3+ week, 1+ day ago   (938+ words) Plans for the White House ballroom that the Trump administration filed with the Supreme Court last week revealed previously unseen details. They include a golden seal over the building’s main entrance and miniature lion heads perched atop Corinthian columns on…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (159+ words) My teenage daughter has a diary. It’s pink and, most important, has an elaborate lock on it. And if I could go back in time to 2020, I might send this exact sort of journal to Anthony Fauci. Every night, when…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (818+ words) Just about every effort to solve America’s housing shortage runs into the iron law of NIMBY: “not in my backyard.” Whenever a development is proposed in a place where people already live, existing residents erupt in opposition, claiming the new…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (989+ words) Bushwick Inlet, a cove where the brackish waters of the East River curl into a humble beach, is a small public park that opened in Brooklyn this spring. In late June, Katherine Conkling Thompson sat on a bench there, dejected…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago   (459+ words) Some billionaires have spent the past year warning that New York City’s political climate could scare away companies, capital, and high earners. But two fast-growing brands are moving in despite the noise. Simultaneously, Airbnb is making a major real estate…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1537+ words) Few places illustrate New York City’s contradictions like the corner of 27th Street and 10th Avenue in Manhattan. Look west and see a parade of tourists walking the High Line, the chic elevated park, while the angular, glassy buildings of the $25 billion…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1540+ words) Few places illustrate New York City’s contradictions like the corner of 27th Street and 10th Avenue in Manhattan. Look west and see a parade of tourists walking the High Line, the chic elevated park, while the angular, glassy buildings of the $25 billion…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (636+ words) Leading the nation in residential conversions, New York’s office towers are getting a second act — but not necessarily the one renters have been waiting for. New York has always reinvented itself. This time, the reinvention is happening floor by floor,…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (784+ words) Building in New York is famously complicated, expensive and burdensome, in part because of a maze of required reviews and permits. Now Gov. Kathy Hochul is pushing the state to adopt a different approach: getting out of the way. In…...

5+ mon, 4+ week ago   (1158+ words) For anyone who regularly travels by rail between New York and New Jersey, few words instill a greater sense of dread than “Portal Bridge opening.” Soon this will all be water under the troubled bridge. On Sunday, the Portal Bridge’s…...