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Equinox Has Decided That No, It Will Not Pay Its Rent

 Which is, apparently, absolutely fine. By Kim Velsey
  1. New York’s Most Beloved Puppets From the childhood comforts of Sesame Street to the gleeful pop perversities of Avenue Q, a new show captures the heritage of puppetry in the city.
    By Carl Swanson
  2. New York Public Library’s Human Search Engines “One thing that historians learned this year is that digitization can never replace the archives.”
    By Christopher Bonanos
  3. The City Is Finally Giving Homeless New Yorkers Enough Money for Rent The voucher program’s long-overdue boost comes months ahead of schedule.
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  4. After the Surfside Condo Collapse, Miami Engineers Are Swamped “We are booked. People are worried: Maybe something bad is happening that we don’t know about.”
    By Kim Velsey
  5. There Are Barely Any Houses Left in Palm Beach “I sold $300 million in the past six months. That’s a lot of real estate for one person to sell in six months.”
    By Jane Starr Drinkard
  6. The Look Book Goes to Miramar Yacht Club Members and guests watched (and raced in) a weekend regatta at the 77-year-old Sheepshead Bay club.
    By Daniel Varghese and Louis Cheslaw
  7. You’ll Need a Vaccine to Eat Inside NYC Restaurants Soon The requirement for indoor dining, gyms, concerts, and more comes down this month.
    By Paola Rosa-Aquino
  8. The Parallel-Parking Job That Ignited the Internet It prompted thousands of insults, threats, and moral judgments.
    By P. E. Moskowitz
  9. New York’s Central Park Concert Isn’t Ready for the Delta Variant To see Barry Manilow, only one vaccine shot is required.
    By Caroline Spivack
  10. From Townhouse to Bauhaus After years in a Greenwich Village brownstone, Alexandra Pappas wanted to live her modernist dream. To a point.
    By Wendy Goodman
  11. Tinned Fish Lamps, a New Home-Goods Shop, and Other Things I Liked This Week Plus a film that turns the Guggenheim’s rotunda into a sound sculpture.
    By Diana Budds
  12. The Second-Story Streetery Is a No-Go Izakaya NYC tried to build up to get more outdoor space — but higher structures are not allowed.
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  13. It’s Time to Dismantle the Vessel It’s either that or just leave it there, empty, as an Instagram backdrop.
    By Justin Davidson
  14. The Power Broker Is Still Not Available As an E-Book. Except … It Is. “A myth,” says Robert Caro’s publisher. Yet, somehow, I just bought the Kindle edition.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  15. Avenue B’s Queen of Latex Is Abdicating the Throne The Baroness is closing shop.
    By Lindsay Goldwert
  16. The Vessel Has Closed Again After a Fourth Suicide Related’s earlier measures didn’t prevent the latest death.
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  17. The Great Office-Opening Rollback Has Begun As tech companies once again pave the way, it feels like March 2020 again.
    By Alissa Walker
  18. Wait, Calvin Klein Just Sold Another $85 Million House? Don’t worry, he has more.
    By Kim Velsey
  19. Inside the Freak-out Housing Market of Upstate New York “It just felt like drinking from a fire hose most days.”
    By Kim Velsey
  20. $100 For a Covid Shot in New York? It’s Worked Well Elsewhere The new incentive comes as Delta-variant cases are ramping up.
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  21. The Ravioli Shop Was Struggling. A French Neighbor Came to the Rescue. Business is booming at Savino’s Quality Pasta, thanks to an unexpected ally.
    By Rob LeDonne
  22. Has a Famous Sommelier Been Setting Fire to NYC Streeteries? Caleb Ganzer was arrested and charged with two counts of felony arson.
    By Chris Crowley
  23. ‘The Community Is Being Lied To’: Scenes from Manhattan CB2’s Soho Rezoning Vote Everyone knew the board would reject the plan, but plenty of people still wanted to rant about it.
    By Caroline Spivack
  24. Here’s How Hard Los Angeles Has Made It to Install a Bus Shelter A new design for a tiny sunshade is about the best anyone can do.
    By Alissa Walker
  25. Billionaires Can’t Get Enough of 220 Central Park South It’s eclipsed One57, where apartments are selling at a loss.
    By Kim Velsey
  26. A $525K NoMad Studio and a Boerum Hill Two-Bedroom with a Multi-Level Backyard Plus an Upper West Side studio with gold tin ceilings and a balcony.
    By Jenny Xie
  27. Kathryn Garcia’s Wide-Open Future She’s out of a job and lost the primary, but the almost-next-mayor of New York is now a political celebrity.
    By Clare Malone
  28. His Harlem One-Bedroom Became His Pandemic Artist’s Garret Stuck at home during lockdown, Larry Bentley finally had time to paint.
    By Wendy Goodman
  29. If You Think Flying Sucks, Try Renting a Car Customers are putting up with filthy interiors, petty surcharges (just to speak to someone!), and skyrocketing prices.
    By Kevin T. Dugan
  30. A Rare Brooklyn Townhouse Listing: Unrenovated, Unstaged, and Filled to the Brim “Literal crime scene” or just someone’s messy home? Either way, it will sell.
    By Kim Velsey
  31. An Early Richard Meier House (With Two Pools) in New Jersey Horse Country Inside, sculptural curved walls gently separate living spaces, while public areas are anchored by minimalist built-in furniture.
    By Jenny Xie
  32. The Green New Deal for Public Schools Goes Way Beyond Classrooms Including fruit trees, solar panels, lead-free pipes, and community-resiliency centers.
    By Diana Budds
  33. Two People, One Room, 16 Months: The Studio-Apartment Couples of the Pandemic Zoom in the bathroom, Netflix every night.
    By Kim Velsey
  34. That Cardboard Bed Was Supposed to Be a Utopia Olympic-village furniture is just the latest attempt to create a corrugated ideal.
    By Alexandra Lange
  35. MoMA’s ‘Automania’: Car Culture, Minus the Culture A show that doesn’t get much past the chrome and glossy paint.
    By Justin Davidson
  36. The Nightmarish Subway Floods in China Could Be Our Future Is this what commuting under climate change will look like?
    By Willy Blackmore
  37. The Seed Collector Who Roams the City’s Marshes Patrick Over works to conserve New York’s native plants.
    By Caroline Spivack
  38. Inside a 22-Person Pandemic Pod in a Hudson Valley Hotel “The inn was a boat. And then it became a life raft.”
    By Jessica Chappe
  39. Andrew Cuomo, the La Guardia AirTrain, and the Art of the Possible It’s not the best plan. But is “good enough” good enough?
    By Christopher Bonanos
  40. A Super-Streetery Comes to Koreatown Maiden Korea riffs on Seoul’s street-food stalls.
    By Diana Budds
  41. A $369K Upper East Side Alcove Studio and a Park Slope Two-Bedroom Plus a rare townhouse triplex (with a private roof terrace) on the Upper West Side.
    By Jenny Xie
  42. The Look Book Goes to a Dimes Square Clothing Rack Trying on Armani pants and rare Tiffany & Co. caps at Chad Senzel’s vintage pop-up, which appears most Saturdays at Canal and Ludlow Streets.
    By Louis Cheslaw and Daniel Varghese
  43. New Yorkers: It Might Be Time to Get Yourself an Air-Quality App This isn’t the last time you’re going to face wildfire smoke from the West.
    By Alissa Walker
  44. Did Ranked Choice Voting Community Education Efforts Work? More research is needed, but exit-poll analysis indicated no racial disparities in understanding ranked-choice voting or how to complete the ballot.
    By Kovie Biakolo
  45. 25 Ways to Make the Post-Pandemic City More Livable, Prosperous, and Just Free subways, feminist housing, a “Department of Care,” and other proposals by Jeff Zucker, Bjarke Ingels, and other thoughtful New Yorkers.
    By Carl Swanson
  46. A Live-in, Surf-Out Rockaways DIY Design Lab Daniel King and Emma Hastil started their company, Locus of Occult, at home by the beach during the pandemic.
    By Wendy Goodman
  47. Watching Perfectionist Restorers at Work Is Incredibly Soothing It’s good to see someone bring rusty junk back to better-than-new condition.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  48. ‘I Saw My Best Friend, All Covered in Black, and Her Face Was Red With Blood’ After the LAPD fireworks explosion, this South L.A. resident is demanding answers.
    By Alissa Walker
  49. A Thorny Table, Max Lamb’s Newest Chairs, and Other Things I Liked This Week Plus a café with seating inspired by brownstone stoops.
    By Diana Budds
  50. Can Rockefeller Center Ever Be Hip? Tishman Speyer attempts a retail revolution in peak midtown.
    By Kim Velsey
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