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?We Are at War?: Heshy Tischler Is Not Done Stirring Up Orthodox Brooklyn
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Stephen Lovekin/Shutterstock
Borough Park?s populist agitator may be arrested on Monday. His response: ?You just wait for round two.? Editor?s note: This story was produced in partnership with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
On a sunny...
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The VP Debate Stage Is the Coronavirus Response in Physical, Design-Failure Form
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ERIC BARADAT/AFP via Getty Images
Partitions" Please. A clear contender for the worst design of 2020 has emerged: the stage for tonight?s vice-presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Mike Pence. And we?re not talking about the...
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Memo Admonishes 30 Park Place Residents Not to Be ?Less Than Kind? When Asked to Mask Up
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Nicole Beauchamp/Flickr
Some Four Seasons apartment-dwellers have reportedly been giving the staff a hard time. The Four Seasons Private Residences at 30 Park Place is one of the swankiest condo residences downtown. The 82nd-floor,...
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The Secret to Year-Round Streeteries" What Greenhouses Can Teach Us
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The architecture firms Woods Bagot and ARUP designed a prefabricated, flat-pack, all-season outdoor restaurant design. | Courtesy Woods Bagot
An alternative to those ?space bubbles.? After Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that outdoor...
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Why Is Ex?Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh Buying Houses En Masse in Utah"
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Peter Bohler/Redux
Hsieh has purchased 71 bathrooms in less than three months. Ex?Zappos chief Tony Hsieh is buying up millions of dollars? worth of real estate in the small ski town of Park City, Utah, and no one quite knows why. After...
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Can Balconies, Bigger Lobbies, and Package Rooms Help Save Public Housing"
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A new concept from the Regional Plan Association and Peterson Rich Office proposes renovating and expanding NYCHA buildings. | Courtesy Peterson Rich Office
Peterson Rich Office walks us through an idea, developed with the Regional Plan...
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Is the U.S. Really Planting a Billion Trees, as Trump Said"
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Proof that Donald Trump has in fact planted one tree, with French president Emmanuel Macron in 2018. (It died.) | AFP via Getty Images
Or maybe a trillion" Either way, it won?t do much to stop climate change. ?We are planting a billion...
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Expect More Piles of Garbage ? Proverbial and Otherwise ? as NYC?s Budget Crisis Unfolds
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Getty Images
What if we lose too many rich people" To the delight of the city?s rat population (and the dismay of the rest of us), garbage was not getting picked up as quickly as usual this summer. Facing a sudden budget shortfall...
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Here?s What We Know About the Guy Who Dumped Two Sacks of Eels Into Prospect Park Lake
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An eel.
What do you do when you spot such a thing" A 311 call seems inadequate. He thought, at first, that they were snakes. Two enormous contractor bags, bursting with serpents, ripped open and spilling onto the path along the...
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Two Legendary NYC Artists in Their Once-Bohemian Village Garden
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Pat Steir and Francesco Clemente have lived across from one another in the MacDougal-Sullivan Gardens historic district for thirty years. They took portraits of the other this summer. | Portraits by Pat Steir and Francesco Clemente, courtesy...
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6 Frank Lloyd Wright homes for sale right now
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Frank Lloyd Wright?s Avery Coonley House?on the market for $550,000?began life in 1912 as a private elementary school. | Photo by Nick Miller/VHT Studios, courtesy of Compass listing agent Mike McCurry
Live in an architectural gem. ...
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Artist Sterling Ruby?s Compound in the Valley Comes With Outdoor Tub, Kiln Room
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Zen House Collective for Sotheby?s International Realty
Ruby worked with a team of architects from SCI-Arc to design the Sunland spread. Location: Sunland, Los AngelesYear built: 2009Architects: Sandy Watts, Tammy Ho, Simon Storey, with...
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The 10 best alternatives to Airbnb
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A 2,160-square-foot apartment in Rome available for rent through the Plum Guide. | Courtesy of the Plum Guide
Where to find your ideal vacation rental. Thanks to well-known companies like Vrbo, short-term vacation rentals are here to...
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Does L.A. Really Need a Gondola to Dodger Stadium"
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With seating for 56,000 fans, Dodger Stadium is the largest ballpark in the country. | Etienne Laurent/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
A one-mile sky ride won?t solve Chavez Ravine?s transportation problems. As anyone who has attempted to see a...
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Are the Wealthy Starting to Leave San Francisco"
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Getty Images/iStockphoto
Seemingly contradictory signals in housing-market data suggest that the rich are looking to bolt. San Francisco?s status as a destination city for tech workers and people who hate temperature changes of more than...
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Actual Anarchists Talk About New York?s ?Anarchist Jurisdiction? Designation
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This, apparently, is what an anarchist city looks like, according to the Justice Department.
They commented, you will not be surprised to learn, by committee. It was surprising news to the some 8 million New Yorkers who awoke yesterday,...
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How Do We Create an RBG Memorial That Isn?t Terrible"
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AFP via Getty Images
As Governor Cuomo calls for a Ruth Bader Ginsburg statue in Brooklyn, we asked people with arts-commission experience where the pitfalls lie. The morning after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg?s death, bouquets of roses...
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The Caddies and Shelves I Depend on to Keep My Bathroom Organized
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They take no effort to install. My bathroom is particularly difficult to keep neat. Put simply: I have a lot of products and barely any space. By the end of my first week in my current apartment, bottles of all shapes and sizes were...
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Ashley Nicole Black Hates Intricate Doors and Can Appreciate a Soulless West Hollywood Listing
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She also saved two Spanish-style houses in the Hills.
I always say Zillow is like my porn. I look at it when I?m getting ready for bed; scrolling through helps me fall asleep. Sometimes, I?ll...
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LACMA Is Nearly Demolished, and L.A. Hasn?t Had Much Say About Its Future
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LACMA started demolition during the pandemic before announcing key details about its new building. | Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
The museum bulldozed its old campus without a clear plan for its replacement. Does it owe...
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There?s an Art Exhibit at the Noyes House in Connecticut Worth Getting on the Waitlist For
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Michael Biondo
A mid-century beauty opens to the public for the first time, and it?s stocked with new art and design. The Noyes House is one of those mid-century homes that wind up in coffee-table books and on Pinterest mood boards. With...
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Are New Yorkers Really Buying Cars in Droves Now"
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Getty Images
A skeptical look at the so-called Vroom Boom. New York is one of the few American cities where you don?t have to own a car. But during the pandemic, there were lots of trend stories ? see Vice, the Wall Street Journal, the...
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Skyscrapers Dripping in Gardens Look Great ? Until the Mosquitoes Swarm
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Qiyi City Forest Garden in Chengdu, China, was billed as an ?eco paradise,? but a mosquito infestation has kept residents from moving in. | Barcroft Media via Getty Images
Bloodsuckers overran a tower in China. Does this mean the whole...
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?Cheering at a 142?: A Smoke-Shrouded West Coast Is Obsessed with Air-Quality Apps
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Wildfire smoke means one more number to track during our daily doom-scrolls. | Al Seib/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
And even if you don?t live there, you?ll probably be looking at your AQI number someday soon. While the world gaped...
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Frank Lloyd Wright?s Final Design, Auctioned Last Year for $1.7M, Now Asks $8M. Huh"
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Matt York/AP/Shutterstock
This one?s a head-scratcher. Location: Phoenix, ArizonaYear built: 1967Architect: Frank Lloyd WrightSpecs: 3 beds, 3 baths, 3,095 square feet, 1.32 acresPrice: $7,950,000
Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright just...
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