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  1. street fights
    There’s a War Going on in Your Local Buy Nothing GroupBehind that free Ikea bookshelf, splinter groups are breaking away from the founders’ vision of a “gifting economy.”
    By Clio Chang
  2. street view
    The Bronx Children’s Museum Is Just Antic EnoughLike a peek into a happy kid’s brain.
    By Justin Davidson
  3. the eavesdropper
    Listening In on Line at GlossierOpening day at its new Soho flagship.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  4. urban fauna
    It’s Been a Tumultuous Two Weeks for FlacoThe Eurasian eagle-owl has survived a vandalized enclosure, life as a celebrity, and a new diet of free-range rats.
    By Clio Chang
  5. openings
    O’Flaherty’s Is Back, This Time With Tubs of VaselineThe East Village gallery inaugurated its new space with naked men sculpting themselves into a messy copy of a Greek statue.
    By Diana Budds
  6. street view
    MoMA’s ‘Architecture Now’ Exists in Some Other New YorkOne that has fewer impediments and more money.
    By Justin Davidson
  7. streets
    New York City Finally Has a Public-Realm CzarYa-Ting Liu, a former transit advocate, will work on projects like Open Restaurants and the pedestrianization of Fifth Avenue.
    By Diana Budds
  8. getting around
    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
  9. getting around
    Police Crashes Cost New Yorkers a Lot of MoneyAnd the growing number of NYPD SUVs on the road isn’t helping.
    By Alissa Walker
  10. look book
    The Look Book Goes to EMS TrainingThe FDNY’s newest emergency medical technicians gathered for their final day of instruction at Fort Totten.
    By Kelsie Schrader and Jenna Milliner-Waddell
  11. ohio train derailment
    What Is Going On in East Palestine, Ohio?Parsing the most reliable information circulating about the catastrophic train derailment.
    By Alissa Walker
  12. our mayor
    Eric Adams Will Pay $300 for His RatsThe mayor needs to bin his recyclables.
    By Clio Chang
  13. getting around
    The Manhattan Parents Who Won’t Let Their Teens Outside AloneMom does drop-off, a sitter does pickup. An Uber takes care of the rest.
    By Julia Edelstein
  14. neighborhood news
    A Whale Beaches in the RockawaysWhy are so many leviathans washing up on the shore?
    By Laura Thompson
  15. furniture
    City Austerity Has Come for the Herman Miller Desk ChairAs Adams pushes for budget cuts, lawmakers are singling out a contract with the Aeron-famous furniture company.
    By Clio Chang
  16. getting around
    Why It Costs So Much to Build Our SubwaysAn NYU study finds that most of the overspending isn’t where you think it is.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  17. boring news
    Elon Musk Is Building a NeighborhoodProject Amazing is the company town reimagined!
    By Alissa Walker
  18. 21 questions
    Ekene Ijeoma Has Removed All Bad Design From His Life (Except for Streets)The artist answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
    By Diana Budds
  19. neighborhood news
    Welcome to the Neighborhood™A couple has announced plans to move up to 1,000 like-minded people into their corner of Bushwick.
    By Clio Chang
  20. architecture
    A Fight About Putin’s Reach Erupts at the Cooper UnionA show about a century-old Soviet school is at the heart of a debate over academic freedom and the school’s relationship to its Ukrainian neighbors.
    By Diana Budds
  21. slot city
    Will a Casino Finally ‘Tame’ Times Square?The developer promises a massive, 13-block security operation, care of Bill Bratton.
    By Karrie Jacobs
  22. natural gas
    Good Luck Switching to an Induction Stove in the CityThe process, as it turns out, is a gauntlet.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  23. upzoning
    Not in Steph Curry’s BackyardAnother famous resident of Atherton, California — the country’s wealthiest Zip Code — has some concerns about multifamily zoning.
    By Alissa Walker
  24. look book
    The Look Book Goes to TatianaA recent Wednesday night at chef Kwame Onwuachi’s consistently booked Lincoln Center restaurant.
    By Kelsie Schrader and Jenna Milliner-Waddell
  25. getting around
    Delancey Is Getting a Desperately Needed ‘Road Diet’To the tune of $21 million in federal funds.
    By Clio Chang
  26. getting around
    Why Is the Floor of the Oculus Already Crumbling?Seven years in, the marble slabs are chipping and flaking. It didn’t have to be this way.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  27. atmospheric rivers
    L.A.’s ‘Green Alley’ Experiments Are WorkingThe city’s efforts to become flood- and drought-resilient are ready to be scaled up.
    By Alissa Walker
  28. the group portrait
    To Dream of Pickleball CityThe sport’s die-hard fans are fighting for courts they can call their own.
    By Bindu Bansinath
  29. mysteries
    The Bean, Once Half, Is Now WholeFour years later, Anish Kapoor’s legume at 56 Leonard is complete.
    By Clio Chang
  30. neighborhoods
    Does New York’s Chinatown Really Need an Arch?Hochul has granted the money to build one, but younger residents ask whether the money would be better spent on other community needs.
    By Wilfred Chan
  31. streets
    Clearing Vendors From the Brooklyn Bridge Won’t Solve Its Overcrowding ProblemThe bridge deserves a more comprehensive plan.
    By Diana Budds
  32. housing
    The NYCHA Chair Position Is Likely Getting a $255,000 Pay CutGood-bye, inflated salary, and good luck with all the repairs and back rent.
    By Clio Chang
  33. celebrity real estate
    Julia Fox Gave a ‘Maximum Transparency’ Tour of Her ApartmentWe also have a hallway where “nothing happens.”
    By Clio Chang
  34. street fights
    The Tiny Newspapers at War in the West VillageFeaturing alleged graphic-design theft, 9/11 truthers, and Sarah Jessica Parker.
    By Clio Chang
  35. cityscape
    ‘Use That Time As a Meditation Time’: The MTA’s New, Very Long EscalatorTen stories down into the new Grand Central Madison terminal.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  36. getting around
    An EV in Every Driveway Is an Environmental DisasterWe can’t lithium mine our way out of climate crisis.
    By Alissa Walker
  37. the talented mr. santos
    What George Santos Was Really Like as a Roommate“He was home all day.”
    By Bridget Read
  38. street view
    The Upper West Side’s Zone of Pedestrian DeathThe area around 96th Street is dangerous. And it’s hardly the worst in town.
    By Justin Davidson
  39. rikers
    How a Rikers Unit That Protects Trans Women Fell ApartA decade ago, New York set out to lead the nation in efforts to support incarcerated trans people. Now they are stranded in all-male housing units.
    By George Joseph
  40. state of the city
    Working for New York City When Everyone Else Is LeavingEmpty cubicles, giant caseloads that leave low-income tenants without rent aid, and “no end in sight.”
    By Ross Barkan
  41. public art watch
    The Problem With Boston’s MLK Memorial Isn’t That It Looks Like a PenisIt’s how it reminds us of how little Boston — and other cities — have advanced the civil-rights leader’s racial-justice agenda.
    By Diana Budds
  42. urban fauna
    There Are Dolphins in the Bronx RiverMaybe you don’t want to swim there, but the Parks Department says it’s good news.
    By Zach Schiffman
  43. street view
    One Way to a Better City: Ask Disabled People to Design ItWouldn’t everyone fare a little better if (to take just one example) airport luggage-screening counters were lower?
    By Justin Davidson
  44. biography of a building
    A Queens Co-Op Full of ElectriciansIt remains basically as it was imagined in 1949: a surprisingly affordable city-within-a-city.
    By Kayla Levy
  45. look book
    The Look Book Goes to a Samoyed MeetupFor eight years, NYC Samoyeds has arranged regular park gatherings for owners of the cheerful Siberian breed.
    By Kelsie Schrader and Jenna Milliner-Waddell
  46. crime
    Here’s Why Everything at Walgreens Is Suddenly Behind PlasticThe recent spike in shoplifting is both overblown and real. And almost everyone is profiting from it (including you).
    By James D. Walsh
  47. the group portrait
    The Mammoth Bone Hunters of the East River“We were looking for the big boys and the small stuff, too,” says one fossil hunter. “Any kind of bones.”
    By Matt Stieb
  48. getting around
    Al Roker Is at War With His TeslaHe can’t get in, and he can’t get out.
    By Alissa Walker
  49. energy
    Get Ready to Be PropanefluencedIt’s more than HGTV hosts. Meet the #vanlife, #cottagecore, and #milkmaid influencers boosting liquefied petroleum gas.
    By Zach Schiffman
  50. remembering
    The East Village Standoff I MissedIn 1995, I was oblivious to the drama in my neighborhood. Today, the East Village squatters’ battle for their houses is at the center of my novel.
    By Dan Kois
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