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The Upstate Towns Running Out of Firefighters

Full-timers are retiring or getting priced out. Second-home owners aren’t there to work. How do you keep the Catskills going?

how i got this apartment

The Painter Who Moved Into the Old New York Egg Auction

Rob Mango cleaned decades of egg yolks off the floor of his Tribeca loft, worked odd jobs for neighbor Martin Scorsese, and never left. By Matthew Sedacca

neighborhood news

Everyone’s Outside Watching the Knicks

Tickets to the Finals are too expensive, so the entire city has become a screen — and a party. By Matthew Sedacca

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  physical city
  The Carroll Street Bridge Is on the Move Again
  After a five-year reconstruction, Gowanus’s odd and charming retractile bridge reopens on Monday.
  By Christopher Bonanos

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  sports
  The Knicks Logo Almost Included the Empire State Building
  Graphic designer Michael Doret, who drew it in 1991, shares his favorite rejects.
  By Jeremy Rellosa

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  unicorns
  ‘We’re Looking for Someone Who Wants a House on Washington Square North’
  An 1830s Greek Revival mansion has stunning details and a tricky location.
  By Adriane Quinlan

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  street view
  Trump Just Might Deliver the Rail Hub We’ve Been Waiting For
  An administration that loves to attack NYC approves a Penn Station design that’s both classical and visionary.
  By Justin Davidson

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  physical city
  The Carroll Street Bridge Is on the Move Again
  After a five-year reconstruction, Gowanus’s odd and charming retractile bridge reopens on Monday.
  By Christopher Bonanos

• 
  sports
  The Knicks Logo Almost Included the Empire State Building
  Graphic designer Michael Doret, who drew it in 1991, shares his favorite rejects.
  By Jeremy Rellosa

• 
  unicorns
  ‘We’re Looking for Someone Who Wants a House on Washington Square North’
  An 1830s Greek Revival mansion has stunning details and a tricky location.
  By Adriane Quinlan

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  street view
  Trump Just Might Deliver the Rail Hub We’ve Been Waiting For
  An administration that loves to attack NYC approves a Penn Station design that’s both classical and visionary.
  By Justin Davidson

1. Everyone’s Outside Watching the Knicks
2. The Upstate Towns Running Out of Firefighters
3. The Knicks Logo Almost Included the Empire State Building
4. The Carroll Street Bridge Is on the Move Again
5. The Painter Who Moved Into the Old New York Egg Auction
6. The Upstate Towns Running Out of Firefighters
7. Everyone’s Outside Watching the Knicks
8. The Painter Who Moved Into the Old New York Egg Auction
9. The Knicks Logo Almost Included the Empire State Building
10. The Carroll Street Bridge Is on the Move Again

On The Market

• Cobblers
• Tattoo Artists
• Framers
• Cake Shops
• Exterminators
• Kids’-Party Entertainers
• Hair Removal
• Psychics
• Hair Braiders
• Butcher Shops

Cityscape

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  infrastructure
  A New NYC Area Code Is Dropping This Month
  Welcome to the not-very-memorable 465.
  By Anne Kadet
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  neighborhood news
  Skinny-dipping in the Park
  Ryan McGinley’s first solo exhibit in New York in nearly a decade was shot all over the city.
  By Samuel Hine
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  sports
  New York City Can’t Handle Knicks Watch Parties
  And that’s a great thing.
  By Jeremy Rellosa
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  street view
  We Didn’t Need an Obama Megalith
  The new presidential center in Chicago has an ambitious community agenda, a generous spirit — and a dismayingly cold granite core.
  By Justin Davidson
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  parks and recreation
  The Marina Abramovic Balloon Museum
  The permanent version of the immersive space opening in Seaport is going highbrow.
  By Ian Volner

Design Hunting

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  design month
  What Lalanne’s Marvelously Sinister Marble-Bird Chairs Show Us
  At TEFAF and David Zwirner, marble and stone pieces remind us of a much more measured era of handcraft.
  By Camille Okhio
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  great rooms
  Where the Guests Sing For Their Supper
  At the home of a Gramercy couple, chicken potpie dinners are followed with Cole Porter by the piano.
  By Wendy Goodman
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  design month
  The Small, Beautiful Things of New York Design Month
  Juicy dimmers, smokestack incense holders, and handles inspired by Noguchi.
  By Anthony Paletta
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  design month
  14 Standout Lamps From New York’s Design Week
  Including a Tobia Scarpa reissue, a mad-scientist nightlight, and milk-glass snow globes.
  By Anthony Paletta

The Real Estate

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  upstate
  The Upstate Towns Running Out of Firefighters
  Full-timers are retiring or getting priced out. Second-home owners aren’t there to work. How do you keep the Catskills going?
  By Clio Chang
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  how i got this apartment
  The Painter Who Moved Into the Old New York Egg Auction
  Rob Mango cleaned decades of egg yolks off the floor of his Tribeca loft, worked odd jobs for neighbor Martin Scorsese, and never left.
  By Matthew Sedacca
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  under a million
  A West Village Penthouse Studio With a Giant Skylight for $995,000
  A very special edition of fantasy studios — wood-burning fireplaces, custom built-ins, and an address on Central Park West.
  By Matthew Sedacca
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  apartment department
  Do I Really Need a Trust Fund to Buy an HDFC?
  I feel like I qualify with my $78,000 salary, but the process of applying is making my head spin.
  By Clio Chang
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  housing
  ‘Nixon Froze the Rent’
  Claire Valdez, the democratic socialist running for Congress, says her platform of universal rent control is rooted in history, not fantasy.
  By Clio Chang