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  1. Vanderbilt University Just Signed a 99-Year Lease in Chelsea The school plans to take over the campus of the financially struggling General Theological Seminary.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  2. Rat Birth Control Is Happening The City Council voted in favor of a pilot to try to control the rodent population with contraceptives.
    By Clio Chang
  3. Director George C. Wolfe Is Selling His Gramercy Townhouse The former stables were once described as “a country cottage in the midst of a city block.”
    By Adriane Quinlan
  4. E-Scooters Have Divided Suburban Queens Some residents and politicians call them “woke transport.” Others are happily riding them to the 7 train.
    By Clio Chang
  5. The Best Massage Therapists in New York From Swedish to deep tissue and beyond: body-freeing massages.
    By Yasmin Gagné
  6. Do Subway Elevators Really Need to Cost $100 Million Per Station? They’re taking a huge bite out of the MTA’s budget.
    By Nolan Hicks
  7. How the Family of Birds in My Yard Became Internet Stars Who knew there was so much drama in nesting season?
    By David Pogue
  8. The Eavesdropper Goes to City Hall on Indictment Day We hustled downtown — stopping by the City Council and the offices of federal prosecutors, too — to hear what people are saying about the mayor.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  9. The Turkish Consulate at the Center of the Eric Adams Investigation Prosecutors say the mayor used his influence to speed up the opening of the building for Erdogan’s visit.
    By Kim Velsey
  10. The Grand Hotels of the Eric Adams Indictment The mayor really seemed to like the Istanbul St. Regis.
    By Clio Chang
  11. Buffalo Is Doing Preservation (Mostly) Right Giving its slow recovery a boost by spending money on its past.
    By Justin Davidson
  12. The Look Book Goes to the Armory Show Opening Party Ahead of the art fair at the Javits Center, artists, gallerists, and collectors gathered at the National Arts Club to celebrate.
    By Emily Leibert
  13. Jonquel Jones Showed Up at the Wrong Brooklyn Apartment on Moving Day The New York Liberty power forward on adjusting to high-rise living and getting recognized in Fort Greene Park.
    By Clio Chang
  14. The Via Carota Chefs Are Selling Their West Village Apartment Jody Williams and Rita Sodi’s kitchen is appropriately stunning.
    By Kim Velsey
  15. P. Diddy and Sam Bankman Fried Are Jail Bunkmates Sources say the rapper and the crypto king are in the same housing unit at the Metropolitan Detention Center.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  16. Jonathan Safran Foer’s Ditmas Park Mansion Just Listed for $35,000 a Month It has a saltwater pool out back.
    By Clio Chang
  17. They’re Not in Kansas City Anymore Todd and Emily Voth’s bold pied-à-terre in Herzog & de Meuron’s “Jenga Building” drinks in the city lights.
    By Wendy Goodman
  18. A Very Big Two Bedroom In a Rosario Candela Building for $975,000 And a one bedroom that’s a five minute walk to The Met for $669,000.
    By Kim Velsey
  19. A Milk-Themed Tribeca Bedroom and Other Things We Dug Up This Week This week’s batch of small-but-notable things found in the listings also includes an Old West saloon in a Park Avenue co-op.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  20. The Nantucket Buyers Betting Against Losing It All A waterfront house might last for two years or ten. These homeowners are willing to take the risk.
    By Kim Velsey
  21. The Approval Matrix: In the Grimace Seat Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
  22. How The Penguin’s Production Designer Created Her Gotham The Penguin sleeps in a Diamond District vault, the Falcones have a Long Island mansion, and everything is loosely 1970s-inspired.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  23. Aaron Judge Unchained In this career season, he saw a mini-slowdown in early September. That’s over now.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  24. Donald Judd’s Everlasting Influence Colin King, Nick Poe, and Landon Brown talk about the artist’s impact on their work.
    By Ian Volner
  25. A Frank Lloyd Wright Homage in Chappaqua Plus a four-bedroom Catskills A-frame cabin renovated by a food critic.
    By Clio Chang
  26. Ikea’s New Secondhand Shop Looks a Lot Like Facebook Marketplace A closer look at the company’s new “Preowned” concept.
    By Lindy Segal
  27. An Abandoned Red Hook Building Redesigned for a Cookbook Author An open kitchen on the top floor meant Jessie Sheehan could perfect her recipes and look out onto the New York Harbor.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  28. Making Plant Kween’s Crown Heights Apartment Bloom Just add wallpaper and lots of sun.
    By Wendy Goodman
  29. A Chelsea One-Bedroom With a Pool for Under a Million Plus a loftlike Park Slope one-bed with tin ceilings and two working fireplaces.
    By Kim Velsey
  30. The Summer When the New York Post Chased Son of Sam An oral history of the tabloid race to cover the serial killer
    By Susan Mulcahy and Frank DiGiacomo
  31. Where Sarah Jessica Parker and Simon Doonan Got Their Ribbons Remembering M&J Trimming, a Garment District institution that will soon be closing its doors.
    By Fiorella Valdesolo
  32. Rumaan Alam Moved to New York With a Bottle of Acqua di Giò and $300 The novelist on his early years scrimping in New York, even after getting a job at Condé Nast.
    By Clio Chang
  33. What Life Might Look Like on the World’s Biggest Yacht A pharmaceutical heir is traveling the globe selling multimillion-dollar apartments on his yet-to-be-built boat.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  34. The Look Book Goes to a White-Coat Ceremony Newly minted students at Weill Cornell Medical College recently gathered for a rite of passage: receiving their white coats from the faculty.
    By Kelsie Schrader and Jenna Milliner-Waddell
  35. East Hampton’s Zero Bond Outpost Has Closed After a summer of 911 calls and controversy, the restaurant’s one-season lease at the Hedges Inn was not extended
    By Stephanie Krikorian
  36. Philip Johnson’s First House Is for Sale The Westchester home was built a few years before the Glass House and looks a lot like it.
    By Kim Velsey
  37. The Apartment That Cereal Milk Built Is for Sale Christina Tosi and Will Guidara are selling their Chelsea floor-through for $5.895 million.
    By Clio Chang
  38. Larry Silverstein Outlasted Everyone There’s a lot of see-I-was-right-ness in his new memoir about rebuilding the World Trade Center — and often he was.
    By Justin Davidson
  39. In the Shack With Robert Caro The 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.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  40. You Need to Earn More Than $200,000 a Year to Buy in New York City Which is actually slightly lower than last year.
    By Clio Chang
  41. Derek Lam Is Selling His Gramercy Park Apartment The fashion designer is listing his place — which he completely redesigned — at a nearly $1 million loss.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  42. So Far, the New Broker-Fee Rules Are Good for Sellers As for whether housing prices go down, don’t bet on it.
    By Kim Velsey
  43. A Crown Heights Three-Bedroom With a Roof Deck for Under a Million Plus some very appealing red pocket doors in Park Slope.
    By Clio Chang
  44. Ali Richmond’s Crown Heights Loft Has a Higher Purpose The co-founder of the Fashion for All Foundation has lived in this space almost 20 years with his archive of designer clothing.
    By Wendy Goodman
  45. A Peacock Enclosure in Greenwich and Other Things We Dug Up This Week A new series on all the small but notable things we noticed from our sweep of real estate listings
    By Adriane Quinlan
  46. The First Artist Who Moved Into This Soho Loft Building Is Moving Out Sal Lindsay outstayed Jonas Mekas, the painters Bill Dutterer and Ida Applebroog, and the Billops-Hatch Collection.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  47. Frothy Gazebos, Beehive Lamps, and More Design Finds From a Brussels Fair For its New York debut, the Brussels-based Collectible design fair took over two office floors in Fidi.
    By Morgan Meier
  48. Pete Davidson and Colin Jost’s Ferry Goes to Fashion Week Its first gig is for Tommy Hilfiger.
    By Clio Chang
  49. The Approval Matrix: The Countess, the Spy, and Lana’s Lover Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
  50. Ruffled Vases, Chaises Longues Made of Pipes, and More Design Finds Plus, a new wedding-veil-inspired collection at Design Within Reach.
    By Morgan Meier
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