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  1. The Permanent-Outdoor-Dining-Shed Bill Is Finally Here But the design regulations are still up in the air.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  2. The Case for Taxing Vehicles by Weight Meet Deion Sanders’s Ford F-650 super-truck.
    By Alissa Walker
  3. Containerization May Be Coming to New York City Restaurants The bins-over-bags proposal could go into effect as early as July.
    By Clio Chang
  4. The Off-Peak Rider Is the Future of the Subway The pandemic changed how we commute. Time to invest accordingly.
    By Alissa Walker
  5. Pale Male, Fifth Avenue’s Beloved Hawk, Has Died He grew famous for nesting on — and then being evicted from and welcomed back to — a window lintel on Fifth Avenue opposite Central Park.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  6. Meghan and Harry Were in a Two-Hour Car Chase Across Manhattan The pursuit by “highly aggressive paparazzi” nearly caused multiple crashes, according to a spokesperson.
    By Clio Chang
  7. A Minimalist Nick Poe–Designed Dispensary Opens Downtown Drug Store looks more like a Donald Judd installation than a weed store, and it draws a skater crowd.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  8. Century 21 Is Back After three long years, the luxury-bargain flagship reopened. The faithful turned out.
    By Clio Chang
  9. Our City’s Billionaires Are Debasing Themselves for a Casino License Jay-Z is pleading on Instagram, while other hopefuls offer LED gardens and gratis hot dogs.
    By Kim Velsey
  10. An ‘Old School’ ’80s Soho Loft Gets a Family-Friendly Makeover “You want a place where the kids can run around or knock something over,” says father of four Greg Griffith.
    By Wendy Goodman
  11. A Clinton Hill Carriage House With a Glass-Walled Sunroom and a Private Garage A local broker saw the potential in a neighborhood Italian restaurant and made it uniquely hers.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  12. A Deceased Tenant; a ‘Strong, Foul Smell’; and a Police Padlock A New York City nightmare, as seen in one lawsuit.
    By Clio Chang
  13. When Your Art Studio Is Also Your Apartment “I’m really lucky to have roommates who don’t care very much.”
    By Jesse James Thompson
  14. A New Infinity Room, Architecture for Ants, I ♥ NY Knockoffs, and More Finds Plus a COVID memorial at Greenwood Cemetery.
    By Diana Budds
  15. 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.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  16. ‘We Were Riding in a City That Simply Hadn’t Existed Just a Few Years Earlier’ Reflecting on a decade of Citi Bike with a dozen New Yorkers who made it happen.
    By Alissa Walker
  17. Developing Governors Island in Order to Save It A plan that aims to preserve both its low-rise nature and the earth.
    By Justin Davidson
  18. The Look Book Goes to Parsons During Finals We talked to students leaving class on one of the last Mondays of the semester.
    By Kelsie Schrader and Jenna Milliner-Waddell
  19. Hiba Schahbaz Pictured Herself Painting Here She found the Bushwick building after walking by one day and admiring the windows; she imagined that it would be a great place to work.
    By Wendy Goodman
  20. The Best Stationery Stores in New York Stationery stores for when you need Tiffany-blue card stock or any type of pen imaginable.
    By Madeline Diamond
  21. Have You Seen the Courthouse Where George Santos Surrendered? Richard Meier’s behemoth is the Death Star of the Southern State Parkway.
    By Clio Chang
  22. A ‘Greater New York’ for Designers At the new Bushwick gallery International Objects.
    By Diana Budds
  23. Spiraling in San Francisco’s Doom Loop What it’s like to live in a city that no longer believes its problems can be fixed.
    By Elizabeth Weil
  24. Hannah Levy’s Two Studios in One The sculptor took over a floor of this South Bronx building with ten friends, each carving out their own space.
    By Wendy Goodman
  25. ‘I Would Like Everyone to Pretend That Was Their Son’ AOC on Jordan Neely’s killing and who gets to feel safe in New York.
    By Angelina Chapin
  26. MrBeast Is Building a Hype Neighborhood The viral stunt philanthropist is buying up a cul-de-sac in his hometown for friends and family.
    By Clio Chang
  27. Landlords Want the Supreme Court to Kill Rent Stabilization Their petition is the culmination of a four-year battle against tenant protections.
    By Kim Velsey
  28. Snøhetta Workers Say They Want a Union If they succeed, Snøhetta would become only the second private firm to unionize in almost a century.
    By Clio Chang
  29. Artist Firelei Báez Has Always Kept It Moving “I think growing up in precarity prepared me for the life of an artist because I knew that poverty wasn’t the end of things.”
    By Wendy Goodman
  30. We’re Another Step Closer to Congestion Pricing The Federal Highway Administration has given the plan its blessing, even if New Jersey politicians are crying.
    By Alissa Walker
  31. Mining the Milton Glaser Archives From never-printed Broadway posters to a Manhattan phone-book cover, seven works from the designer’s early decades.
    By Diana Budds
  32. 8 Dead After Motorist Drives SUV Into Group of Migrants in Texas The driver, who was identified on Monday, has been arrested and charged with eight counts of manslaughter.
    By Intelligencer Staff
  33. Who Wants to Vacation on Epstein Island? The buyer of Little St. James is planning to convert it into a luxury resort.
    By Kim Velsey
  34. Free the Curb! Talking to Henry Grabar about how parking ate our cities, and how to get them back.
    By Alissa Walker
  35. Hugh Hayden Makes Art in a Former Fruit Warehouse Zebras and Barbies and bears and a dog named Mars.
    By Wendy Goodman
  36. A New Kind of Chinatown Long Island City has become a destination for dan dan noodles, durian mochi, and more.
    By Mahira Rivers
  37. The Outrage Over Jordan Neely’s Killing Isn’t Going Away The ex-Marine who choked him to death has finally been identified, but it’s still not clear if he will face charges.
    By Matt Stieb and Paula Aceves
  38. ‘I Wasn’t Thinking That Anybody Was Going to Die.’ Speaking with Juan Alberto Vasquez, the passenger who recorded the video of Jordan Neely on the F train
    By Paula Aceves
  39. How to Design a King Charles III’s coronation is ultimately a performance of majesty. The props matter.
    By Kelly Faircloth
  40. Too Many Cats Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
  41. ‘I Was Always in Awe Seeing Him Dance’ Jordan Neely, as remembered by his Michael Jackson “fanmily.”
    By Bridget Read
  42. Miranda Priestly’s House Is for Sale Upper East Side, seven bedrooms and a private basketball court, $27.5 million. That’s all.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  43. Ikea’s Answer to Inflation? Make Things Flimsier. With hollow table legs, paper veneers, and more plastic.
    By Diana Budds
  44. The Rent Guidelines Board Is in for a Messy Spring With increases on the horizon, a raucous Tuesday-night vote was a signal of what’s to come.
    By Kim Velsey
  45. Ed Sheeran Is the Mystery Tenant of Brooklyn’s Most Expensive Listing The $36,000-a-month Pierhouse duplex broke records when it hit the market earlier this year.
    By Zach Schiffman
  46. The City Can Fix Its Rat Problem If It Loses 150,000 Parking Spots Win win!
    By Clio Chang
  47. The Blood Feud Brewing Inside Nom Wah Tea Parlor A family fight threatens the iconic Doyers Street restaurant.
    By Chris Crowley
  48. Resurrecting a Mini-Mall Where Fake Luxury Bags Once Ruled An artists’ collective presents an archive of a Chinatown counterfeit haven at Storefront for Art and Architecture.
    By Gideon Fink Shapiro
  49. Your Local Councilmember Might Have Been at the Met Gala A roundup of the local politicians and notables who made the Anna Wintour cut.
    By Clio Chang
  50. The Interior World of Photographer Richard Avedon On the occasion of what would have been his 100th birthday, a look back at the photographer’s Upper East Side apartment on the year of his death.
    By Wendy Goodman
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