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 They’ve stripped the dazzle paint from Xanadu. By Justin Davidson
  1. New York’s Best Aperkments The free Park Avenue mansions and Cobble Hill brownstones used to lure the city’s top ministers, private-school heads, and museum directors.
    By Matthew Sedacca
  2. In the Heights Made Its New York City Sets ‘a Great Playground’ The movie’s production designer and set decorator tell Vulture about translating the hit musical and all its intricacies to the big screen.
    By Chris Stanton
  3. Spotlighting Flushing’s Ubiquitous Stainless-Steel Fences Artist Anne Wu reflects on an immigrant aesthetic at the Shed.
    By Diana Budds
  4. Going Back to the Office Means Long Island City’s Rent Deals Are Over Long Island City rents are sharply on the rise as white collar workers flood back into the city. They’re up 5.82 percent in May over April.
    By Kim Velsey
  5. We Unearthed the 31 Best Rent Deals in NYC Right Now Our hunt this week surfaced quite a few very nice duplexes, including some for around $2,500 and a rare Midtown East retreat with 27-foot ceilings.
    By Jenny Xie
  6. Eric Adams Gave a Tour of His Apartment; Everyone’s Still Asking Where He Lives It’s a lived-in apartment. That much is clear.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  7. Helmet Laws Are Not What New York City Cyclists Need Right Now Elected officials keep proposing more rules for bicycles and scooters instead of fixing streets.
    By Alissa Walker
  8. A Slice of the Sky The supertall 111 West 57th is what the ruling class builds for itself.
    By Justin Davidson
  9. The Lower East Side Seniors Who Organized Their Own T’ai Chi Class “T’ai chi helps with memory,” one says. “It’s important, at our age, to keep our minds alert.”
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  10. In Sinking Miami, the GOP Tries to Admit It Has a Climate Problem The MAGA base remains unconvinced.
    By Bill Kearney
  11. 20 New Yorkers (From Fran Lebowitz to Ron Kim) On Ranking The Mayoral Candidates Fran Lebowitz, Ron Kim, Chelsea Manning, and more weigh in on the mayoral primary candidates.
  12. One of These People Will Be the Next Mayor of New York Fifteen candidates for mayor, each selling a different vision of the city. Choose your top five.
    By Bruce Gilden
  13. An Epic New York City Reopening Concert Is Coming to Central Park Who’ll headline? Who cares: We’ll be there.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  14. Rashid Johnson Welcomes Everyone to His Red Stage on Astor Place Do what you want, people!
    By Carl Swanson
  15. After MoMA, the Black Reconstruction Collective Plots Its Future in Architecture Its members talk institutional change, practicing refusal, and what comes next.
    By Diana Budds
  16. A Williamsburg Loft Just Waiting on Its 3-D-Printed Birds Sebastian Errazuriz refuses to accept life as it is.
    By Wendy Goodman
  17. Weeknight Parties, Weekend Clampdowns, and Angry Neighbors in Washington Square Monday through Thursday, the revelry goes on.
    By Tim Donnelly
  18. Why Your Uber Ride Is Suddenly Costing a Fortune Driver shortage, customer surplus, and harsh financial reality.
    By Alissa Walker
  19. A Nick Cave Installation, a Squiggly Lamp, and Other Things I Liked This Week Including the city’s best new rooftop.
    By Diana Budds
  20. Get Ready for Flat-Rat Summer Rodents and cars do not mix.
    By Willy Blackmore
  21. Look! Books! The Tired Old Mid-Manhattan Library Gets a Sharp New Renovation An understated top-to-bottom rehab puts open access — and open books — front and center (and a café on the roof).
    By Justin Davidson
  22. Grim New Numbers: Traffic Deaths Highest Since 2007 Speeding, mostly, seems to be the cause.
    By Alissa Walker
  23. Buildings Want to Require Vaccinations. The Doormen’s Union Says No. The union, along with many buildings, are encouraging doormen to get the jab. But requiring it for the job is where it draws the line.
    By Daniel Clemens
  24. The Free Food Pantry Gets the Subscription Box Treatment Wellfare is delivering jackfruit chips, grass-fed turkey jerky sticks, and other snacks and drinks to NYCHA residents in Williamsburg and Bushwick.
    By Caroline Spivack
  25. Meet Your Next Mayor Housing? Policing? Pot? New York Nico interviews the candidates for New York Magazine.
    By The Editors
  26. Co-working Is Back, But This Time It’s Really Boring Commercial real-estate developers are plowing money in new, utilitarian shared office spaces.
    By Allegra Hobbs
  27. NYC Is About to Add 4,000 Street Vendors. Los Angeles Has Ideas to Borrow. More communal kitchens, more permit options, more flexibility on the streets.
    By Alissa Walker
  28. Little Island Won Me Over The tiny public-but-private garden squeezes in a multitude of experiences.
    By Justin Davidson
  29. A Visit to the Soon-to-Open Museum of American Restaurant China It’s upstairs at Fishs Eddy on 19th Street and Broadway in the private sanctum of proprietor Julie Gaines.
    By Wendy Goodman
  30. Jaime Lerner Made Your City Better The hugely influential urban planner died this week at 83.
    By Alissa Walker
  31. NYC’s Annual Homeless Count Says the Numbers Are Way Down. It’s Probably Wrong. Advocates say the subway shutdown and increased police sweeps likely threw off the numbers.
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  32. A Day With New York’s Bird Paramedics During migrations, thousands of birds crash into skyscrapers. And a few volunteer EMTs rush in to help.
    By Victoria Bekiempis
  33. Can Millions of New Ford F-150 Trucks Become a Clean-Energy Storage Grid? When there’s a big battery in every garage, solar power can flow all night.
    By Alissa Walker
  34. 40 Eviction Cases Were Thrown Out Over ‘Wuhan Virus’ Notice Turns out, the courts don’t like it when you alter official notices with racial slurs.
    By Caroline Spivack
  35. New York’s Storefront Plywood Finds a Second Life Five public art projects transform the material in citywide installations.
    By Diana Budds
  36. Where Did All the Yellow Cabs Go? Nearly two-thirds of New York’s taxis are gone, and a lot of them may never come back.
    By Jack Denton
  37. The City’s Battered, Beloved Playground Animals Are Retiring to Queens How the Parks Department ended up with this peculiar sculptural zoo.
    By Caroline Spivack
  38. How a Denser Los Angeles Can Still Look Like Los Angeles Where the neighbors don’t want towers, a city competition provides some alternatives.
    By Justin Davidson
  39. Who Made That Ear-Shaped Mirror That’s All Over Instagram? Trying to solve a mystery, 40 years on.
    By Diana Budds
  40. The Look Book Goes to New York Dress High-school students tried on tulle gowns and sequined A-lines for proms and quinceañeras at the Maspeth boutique.
    By Louis Cheslaw and Daniel Varghese
  41. It Looks Like New York City Rents Have Bottomed Out And will probably stay low for the rest of the year.
    By Emily Nonko
  42. ‘There Is a Little Light, Finally’: New York Hoteliers on Recovery A roundtable chat about what the past year’s been like and where this beleaguered industry’s headed.
    By John Surico
  43. Barbara Jakobson Thinks of Her Art-Filled Townhouse As Her Autobiography She’s lived here since 1965 and now gets up and down its five floors on her spiffy new stair-climbing “worm.”
    By Wendy Goodman
  44. In New York’s Chinatowns, Adams and Yang Supporters Are Bitterly Feuding Community leaders know Adams better, but could Yang be their Asian Obama?
    By Rong Xiaoqing
  45. The Straightforward Way to Make California’s Wildfires Less Deadly State senator Henry Stern proposes a simple plan: Don’t build houses where they’ll burn.
    By Alissa Walker
  46. Is This Concrete’s Breakthrough Moment? New technology could turn it from a climate problem into part of the climate solution.
    By Paola Rosa-Aquino
  47. The BQE Is Still Falling Apart, and There’s No Real Plan to Fix It The outlook is grim for the expressway, but only stopgap measures are underway.
    By Christopher Robbins
  48. When Your Central Park Softball Teammate Is a Former Yankees Star C.C. Sabathia is playing rec-league softball this season and mashing the ball all over Central Park’s North Meadow.
    By Joe DeLessio
  49. Barry Diller Wants to Show Off His Big Beautiful Baby, Little Island “Could we build something that would make people happy? I know it sounds loopy.”
    By Ian Volner
  50. The Lower East Side’s (Not Very Well Known) Black History An exclusive look at the Tenement Museum’s new walking tour.
    By Valeria Ricciulli
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