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The Selby’s New Book About Creatives With Kids at Home

A decade after his last book, Todd Selby is now a family guy.
  1. The Newest Louis Poulsen Lamps Are Glowing Glass A one-of-a-kind collaboration with Home in Heven is up for auction at 1stDibs.
  2. The Approval Matrix: The Enemy of My People Is My Friend Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
  3. What Happens After Your Landlord Is Arrested? As Daniel Ohebshalom begins a 60-day sentence at Rikers, his tenants are about to find out.
  4. Pete Davidson and Colin Jost’s Ferry Is Very Much Happening We talked to the architect working behind the scenes on getting the rusty Staten Island Ferry up and running.
  5. It’s Hard to Imagine Who’d Want to Buy Trump’s Seized Properties Between the threat of lawsuits and the taint of Trump’s brand, his real estate seems like it’ll be more trouble than it’s worth.
  6. Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky Was More Than Her Hyperorganized Kitchen A new show devoted to the Austrian architect reveals her idealism and ambition.
  7. A House on Oak Island Is for Sale For $500,000, a chance to live in oceanfront isolation less than an hour away from Manhattan.
  8. Casa Magazines Has Been Sold “I know it’s time,” says Mohammed Ahmed, owner of the West Village newsstand beloved by print diehards.
  9. A Sneaky Two-Bedroom in Hudson Heights for $725,000 Plus an opulent one-bedroom in Queens and a midtown studio with statement windows.
  10. Audrey Flack Is 92 and Still Painting in Her UWS Apartment She’s in her “Post-Pop Baroque Period,” and has a new gallery show, a memoir and lives with a skeleton from her days teaching anatomy at NYU.
  11. The Subway Joy Riders Rail fans who have moved from MTA obsession to breaking and entering.
  12. The Disastrous ‘Great Israeli Real Estate Event’ A tour meant to sell homes in Israel and the West Bank to Americans has not gone as smoothly as planned.
  13. The Inness Hotel People Designed a House Post Company’s first single-family project, now for sale, comes staged with Aesop soap and black-matte Shaker furniture.
  14. A Greenport House That’s Drawn a Chain of Artists Poppy Johnson, Jonathan Horowitz, Rob Pruitt, and Rachel Comey have all lived in this former laundry.
  15. Just a Very Good House in Accord for $595,000 Plus windows galore and views of the hills in Sullivan County.
  16. The Look Book Goes to Zibby Owens’s Book Party Two hundred people descended upon her Upper East Side apartment to celebrate the release of her first novel, Blank.
  17. Rochester’s 3 Minutes of Astronomical Importance Half a million eclipse hunters are set to invade.
  18. Who Owns This $18 Million Triplex With Museum-Quality Art? A mini-investigation into an Upper East Side home with a Childe Hassam.
  19. Steve Cohen’s Mega-Mega-Mansion Is Now Visible The construction fencing and scaffolding have come down on the billionaire’s 30,000-square-foot West Village compound.
  20. What’s Happening to Open Streets? From Park Slope to Prospect Heights, even the city’s crunchiest (and wealthiest) neighborhoods are struggling to fund the program.
  21. The Streets of Pre–New York The New-York Historical Society shows the city through its earliest maps — and it remains, if faintly, recognizable in ours.
  22. A Clinton Hill Townhouse With a Cooking Fireplace The kitchen is the main event at Adam Sachs and Evyn Block’s house.
  23. The Squatters of Beverly Hills After a fugitive doctor abandoned his mansion, an enterprising group of party throwers slid in, upending the lives of their wealthy neighbors.
  24. Settling, in Downtown Brooklyn Residents say they traded neighborhood charm for amenitized luxury and never looked back.
  25. The Mandarin Oriental’s Fifth Avenue Condos Are Having Problems Sales weren’t exactly brisk before a lawsuit accused the developer of skimping on the details.
  26. The Approval Matrix: No Thanks, Kathy! Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
  27. Climbing Rat Rock At 22, Ashima Shiraishi is one of the best in the world. She owes it, at least in part, to Fredrick Law Olmsted.
  28. Mother vs. the Housing Crisis I lost my job and my apartment. I refused to settle for a tiny, dank replacement.
  29. Here Come the Tiny Whole Foods A scaled-down store — think D’Agostino’s — will open on the Upper East Side later this year.
  30. The Lenox Hill Townhouse Designed Around an Eccentric Railing It’s bedecked with stars, clouds, and plants in swirls of iron, and it runs more than three flights.
  31. Among the Aspiring Serhants At an industry conference in midtown, brokers say they “wake up, bleed, sleep real estate — shit real estate.”
  32. Get Ready to See the National Guard on Your Commute Governor Kathy Hochul announced that 750 guardsmen will be placed in the MTA system as part of a five-point plan to address subway crime.
  33. I Tried to Fix My Block’s Honking Problem Instead I went insane.
  34. ‘They’re Gonna Hang Out in Whole Foods’ A Monday night with the residents fighting a proposed shelter for migrants in Gowanus.
  35. Prop Stylist John Dittrick Did Not Want His Apartment to Feel Cluttered “I was very influenced by the taste my mom had,” he says.
  36. There’s a Two-Bedroom at the Osborne for $875,000 Plus a perfect East Village studio and a thoughtfully renovated prewar two-bed in Crown Heights.
  37. People Are Still Quite Worked Up About Congestion Pricing “I’m a resident, you know, so this is very unfair and unfair to my mom.”
  38. The Best Deal in East Hampton Getting a Sea Spray Cottage can be a steal. If you know it’s available to rent in the first place.
  39. A David Lynch–Inspired Nightclub, Fantasy Coffins, and More Design Finds Plus a new salon-style gallery in Soho.
  40. Artist Meghan Boody Is Selling Her Wild Tribeca Loft It looks like an off-kilter Victorian dollhouse.
  41. ‘This Is Like the Studio 54 of Now’ Two-stepping the night away at Ridgewood’s sold-out honky-tonk party.
  42. The Look Book Goes to a Therapist Party The Therapists of New York practice invited the city’s mental-health professionals to celebrate the new book, Patriarchy and Its Discontents.
  43. This Is What Streeteries Are Going to Look Like New York City’s transportation agency has revealed four designs for four curb scenarios.
  44. Hilton Hilton Is Here Here Boutique real estate care of Rick, Barron, and Tessa.
  45. That $8,000 Two-Bedroom Comes With a Week of Summer Camp A newish twist in the Brooklyn amenity wars.
  46. Taking Stock of an Unrecognizable Gaza What Israel’s bombing has wrought.
  47. Harry Macklowe Is Selling His Post-Divorce East Hampton Estate The $38 million home on Georgica Pond features ocean vistas (and reported views of his ex-wife).
  48. Fashion Editor Gabriella Karefa-Johnson’s House in Bed-Stuy “I became obsessed with Live Auctioneers. I didn’t have the time, or the bandwidth, or the driver’s license, for going to estate sales.”
  49. The Immediately Outdated Renovation “It used to be that seven-to-ten years was the shelf life. Now you look and say, ‘How can this look dated already?’”
  50. The Googleplex Is Growing Google’s new St. John’s Terminal headquarters, meant to lure workers back to the office, is a city within a building.
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