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 The mayor’s housing plan advances in the council, with some big concessions to NIMBYs. By Kim Velsey
  1. City of Yes-ish The mayor’s housing plan advances in the council, with some big concessions to NIMBYs.
    By Kim Velsey
  2. The History of the Modern Office in One Building The old MetLife complex on Madison Square, once a hive of paper-pushing clerks, gains a tall addition that’s all light and air.
    By Justin Davidson
  3. Arthur Sulzberger Jr. Is Moving to Morningside Heights The former New York Times publisher bought a $2.45 million condo in the Robert A.M. Stern–designed Claremont Hall.
    By Kim Velsey
  4. Can We Design Our Way Out of the Subway-Surfing Crisis? New trains make it much harder to climb out and up, and that’s yet another reason to upgrade.
    By Nolan Hicks
  5. The Look Book Goes to the New York Scottish Ball Dozens of Scots — and those who love them — gathered in Battery Park for an evening of whiskey and reels in full Highland dress.
    By Emily Leibert and Jeremy Rellosa
  6. We’re Finally Getting Some Real Rain So is the drought warning over?
    By Clio Chang
  7. Apple-Picking With Your Luxury Building Sounds Miserable Developers are trying to make adult field trips a hot new amenity for renters.
    By Clio Chang
  8. Artist Vivian Reiss’s Murray Hill House of Whimsy A brownstone that’s pink inside.
    By Wendy Goodman
  9. Two Balconies and a Grand Courtyard on E. 78th for $500,000 And a Brooklyn Heights two-bedroom co-op that doesn’t require board approval.
    By Clio Chang
  10. The Former Bank of New York Is Becoming a Circus And so is the rest of the city as developers scoop up spaces for adult playgrounds.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  11. A Dutch Designer’s Grand Return to New York Hella Jongerius’s first collaboration with Salon 94 features experimental textiles and a full cast of clay animals.
    By Wendy Goodman
  12. Bill Ackman Is Getting Out of the Beresford The hedge-fund billionaire is selling two units for a total of $20 million.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  13. The Trump Luxury Bump All-cash buyers in Manhattan seemed to be feeling pretty good last week, setting a seasonal high for contracts signed.
    By Kim Velsey
  14. The Approval Matrix: And Now, a Family Thanksgiving Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
  15. Introducing the New York Magazine x Knickerbocker Corner Store Collection This one’s for the bodegas.
    By The Editors
  16. The Black Hole on Columbia Heights An Italianate mansion mysteriously left to rot on Matt Damon’s Brooklyn Heights block.
    By Bridget Read
  17. This Week’s Worth-It New York City Apartment Listings A studio in the Kips Bay Towers, casement windows in Tudor City, and a hearth in Greenwich Village.
    By Nora DeLigter
  18. Where Does $9 Congestion Pricing Get Us? Trying to make sense of Kathy Hochul’s mess.
    By Nolan Hicks
  19. Congestion Pricing Is Back. Can Trump Still Kill It? On Thursday, Governor Hochul announced a new, reduced toll to get into Manhattan. The incoming president is not a fan.
    By Nia Prater
  20. My Monster Tenant He moved into our Noho loft — then tore out most of the interior walls. Turns out it wasn’t his first impromptu demolition.
    By Suzanne Seggerman
  21. A Reckoning for the Dilettante Real-Estate Agent Professional brokers are hoping new industry rules might cull the amateurs.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  22. Good-bye to the Broker Fee The City Council voted today to stop your landlord from passing his expenses on to you.
    By Clio Chang
  23. The Upper West Side’s Zone of Pedestrian Death The area around 96th Street is dangerous. And it’s hardly the worst in town.
    By Justin Davidson
  24. Ferrari Rocking Chairs, Giant Claes Oldenburg Sculptures, and More Design Finds Plus the openings of an LES homewares shop and a gallery in Seaport.
    By Morgan Meier
  25. The Brooklyn Botanic Garden Won Its Shadow Fight With Developers More sun for the greenhouse. Some affordable housing for Crown Heights.
    By Kim Velsey
  26. A Clinton Hill One-Bedroom With an Ideal Layout for $685,000 And a handsome little studio that made us reconsider the Financial District.
    By Clio Chang
  27. ‘New York City Will Have to Defend a Lot of Programs We Rely On’ What housing here might look like under a second Trump administration.
    By Kim Velsey
  28. Now the Wildfires Are Burning Here That smell in the air is from brush fires in Prospect Park and the Palisades.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  29. A Former Arts Colony With a Saltwater Pool in Woodstock And a David Henken retreat in the woods for less than a million.
    By Clio Chang
  30. The Best Wine & Spirits Shops in New York According to a sommelier, a restaurateur, and more.
    By Oset Babür-Winter
  31. ‘I Don’t Think There’s Anything in This Apartment That Wasn’t Custom’ This Noho duplex on the market is full of clever interventions.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  32. Chick-fil-A Tries to Tame the Delivery Chaos The chicken megachain swears a second Brooklyn location and a bike corral for delivery workers will help.
    By Clio Chang
  33. Attention, Satmar Shoppers: A Visit to Williamsburg’s W Mall A milchig food court and a refuge for weary mothers.
    By Talia Lavin
  34. Trump’s Election Means It’s Now or Never for Congestion Pricing Three billion dollars in federal matching funds will likely evaporate after January 20.
    By Nolan Hicks
  35. The Reddening of New York City How the boroughs voted may surprise you.
    By Clio Chang
  36. Don’t Look! Here’s Your No-Election Zone Let us help you rehab your attention span.
    By The Editors
  37. Watching New York Watch the Election From Trump Tower to a Chelsea art gallery, here’s where the city gathered and waited.
    By Curbed Staff
  38. What Am I Supposed to Do During This Drought Watch? Your dry-spell questions, answered.
    By Clio Chang
  39. A Kips Bay One-Bedroom With Brownstone Charm for $595,000 And a Greenwich Village studio with lovely built-ins and a Murphy bed.
    By Clio Chang
  40. Cross Your Fingers for the Whitney’s Breuer Building The interior’s not landmarked, and Herzog & de Meuron are going in to renovate.
    By Justin Davidson
  41. Ryan Lawson Lives Above His Favorite Italian Restaurant He designs other people’s places differently from how he did his own Village apartment.
    By Wendy Goodman
  42. Election Day Goat Hikes and Cold Plunges New Yorkers are coping with their dread by booking spa treatments.
    By Kim Velsey
  43. Concrete Behemoths in the Morning Light Owen Davies’s photographs of beige brutalism find beauty in these divisive landmarks.
    By Christopher Bonanos and Owen Davies
  44. The Look Book Goes to the Grindr Pleasure Ball The theme was “Flirts, Follies, and Finery,” and a Georgian-era dress code was strictly enforced by hosts Billy Porter and Frankie Sharp.
    By Emily Leibert
  45. The Approval Matrix: Election Eve Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
  46. I Am Already in Couch Hell Amazon’s $20 sofa will make it worse.
    By Bridget Read
  47. A Museum for Place-Setting Obsessives The International Museum of Dinnerware Design opens in Kingston.
    By Anna Hezel
  48. Feral Cats Have Taken Over Donald Trump’s Childhood Home Neighbors say the house looks abandoned, and the yard smells like a litter box.
    By Nick Fraccaro
  49. The Artist Behind the Trump Statues in Portland and Philly Explains His Work The artist explains the guerilla installations of Trump honoring his alleged “lifetime of sexual assault.”
    By Matt Stieb
  50. The Death Mask Unearthed at the Players Club A renovation of Edwin Booth’s room revealed the contents of a cabinet that had been locked for nearly 100 years
    By Wendy Goodman
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