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  1. First Look: The Plus Pool’s Future East River Home That zany, self-filtering, floating swimming hole officially has a place to drop anchor.
    By Carl Swanson
  2. We Unearthed the 43 Best Rent Deals in NYC Right Now We dug up a few relatively spacious apartments asking reasonable rents this week, including a true two-bedroom on the Upper West Side for $2,225.
    By Jenny Xie
  3. Peatónito the Pedestrian Superhero Is Finishing Up Grad School at UCLA Mexico City’s masked defender of walkers is now tackling the dangerous streets of Los Angeles.
    By Alissa Walker
  4. Could We Really Get a Good Penn Station? Yet another wisp of hope.
    By Justin Davidson
  5. What’s a Crown Heights Supermarket Worth? It’s a lifeline to local residents. It’s also a valuable development site. You can guess where this story is headed.
    By Caroline Spivack
  6. Why Did Food52 Just Buy Dansk? The site’s founder Amanda Hesser says she’s going to dig into the archives for reissues and sign up contemporary designers to create new lines.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  7. The Chiclet Is Back Herman Miller reissues its “friendliest” seating collection.
    By Diana Budds
  8. New York Weed Dealers Face a Choice: Go Corporate or Stay Underground “The black market is still going to be there.”
    By Kevin T. Dugan
  9. We Asked the Bushwick Piano Building’s Architect: Why? “This client likes unique and interesting designs,” he says.
    By Christopher Bonanos and Valeria Ricciulli
  10. The High-Design Return of Henrietta Hudson New York’s longest-operating lesbian bar is back in business.
    By Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner
  11. Rufus Wainwright’s Self-Described ‘Dump’ of a Pied-à-Terre Is for Sale The Gramercy Park studio, which Wainwright once called “a total dump,” is pretty tiny (but it still has thousand-dollar wallpaper).
    By Jenny Xie
  12. Can Facebook Keep Us From Looking At Real Estate Porn? Some fear a chilling effect on journalistic gawking at celebrity homes.
    By Joshua David Stein
  13. What Could Governors Island Be? An aquatic botanical garden, a film-set landscape, and more: Four fanciful transformation plans, commissioned by Curbed.
    By Justin Davidson
  14. Making an 1847 Greenwich Village Brownstone New Again: Before and After Photos Historic houses can feel dark. This renovation let in the light.
    By Wendy Goodman
  15. An Electric Car in High-rise Manhattan: How Long Is Your Extension Cord? The realities of a plug-in car when you live in the Financial District.
    By Paul Greenberg
  16. A Driver Destroyed Another Streetery, and This Time Someone Died The crash killed a 37-year-old delivery worker.
    By Caroline Spivack
  17. A Glacial Chair, 1,000 Design Patents, and Other Things I Liked This Week Plus an intersection specifically designed for pedestrians and cyclists
    By Diana Budds
  18. That TikTok-Famous Building Is Bolting Down Its Bathroom Mirrors After millions of views, management is bringing out the drills.
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  19. Oh Look, de Blasio and Cuomo Are Fighting Over Reopening Again The mayor is promising to lift restrictions the governor set.
    By Caroline Spivack
  20. The Man in the MTA’s Money Room Armored cars, pocketless uniforms, coin-sucking vacuums: Al Putre, who counts $1.5 billion a year, lets us inside.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  21. NYPD Puts Down Robot Dog Digidog has had its day.
    By Alissa Walker
  22. Watch Giuliani’s Upper East Side Neighbor Be a Very Upper East Side Neighbor “They were bringing out a lot of stuff.”
    By Christopher Bonanos
  23. A Renovated Chelsea One-Bedroom for $699K and a Two-Bedroom By Grand Army Plaza Plus a few very spacious two-bedrooms in Brooklyn.
    By Jenny Xie
  24. You Can Now Rent Alison Roman’s Apartment It’s located in Boerum Hill, or, as Roman calls the neighborhood, “the Paris of Brooklyn.”
    By Brock Colyar
  25. Towers in a Flood Zone? Two Trees Just Wants You To Look At The Wetland Up Front An array of green features are being used to garner support for the proposed River Ring apartments.
    By Willy Blackmore
  26. Lots of Stuff for Your Home Is Up to 80 Percent Off at Wayfair The retailer’s annual Way Day sale is now under way, with deep discounts (and free shipping) on furniture, bedding, lighting, and more.
    By The Editors
  27. L.A. Built a Tiny-House Village for the Homeless. Some Aren’t So Sure About It. The city’s good intentions come with restrictions and, possibly, an ulterior motive.
    By Alissa Walker
  28. How to Sign Up for a COVID Vaccine in New York All state-run and city-run vaccination sites are now accepting walk-ins for anyone over 16 years old.
    By Matt Stieb
  29. The Look Book Goes to Dia Chelsea After a two-year renovation, the gallery reopened with an exhibition of works by artist Lucy Raven.
    By Jane Starr Drinkard and Brock Colyar
  30. New York Will Lose Seat in Congress Because 89 People Didn’t Fill Out the Census 2020 census reapportionment data showed seven House seats changing hands, but a net gain of just three in states carried by Trump.
    By Ed Kilgore
  31. The Maker Couple Whose First Apartment Together Launched a Small Business Just out of NYU, David Zhang and Sarah Kim turned their Bushwick rental into a home-furnishings lab.
    By Wendy Goodman
  32. The Open-Plan Office Was an Auditory Disaster To quiet the din, consider a 1976 Acoustic Conditioner.
    By Alexandra Lange
  33. Remember the Office? A look back at 150 years of cubicles, corner offices, all-nighters, and the holiday party.
    By The Editors
  34. The Infinite Semiotics of the Office Bathroom It is an unavoidable intersection of power and poop.
    By Sloane Crosley
  35. What It Was Like to Work at The Paris Review in the 1980s A few of the people we discovered became famous; many did not.
    By Mona Simpson
  36. Scandals, Murders, and Innovations in One Iconic New York City Office The Equitable Building is not as famous as the Chrysler, the Empire State, or even the Flatiron. But it changed the city in countless ways.
    By Chris Pomorski
  37. The Exquisite Pleasure of a Dead-End Job The dirty deeds, office drama, and pay irregularities of a starter job.
    By Mark Harris
  38. The Subtle Art of the Executive Assistant The role occupies a peculiar place in the modern office.
    By Molly Young
  39. Why Is Office Lighting So Bad? Fluorescents were terrible. But LEDs can drive you insane.
    By Rachel Handler
  40. New York City Made the Office And the office, in turn, made modern New York.
    By Justin Davidson
  41. Six Municipal Workers on Going Back to the Cubicle “Those elevators are packed like a can of sardines.”
    By Caroline Spivack
  42. In Conversation With Dianne Morales, the Tenants’ Candidate “I’m not promising to take New York City back to normal. I’m promising something new.”
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  43. A Guide to NYC Restaurants That Have Opened During the Pandemic 78 new cafes, sandwich counters, cocktail bars, neighborhood bakeries, and plenty more.
    By Emma Orlow
  44. 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
  45. Climate-Change-Related Lawsuit Nixes Huge California Development Not in my backyard, says Planet Earth, backed by a judge.
    By Alissa Walker
  46. 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
  47. 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
  48. The Stylish Tailor Shops of Christopher Street Angel Ramos, Jake Mueser, and Frederick Castleberry are bespoke tailors and friends.
    By Wendy Goodman
  49. The Complete Guide to Legal Weed in New York Where to smoke, how to buy, and more.
    By Aaron Short
  50. 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
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