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  1. dividing assets
    All Split Up and Nowhere to GoAre pandemic breakups behind the city’s insane one-bedroom shortage?
    By Bridget Read
  2. getting around
    Who’s Afraid of the Subway?Riding every line in the days after the Sunset Park shooting.
    By Reeves Wiedeman
  3. ukraine
    One Seat in Coach, 36 Suitcases, and Enough Kevlar to Fight a WarThe Ukrainian Americans supplying an army on their own.
    By Matt Stieb
  4. street view
    What Will It Take for Architects to Stop Working With Autocrats?Designers have long relied on a catalogue of excuses to work with questionable clients. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
    By Justin Davidson
  5. the other epidemic
    The Radical Experiment Saving the Lives of Drug UsersHow a once fringe idea — making it safe to get high — became a reality.
    By Christopher Moraff
  6. the group portrait
    Inside an Accidental Trans Enclave in East Williamsburg“Here was a chaotic set of trans people who could model how to live a happy life in a terrible world.”
    By P. E. Moskowitz
  7. chinatown
    The Jail Money TrapThe Museum of Chinese in America was desperate to buy its building. The city found a reason to pay for it — one that threw Chinatown into turmoil.
    By Esther Wang
  8. encounter
    At Jamian Juliano-Villani’s New Gallery O’Flaherty’s, ‘Taste Is Out the Door’The painter and her pals thought the art world had gotten too prissy. “This is the thing. No one’s doing anything cool.”
    By Matthew Schneier
  9. politics
    ‘The Mayor Knew’Eric Garcetti’s top aide was a serial harasser, according to multiple accusers. The mayor, they say, ignored it.
    By Alissa Walker
  10. stop the presses
    Welcome to the Beach Cafe, the Upper East Side’s Republican CheersAnn Coulter, Cindy Adams, and Donald Jr. hang out there; try the (Roger) Stone Burger.
    By Shawn McCreesh
  11. biography of a building
    A Particularly Eccentric Upper West Side Apartment BuildingThe Master was built as a shrine to theosophist Nicholas Roerich. It has aged strangely.
    By Matthew Sedacca
  12. urbanism
    Perfecting the New York StreetWe consulted architects and planners to create an achievable, replicable plan — one suited to a city embracing its public spaces as never before.
    By Justin Davidson
  13. performing arts
    Who Will Give Peter Gelb $2 Billion to Guarantee the Met Opera’s Future?All of Gelb’s big problems running the opera house only got bigger during the pandemic.
    By Shawn McCreesh
  14. death becomes her
    A Date With the GraveVisiting the unlikely star of Mountain View Cemetery, a fake gravesite reserved exclusively for Hollywood’s funeral scenes.
    By Jamie Loftus
  15. retail apocalypse
    Zombie Barneys! The Genius of Spirit HalloweenThe seasonal chain that, for a few weeks a year, reanimates dead retail.
    By Kim Velsey
  16. crime
    The Murders Down the Hall393 Powell Street was a peaceful home, until residents started dying in brutal, mysterious ways.
    By Greg Donahue
  17. design
    The Pope of GloopFor 60 years, Gaetano Pesce has been preaching the gospel of uncertainty in design. Finally, the world has caught up.
    By Matthew Schneier
  18. cityscape
    Revolt of the Delivery WorkersExploited by apps. Attacked by thieves. Unprotected by police. The city’s 65,000 bikers have only themselves to count on.
    By Josh Dzieza
  19. developments
    It Wasn’t Just the Shadows That Stopped a Pair of Brooklyn TowersThe Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s defenders were part of a much larger set of forces.
    By Kim Velsey
  20. election 2021
    Democratic Party PromoterThe 23-year-old nightlife impresario Chi Ossé finds a new VIP area: the City Council.
    By Sean Piccoli
  21. closings
    Avenue B’s Queen of Latex Is Abdicating the ThroneThe Baroness is closing shop.
    By Lindsay Goldwert
  22. encounter
    Kathryn Garcia’s Wide-Open FutureShe’s out of a job and lost the primary, but the almost-next-mayor of New York is now a political celebrity.
    By Clare Malone
  23. in store
    Can Rockefeller Center Ever Be Hip?Tishman Speyer attempts a retail revolution in peak midtown.
    By Kim Velsey
  24. sims city
    No, You Can’t Recycle a Bowling Ball (But People Sure Keep Trying)The hard truth is these things are going to live longer than we are.
    By Eleanor Cummins
  25. getting around
    Why Your Uber Ride Is Suddenly Costing a FortuneDriver shortage, customer surplus, and harsh financial reality.
    By Alissa Walker
  26. biography of a building
    A Fairly Exhaustive Oral History of the Still-Wild McKibbin LoftsFour Loko parties, falling maggots, and first-floor strip clubs.
    By Matthew Sedacca
  27. cityscape
    New York’s First Climate Adaptation Battle Is HereThe city wants to bury East River Park to save it.
    By Keith Gessen
  28. the office
    Remember the Office?A look back at 150 years of cubicles, corner offices, all-nighters, and the holiday party.
    By The Editors
  29. race and space
    MoMA’s ‘Reconstructions’ Show Changed My Relationship to Space and CitiesShould Black designers revise a history that erased them? Or should they revolt?
    By Kimberly Drew
  30. features
    A Hot New Restaurant Moved In. That Made Its Neighbors Nervous.A gentrification battle erupts in Ridgewood.
    By Chris Crowley
  31. the real estate
    What If Compass Is Basically Just Like Every Other Real-Estate Brokerage?Except with a nicer logo and an over-leveraged IPO.
    By Reeves Wiedeman
  32. anti-asian hate
    The Chinatown Block Watch, One Year LaterIncluding local grandmothers and men in combat gear, this 40-member patrol watches for anti-Asian attacks in the neighborhood.
    By Eveline Chao
  33. the real estate
    The Gut Renovation of Ryan SerhantHe was a real-estate striver slinging cheap rentals until Million Dollar Listing — and a pandemic market — made him the plutocracy’s broker of choice.
    By Andrew Rice
  34. coronavirus
    How COVID Accelerated a Fight Against Food DesertsA push for healthier food options for one of New York’s hardest-hit populations.
    By Muriel Alarcón Luco
  35. street view
    ‘You’re Walking Backwards’: The $6 Billion Venice Floodgates May Not Be EnoughProposed decades ago, they were not built for the coming sea rise.
    By Justin Davidson
  36. reasons to love new york
    500 Reasons We’ve Loved New YorkA send-off to the many places, big and small, that closed in 2020.
    By The Editors
  37. city people
    Now That an Urban Planner Is on the City Council, Can She Help Fix Los Angeles?Nithya Raman is calling for systemic change — including breaking up her own district.
    By Alissa Walker
  38. furniture
    Hideous? Perhaps. But It’s Time to Accept the Gaming Chair.“To invest in what you are actually doing — where you are actually sitting — might seem like capitulation but is also self-care.”
    By Alexandra Lange
  39. street view
    How Joe Biden Can Be the Amtrak President New York NeedsStart with a new Hudson River tunnel and build from there.
    By Justin Davidson
  40. 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
  41. 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