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  1. neighborhood news
    The World’s Largest Stegosaurus Comes to New York CityThe $44.6 million mega-Stegosaurus has gone on view (if only temporarily) at the American Museum of Natural History.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  2. reasons to love new york
    39 Reasons to Love New York Right Now‘SNL’ is 50 and 38 other reasons why.
    By The Editors
  3. this is fine
    The brush fire in Brooklyn's Prospect Park on Friday, November 8.
    Now the Wildfires Are Burning HereThat smell in the air is from brush fires in Prospect Park and the Palisades.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  4. blight
    Feral Cats Have Taken Over Donald Trump’s Childhood HomeNeighbors say the house looks abandoned, and the yard smells like a litter box.
    By Nick Fraccaro
  5. neighborhood news
    The World’s Largest Plumbing RepairNew York City’s principal water-supply aqueduct gets a bypass operation.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  6. labor
    Do I Need to Panic About the Longshoremen Strike?We talked to an expert about supply chains, consumer behavior, and bananas.
    By Kim Velsey
  7. profile
    In the Shack With Robert CaroThe 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
  8. urban fauna
    The City’s Crawling With Feral CatsObsessed 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. getting around
    What Made Kathy Hochul Flip?Inside the governor’s sudden U-turn on congestion pricing.
    By Nolan Hicks
  10. migrant crisis
    The Migrants Outside St. BrigidThe city’s campaign to push migrants out has turned their lives into an interminable loop.
    By Jay Bulger and Paula Aceves
  11. maintenance
    What the Massive NYCHA Corruption Sting Really RevealsThe drip-drip process of small-scale repairs, instead of full-scale renovations, is the underlying problem.
    By Clio Chang
  12. street fights
    The Clash Over a Secret Tunnel Under a Crown Heights SynagogueIt’s causing a huge fight in the Chabad-Lubavitch movement — and destabilized two buildings in the process.
    By Kim Velsey
  13. getting around
    Drama in the Teachers’ LoungeNew York City educators were shocked to hear their union was suing the MTA.
    By Bridget Read
  14. getting around
    A Postcard From Driverless San FranciscoUnexplained stops. Incensed firefighters. Cars named Oregano. The robotaxis are officially here.
    By Theodore Gioia
  15. look book
    The Look Book Goes to the New York City MarathonWe stopped sweaty, exhausted, Gatorade-drenched runners at the finish line of the 52nd annual race.
    By Kelsie Schrader and Jenna Milliner-Waddell
  16. encounter
    Crumps’ IllusionsMike Crumplar, the self-mythologizing Substacker of Dimes Square, is convinced he’s in a Balzac novel.
    By Brock Colyar
  17. architecture
    What Was Trump Tower?His co-star, his political launch pad, his longest-term companion.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  18. environment
    Scenes From a Flooded New York Subway evacuations, school day chaos, a missing mayor, and at least one fugitive sea lion.
    By Curbed Staff
  19. the rent is too damn high
    Zombie Renovations Are ComingLandlords are claiming that work completed decades ago is grounds to take a building out of rent regulation. What’s a tenant supposed to do?
    By Clio Chang
  20. the city
    The Candy SellersThe lives and livelihoods of some of the city’s newest migrant children.
    By Jordan Salama
  21. neighborhood news
    Voguing Through the Pain at O’Shae Sibley’s MemorialHundreds gathered at the vigil for the dancer, whose killing has been charged as a hate crime.
    By Bindu Bansinath
  22. right to shelter
    ‘We Can’t Sleep Because of the Worry’Overnight at the Roosevelt Hotel, where hundreds of migrants are still waiting for somewhere to go.
    By Luis Feliz Leon
  23. city people
    What Dan Doctoroff BuiltUnder Mayor Bloomberg, the power broker remade the city with astonishing speed. Now, as New York is again mired in crisis, he faces his own.
    By Justin Davidson
  24. the group portrait
    U.S. Women’s Soccer Fans Are Having a Moment“I’m overstimulated.”
    By Lauren Tousignant
  25. neighborhood news
    The Decadelong Battle Over the Elizabeth Street Garden Nears Its EndUnless the garden’s supporters can figure out how to overturn a universal court ruling handed down in June, a developer will raze the grounds.
    By Matt Stieb
  26. opioid crisis
    New York’s First Narcan Vending Machine Is WorkingIn Brownsville, the city’s latest experiment in harm reduction has already stopped overdoses.
    By Wilfred Chan
  27. getting around
    You May Soon Have to Pay More to Drive That SUV in New YorkA state bill proposes that owners pay much more for their heavier (and deadlier) vehicles.
    By Alissa Walker
  28. migrant crisis
    Living 20 to a Room in a Vacant Midtown Office BuildingNewly arrived migrants talk about spending their days in a former Touro College space.
    By Gaby Del Valle
  29. jordan neely
    ‘I Wasn’t Thinking That Anybody Was Going to Die.’Speaking with Juan Alberto Vasquez, the passenger who recorded the video of Jordan Neely on the F train
    By Paula Aceves
  30. jordan neely
    ‘I Was Always in Awe Seeing Him Dance’Jordan Neely, as remembered by his Michael Jackson “fanmily.”
    By Bridget Read
  31. the security state
    LeFrak City Tenants on Life With NYPD’s New Spy Robot“She would get stuck if she was surrounded by a bunch of little kids.”
    By Bridget Read
  32. the group portrait
    The George Floyd Protesters Behind a Historic Payout“Yes, we won. But are things going to change?”
    By Nia Prater
  33. what is elon musk?
    Elon’s Biggest BoondoggleWhy did the world’s richest man spend the past five years trying to sell cities a hole in the ground?
    By Alissa Walker
  34. getting around
    Who’s Afraid of the Subway?Riding every line in the days after the Sunset Park shooting.
    By Reeves Wiedeman
  35. tech
    Space Delivery?No.
    By Clio Chang
  36. the group portrait
    For the First Time, New York City Has a Majority-Women City Council“We’re going to do things that the city hasn’t seen before.”
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  37. sports
    As a New Arena Opens in New York, the Steinbrenner Stadium Strategy Is FinishedThe opening of UBS Arena on Long Island marks the end of a longtime New York sports phenomenon: teams threatening to leave town.
    By Joe DeLessio
  38. our mayor
    Zero Bond Is Eric Adams’s Headquarters NowLiterally anything could happen under this nightlife mayor.
    By Choire Sicha
  39. the city politic
    We Staked Out Eric Adams’s House in BrooklynAnd he came home. Twice!
    By Kevin T. Dugan
  40. the jab
    ‘People Are Coming in Crying. A Lot of Them.’Pharmacists on the somber mood at vaccine sites on the eve of the city mandate.
    By Caroline Spivack
  41. rodents
    Eric Adams Won’t Stop Talking About His Rat BucketAs mayor, he wants to take his favorite trapping device citywide.
    By Willy Blackmore
  42. drama
    Trying to Untangle the Princeton Architecture Department DramaPaging Sandra Oh.
    By Choire Sicha
  43. rikers
    Dispatch From Deadly Rikers Island: “It Looks Like a Slave Ship in There.”Detainees, correction officers and officials talk about the jail’s new state of emergency.
    As told to Beth Schwartzapfel
  44. rikers
    What It’s Like at Rikers, According to People Who Just Got Out“They’re not feeding people, there’s no water, no showers, no phone calls.”
    By Rebecca McCray
  45. infrastructure
    Climate Change Is Putting More Poop in New York’s WatersA crappy side effect of all this rain.
    By Lauren Vespoli
  46. climate change
    Scenes from Ida’s Chaotic, Tragic Night in New York CityThe bus driver stuck in raw sewage, a delivery worker who biked through a foot of water, and other stories from the flood.
  47. housing
    Those Flooded Basement Apartments are a Deadly Part of the Housing CrisisThe most dangerous place to be last night was on the ground floor.
    By Kim Velsey
  48. evictions
    Hochul’s First Big Win Is a New Eviction MoratoriumNew legislation extends the freeze to January 15.
    By Caroline Spivack
  49. 9/11: 20 years later
    9/11 Gave Us Two Decades of Anxious ArchitectureAfter the attacks, we had a chance to build the downtown that New York deserves. Two decades later, timidity and fear have us hemmed in at every turn.
    By Justin Davidson
  50. the group portrait
    The U.S. Open’s Longest-Tenured Ball BoysAt court with the most senior ball-lobbers and towel-profferers in tennis.
    By Jane Starr Drinkard
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