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Looks Like the Rich Aren’t Abandoning New York After All

 High-end Manhattan apartments are finally moving again. By Jeff Andrews
  1. Everything We Know About the Nashville Explosion On Christmas morning, an explosive detonated inside an RV parked in downtown Nashville. Officials have identified the bomber as Anthony Quinn Warner.
    By Claire Lampen
  2. Mall Operator Forced to Buy Other Mall Operator, Can’t Return It I’m sorry, you’re going to have to bring a receipt.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  3. Visit Pierre Cardin’s South of France ‘Bubble Palace’ A 1970s VIP space odyssey on the Mediterranean.
    By Wendy Goodman
  4. Penn Station’s New Train Hall Is Only a Start. But at Least We’re Starting. A grand entrance to a rail system that needs much more.
    By Justin Davidson
  5. I for One Will Miss the 70 Duane Reades That Closed This Year And the city’s 26 Jimmy Jazzes and 43 Modell’s. A wistful look at a new “State of the Chains” report.
    By Jessica Silvester
  6. No, de Blasio Is Not Trying to Crush the Hotel Industry He’s planning for the long term at the expense of the quick fix — while doing the unions a favor in the process.
    By Jeff Andrews
  7. Zoox Is Only Barely a Car, and That’s Its Most Promising Feature The driverless dream works better when it’s shared.
    By Alissa Walker
  8. A Full Taxonomy of New York’s Winter Streeteries Bundle up and dig in.
    By Rachel Sugar
  9. Most New York Evictions Have Been Deferred Until May — and It’s a Relief The legislation gives all tenants another 60 days, and hardship cases till the spring.
    By Caroline Spivack
  10. Fran Lebowitz vs. the World A long talk (on a landline) with the star of Martin Scorsese’s cranky, necessary love letter to New York, Pretend It’s a City.
    By Wendy Goodman
  11. Penn Station’s Train Hall Opens Next Week. We’ve Been Covering It for 27 Years. The new Moynihan Train Hall in the old Farley Post Office opens this week after three decades of rerouting and delays.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  12. Industry City Has the Biggest Streetery Yet How will they keep it warm?
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  13. Biden’s Climate Team Is a Bigger Deal for Cities Than Any Cabinet Appointment A little help for mayors who said they could reduce emissions themselves.
    By Alissa Walker
  14. Los Deliveristas Unidos, the Essential Workers of Takeout Organizing the delivery workers who keep much of the city fed.
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  15. Inside Villa Charlotte Brontë, a Cliffside Co-op in the Bronx It remains today much as it was nearly a century ago: 17 units, no two alike, teetering over the Hudson.
    By Matthew Sedacca
  16. What New York Needs to Learn From Guadalajara’s Biggest Market A way to create a large-scale, wide-open, democratic shopping space in the urban fabric.
    By Justin Davidson
  17. Can a Worker-Owned App Pull Drivers From Uber and Lyft? A cooperative tries to revolutionize ride sharing.
    By Sarah Jones
  18. The Look Book Goes to JJ Christmas Trees On the day after Thanksgiving, the Dyker Heights lot was full of holiday shoppers buying Fraser firs, wreaths, and reindeer made from logs.
    By Jane Starr Drinkard and Brock Colyar
  19. 9 (Vetted) Winter Airbnbs to Rent Within Three Hours of NYC Including a Nordic-style two-bedroom with a dry sauna and a Belleayre Mountain spot where the host provides s’more kits.
    By Megan Barber
  20. A Townhouse on Prospect Park West With a Perfectly Preserved Art Deco Bathroom Built in 1915, the brick building also has a gated driveway and garage.
    By Jenny Xie
  21. L.A. Real-Estate Agent Dalton Gomez Announces Engagement to Pop Singer His fiancée is Ariana Grande, a performer from Boca Raton, Florida.
    By Alissa Walker
  22. $4 Billion Down, $8 Billion to Go: The Stimulus Temporarily Saves the Subway Draconian service cuts are off the table for the time being, but the MTA still needs far more federal funds than it’s getting.
    By Jeff Andrews
  23. A Brooklyn Family’s Pet-Friendly, Kid-Filled Self-Made Comfort Zone Ada Davila and Agustin Hurtado transformed part of a 19th-century brewery in East Williamsburg into a bright and lively home.
    By Wendy Goodman
  24. The Karen Next Door A white woman calls the police on her Black neighbors. Six months later, they still share a property line.
    By Allison P. Davis
  25. De Blasio Promised the Internet to Everyone. Here’s Why It’s Taken Forever. Maybe next year.
    By Jeff Andrews
  26. A Wall-to-Wall (to Bed) Floral Room in Gwyneth Paltrow’s Childhood Townhouse It makes a convincing case for matching bedding, curtains, and wallpaper.
    By Jenny Xie
  27. 5 Things to Buy From Yinka Ilori’s New Home Goods Line The British-Nigerian designer’s color-obsessed work is about joy, hope, and optimism. And now you can bring it to your table.
    By Diana Budds
  28. My Spots: Chi Ossé Where the City Council candidate likes to eat (when he’s on and off keto), shop for sweaters, and people-watch in Bed-Stuy
    By Dan Q. Dao
  29. Los Angeles Wants a Flying-Taxi Division. What Could Go Wrong? Unlikely future, meet realistic present.
    By Alissa Walker
  30. So A-Rod’s Buying Distressed Hotels Now? Here’s the deal with his $650 million dollar swing.
    By Jeff Andrews
  31. How Much Would You Pay to Blow Up the Trump Plaza Casino? It’s coming down in January, and Atlantic City is auctioning off the right to push the button.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  32. Anatomy of a Streetery: Guevara’s It’s Cuban-inspired and stands solidly on the corner of Clifton and Grand.
    By Diana Budds
  33. Visiting LAAMS, the LES Street Culture Lab “We tell kids: ‘Just pull up. Show us what you have and if we like it, and the price is on point, we’ll put it up on the wall.’”
    By Diana Budds
  34. California Is Coming Apart Over COVID The first state to lock down during the pandemic is a mess now. What went wrong?
    By Miranda Green
  35. Premiering Soon: The Real Health Department of Beverly Hills The city wants to start its own department independent of Los Angeles County, mostly so it can reopen its restaurants.
    By Alissa Walker
  36. A Shingled House With a 13,000-Square-Foot Deck on Quantuck Bay The 1987 home designed by the prolific Long Island architect Norman Jaffe is on the market for $18.7 million.
    By Megan Barber
  37. New York Kids Will Be Shivering In Class All Winter Windows open, pencils up.
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  38. Corey Johnson Wants to Tame the Giant Squid of City Planning The squid may have other ideas, though.
    By Justin Davidson
  39. ‘You’re Walking Backwards’: The $6 Billion Venice Floodgates May Not Be Enough Proposed decades ago, they were not built for the coming sea rise.
    By Justin Davidson
  40. The Eco-Yogi Slumlords Are Getting Sued — Again The city says they made $1.4 million on their illegal Airbnb rentals over four years.
    By Bridget Read
  41. Pete Buttigieg Isn’t a Transit Visionary. But Biden Might Not Need One. Experience doesn’t matter as much when he’s got Amtrak Joe’s agenda.
    By Alissa Walker
  42. A Three-Bedroom With 18-Foot Ceilings in the West 67th Street Artists’ Colony There’s also a huge caramel-colored kitchen that has storage on all four sides and a center island with a built-in toaster.
    By Jenny Xie
  43. Pete Buttigieg Will Be Joe Biden’s Secretary of Transportation Mayor Pete will run your street.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  44. New Owl Drop! A Stately Long-Eared Spotted In Central Park There’s a new avian star in town.
    By Willy Blackmore
  45. This Artist Posed As a Hungarian Billionaire Buyer to Get Into 25 Penthouses Adopting a new persona, then photographing the view from the 100th floor.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  46. These Designers Have an (Emoji-Inspired) Basketmaking Club Last week, they each wove something based off the peach.
    By Diana Budds
  47. How Does Outdoor Dining Work in the Snow? New York City’s Department of Sanitation has issued some important new guidelines.
    By Rachel Sugar
  48. During COVID-19, TikTok Made It Cool to Make … Fluffy Rugs Here are six TikTok Tufters you should know.
    By Diana Budds
  49. The End of ‘21’ Club One of New York City’s most iconic restaurants will call it quits.
    By Robert Simonson
  50. Meet the Makers at Ostudio, Bed-Stuy’s Beehive of Creativity Fernando Aciar turned a parking garage into a DIY community.
    By Wendy Goodman
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