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Actual Anarchists Talk About New York’s ‘Anarchist Jurisdiction’ Designation
They commented, you will not be surprised to learn, by committee.
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How Do We Create an RBG Memorial That Isn’t Terrible?
As Governor Cuomo calls for a Ruth Bader Ginsburg statue in Brooklyn, we asked people with arts-commission experience where the pitfalls lie.
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NYC Delays In-Person Learning (Again) for Most Public-School Students, Sky-High Yoga, and Other News
Here’s some of what happened around town this week.
Brooklyn Heights One-Bedroom With Sharp Kitchen Reno, Micro Claw-foot Tub, for $675K
So close to the water.
New Yorkers Step in to Keep City Parks From Turning Into ‘Junkyards’
The city is neglecting its parks in the pandemic, just when we need them most.
Rents Are Down in Manhattan, But Up in Neighborhoods Hit Hardest by COVID-19
Yes, it’s a good time to get a deal in Manhattan. But in areas hardest-hit by COVID-19, rents are actually going up.
Budget Cuts Might Doom de Blasio’s Affordable Housing Legacy
Neighborhoods like Edgemere, Queens, now have to wait even longer for major housing projects to rise.
What You Need To Know Now About the Upper West Side Homeless Shelters Saga
The latest: The de Blasio administration has paused moving people from the Lucerne Hotel as Legal Aid lawyers negotiate terms.
Bloomberg Keeps ‘Tribute in Light’ Shining Through the Pandemic, Cops Save Opossum, and Other News
Here’s some of what happened around town this week.
A Photo Tour of The World Trade Center
Take a tour of the World Trade Center site, which has been rebuilt in the nearly two decades since 9/11
Brooklyn Museum–Adjacent Apartment With Two Large Bedrooms Asks $875K
It comes with plenty of prewar touches including an arched doorway and base moldings.
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Amenity-Laden Apartment Towers Try to Keep Their Bored Residents Occupied
Who’s up for a virtual mixology class?
Community Gardens As Classrooms, Love on the Gowanus Canal, and Other News
Here’s everything that’s been happening around the city this week.
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Hotels Are Still NYC’s Best Chance to Stop a Looming Homelessness Catastrophe
The mayor shouldn’t let the tabloids bully him out of a good idea.
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The Real Estate ‘Concierge’ Helping New Yorkers Find Cool Homes Outside The City
Real-estate agent Esteban Gomez sells the upstate dream to the city’s apartment-dwelling ‘creatives’.
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NYC’s Modular Streeteries Look Great. What Will It Take for Them to Survive?
New installations from DineOut NYC in Queens and the Bronx hint at the future of outdoor restaurants.
Century 21, the Beloved Fashion Discount House, Is Closing
New Yorkers mourn the loss of "our closet."
Two-Bedroom Penthouse on West End Avenue With 3,000 Square Feet of Terrace Asks $2.8M
A solarium further blurs the line between indoors and outdoors.
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‘We Bike Too’: A New NYC Club of Black and Brown Cyclists Takes the Streets
The Good Company Bike Club was started during the pandemic, and rides for equity, inclusion, change—but most of all fun.
A Sidewalk ‘Sleep-Out’ in Support of the Homeless on the UWS, Weed-Eating Goats, Fairy Doors in Queens, and Other News
Here’s some of what happened around town this week.
New Yorkers Are Using a 1930s-Era Tactic to Stop Evictions
Amid waning protections for renters and unemployment rates not seen since the Great Depression, eviction defense is poised for a resurgence.
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Cuomo’s Scheme to Put 4,000 Cops in NYC Restaurants Would Be a Disaster
Nothing says health and safety like heavily armed city employees notorious for not wearing masks.
One-Bedroom in Clinton Hill Former Shoe Factory (Across the Street from Pratt) Wants $795K
The co-op has huge windows, high ceilings, and a wraparound balcony.
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It’s Time for Architects to Accept Responsibility
As a profession, we don’t all talk about our role in redlining. We don’t talk about equitable resource allocation. We have been complicit in warehousing people.
As Rezoning Process Relaunches, New York Seeks to “Dismantle” Inequity
That approach would prioritize ULURP projects in areas hardest hit by COVID-19.
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How to Avert the Next Housing Crisis
After a role at the United Nations, Leilani Farha launched a new effort to protect housing rights.
What’s the Trump Eviction Moratorium All About?
A broadly popular, if calculated, new policy and how it will work.
New York’s Emergency Rent Relief Program Is a Mess
Technology and linguistic barriers are emerging that may make the rental aid inaccessible to those who need it most.
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New York Needs to Rethink Time, Not Space, To Actually Reopen
Timed ticketing could allow for both access and social distancing.
What It’s Like to Not Pay Rent, According to Striking Tenants
Inside a rent strike in the Bronx.
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The Surprisingly Innovative Design of New York’s Streeteries
Give people room to create, and things start to get interesting.
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No, Manhattan Home Prices Are Not Plummeting
Here’s what’s really going on in NYC’s housing market.
That Infamous Trio of Two Bridges Megatowers Inches Toward Construction
Three new luxury skyscrapers — one set to be 100 stories tall — got the go-ahead from an appeals court, but two more lawsuits are pending.
Coronavirus and Extreme Heat Are ‘on a Collision Course’ as NYC Summer Begins
Among the initiatives to combat extreme heat, the de Blasio administration launched a program to provide free air conditioners to vulnerable New Yorkers.
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Bungalow Courts Make the Best Neighbors
The 350 that remain in L.A. are some of the city’s most desirable housing.
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No, the Pandemic Is Not Emptying Out America’s Cities
Despite what cable news is saying every day, a mass migration to the suburbs isn’t happening.
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Can a Neighborhood Become a Network?
The mutual-aid networks that have defined the COVID-19 pandemic are looking to the long term.
Architect’s Chelsea Two-Bedroom With Custom Everything (Down to the Electrical Outlets) Asks $1.25M
The meticulously renovated apartment features a huge living room with a wall of built-in bookshelves.
New York Housing Courts Reopen to Confusion and Protests
"I feel like I’m on the edge of a cliff, and I’m just waiting for a push to send me over."
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The Porch Puzzle
On the front porch, the desire to be neighborly butts up against the desire to be left alone.