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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. remembrances
    The Godfather of ‘Pay for Your Goddamn Parking’ Has DiedDonald Shoup’s core argument — that free parking is never free — has gone mainstream.
  2. apartment hunting
    Are Kamala and Doug Really Moving to West 61st Street?We’ll believe it when we see it.
  3. landmarks
    Carrie Bradshaw’s Stoop Will Get a GateThe Landmarks Preservation Commission granted the Perry Street homeowner’s request for a little buffer against the TikTok hordes.
  4. neighborhood news
    Facing Congestion PricingThe full range of views from behind the wheel.
  5. getting around
    It’s OnAs the congestion-pricing toll system went live, enthusiasts (and a couple of others) gathered to cheer at the uptown edge of the Manhattan fare zone.
  6. neighborhood news
    The World’s Largest Stegosaurus Comes to New York CityThe $44.6 million mega-Stegosaurus has gone on view (if only temporarily) at the American Museum of Natural History.
  7. historic preservation
    The Slow Death of NeonRockefeller Center is proposing to rip out its glowing glass signage in favor of LEDs. It joins a heap of others.
  8. best of 2024
    The Best Books of 2024The novels and nonfiction that gave us unique perspectives on what it’s like to experience the world in all its sorrow and wonder.
  9. gift guide
    The Best New Books to Give Architecture and Design EnthusiastsFrom a Shigeru Ban monograph to a book of national-parks maps, a selection of the year’s best books for design lovers.
  10. 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.
  11. photography
    Concrete Behemoths in the Morning LightOwen Davies’s photographs of beige brutalism find beauty in these divisive landmarks.
  12. getting around
    It’ll Be a Whole New Fifth AvenueMore trees, wider sidewalks, and fewer cars.
  13. neighborhood news
    The World’s Largest Plumbing RepairNew York City’s principal water-supply aqueduct gets a bypass operation.
  14. 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.
  15. neighborhood news
    Aaron Judge UnchainedIn this career season, he saw a mini-slowdown in early September. That’s over now.
  16. 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.
  17. getting around
    Some Chump Drilled a Hole Through the Top of the Queens-Midtown TunnelIt was closed all afternoon.
  18. getting around
    Park Avenue’s Park Is Coming Back. Partially. Eventually.Restoring part of a gracious streetscape that we once ceded to cars.
  19. theater review
    Sutton Foster Brings Some Bounce to Once Upon a MattressWorking off a book freshened up by Amy Sherman-Palladino, the actress gives it her all in this transfer of an Encores! production.
  20. brick and mortar
    Pour a Little Frappuccino Out for the Astor Place StarbucksIt’s closed after nearly 30 years.
  21. vulture lists
    Billy Joel At Home In Los Angeles
    Every Billy Joel Song, RankedHe’s a better pop songwriter than you remember.
  22. neighborhood news
    Why the Third Avenue Bridge Got StuckAging infrastructure? Global warming? Not exactly.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. getting around
    At the Last Second, Hochul Ditches Congestion Pricing by the Side of the RoadWe were so close to getting there on time!
  26. rendering judgment
    Port Authority Plus a MicroparkThe newest renderings of the remade bus terminal are slightly less Apple Store, too.
  27. neighborhood news
    And Just Like That … Brings SJP Back to Gramercy ParkA moment with SJP as she shoots season three of And Just Like That…. John Corbett, a.k.a. Aidan, made an appearance that day as well.
  28. 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.
  29. neighborhood news
    The Cannabis Crackdown BeginsThe Adams administration’s “Operation Padlock to Protect” gets underway.
  30. who ate where
    The Magazine Staff That Bought Its Favorite RestaurantWhen Canton Village was in trouble, Time’s editors came to the rescue.
  31. getting around
    The Hardest-Working Turnstile in the SubwayIt makes about 3 million spins a year.
  32. 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.
  33. reread
    New York Magazine Party
    Happy 90th Birthday, Gloria Steinem!To celebrate, we’re republishing 15 pieces of her writing for New York.
  34. 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.
  35. 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.
  36. 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.
  37. 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.
  38. 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.
  39. redevelopment
    The Limelight’s Next Act: TheaterFrom church to club to mall to gym — and, now, to performance space. Will this plan stick?
  40. reasons to love new york
    Good-bye, Beautiful Trash CansWe’re ditching you for something better.
  41. getting around
    Someone Broke Moynihan Train Hall’s Skylights — From the OutsideThe indoor scaffolding is just a precaution while the glass is replaced.
  42. getting around
    The Mostly Monochrome OMNY Kiosk Is HereStainless-steel machine delivers (in our extremely unscientific test) stainless performance.
  43. infrastructure watch
    Walling Up the East Side to Save ItWhy the floodgates on the waterfront look the way they do.
  44. developing
    The Flatiron Building’s Luxury-Housing Era Is BeginningLong, pointy, highly desirable apartments.
  45. rendering judgment
    The 2024 Streetery Is All About Light and AirA look at the new renderings from the city.
  46. 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.
  47. architecture
    What Was Trump Tower?His co-star, his political launch pad, his longest-term companion.
  48. 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?
  49. reread
    Tom Wolfe’s Worldview Came Into Focus In New YorkThe new documentary “Radical Wolfe” captures a singular writer whose story is bound up with our own—as you can read in his freshly-digitized archive.
  50. loud town
    It’s Noise WeekStories about the people who make it, are trying to stop it, and are losing their minds over it.
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