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  1. The Bed-Stuy Aquarium Dried Up And all the fish are dead.
    By Clio Chang
  2. Douglas Elliman CEO Howard Lorber Is Out — But Why Now? Head of the brokerage for more than two decades, Lorber faced criticism for his handling of complaints against Tal and Oren Alexander.
    By Bridget Read
  3. Raffi Is Selling His House The musician and activist’s Salt Spring Island three-bedroom has wood beams and ocean views and is going for $1.875 million.
    By Clio Chang
  4. A Fitting End to the Saga of Rudy Giuliani’s Apartment “America’s mayor” always wanted a penthouse. Now the Georgia election workers he defamed own it.
    By Bridget Read
  5. How to Look at Zillow With John Wilson A landlord’s offer spurred the documentarian and HBO host to go on a listings deep dive.
    By John Wilson
  6. A Wonderfully Sprawling Lenox Hill Three-Bedroom for $849,000 And a charming Woodside one-bedroom with a delightful little price.
    By Kim Velsey
  7. The Water-Tower Penthouse in the Bronx Gigi Loizzo and Angel Molina’s rooftop apartment on the Grand Concourse looks out on Yankee Stadium.
    By Wendy Goodman
  8. The Vessel, Newly Closed-In, Is Open Again Safer, surely, but still as dumb an attraction as ever.
    By Justin Davidson
  9. Megalopolis Is Yet Another Neri Oxman Fantasy Mystery substances that can grow buildings, heal wounds, and stop time? Why not.
    By Kate Wagner
  10. Trying to Get Mom and Dad to Move Out of Florida The New Yorkers fighting their retiree parents about leaving hurricane zones behind for good.
    By Will Peischel
  11. An ‘Italian Hill Town’ for Biohackers and Crypto CEOs Welcome to Esmeralda.
    By Clio Chang
  12. The Approval Matrix: We’re Hearing Things Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
  13. The Real Russian Oligarch Family Who Built Anora’s Mansion Not much seems to have changed in the 14,000-square-foot compound in Mill Basin since the Anisimov family moved out a decade ago.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  14. Audrey Gelman Is Selling Her Upstate Compound The $2.995 million listing features three separate houses, a pond, a pool, and a lot of quilts.
    By Kim Velsey
  15. This Week’s Worth-It New York City Apartment Listings A Full House–esque three-bedroom in Ridgewood.
    By Nora DeLigter
  16. It’ll Be a Whole New Fifth Avenue More trees, wider sidewalks, and fewer cars.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  17. Rosario Candela Invented the Upper East Side Apartment David Netto’s new book tells the story of how the architect defined quiet luxury in New York City.
    By David Netto
  18. 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
  19. Why Do Concert Halls Still Matter? An antique architectural form that continues to resonate.
    By Justin Davidson
  20. A Golf Simulator Is Never Far Astroturf, projector screens, and men in deep concentration over their swings are taking over Manhattan (and some of Brooklyn).
    By Clio Chang
  21. I Rode the Skylift (Twice) Tishman Speyer’s vision for a theme park at the top of Rockefeller Center is complete. The city is weirder for it.
    By Zach Schiffman
  22. A Non-Claustrophobic Studio With River Views in Tudor City for $325,000 And charming arched windows and a sunken living room in Carroll Gardens.
    By Kim Velsey
  23. The Unbuilt Bridge That’s Strangling Penn Station We need a second span out in Jersey, and nobody’s funded it yet.
    By Nolan Hicks
  24. An Inn From 1807 With a Separate Carriage House in Stone Ridge And a stunning post-and-beam home with warm stone and river views in High Falls.
    By Clio Chang
  25. What It’s Like to Be an Undercover Luxury-Hotel Inspector “I’ve had to spill something on my clothes so I could send it down to get cleaned by laundry.”
    By Bianca Bosker
  26. A Hidden Artist’s Complex Behind Spring Street A screenwriter recruited friends to fix up a tenement in Nolita. In the half-century since, it’s housed artists, editors, and Laila Gohar.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  27. The Fight Over the Chrysler Building Is Getting Weird Aby Rosen’s RFR claims Cooper Union’s handling of student protests drove away tenants. Where is all of this heading?
    By Kim Velsey
  28. Outdoor Dining Isn’t Dead Yet Streetery season is ending, but thousands of restaurants are making preparations for next spring.
    By Chris Crowley
  29. No One Wants to Live Near TikTokers From Dumbo to the West Village, brokers say hordes of content creators are giving clients cold feet.
    By Clio Chang
  30. The Look Book Goes to ¡VAYA! Dance Night at Lincoln Center Regulars flooded into the monthly Latin-music night for the return of charanga band Orquesta Broadway.
    By Emily Leibert
  31. The Panic About the Parapets A new regulation about roofline walls is making brownstone owners anxious. Does it apply to them? Can they get out of it? Are they being exploited?
    By Kim Velsey
  32. Steel Ribbon Benches, Wiggle Chairs, and More Design Finds Plus a moody new piano bar in Hell’s Kitchen.
    By Morgan Meier
  33. The Accidental Day Care in My Living Room When our sons’ Brooklyn nursery lost its license, we decided to play host until the problem was resolved. How long could it take?
    By Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
  34. Chris Perfetti Served Tony Kushner Crab Cakes The Abbott Elementary actor on being hated on the A train and the magic of Lincoln Center Library.
    By Zach Schiffman
  35. A Charmingly ’90s Lenox Hill Two-Bedroom for $875,000 And a fixer-upper in Jackson Heights with tons of space.
    By Kim Velsey
  36. From a Downtown Loft to a Sutton Place Classic Seven After 18 years in Noho and three in a Paul Rudolph pleasure palace, Christine and John Gachot decided to try something more traditional.
    By Wendy Goodman
  37. New Jersey Sells Itself to the World The Garden State is trying to attract tourists from Dublin to Munich. What do they think once they arrive?
    By Will Peischel
  38. A Trump Lawyer’s 1980s Time Capsule and a Prominently Displayed Weed Plant This week’s batch of small but notable things found in apartment listings also includes an opera singer’s pair of grand pianos.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  39. The Santa Fe Home That Was Alexander Girard’s Final Triumph A new book by Todd Oldham and Kiera Coffee surveys everything the designer ever touched.
    By Wendy Goodman
  40. When a Townhouse Renovation Raises Questions About a City’s Future A debate about gentrification is set against a backdrop of monochrome and tasteful decor in ‘Good Bones’ at the Public.
    By Terry Nguyen
  41. The World’s Largest Plumbing Repair New York City’s principal water-supply aqueduct gets a bypass operation.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  42. Joby the Electric Helicopter Wants to Take You to JFK At some point in the future. If it can get FAA certification.
    By Clio Chang
  43. The Approval Matrix: School-Bus Meltdown, New York’s a Mets Town Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
  44. Darren Aronofsky Is Re-creating the ’90s East Village And Josh Safdie has brought Orchard Street back to the ’50s.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  45. A Reversal on the Reversal of the McGuinness Boulevard Plan A 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
  46. Do I Need to Panic About the Longshoremen Strike? We talked to an expert about supply chains, consumer behavior, and bananas.
    By Kim Velsey
  47. Mapping the Many Raids of Adams World Federal agents have spent a lot of time searching the homes and offices of our mayor and his administration. Let’s take a tour.
    By Clio Chang
  48. The Two Paul Rudolphs The Met’s retrospective reveals the architect’s vision and optimism — and his supreme arrogance.
    By Justin Davidson
  49. A Nearly Classic Six In Morningside Heights for $825,000 And a West Village studio with charm galore for $500,000.
    By Kim Velsey
  50. Adams Indictment Fallout Continues: Live Updates Another top aide resigned on Monday.
    By Intelligencer Staff
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