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  1. It’ll Be a Whole New Fifth Avenue More trees, wider sidewalks, and fewer cars.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  2. Rosario Candela Invented the Upper East Side Apartment David Netto’s new book tells the story of how the architect defined quiet luxury in New York City.
    By David Netto
  3. When You Can’t Escape ‘Empire State of Mind’ The Jay-Z and Alicia Keys track is 15 years old — and playing on a continuous, maddening loop for people who work in Times Square.
    By Max Cea
  4. Why Do Concert Halls Still Matter? An antique architectural form that continues to resonate.
    By Justin Davidson
  5. A Golf Simulator Is Never Far Astroturf, projector screens, and men in deep concentration over their swings are taking over Manhattan (and some of Brooklyn).
    By Clio Chang
  6. I Rode the Skylift (Twice) Tishman Speyer’s vision for a theme park at the top of Rockefeller Center is complete. The city is weirder for it.
    By Zach Schiffman
  7. A Non-Claustrophobic Studio With River Views in Tudor City for $325,000 And charming arched windows and a sunken living room in Carroll Gardens.
    By Kim Velsey
  8. The Unbuilt Bridge That’s Strangling Penn Station We need a second span out in Jersey, and nobody’s funded it yet.
    By Nolan Hicks
  9. An Inn From 1807 With a Separate Carriage House in Stone Ridge And a stunning post-and-beam home with warm stone and river views in High Falls.
    By Clio Chang
  10. What It’s Like to Be an Undercover Luxury-Hotel Inspector “I’ve had to spill something on my clothes so I could send it down to get cleaned by laundry.”
    By Bianca Bosker
  11. A Hidden Artist’s Complex Behind Spring Street A screenwriter recruited friends to fix up a tenement in Nolita. In the half-century since, it’s housed artists, editors, and Laila Gohar.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  12. The Fight Over the Chrysler Building Is Getting Weird Aby Rosen’s RFR claims Cooper Union’s handling of student protests drove away tenants. Where is all of this heading?
    By Kim Velsey
  13. Outdoor Dining Isn’t Dead Yet Streetery season is ending, but thousands of restaurants are making preparations for next spring.
    By Chris Crowley
  14. No One Wants to Live Near TikTokers From Dumbo to the West Village, brokers say hordes of content creators are giving clients cold feet.
    By Clio Chang
  15. The Look Book Goes to ¡VAYA! Dance Night at Lincoln Center Regulars flooded into the monthly Latin-music night for the return of charanga band Orquesta Broadway.
    By Emily Leibert
  16. The Panic About the Parapets A new regulation about roofline walls is making brownstone owners anxious. Does it apply to them? Can they get out of it? Are they being exploited?
    By Kim Velsey
  17. Steel Ribbon Benches, Wiggle Chairs, and More Design Finds Plus a moody new piano bar in Hell’s Kitchen.
    By Morgan Meier
  18. The Accidental Day Care in My Living Room When our sons’ Brooklyn nursery lost its license, we decided to play host until the problem was resolved. How long could it take?
    By Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
  19. Chris Perfetti Served Tony Kushner Crab Cakes The Abbott Elementary actor on being hated on the A train and the magic of Lincoln Center Library.
    By Zach Schiffman
  20. A Charmingly ’90s Lenox Hill Two-Bedroom for $875,000 And a fixer-upper in Jackson Heights with tons of space.
    By Kim Velsey
  21. From a Downtown Loft to a Sutton Place Classic Seven After 18 years in Noho and three in a Paul Rudolph pleasure palace, Christine and John Gachot decided to try something more traditional.
    By Wendy Goodman
  22. New Jersey Sells Itself to the World The Garden State is trying to attract tourists from Dublin to Munich. What do they think once they arrive?
    By Will Peischel
  23. A Trump Lawyer’s 1980s Time Capsule and a Prominently Displayed Weed Plant This week’s batch of small but notable things found in apartment listings also includes an opera singer’s pair of grand pianos.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  24. The Santa Fe Home That Was Alexander Girard’s Final Triumph A new book by Todd Oldham and Kiera Coffee surveys everything the designer ever touched.
    By Wendy Goodman
  25. When a Townhouse Renovation Raises Questions About a City’s Future A debate about gentrification is set against a backdrop of monochrome and tasteful decor in ‘Good Bones’ at the Public.
    By Terry Nguyen
  26. The World’s Largest Plumbing Repair New York City’s principal water-supply aqueduct gets a bypass operation.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  27. Joby the Electric Helicopter Wants to Take You to JFK At some point in the future. If it can get FAA certification.
    By Clio Chang
  28. The Approval Matrix: School-Bus Meltdown, New York’s a Mets Town Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
  29. Darren Aronofsky Is Re-creating the ’90s East Village And Josh Safdie has brought Orchard Street back to the ’50s.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  30. A Reversal on the Reversal of the McGuinness Boulevard Plan A week after Adams was indicted, the Department of Transportation decided to go back to its original idea for the traffic-plagued street.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  31. Do I Need to Panic About the Longshoremen Strike? We talked to an expert about supply chains, consumer behavior, and bananas.
    By Kim Velsey
  32. Mapping the Many Raids of Adams World Federal agents have spent a lot of time searching the homes and offices of our mayor and his administration. Let’s take a tour.
    By Clio Chang
  33. The Two Paul Rudolphs The Met’s retrospective reveals the architect’s vision and optimism — and his supreme arrogance.
    By Justin Davidson
  34. A Nearly Classic Six In Morningside Heights for $825,000 And a West Village studio with charm galore for $500,000.
    By Kim Velsey
  35. Adams Indictment Fallout Continues: Live Updates Another top aide resigned on Monday.
    By Intelligencer Staff
  36. Vanderbilt University Just Signed a 99-Year Lease in Chelsea The school plans to take over the campus of the financially struggling General Theological Seminary.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  37. Rat Birth Control Is Happening The City Council voted in favor of a pilot to try to control the rodent population with contraceptives.
    By Clio Chang
  38. Director George C. Wolfe Is Selling His Gramercy Townhouse The former stables were once described as “a country cottage in the midst of a city block.”
    By Adriane Quinlan
  39. E-Scooters Have Divided Suburban Queens Some residents and politicians call them “woke transport.” Others are happily riding them to the 7 train.
    By Clio Chang
  40. The Best Massage Therapists in New York From Swedish to deep tissue and beyond: body-freeing massages.
    By Yasmin Gagné
  41. Do Subway Elevators Really Need to Cost $100 Million Per Station? They’re taking a huge bite out of the MTA’s budget.
    By Nolan Hicks
  42. How the Family of Birds in My Yard Became Internet Stars Who knew there was so much drama in nesting season?
    By David Pogue
  43. The Eavesdropper Goes to City Hall on Indictment Day We hustled downtown — stopping by the City Council and the offices of federal prosecutors, too — to hear what people are saying about the mayor.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  44. The Turkish Consulate at the Center of the Eric Adams Investigation Prosecutors say the mayor used his influence to speed up the opening of the building for Erdogan’s visit.
    By Kim Velsey
  45. The Grand Hotels of the Eric Adams Indictment The mayor really seemed to like the Istanbul St. Regis.
    By Clio Chang
  46. Buffalo Is Doing Preservation (Mostly) Right Giving its slow recovery a boost by spending money on its past.
    By Justin Davidson
  47. The Look Book Goes to the Armory Show Opening Party Ahead of the art fair at the Javits Center, artists, gallerists, and collectors gathered at the National Arts Club to celebrate.
    By Emily Leibert
  48. Jonquel Jones Showed Up at the Wrong Brooklyn Apartment on Moving Day The New York Liberty power forward on adjusting to high-rise living and getting recognized in Fort Greene Park.
    By Clio Chang
  49. The Via Carota Chefs Are Selling Their West Village Apartment Jody Williams and Rita Sodi’s kitchen is appropriately stunning.
    By Kim Velsey
  50. P. Diddy and Sam Bankman Fried Are Jail Bunkmates Sources say the rapper and the crypto king are in the same housing unit at the Metropolitan Detention Center.
    By Adriane Quinlan
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