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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. ByNolan Hicks
  1. Kareem Rahma Wore Wool Suits in the Summer Because ofMad Men The host ofSubway Takeson moving to New York the year of Hurricane Sandy and the Alphabet City apartment where everyone came to crash.
    ByZach Schiffman
  2. Shigeru Ban’s Dazzling Architecture of Time The architect’s approach (and choice of materials) embraces simplicity and change.
    ByPhilip JodidioandIntroduction by Justin Davidson
  3. 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.
    ByKelsie SchraderandJenna Milliner-Waddell
  4. The City’s Quiet Crackdown on Kava Bars The businesses selling kava and kratom drinks have found themselves in a legal limbo.
    ByChris Crowley
  5. Why the Third Avenue Bridge Got Stuck Aging infrastructure? Global warming? Not exactly.
    ByChristopher Bonanos
  6. 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.
    ByMolly Osberg
  7. 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Corridor Power Supply Is Ancient and Failing Those hot-weather slowdowns and stoppages are largely the fault of one outdated piece of infrastructure.
    ByNolan Hicks
  8. Crest Hardware Is Closing Owner Joe Franquinha confirmed the news in a letter to customers.
    BySukjong HongandClio Chang
  9. 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.
    ByKelsie SchraderandJenna Milliner-Waddell
  10. What Did Brooklyn Bridge Park Get So Right? Nearly 20 years after we broke ground, it’s more impressive than ever.
    ByJustin Davidson
  11. 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.
    ByChristopher Bonanos
  12. The Citi Bike Battery Crew Racing to Keep 15,000 Bikes Online Most docks don’t charge e-bikes (yet). These folks do.
    ByJohn Surico
  13. 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.
    ByKate Brennan
  14. Ryan Serhant Was a Hand Model for AT&T The broker andOwning Manhattanreality star on his earliest days in the city.
    ByClio Chang
  15. 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.
    ByChristopher Bonanos
  16. What Is Stonewall in 2024? A touristy dive bar, an unfinished liberation movement, and now a visitor center within the National Park Service.
    ByBrock Colyar
  17. The Four Seasons Hotel Is Coming Back After a four-year stalemate, Beanie Babies magnate Ty Warner has agreed to a reopening plan.
    ByClio Chang
  18. 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.
    ByLaura Fenton
  19. What Made Kathy Hochul Flip? Inside the governor’s sudden U-turn on congestion pricing.
    ByNolan Hicks
  20. 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.
    ByEmma Orlow
  21. 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.
    ByFred A. Bernstein
  22. 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.
    ByJustin Davidson
  23. 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.
    ByKelsie SchraderandJenna Milliner-Waddell
  24. We Need Congestion Pricing, and Kathy Hochul Blew It She threw us under the bus (and it’s stuck in traffic).
    ByJustin Davidson
  25. No More Celebrity Stoop Sales Jenna Lyons’s should be the last.
    ByBridget Read
  26. At the Last Second, Hochul Ditches Congestion Pricing by the Side of the Road We were so close to getting there on time!
    ByChristopher Bonanos
  27. 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.
    ByEmilia Petrarca
  28. The City’s New Bathroom Map Is Actually Pretty Handy Though the options are still dire in a lot of neighborhoods.
    ByClio Chang
  29. A Former Santander Bank for $1 a Month How an artist managed to get the best deal in New York City.
    ByClio Chang
  30. Port Authority Plus a Micropark The newest renderings of the remade bus terminal are slightly less Apple Store, too.
    ByChristopher Bonanos
  31. The Private Helicopter to the Private Jet Is the New Flying Private The five-minute helicopter ride to Teterboro eliminates a 20-minute drive.
    ByAndrew Zucker
  32. 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.
    ByClio Chang
  33. The Roommates Who See Each Other 5 Minutes a Week How two friends on opposite schedules make it work (and get enough sleep).
    ByKayla Levy
  34. The Dump Next Door How everyone in Woodstock started fighting over a 10-foot pile of backyard trash.
    ByClio Chang
  35. 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.
    ByKelsie SchraderandJenna Milliner-Waddell
  36. The Uncanny New York City ofMegalopolis Francis Ford Coppola’s New Rome is an anarchic stream of 40 years’ thinking about the city.
    ByChristopher Bonanos
  37. Walking Around New York City With a Tiny Saw A morning with the spring class of citizen street-tree pruners.
    ByClio Chang
  38. When Your Dream Apartment Keeps Flooding To move or not to move, that is the question.
    ByKim Velsey
  39. The Low-Key Inventiveness of SO-IL’s Apartment Buildings Three midsize Brooklyn projects display unusual, flexible architectural thinking.
    ByJustin Davidson
  40. Atelier Jolie Was Just the Beginning The city is swimming in ateliers right now.
    ByFran Hoepfner
  41. 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.
    ByJohn Surico
  42. 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.
    ByKelsie SchraderandJenna Milliner-Waddell
  43. Caroline Calloway’s Tribute Plaque Is Gone She says she did not have anything to do with it in the first place.
    ByAdriane Quinlan
  44. Does Rat Birth Control Actually Work? And everything else we wanted to know about this novel approach to the city’s rat problem.
    ByClio Chang
  45. Locked Out and Locked In at Columbia University The NYPD’s action on campus began with clearing reporters from the scene.
    BySamaa Khullar
  46. 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.
    ByAlex Tey
  47. 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.
    ByKayla Levy
  48. John Early Lived With a Lesbian Minister and Her Dog When He Moved Here Talking to the cast ofStress Positionsabout their early days in the city.
    ByClio Chang
  49. The Look Book Goes to Kleinfeld Bridal Salon On a recent Friday, we went to the famed wedding-dress shop as brides tried on gown after gown.
    ByJenna Milliner-Waddell
  50. The $10,000-a-Month ‘Wellness Social Club’ on Greenwich Street Using AI and a little bit of your blood, Continuum Club promises a “journey to becoming the ideal version of oneself.”
    ByClio Chang
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