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  1. workplaces
    Tom Sachs Promised a Fun CultThe sculptor likes to call his studio part of his art practice. Working there could often be scary.
  2. the year i ate new york
    Manhattan’s Super-Jail Is Already Swallowing Chinatown“We were open less than a year…”
  3. 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.”
  4. ohio train derailment
    What Is Going On in East Palestine, Ohio?Parsing the most reliable information circulating about the catastrophic train derailment.
  5. 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).
  6. reasons to love new york
    39 Reasons to Love New York Right NowEvery time it’s been confronted, New York has returned, more impossibly and unpredictably itself than ever, because we wanted it to.
  7. operators
    The Mennonite Airbnb Hustler of Upper ManhattanKonrad Bicher, calling himself “the Wolf of Airbnb,” ran a sublet scheme that made him rich — for a while.
  8. mysteries
    What We Know About ‘The Watcher’ Case Four Years LaterRevisiting the investigation on the eve of the Netflix series.
  9. royals
    Queen Elizabeth Was the First Monarch We Thought We KnewCrowned at the dawn of the TV age, she was defined by her distance as much as her ubiquity.
  10. hot garbage
    I Went to Trash SchoolAn education in “juice,” how to protect your shins, and keeping 12,000 daily tons of garbage at bay.
  11. bad landlords
    ‘He’s Kicking Me Out Because My Daughter Wouldn’t Sleep With Him.’A housing lawyer on how often landlords insert “sexual clauses” in leases.
  12. big boxes
    The American Dream Is Almost in DefaultThe mall, that is.
  13. curbed glossary
    Cuck Money Is the New Key MoneyGet ready to raise your own rent.
  14. operators
    The Ugliest Divorce in Manhattan Real EstateHFZ’s luxury developers staked their futures on Bjarke Ingels’s High Line debut and lost everything.
  15. great rooms
    The Couple That Built Very Different, His and Hers Apartments, Side by SideShe collects stuff, he likes pared-down traditionalist Japanese rooms. After years of marriage, Dorothy and Stephen Globus grew apart. What to do?
  16. getting around
    Talking Alternate-Side Parking With the Queen of Securing a SpotMary Norris on strategy, optimism, and transcending to a garage.
  17. little ukraine
    ‘The World Was Ukrainian’A stubborn and surprising immigrant enclave, hiding in plain sight on the Lower East Side.