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More Cyclists Than Ever Were Killed by Cars in New York This Year

 But pedestrian traffic deaths are reaching historic lows. What’s going on? By John Surico
  1. More Cyclists Than Ever Were Killed by Cars in New York This Year But pedestrian traffic deaths are reaching historic lows. What’s going on?
    By John Surico
  2. Travis Scott Made Dean Street Quake Monday night’s show at Barclays caused neighboring buildings to vibrate. The Fire Department was summoned.
    By Bridget Read
  3. This Week’s Worth-It New York City Apartment Listings Theo Wenner’s palazzo, a six-bedroom in Ocean Hill, and a pair of especially-nice West Village rentals.
    By Nora DeLigter
  4. It’s Going to Be a Long Winter at Floyd Bennett Field Families who weathered this week’s storms are worried about what happens when it snows.
    By Luis Feliz Leon
  5. The Look Book Goes to The Nutcracker at Lincoln Center Kids and grown-ups put on their holiday best to see New York City Ballet’s annual production.
    By Kelsie Schrader
  6. 2024 Will Be a Better Year for Homebuyers But not exactly great.
    By Kim Velsey
  7. Jason Oppenheim Got the Kanye Listing The Malibu beach house is not in great shape.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  8. It’s Sublet-My-Apartment Season Everyone you know is leaving town for four days and has a “v calming, chill” place you should message them about.
    By Bridget Read
  9. A Tribeca Duplex Inspired by Cloud City and the Fortress of Solitude After Inna Khidekel and Bert van der Walt bought this apartment, they let their designer, Timothy Godbold, surprise them.
    By Wendy Goodman
  10. Define ‘Penthouse’ From low-rises to tiny top floors in new developments, brokers are getting increasingly creative with their use of “PH.”
    By Clio Chang
  11. Why Is Tesla Recalling Almost All Its Cars in the U.S.? The company, under pressure from regulators, is doing a software update to address safety concerns over its Autopilot system.
    By Chas Danner and Benjamin Hart
  12. Tommy Cutlets and the Disgruntled Oompa-Loompas Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
  13. A House With a Giant Terrarium in the Middle The design was inspired by both a car dealership and Frank Lloyd Wright.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  14. Cars for Kids Might Kill Kars4Kids A 20-year legal dispute between the semi-infamous nonprofit and a similarly named rival came to a head this week.
    By Bridget Read
  15. An $8,500-a-Month, Influencer-‘Renovated’ Two-Bedroom Pretty in the Pines is leaving her Central Park West apartment, and its peel-and-stick moldings, behind.
    By Kim Velsey
  16. First in Line at the MTA’s Memorabilia Sale Shopping for train doors, wooden benches, and subway signage in a south Brooklyn lot.
    By Emma Alpern
  17. ‘It’s a Tyranny of Mike’ A Crown Heights building Facebook group has descended into drama.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  18. When New York’s Biggest Private Landlords Are Columbia and NYU A new bill proposes the schools start paying taxes accordingly.
    By Clio Chang
  19. Kickstarter’s Greenpoint Office Is Becoming a Hype House A talent agency plans to turn it into a members-only campus.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  20. Ronald S. Lauder Sold His Tiny Philip Johnson Home The Rockefeller Guest House, which once stored its original owner’s art collection, was an off-market listing.
    By Kim Velsey
  21. A Place, at Last, for Everything (Including the Teenager and the Shoes) A family thought they’d outgrown their apartment, until they met the architects Ideas of Order. Before and after photos for what they did.
    By Wendy Goodman
  22. Making Headway on the Perfect New York Street Two years after our last close look, real signs of progress.
    By Justin Davidson
  23. The Listings Edit Newsletter Is Back! Sign up to get The Listings Edit, a weekly digest of the most worth-it apartments in New York City.
    By Nora DeLigter
  24. My Morning on the Beam Rockefeller Center’s 1932 stunt photo is now its $25 tourist ride, minus lunch.
    By Zach Schiffman
  25. The Limelight’s Next Act: Theater From church to club to mall to gym — and, now, to performance space. Will this plan stick?
    By Christopher Bonanos
  26. Unbending License Plates With Gersh Kuntzman Congestion pricing might bring the transit vigilante out of retirement.
    By Clio Chang
  27. McDonald’s Lamps, Rubber Tables, and Anthony Haden-Guest at Design Miami Plus a literal trophy bookcase.
    By Ian Volner
  28. The $3,500 No-Kitchen Apartment Getting by with a mini-fridge and hot plate used to mean cheap rent. Now it’s a “versatile” amenity.
    By Clio Chang
  29. The Beginning of the End of the Turnstile A visit with the MTA’s new anti-fare evasion gates in Queens.
    By Clio Chang
  30. The Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture Mansion’s Not-So-Secret Buyer City records haven’t posted yet, but that hasn’t stopped brokers from talking.
    By Kim Velsey
  31. The SUV That Tried to Take the Subway A mishap in Washington Heights highlights a bad year for traffic accidents.
    By Paula Aceves
  32. What We Know About the ‘Mystery’ Dog Illness That’s Spreading So far, vets aren’t too worried about the respiratory illness circulating among dogs.
    By Lane Brown
  33. The Landlords Are Merging Two organizations representing owners of rent-stabilized buildings across the city may be teaming up because one of them is going broke.
    By Clio Chang
  34. The Photographer Who Taught Herself How to Renovate Her Own Apartment After living in this apartment for nearly 18 years, Amanda Weil wanted a change, but first she fired her architect.
    By Wendy Goodman
  35. One of New York’s Most Secretive Real-Estate Families Goes Succession A lawsuit reveals squabbling and allegations of mismanagement among the heirs to Solil Management’s billion-dollar portfolio
    By Kim Velsey
  36. A $45 Million Effort to Make Pregnancy Less Deadly in Brooklyn The borough president spent his entire capital budget on midwives, NICUs, and more.
    By Irin Carmon
  37. The Boys Who Got Lost Under Staten Island A sixth-grade adventure.
    By Alexandra Kleeman
  38. Reasons to Love New York Right Now Maybe because the year was so challenging, our 37 reasons to love New York this year feel even dearer.
    By The Editors
  39. We Took New York’s TikTokers to Lunch The people who tell the world about dating, dining, and celebrity apartments met up at Bad Roman (where else?).
  40. They’ll Never Leave This 5,800-Square-Foot Loft No matter how much money you throw at them.
    By Lane Brown
  41. Good-bye, Beautiful Trash Cans We’re ditching you for something better.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  42. The Hancock Is the Party House of Bed-Stuy A bunch of artists live and party for free in Bed-Stuy’s most expensive mansion.
    By Nora DeLigter
  43. How This Lost Dog Got Found It’s Waylon, and he’s a good boy.
    By Emily Gould
  44. ‘If I Could Buy Right Now, I’d Go for It’ A mansion disguised as a brownstone in Hamilton Heights and a turnkey prewar on Central Park West.
    By Kim Velsey
  45. And the Most-Delayed Subway of 2023 Is … Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
  46. Huge Hunks of Concrete Are Key to the Mayor’s Plan for Safer Intersections Not all approaches to “daylighting” are created equal.
    By Clio Chang
  47. A Just-Okay Rental That Sparked a Bidding War “I just can’t believe this apartment went for $3,900. It’s 825 square feet. It looks like it’s from the early ’90s.”
    By Adriane Quinlan
  48. Shop New York Magazine x Knickerbocker’s Canal Street–Inspired Collaboration Available now, online and in-store at 357 Canal Street.
    By The Editors
  49. The Look Book Goes to an Anime Convention Cosplayers and gamers went all out for Anime NYC’s three-day event at the Javits Center.
    By Kelsie Schrader and Jenna Milliner-Waddell
  50. Landlords Are Tanking Their Tenants’ Credit Scores An increasingly popular tactic to pressure tenants to pay rent on time.
    By Clio Chang
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