vaccine Worth Schlepping to Staten Island For? (No offense to anyone who lives there.)
    By Willy Blackmore
  49. A Double-Dome Home Built by a Juggler Each of the two domes has 30-foot wood ceilings, which are still in great original condition.
    By Jenny Xie
  50. The Best Exterminators in New York Including Chloë Sevigny’s pest guy.
    By Charlotte Klein
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