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Will Train Daddy Finally Get Us High-Speed Rail?

 Andy Byford is joining Amtrak to oversee the system’s high-speed network. By Alissa Walker
  1. What the Prospect Park Loop Really Needs Competitive cyclists must be banned from public space and possibly the entire city.
    By Katie McDonough
  2. Dumbo Is Displeased With Its Giant New Building “Olympia looks like a cruise ship. Meanwhile it’s literally positioned next to one of the greatest landmarks in all of the United States.”
    By Adriane Quinlan
  3. Lili Chemla’s West Village Apartment Has a Tub With a View It’s as cozy and elegant as her fashion line, Leset, and she insisted on keeping the sticky old windows for charm.
    By Wendy Goodman
  4. Rafael Viñoly, New York’s Prolific and Polarizing Architect, Dies at 78 Remembering the Uruguayan-born architect for 432 Park Avenue and much more.
    By Ian Volner
  5. Eric Adams Wants to Fight Shoplifting With Mask-Lifting “Do not allow people to enter the store without taking off their face mask.”
    By Clio Chang
  6. Is a Coney Island Casino a Good Idea? Could be a recipe for job growth, could be the next Atlantic City dead zone.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  7. Watching the War from New York For Ukrainians in the diaspora, the past year has meant broken friendships, survivors’ guilt, and a new way of thinking about identity.
    By Esther Wang
  8. A24 Buys Cherry Lane Theatre Another studio rescues an endangered venue.
    By Clio Chang
  9. The Wing’s Office (and Furniture) Is for Sale The East Village landmark was listed for $22.5 million.
    By Clio Chang
  10. Vigorous Smudging Almost Burned Down Bernie Madoff’s Penthouse At least according to former owner and Pokémon magnate Al Kahn.
    By Clio Chang
  11. The Look Book Goes to Housing Works Cannabis Co A Friday afternoon in line at New York City’s first legal recreational-weed dispensary.
    By Kelsie Schrader and Jenna Milliner-Waddell
  12. The Best Piercers in New York Piercers who’ve perfected their craft.
    By Kitty Guo
  13. Twitter Is Dumping Most of Its New York Office There are possibly 4,000 square feet remaining.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  14. A Duplex Opens Up in a Coveted Artist’s Studio Building It has a Juliet balcony and a library with a rolling staircase.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  15. Meghan and Harry Have Been Evicted And Frogmore Cottage has reportedly been handed over to Prince Andrew.
    By Clio Chang
  16. Will You Get a 212? They’re finally handing them out again. With a little luck, you could be one of the elite several million.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  17. Everything We Know About Ron DeSantis’s Disney Takeover “There’s a new sheriff in town,” the governor announced this week.
    By Alissa Walker
  18. Williamsburg Is Entering Its Fifth Avenue Era Chanel Beauty is opening on North 6th, down the street from Bottega and Hermès pop-ups.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  19. Charles Atlas Wants to Redesign New York City’s AIDS Memorial Park The artist (not the bodybuilder) answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
    By Drew Zeiba
  20. Is Anyone Tipping Their Landlord? Probably not. And yet people keep asking!
    By Clio Chang
  21. Havana-Influenced In Washington Heights Adam Rolston’s Deco co-op looks across to the Palisades.
    By Wendy Goodman
  22. The Modular Public Toilets Are Coming A city-run pilot will roll out five prefab kiosks — one for each borough.
    By Clio Chang
  23. City Council One Step Closer to Really, Finally Making Streeteries Permanent When it’s warm out, anyway.
    By Chris Crowley
  24. Los Angeles’s Conflicted Hype-House King Developer Danny Fitzgerald would like it if celebrities would stop partying in his celebrity party houses.
    By Molly Osberg
  25. Rupert Murdoch Is Returning to Hampshire House Three decades and two wives later.
    By Clio Chang
  26. An Installation of Clothes, Cardboard, and Plywood Takes Over the Japan Society Artist collective CFGNY brings a fashion show to Japan Society after 50 years.
    By Drew Zeiba
  27. A Brief History of Elon Musk’s Master Plans Part 1 was a practical post-gasoline vision, Part Deux was more like rambly billionaire futurism, and Part 3 arrives next week.
    By Alissa Walker
  28. Skyscrapers, Now With More Terror Move over, observation decks. A 260-foot tower drop is the latest amenity.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  29. There’s a War Going on in Your Local Buy Nothing Group Behind that free Ikea bookshelf, splinter groups are breaking away from the founders’ vision of a “gifting economy.”
    By Clio Chang
  30. The Bronx Children’s Museum Is Just Antic Enough Like a peek into a happy kid’s brain.
    By Justin Davidson
  31. A Trailer in the Hamptons Sells for $3.75 Million Neighbors include a hedge-fund billionaire and the co-founder of Vitaminwater.
    By Clio Chang
  32. Day Drinking at the East Village Dive Bar Sophie’s on Valentine’s Day “Who has a drink at 3 p.m. on a Tuesday? Don’t you dare judge.”
    By Brock Colyar
  33. Listening In on Line at Glossier Opening day at its new Soho flagship.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  34. It’s Been a Tumultuous Two Weeks for Flaco The Eurasian eagle-owl has survived a vandalized enclosure, life as a celebrity, and a new diet of free-range rats.
    By Clio Chang
  35. How Luam Melake, Designer of Furniture with Feelings, Furnishes her Harlem Co-op It’s a three-bedroom; she works in two of them.
    By Wendy Goodman
  36. Who Wants to Be Mayor? Chicago’s boss is in danger of being thrown from office, in a warning sign for other Democrats.
    By Ross Barkan
  37. O’Flaherty’s Is Back, This Time With Tubs of Vaseline The East Village gallery inaugurated its new space with naked men sculpting themselves into a messy copy of a Greek statue.
    By Diana Budds
  38. A Country Home in the Middle of Bed-Stuy It has a finished attic, four fireplaces, and a peach tree in the backyard.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  39. MoMA’s ‘Architecture Now’ Exists in Some Other New York One that has fewer impediments and more money.
    By Justin Davidson
  40. New York City Finally Has a Public-Realm Czar Ya-Ting Liu, a former transit advocate, will work on projects like Open Restaurants and the pedestrianization of Fifth Avenue.
    By Diana Budds
  41. Did Tesla Just Admit Its Self-Driving Feature Is Dangerous? The company is issuing a 300,000-vehicle voluntary recall in the form of a mass software update.
    By Alissa Walker
  42. Police Crashes Cost New Yorkers a Lot of Money And the growing number of NYPD SUVs on the road isn’t helping.
    By Alissa Walker
  43. The Best Pet-Supply Stores in New York Pet stores with food for geckos, cashmere for dogs, and everything a shrimp owner might need.
    By Kitty Guo
  44. The Look Book Goes to EMS Training The FDNY’s newest emergency medical technicians gathered for their final day of instruction at Fort Totten.
    By Kelsie Schrader and Jenna Milliner-Waddell
  45. What Is Going On in East Palestine, Ohio? Parsing the most reliable information circulating about the catastrophic train derailment.
    By Alissa Walker
  46. Eric Adams Will Pay $300 for His Rats The mayor needs to bin his recyclables.
    By Clio Chang
  47. The Manhattan Parents Who Won’t Let Their Teens Outside Alone Mom does drop-off, a sitter does pickup. An Uber takes care of the rest.
    By Julia Edelstein
  48. A Whale Beaches in the Rockaways Why are so many leviathans washing up on the shore?
    By Laura Thompson
  49. Crime of the Centuries Tomb raiders, crooked art dealers, and museum curators fed billionaire Michael Steinhardt’s addiction to antiquities. Many also happened to be stolen.
    By Greg Donahue
  50. City Austerity Has Come for the Herman Miller Desk Chair As Adams pushes for budget cuts, lawmakers are singling out a contract with the Aeron-famous furniture company.
    By Clio Chang
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