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    How Big Should a House in East Hampton Be?The local debate over limiting future development is getting heated.
    By Stephanie Krikorian
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    It Ain’t Easy Co-Naming a StreetNaming a block for someone is meant to be an honor. Mostly it’s a mess.
    By Fran Hoepfner
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    The Year the Cybertruck Took ManhattanAll at once, Elon Musk’s goofy space tanks seemed to be everywhere.
    By Clio Chang
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    The Black Hole on Columbia HeightsAn Italianate mansion mysteriously left to rot on Matt Damon’s Brooklyn Heights block.
    By Bridget Read
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    How Gowanus Got Even StinkierResidents say a Superfund dig has unleashed a smell worse than anything they’ve encountered in 50 years.
    By Clio Chang
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    The Bed-Stuy Aquarium Dried UpAnd all the fish are dead.
    By Clio Chang
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    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
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    The Fight Over the Chrysler Building Is Getting WeirdAby Rosen’s RFR claims Cooper Union’s handling of student protests drove away tenants. Where is all of this heading?
    By Kim Velsey
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    A Reversal on the Reversal of the McGuinness Boulevard PlanA 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
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    E-Scooters Have Divided Suburban QueensSome residents and politicians call them “woke transport.” Others are happily riding them to the 7 train.
    By Clio Chang
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    How to Make Six Figures By Reporting Idling TrucksNew York created a program that let citizens earn money by reporting polluters. Then it went to war with them.
    By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi
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    The Hoopla Over Ho-HumA neighboring town challenged Bellport Village residents’ exclusive access to a Fire Island beach. The villagers aren’t having it.
    By Bridget Read
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    The City Wants to Demolish a West Village Recreation CenterThe historic Tony Dapolito center with a Keith Haring mural is landmarked but the city says it’s too expensive to preserve.
    By Clio Chang
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    The Billionaire vs. the Old MoneyOn a coveted slice of Lake Michigan, a land swap has triggered a seething conflict over the malign influence of wealth.
    By Ben Ryder Howe
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    Turns Out Those Giant Link5G Towers Don’t Have 5GTwo years later, most of them are just glorified internet kiosks.
    By Clio Chang
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    The Four Seasons Hotel Is Coming BackAfter a four-year stalemate, Beanie Babies magnate Ty Warner has agreed to a reopening plan.
    By Clio Chang
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    The Battle Over the Bed-Stuy Tennis CourtsWhen a new tennis coach replaced the local teacher, many saw it as another sign of the neighborhood’s changes.
    By Clio Chang
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    The Dump Next DoorHow everyone in Woodstock started fighting over a 10-foot pile of backyard trash.
    By Clio Chang
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    The Portal, a public technology sculpture connecting Ireland and New York, Manhattan, New York, USA - 10 May 2024
    We Were Always Going to Moon the PortalThe inevitable desecration of the Flatiron installation.
    By Fran Hoepfner
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    ‘Please Don’t Hang Out Here’The West Village is wary but ready for Gen-Z fans of ‘Sex and the City’ to discover Magnolia Bakery and 66 Perry.
    By Clio Chang
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    The Sightseeing Bus Wars of New York CityThe legal drama, and alleged headbutting, playing out over tours to the Fearless Girl statue.
    By Jess McAllen
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    The Clash Over a Secret Tunnel Under a Crown Heights SynagogueIt’s causing a huge fight in the Chabad-Lubavitch movement — and destabilized two buildings in the process.
    By Kim Velsey
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    Where the Banned Brooklyn Bridge Vendors WentJust off the bridge, down the most Instagrammed street in the world, a new cluster of vendors is upsetting Dumbo residents.
    By Adriane Quinlan
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    The Neon Peace Sign Causing Friction at the AnsoniaA 69-year-old resident was ordered to remove the symbol in her window nearly a decade ago. Now it’s back.
    By Clio Chang
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    Travis Scott Made Dean Street QuakeMonday night’s show at Barclays caused neighboring buildings to vibrate. The Fire Department was summoned.
    By Bridget Read
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    One of New York’s Most Secretive Real-Estate Families Goes SuccessionA lawsuit reveals squabbling and allegations of mismanagement among the heirs to Solil Management’s billion-dollar portfolio
    By Kim Velsey
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    The Great ‘Fentanyl Trash Can’ Freak-outHow competing text threads, park litter, and a tragic Bronx day-care death made Brooklyn parents lose their minds.
    By Clio Chang
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    Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade Is Un-CanceledThanks to a dog food company.
    By Clio Chang
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    How to Fake-Own the New Yorker HotelA fraudster got himself a rent-stabilized lease at the Hell’s Kitchen landmark. Then he tried to take it over.
    By Clio Chang
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    The IHOP Kingpin vs. the American RevolutionariesWhen Domenic Broccoli set out to expand his pancake empire to upstate New York, he didn’t expect to find a grave site — or start a war.
    By Reeves Wiedeman
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    Is Taylor Swift’s Sidewalk Properly Maintained?Dozens of tickets from the Department of Sanitation say one thing. Neighbors insist it’s fine.
    By Zach Schiffman
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    McNally Jackson Joins the Elizabeth Street Garden FrayAn appeals court ruled the affordable-housing development could move forward; the bookstore was not pleased.
    By Clio Chang
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    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.”
    By Clio Chang
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    The Tiny Newspapers at War in the West VillageFeaturing alleged graphic-design theft, 9/11 truthers, and Sarah Jessica Parker.
    By Clio Chang
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    ‘We Were Called Gentrifiers, and We Were Called NIMBYs’Councilmember Julie Won on how the largest private affordable-housing development in Queens history was won.
    By Bridget Read
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    The Elizabeth Street Garden Fight Is Not Over After AllA new court ruling is the latest in a ten-year delay. Will the city’s seniors live to see the affordable housing approved in their name?
    By Kim Velsey
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    There’s a Campaign-Sign War Happening in BrooklynAccording to at least three people.
    By Clio Chang
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    The Saga of the Park Slope Dog Murderer Is Never-endingLet us catch you up.
    By Clio Chang
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    NYC Restaurants Aren’t About To Give Up Outdoor DiningHow thousands of restaurants speedily, messily, and probably permanently took over the street.
    By Simon van Zuylen-Wood
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    13 Years, 3 Mayors, Countless Community Board Meetings, and Just One BuildingThe tortured saga of turning a Hell’s Kitchen parking lot into 112 affordable apartment units.
    By Bridget Read
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    Two Psychotherapists and Trash Bins Are Defeating the Rats of Sterling Place“We are not the rat police.”
    By Clio Chang
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    Is the Beanie Babies Inventor Trying to Kill the Four Seasons?There’s a reported standoff over the future of the Billionaires’ Row fixture.
    By Clio Chang
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    Tenants Prevail Over ScaffoldingThanks, in part, to 79 tweets.
    By Clio Chang
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    How Big Should an Umbrella Be?A fight about sidewalks featuring Pat Kiernan.
    By Clio Chang
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    The French-Bulldog Drama That You NeededThe situation has spiraled.
    By Clio Chang
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    Woodstock Divided by Lawn-Sign SaboteursThe drama centers around the local library.
    By Clio Chang
  47. tales from nextdoor
    There’s a War Raging Between Parents and Dog Owners at Cooper Park“Kids don’t pee and poop on the grass nor anywhere!”
    By Clio Chang
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    Whose Broken Pole Is This?An epic tour through city agencies and utility companies about a pole that could (probably) fall over.
    By Clio Chang
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    The Bizarre Drama Over Clinton Hill’s New Sex ShopI did not expect allegations of paid protesters to be part of this.
    By Clio Chang
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    ‘I’m Not Sure Whether I Wanted It to Go This Far’A fight over garden-bed rotations and democratic living at one of the city’s most storied co-ops.
    By Clio Chang
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