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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
  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. What Made Kathy Hochul Flip? Inside the governor’s sudden U-turn on congestion pricing.
    By Nolan Hicks
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. We Need Congestion Pricing, and Kathy Hochul Blew It She threw us under the bus (and it’s stuck in traffic).
    By Justin Davidson
  13. No More Celebrity Stoop Sales Jenna Lyons’s should be the last.
    By Bridget Read
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. The City’s New Bathroom Map Is Actually Pretty Handy Though the options are still dire in a lot of neighborhoods.
    By Clio Chang
  17. A Former Santander Bank for $1 a Month How an artist managed to get the best deal in New York City.
    By Clio Chang
  18. Port Authority Plus a Micropark The newest renderings of the remade bus terminal are slightly less Apple Store, too.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  19. 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
  20. 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
  21. 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
  22. The Dump Next Door How everyone in Woodstock started fighting over a 10-foot pile of backyard trash.
    By Clio Chang
  23. 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
  24. 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
  25. Walking Around New York City With a Tiny Saw A morning with the spring class of citizen street-tree pruners.
    By Clio Chang
  26. When Your Dream Apartment Keeps Flooding To move or not to move, that is the question.
    By Kim Velsey
  27. The Low-Key Inventiveness of SO-IL’s Apartment Buildings Three midsize Brooklyn projects display unusual, flexible architectural thinking.
    By Justin Davidson
  28. Atelier Jolie Was Just the Beginning The city is swimming in ateliers right now.
    By Fran Hoepfner
  29. 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
  30. 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
  31. 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
  32. 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
  33. Locked Out and Locked In at Columbia University The NYPD’s action on campus began with clearing reporters from the scene.
    By Samaa Khullar
  34. 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
  35. 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
  36. 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
  37. 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.
    By Jenna Milliner-Waddell
  38. 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.”
    By Clio Chang
  39. The City’s Boat-Breakers Get to Work A new Parks Department unit has hundreds of abandoned vessels to crush.
    By Clio Chang and Dina Litovsky
  40. The Hardest-Working Turnstile in the Subway It makes about 3 million spins a year.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  41. Eva Alt Is Selling Downtown The dancer turned broker has managed the impossible: making it cool to be a real-estate agent.
    By Bridget Read
  42. Tokyo’s Public Toilets Will Leave New Yorkers Sobbing With civic envy and political fury.
    By Justin Davidson
  43. ‘Please Don’t Hang Out Here’ The West Village is wary but ready for Gen-Z fans of ‘Sex and the City’ to discover Magnolia Bakery and 66 Perry.
    By Clio Chang
  44. The Eavesdropper Goes to Woody Allen’s New Movie [Whispers] “I love Woody Allen.”
    By Adriane Quinlan
  45. The Look Book Goes to the Best Baguette in New York Competition Bread lovers turned out to vote for bakeries like Frenchette and Mille-Feuille in the final round of the contest hosted by French Morning.
    By Kelsie Schrader
  46. Watching New York Watch the Eclipse In parks, at museums, on their roofs…
    By Clio Chang
  47. We Answer Your New York–Specific Eclipse Questions Can I watch this from my stoop? Will the entire city be gridlocked?
    By Clio Chang
  48. New York City’s Reactions to the Earthquake And no, that wasn’t construction.
    By Curbed Staff
  49. Waiting for the Big One Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow. But many scientists agree: A quake is coming. And New York isn’t ready for it.
    By Fred Graver and Charlie Rubin
  50. Good-bye to the Enduringly Beige Interiors of Curb Your Enthusiasm Through 12 seasons, Larry stuck with what he liked: wrought iron, stone, an overstuffed couch.
    By Gracie Hadland
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