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Christopher Bonanos

City Editor, New York Magazine
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Christopher Bonanos is New York’s city editor. He joined the magazine in 1993 and covers urbanism, transit, and theater, as well as running the magazine’s Reread newsletter and OldNYMag Instagram feed, surfacing the best of its archives. He is also the author of Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Best Biography of 2018, and Instant: The Story of Polaroid.

  1. this is fine
    The brush fire in Brooklyn's Prospect Park on Friday, November 8.
    Now the Wildfires Are Burning HereThat smell in the air is from brush fires in Prospect Park and the Palisades.
  2. photography
    Concrete Behemoths in the Morning LightOwen Davies’s photographs of beige brutalism find beauty in these divisive landmarks.
  3. getting around
    It’ll Be a Whole New Fifth AvenueMore trees, wider sidewalks, and fewer cars.
  4. neighborhood news
    The World’s Largest Plumbing RepairNew York City’s principal water-supply aqueduct gets a bypass operation.
  5. neighborhood news
    Vanderbilt University Just Signed a 99-Year Lease in ChelseaThe school plans to take over the campus of the financially struggling General Theological Seminary.
  6. profile
    In the Shack With Robert CaroThe Power Broker is turning 50. His final LBJ book is almost — well, he won’t say exactly, but he’s trying for 900 words a day.
  7. getting around
    Some Chump Drilled a Hole Through the Top of the Queens-Midtown TunnelIt was closed all afternoon.
  8. getting around
    Park Avenue’s Park Is Coming Back. Partially. Eventually.Restoring part of a gracious streetscape that we once ceded to cars.
  9. brick and mortar
    Pour a Little Frappuccino Out for the Astor Place StarbucksIt’s closed after nearly 30 years.
  10. neighborhood news
    Why the Third Avenue Bridge Got StuckAging infrastructure? Global warming? Not exactly.
  11. brick and mortar
    Ikea Will Try (for the Third Time) to Open a Manhattan StoreThree previous mini-stores, like your Lack coffee table, fell apart after only a couple of years.
  12. rendering judgment
    A Well-Engineered BQE Plan, Inspiration Not IncludedThe city’s latest proposal rearranges the triple-cantilever section and declines the opportunity to do much more.
  13. getting around
    At the Last Second, Hochul Ditches Congestion Pricing by the Side of the RoadWe were so close to getting there on time!
  14. rendering judgment
    Port Authority Plus a MicroparkThe newest renderings of the remade bus terminal are slightly less Apple Store, too.
  15. on set
    The Uncanny New York City of MegalopolisFrancis Ford Coppola’s New Rome is an anarchic stream of 40 years’ thinking about the city.
  16. neighborhood news
    The Cannabis Crackdown BeginsThe Adams administration’s “Operation Padlock to Protect” gets underway.
  17. getting around
    The Hardest-Working Turnstile in the SubwayIt makes about 3 million spins a year.
  18. getting around
    When the NYC Subway Was Just a Dirt TrenchRare photos from the early 1900s show the 120-year-old system’s pick-and-shovel beginnings.
  19. developing
    Tennis at the Former Hotel Pennsylvania, Anyone?While Vornado waits for a better office market, it proposes a pop-up park on the vacant site.
  20. climate
    New York After SnowRemembering when we could count on storms to bury trash bags and cars, and offer us a few hours of quiet.
  21. fashion
    Fashion Week Gets Breathing Room at the Starrett-Lehigh BuildingEditors, buyers, and influencers should have plenty of space (and enough elevators) at the industrial-scale Chelsea behemoth.
  22. developing
    Anyone Know Where to Park a 1,000-Foot Ocean Liner?A real-estate company’s plans to turn the S.S. United States into a floating hotel may not work out.
  23. collecting
    Down the eBay Rabbit Hole to Find a Bitossi ClockThese chunky mid-century ceramics looked ugly at first. Then I had to have my own.
  24. redevelopment
    The Limelight’s Next Act: TheaterFrom church to club to mall to gym — and, now, to performance space. Will this plan stick?
  25. reasons to love new york
    Good-bye, Beautiful Trash CansWe’re ditching you for something better.
  26. getting around
    Someone Broke Moynihan Train Hall’s Skylights — From the OutsideThe indoor scaffolding is just a precaution while the glass is replaced.
  27. getting around
    The Mostly Monochrome OMNY Kiosk Is HereStainless-steel machine delivers (in our extremely unscientific test) stainless performance.
  28. infrastructure watch
    Walling Up the East Side to Save ItWhy the floodgates on the waterfront look the way they do.
  29. developing
    The Flatiron Building’s Luxury-Housing Era Is BeginningLong, pointy, highly desirable apartments.
  30. rendering judgment
    The 2024 Streetery Is All About Light and AirA look at the new renderings from the city.
  31. photography
    When New York Started to Wake UpThe photographs in Metropolitan Melancholia, made in 2021 and 2022, document a city learning to un-shelter in place.
  32. architecture
    What Was Trump Tower?His co-star, his political launch pad, his longest-term companion.
  33. developing
    Eric Adams’s Big Housing Plan Is 100 Small Ideas in a TrenchcoatA lot of them are good. But can he push them through neighborhood resistance?
  34. loud town
    It’s Noise WeekStories about the people who make it, are trying to stop it, and are losing their minds over it.
  35. developing
    An Island of Affordable Housing at the World Trade CenterA third of the tower’s residents will have cheap rent and expensive neighbors.
  36. heat
    On New York’s First 110-Degree Summer Day, What Will Break First?Asphalt like molasses, grounded planes at midday, sun-buckled railroad tracks: a sweat-inducing list.
  37. getting around
    A Makeover for Third AvenueMore bike and bus lanes on the Upper East Side. It’s better!
  38. crime
    The Gilgo Beach Murder Suspect Was a Busy New York ArchitectRex Heuermann’s clients included Cipriani, Target, and Nike.
  39. getting around
    New Subway and Rail Tunnels Are Coming! Eventually.Maybe in 2035. Or later.
  40. rendering judgment
    262 Fifth Is the Skinny di Tutti SkinniesJust 26 apartments in an 860-foot tower.
  41. museums
    Sotheby’s Was the Only Serious Option for the BreuerThe Whitney’s old home has officially been sold.
  42. neighborhood news
    JPMorgan Chase Bets Big on the Revival of MidtownIf you build it, 270 Park says, they will commute.
  43. developing
    Owner of Flatiron Building Buys Flatiron BuildingJeffrey Gural got it on the second try and saved a bunch of money in the process.
  44. open restaurants
    The Permanent-Outdoor-Dining-Shed Bill Is Finally HereBut the design regulations are still up in the air.
  45. urban wildlife
    Pale Male, Fifth Avenue’s Beloved Hawk, Has DiedHe grew famous for nesting on — and then being evicted from and welcomed back to — a window lintel on Fifth Avenue opposite Central Park.
  46. curbed glossary
    The Hurb Is the Pop-Up Package Hub We’re Stuck With (For Now)It eats up precious street space. But unless the city acts, it’s the only way you’re going to get your Amazon socks and coffee filters.
  47. listings
    Miranda Priestly’s House Is for SaleUpper East Side, seven bedrooms and a private basketball court, $27.5 million. That’s all.
  48. bidding wars
    The Flatiron Sale Was a FlopA mystery buyer backed out, and the second-place bidder doesn’t want to pay.
  49. landmarks
    Who Wants to Buy the Flatiron Building?It goes up for auction today. Here’s what you could get for a couple hundred million.
  50. getting around
    The La Guardia AirTrain Is Dead. Now What?It’s a bus lane to the airport for now, and maybe a hard-to-build subway extension in the far, far future.
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