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  1. your ad here
    The Zombie Billboards of Locked-Down New York“My industry is called outdoor advertising and people were being told not to go outdoors”
    By Tim Donnelly
  2. the covid memorial project
    A Glass Teahouse for All Seasons in a Year of UpheavalPart 3 of 15 proposals to help us remember the pandemic’s toll.
    By Eva Hagberg
  3. saturday night fever
    Greenpoint’s Disco Ball Rite-Aid Is About to Be DemolishedThe beloved pharmacy, originally a vaudeville theater, will soon be replaced with apartments.
    By Emma Alpern
  4. the big screen
    Less Popcorn, More Distance: How Indie Movie Theaters Are Gingerly Reopening“We wanted this to be an inclusive experience and not just for the fearless.”
    By Mike Sampson
  5. spooky
    We Spoke to the NYC Woman Who Found a Whole Apartment Behind Her Bathroom Mirror“I was kind of expecting there to be somebody.”
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  6. the jab
    The Vaccine Selfie: Encouraged at Javits, Tolerated at Medgar EversDon’t let the ‘no photography allowed’ signs confuse you.
    By Willy Blackmore
  7. on tv
    First Pictures of the Original ‘Real World’ Loft, 2021 EditionRevisiting the apartment where things started getting real.
    By Willy Blackmore
  8. on tv
    The Cecil Hotel Docuseries Is a Crime Story in Search of a CrimeCops, web sleuths, and other unreliable narrators drive the show.
    By Willy Blackmore
  9. shots
    Giving Vaccines to Prisoners Won’t Be Enough to Get Prisoners Vaccinated“We just don’t want to be the lab rats.”
    By Rebecca McCray
  10. license to fill
    4 NYC Street Food Vendors on Finally Getting a Shot at Their Own PermitEven the waiting list to get one has been closed since 2007.
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  11. houses of worship
    The New Pastor at Hillsong Is a Former NYC Real-Estate BrokerJohn Termini is leading the megachurch following the Carl Letz scandal.
    By Willy Blackmore
  12. hudson riviera
    There’s Going to Be a Beach in New York’s Meatpacking DistrictSunbathing at the end of Gansevoort, coming 2023.
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  13. wildlife
    There’s a Snowy Owl in Central Park for the First Time in Over a CenturyIt’s been hanging out by the ballfields with some crows.
    By Willy Blackmore
  14. preservation
    L.A. Doesn’t Need to Save Every Unremarkable Little BuildingWhen NIMBYs sneakily invoke nostalgia for something that’s neither old nor architecturally significant, it’s time to say no.
    By Alissa Walker
  15. it’s our own damn fault
    A Margaritaville Resort Opening in Times Square in a Pandemic, Sure, Why Not?Here’s everything we know about Jimmy Buffett’s high-rise paradise.
    By Emma Alpern
  16. wildlife
    New York City’s Rats Are Doing Just FineThe ratpocalypse came and went.
    By Willy Blackmore
  17. infrastructure
    Biden Declares the Border Wall Dead on His First DayAnd not a moment too soon.
    By Willy Blackmore
  18. lead
    Sure, Rick Snyder’s Been Charged — But Does Flint Finally Have Clean Water?Nearly seven years later, the crisis still isn’t over.
    By Willy Blackmore
  19. hudson yards
    I Knew the Vessel Was Going to Have a Suicide Problem Years Before It Was BuiltHow a private design process created a public space that is dangerous, even deadly.
    By Audrey Wachs
  20. tragedy
    After a Third Suicide, the Vessel at Hudson Yards Closes IndefinitelyCalls to raise the structure’s railings have previously been ignored.
    By Willy Blackmore
  21. brick and mortar
    I for One Will Miss the 70 Duane Reades That Closed This YearAnd the city’s 26 Jimmy Jazzes and 43 Modell’s. A wistful look at a new “State of the Chains” report.
    By Jessica Silvester
  22. my spots
    My Spots: Chi OsséWhere the City Council candidate likes to eat (when he’s on and off keto), shop for sweaters, and people-watch in Bed-Stuy
    By Dan Q. Dao
  23. wildlife
    New Owl Drop! A Stately Long-Eared Spotted In Central ParkThere’s a new avian star in town.
    By Willy Blackmore
  24. public art watch
    At Inwood’s Dyckman Farmhouse, an Illuminating Reminder From Artist Reggie BlackThree blunt words about slavery in New York.
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  25. relief
    New York Needs a Place to Pee in Public So BadIt’s a decades-long problem.
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  26. better put that out
    Will SF Really Fine You $1000 for Lighting a Cigarette In Your Apartment?Probably not the first time.
    By Brock Keeling
  27. streeteries
    Oh, Great: The Wind Flipped a Streetery Into the Middle of First AvenueThis doesn’t bode well for the winter, does it?
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  28. street fights
    People in COVID Testing Lines Are Turning on Each OtherLine-cutters, it turns out, aren’t treated kindly by those waiting six hours for a nose swab.
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  29. the people’s princess
    That Time I Walked Princess Diana Through the Henry Street Settlement in 1989“I didn’t get a chance to be nervous.”
    By Verona Middleton-Jeter As told to Valeria Ricciulli
  30. taking a cut
    Howard Wolfson Among the (Unlikely) Investors Keeping Astor Hair OpenThe 75-year-old barbershop will no longer be family run.
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  31. ho ho ho
    The Rockefeller Center Tree Is Just Fine. It Starts Out This Way Every Year.In previous years, it was just as janky-looking till the lights went on.
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  32. streeteries
    What Happens When Snowplows Meet StreeteriesRestaurateurs brace for the bleak winter ahead.
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  33. the cityscape
    Meet NYC’s First Professional Streetery BuildersOutdoor dining isn’t going anywhere, so construction firms are getting in on the action.
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  34. neighborhood news
    Waiting for the Amtrak President, Covid on Staten Island, and Other NewsWeekly roundup of the important — and unimportant — NYC news you should know about from this week.
    By Valeria Ricciulli and Caroline Spivack
  35. looking
    Curb Your Dog! Save the Tomatoes!New Yorkers make the most out of sidewalk green spaces by planting everything from formal hedges to vegetable gardens.
    By Diana Budds