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  1. neighborhood news
    Manhattan Rents Drop, Stray Pig Busts Into a Brooklyn Backyard, and Other NewsThe important — and unimportant — things that happened around town this week.
    By Caroline Spivack and Valeria Ricciulli
  2. streets
    Stoop-to-Stoop: A Week of Curbside Finds From a Stooping Pro“I was looking for a cup of coffee, but instead stumbled upon this really nice desk.”
    By Caroline Spivack
  3. whut
    Trump Keeps Talking About ‘Tiny Windows,’ And No One Knows What He MeansMake fenestration great again?
    By Alissa Walker
  4. street view
    Two New Office Buildings Open, When Nobody’s Going to the OfficeMillions of new square feet. Pretty good architecture. Is anyone going to rent it?
    By Justin Davidson
  5. developing
    Where Could the City Squeeze New Housing Into Soho?The exclusive neighborhood could see thousands of new apartments — some of them “affordable” — if the city gets its way.
    By Caroline Spivack
  6. the encyclopedia of new york
    It Came From New YorkDisco. The freak show. Neoconservatism. Q-tips. They all started in the world’s most creative, inventive city.
    By The Editors
  7. transit
    First Look: New York’s Digital Subway Map Comes Alive TodayAnd, almost incidentally, it resolves a five-decade fight for graphics supremacy.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  8. neighborhood news
    Another Challenge to Evictions Pause Fails, Van Halen Avenue, and Other NewsHere’s what’s going on around town this week.
    By Caroline Spivack and Valeria Ricciulli
  9. streets
    This Spring, We All Drove Much Less. Yet Traffic Deaths Went Up. Why?The lure of the open street.
    By Alissa Walker
  10. look book
    The Look Book Goes to a Bed-Stuy Stoop SaleOrganized by a fashion editor and a photographer, a sale where passersby picked up a snakeskin hat, white leather bell-bottoms, and a pink kimono.
    By Jane Starr Drinkard and Brock Colyar
  11. street view
    The Next Mayor’s Next CityBill de Blasio’s successor will get the chance to make New York life easier, nicer, and fairer — or just keep us going the way we were before.
    By Justin Davidson
  12. encounter
    Theo Henderson Influences L.A. City Policy. For 7 Years, He’s Lived in the Park.His podcast, We the Unhoused, is made from wherever he can charge up his phone.
    By Alissa Walker
  13. rankings
    How 50 New York Buildings Scored on Their Energy-Efficiency Report CardsAnd, yes, they will have to post them in their lobbies.
    By Caroline Spivack
  14. neighborhoods
    When NIMBY Met MAGA on the Upper West SideA group of liberal residents wanted to oust hundreds of homeless men from a local hotel. Then Tucker Carlson took up their cause.
    By Miriam Elder
  15. public art watch
    The Ooh-La-La Fake Feminism of That Big Naked Medusa Statue By the CourthousesIt’ll certainly co-star in endless selfies.
    By Jerry Saltz
  16. the establishment
    The Panic Attack of New York’s Power BrokersThe city’s “permanent government” has always built its way out of crisis. But what if it can’t?
    By Andrew Rice
  17. neighborhoods
    Heshy Tischler Wants to Be Borough Park’s Donald TrumpOrthodox Brooklyn’s most visible agitator, shortly before his arrest this past weekend: “You just wait for round two.”
    By Shira Hanau
  18. tenants
    Governor Cuomo’s ‘Moratorium’ on Evictions Won’t Really Stop EvictionsIt’s “still full of loopholes,” as one lawyer put it.
    By Caroline Spivack
  19. skyline
    The Industry City Megadevelopment That Wasn’t, and How the Deal Fell ApartDevelopers pulled the plug on a major rezoning, and the implications could be felt across the city.
    By Caroline Spivack
  20. public art watch
    How Do We Create an RBG Memorial That Isn’t Terrible?As Governor Cuomo calls for a Ruth Bader Ginsburg statue in Brooklyn, we asked people with arts-commission experience where the pitfalls lie.
    By Diana Budds
  21. institutions
    LACMA’s Past Is Demolished Without a Plan for Its FutureThe museum bulldozed its old campus without a clear plan for its replacement. Does it owe L.A. one?
    By Alissa Walker
  22. neighborhoods
    New Yorkers Step in to Keep City Parks From Turning Into ‘Junkyards’The city is neglecting its parks in the pandemic, just when we need them most.
    By Caroline Spivack
  23. cityscape
    Wildfires on West Coast Have People Obsessing Over Air-Quality Apps“I just caught myself cheering at a 142 after a day of 160s.”
    By Alissa Walker
  24. cityscape
    What You Need to Know Now About the Upper West Side Homeless-Shelters SagaThe latest: Residents of the Midtown Harmonia Hotel will not be transferred.
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  25. cityscape
    ‘We Bike Too’: A New NYC Club of Black and Brown Cyclists Takes the StreetsThe Good Company Bike Club rides for equity, inclusion, and change—but most of all, for fun
    By Diana Budds
  26. the market
    No, the Pandemic Is Not Emptying Out America’s CitiesDespite what cable news is saying every day, a mass migration to the suburbs isn’t happening.
    By Jeff Andrews
  27. neighborhood news
    Scavengers Unearth Buried History — and Maybe Radiation — at Dead Horse Bay“It’s the closest you can come to time travel.”
    By Caroline Spivack
  28. cityscape
    New Yorkers Are Using a 1930s-Era Tactic to Stop EvictionsAmid waning protections for renters and unemployment rates not seen since the Great Depression, eviction defense is poised for a resurgence.
    By Caroline Spivack
  29. looking
    The Surprisingly Innovative Design of New York’s StreeteriesGive people room to create, and things start to get interesting.
    By Diana Budds
  30. cityscape
    The Porch PuzzleOn the front porch, the desire to be neighborly butts up against the desire to be left alone.
    By Melody Warnick
  31. cityscape
    How Coronavirus Is Impacting the Housing MarketThe economy is grinding to a halt. Will the housing market follow?
    By Jeff Andrews
  32. cityscape
    10 NYC Tenants’ Rights Your Landlord Doesn’t Want You to KnowThese are some of the most crucial tenants’ rights every New York City renter should know.
    By Amy Plitt
  33. cityscape
    The Homeownership ObsessionHow buying homes became a part of the American dream — and also a nightmare.
    By Katy Kelleher
  34. cityscape
    What if You Could Walk to the Airport?There’s a difference between an airport terminal that radiates civic virtue and one that’s a true public space.
    By Karrie Jacobs
  35. cityscape
    EvictionlandMore and more Americans experience eviction, and gentrification is partly to blame.
    By Joseph Williams
  36. cityscape
    Mansplaining the CityWhy are men driving the conversation about the future of our neighborhoods?
    By Alissa Walker