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The Bed-Stuy Aquarium Dried Up

 And all the fish are dead. By Clio Chang
  1. The Queen Bunk-Bed Influencers Despite living in a tiny West Village studio, this couple will never go back to sharing a bed.
    By Clio Chang
  2. The MTA’s Oldest Computer Controls Kept Going During the Global Tech Outage Most of the Cuomo-era countdown clocks on the lettered subway lines failed; the old ones on the numbered lines did not.
    By Nolan Hicks
  3. Kareem Rahma Wore Wool Suits in the Summer Because of Mad Men The host of Subway Takes on moving to New York the year of Hurricane Sandy and the Alphabet City apartment where everyone came to crash.
    By Zach Schiffman
  4. Shigeru Ban’s Dazzling Architecture of Time The architect’s approach (and choice of materials) embraces simplicity and change.
    By Philip Jodidio and Introduction by Justin Davidson
  5. The Look Book Goes to the Campus Galleries Upstate For the opening of Bortolami, James Cohan, kaufmann repetto, Anton Kern, Andrew Kreps, and kurimanzutto’s shared art space in Claverack.
    By Kelsie Schrader and Jenna Milliner-Waddell
  6. The City’s Quiet Crackdown on Kava Bars The businesses selling kava and kratom drinks have found themselves in a legal limbo.
    By Chris Crowley
  7. Why the Third Avenue Bridge Got Stuck Aging infrastructure? Global warming? Not exactly.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  8. The City’s Crawling With Feral Cats Obsessed volunteers are the only thing standing between the city and a stream of disease-ridden cats. They’re barely making a dent.
    By Molly Osberg
  9. Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor Power Supply Is Ancient and Failing Those hot-weather slowdowns and stoppages are largely the fault of one outdated piece of infrastructure.
    By Nolan Hicks
  10. Crest Hardware Is Closing Owner Joe Franquinha confirmed the news in a letter to customers.
    By Sukjong Hong and Clio Chang
  11. The Look Book Goes to Brooklyn Prep’s Prom The high school’s senior class (and one precious junior) celebrated at Russo’s on the Bay in Queens with steak dinners and dancing.
    By Kelsie Schrader and Jenna Milliner-Waddell
  12. What Did Brooklyn Bridge Park Get So Right? Nearly 20 years after we broke ground, it’s more impressive than ever.
    By Justin Davidson
  13. Ikea Will Try (for the Third Time) to Open a Manhattan Store Three previous mini-stores, like your Lack coffee table, fell apart after only a couple of years.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  14. The Citi Bike Battery Crew Racing to Keep 15,000 Bikes Online Most docks don’t charge e-bikes (yet). These folks do.
    By John Surico
  15. The West Village ‘Pink House’ Where the Naked Angels Play Developer Mark O’Brien bought a 185-year-old townhouse. Then he let actors take over.
    By Kate Brennan
  16. Ryan Serhant Was a Hand Model for AT&T The broker and Owning Manhattan reality star on his earliest days in the city.
    By Clio Chang
  17. A Well-Engineered BQE Plan, Inspiration Not Included The city’s latest proposal rearranges the triple-cantilever section and declines the opportunity to do much more.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  18. What Is Stonewall in 2024? A touristy dive bar, an unfinished liberation movement, and now a visitor center within the National Park Service.
    By Brock Colyar
  19. The Four Seasons Hotel Is Coming Back After a four-year stalemate, Beanie Babies magnate Ty Warner has agreed to a reopening plan.
    By Clio Chang
  20. How to Throw a Child’s Park Birthday Party in New York How tricky could it be to gather 25 kindergartners and their caregivers in Prospect Park on a Saturday afternoon? Actually quite.
    By Laura Fenton
  21. What Made Kathy Hochul Flip? Inside the governor’s sudden U-turn on congestion pricing.
    By Nolan Hicks
  22. An Emporium of Everything From a Former Pencil-Shop Owner The Locavore Variety Store stocks everything from Wiffle balls to pizzeria dish detergent. And, of course, pencils.
    By Emma Orlow
  23. The Co-op Where Everyone’s an Architecture Critic When Paul Goldberger moved into U.N. Plaza last year, he joined a cohort of design-obsessed new owners.
    By Fred A. Bernstein
  24. Inside the Bizarre Architectural Mind of Frederick Kiesler Spinning wraparound bookshelves, continually evolving half-underground houses: A show at the Jewish Museum celebrates an eccentric visionary.
    By Justin Davidson
  25. The Look Book Goes to Hypebeast Flea The streetwear site, in partnership with Depop, recently hosted a market in Greenpoint Terminal that drew more than 6,000 shoppers.
    By Kelsie Schrader and Jenna Milliner-Waddell
  26. We Need Congestion Pricing, and Kathy Hochul Blew It She threw us under the bus (and it’s stuck in traffic).
    By Justin Davidson
  27. No More Celebrity Stoop Sales Jenna Lyons’s should be the last.
    By Bridget Read
  28. At the Last Second, Hochul Ditches Congestion Pricing by the Side of the Road We were so close to getting there on time!
    By Christopher Bonanos
  29. 7 Especially Excellent New Shops in New York A Japanese clothing boutique that’s also a 2,000-book library, a furniture showroom that looks like a StreetEasy listing, and other standout shops.
    By Emilia Petrarca
  30. The City’s New Bathroom Map Is Actually Pretty Handy Though the options are still dire in a lot of neighborhoods.
    By Clio Chang
  31. A Former Santander Bank for $1 a Month How an artist managed to get the best deal in New York City.
    By Clio Chang
  32. Port Authority Plus a Micropark The newest renderings of the remade bus terminal are slightly less Apple Store, too.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  33. The Private Helicopter to the Private Jet Is the New Flying Private The five-minute helicopter ride to Teterboro eliminates a 20-minute drive.
    By Andrew Zucker
  34. The Battle Over the Bed-Stuy Tennis Courts When a new tennis coach replaced the local teacher, many saw it as another sign of the neighborhood’s changes.
    By Clio Chang
  35. The Roommates Who See Each Other 5 Minutes a Week How two friends on opposite schedules make it work (and get enough sleep).
    By Kayla Levy
  36. The Dump Next Door How everyone in Woodstock started fighting over a 10-foot pile of backyard trash.
    By Clio Chang
  37. The Look Book Goes to American Girl Place Every weekend, little girls from all over the country descend on the Rockefeller Center store to experience its particular genre of retail magic.
    By Kelsie Schrader and Jenna Milliner-Waddell
  38. The Uncanny New York City of Megalopolis Francis Ford Coppola’s New Rome is an anarchic stream of 40 years’ thinking about the city.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  39. Walking Around New York City With a Tiny Saw A morning with the spring class of citizen street-tree pruners.
    By Clio Chang
  40. When Your Dream Apartment Keeps Flooding To move or not to move, that is the question.
    By Kim Velsey
  41. The Low-Key Inventiveness of SO-IL’s Apartment Buildings Three midsize Brooklyn projects display unusual, flexible architectural thinking.
    By Justin Davidson
  42. Atelier Jolie Was Just the Beginning The city is swimming in ateliers right now.
    By Fran Hoepfner
  43. Tiny Electric Trucks Are Coming to a Bike Lane Near You They’re part of New York City’s plan to use pedal power to get all those packages to your door.
    By John Surico
  44. The Look Book Goes to a Pyramid Club Reunion In celebration of the new book “We Started a Nightclub,” former clubgoers gathered at their old East Village stomping ground for a homecoming.
    By Kelsie Schrader and Jenna Milliner-Waddell
  45. Caroline Calloway’s Tribute Plaque Is Gone She says she did not have anything to do with it in the first place.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  46. Does Rat Birth Control Actually Work? And everything else we wanted to know about this novel approach to the city’s rat problem.
    By Clio Chang
  47. Locked Out and Locked In at Columbia University The NYPD’s action on campus began with clearing reporters from the scene.
    By Samaa Khullar
  48. The Showdown at NYU Over Public Space The “campus without walls” has responded to pro-Palestine protesters with barricades and restrictions on its open spaces.
    By Alex Tey
  49. The ‘Platonic Life Partners’ Raising a Baby in a Flatbush Duplex The roommates share a business and a home. The only thing they don’t share is their love lives.
    By Kayla Levy
  50. John Early Lived With a Lesbian Minister and Her Dog When He Moved Here Talking to the cast of Stress Positions about their early days in the city.
    By Clio Chang
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