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The Best New Books to Give Architecture and Design Enthusiasts

From a Shigeru Ban monograph to a book of national-parks maps, a selection of the year’s best books for design lovers.
  1. The Best New Books to Give Architecture and Design Enthusiasts From a Shigeru Ban monograph to a book of national-parks maps, a selection of the year’s best books for design lovers.
  2. It’s Christmas for D.C.’s Luxury Brokers “We were calling all our clients and saying, ‘Hey, do you want to sell your $9 million house?’”
  3. The Approval Matrix: Wicked Legal Adultery Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
  4. A Brooklyn Heights Townhouse With a Country-Home Feel Architect Wids DeLaCour Jr. won an award for the way he opened up this former “wreck” of a 19th-century townhouse.
  5. Will the BQE Survive the Trump Administration? And other burning questions we asked Meera Joshi, New York City’s infrastructure-funding czar.
  6. A Spacious One-Bed on a Highish Floor in the Clinton Hill Co-ops for $735,000 And a Park Slope two-bed that’s snug but smartly laid out.
  7. The Lichtenstein Family Is Selling a Townhouse The 1845 house where the artist once lived has pumpkin pine flooring and a solarium kitchen.
  8. The Same Guy Who Bought Kanye’s Malibu Mansion Wants Diddy’s Bo Belmont offered half the listed price.
  9. Can Commercial Real Estate Keep Propping Up Artists? For years, Two Trees in Dumbo subsidized artists’ studios. Now the rent is going up.
  10. Maybe It’s the Beetlejuice Bedroom A two-bedroom at the Pierre has Serena Boardman and a 50 percent price cut going for it. Will anyone buy?
  11. My Doomed Hunt for a House in the Rockaways I was ready to buy a home in a neighborhood I loved. Was I delusional?
  12. This Week’s Worth-It New York City Apartment Listings Not one but two full Tudors.
  13. City of Yes-ish The mayor’s housing plan advances in the council, with some big concessions to NIMBYs.
  14. The History of the Modern Office in One Building The old MetLife complex on Madison Square, once a hive of paper-pushing clerks, gains a tall addition that’s all light and air.
  15. Arthur Sulzberger Jr. Is Moving to Morningside Heights The former New York Times publisher bought a $2.45 million condo in the Robert A.M. Stern–designed Claremont Hall.
  16. Can We Design Our Way Out of the Subway-Surfing Crisis? New trains make it much harder to climb out and up, and that’s yet another reason to upgrade.
  17. The Look Book Goes to the New York Scottish Ball Dozens of Scots — and those who love them — gathered in Battery Park for an evening of whiskey and reels in full Highland dress.
  18. We’re Finally Getting Some Real Rain So is the drought warning over?
  19. Apple-Picking With Your Luxury Building Sounds Miserable Developers are trying to make adult field trips a hot new amenity for renters.
  20. Artist Vivian Reiss’s Murray Hill House of Whimsy A brownstone that’s pink inside.
  21. Two Balconies and a Grand Courtyard on E. 78th for $500,000 And a Brooklyn Heights two-bedroom co-op that doesn’t require board approval.
  22. The Former Bank of New York Is Becoming a Circus And so is the rest of the city as developers scoop up spaces for adult playgrounds.
  23. A Dutch Designer’s Grand Return to New York Hella Jongerius’s first collaboration with Salon 94 features experimental textiles and a full cast of clay animals.
  24. Bill Ackman Is Getting Out of the Beresford The hedge-fund billionaire is selling two units for a total of $20 million.
  25. The Trump Luxury Bump All-cash buyers in Manhattan seemed to be feeling pretty good last week, setting a seasonal high for contracts signed.
  26. The Approval Matrix: And Now, a Family Thanksgiving Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
  27. Introducing the New York Magazine x Knickerbocker Corner Store Collection This one’s for the bodegas.
  28. The Black Hole on Columbia Heights An Italianate mansion mysteriously left to rot on Matt Damon’s Brooklyn Heights block.
  29. Where Does $9 Congestion Pricing Get Us? Trying to make sense of Kathy Hochul’s mess.
  30. Congestion Pricing Is Back. Can Trump Still Kill It? On Thursday, Governor Hochul announced a new, reduced toll to get into Manhattan. The incoming president is not a fan.
  31. My Monster Tenant He moved into our Noho loft — then tore out most of the interior walls. Turns out it wasn’t his first impromptu demolition.
  32. A Reckoning for the Dilettante Real-Estate Agent Professional brokers are hoping new industry rules might cull the amateurs.
  33. Good-bye to the Broker Fee The City Council voted today to stop your landlord from passing his expenses on to you.
  34. The Upper West Side’s Zone of Pedestrian Death The area around 96th Street is dangerous. And it’s hardly the worst in town.
  35. Ferrari Rocking Chairs, Giant Claes Oldenburg Sculptures, and More Design Finds Plus the openings of an LES homewares shop and a gallery in Seaport.
  36. The Brooklyn Botanic Garden Won Its Shadow Fight With Developers More sun for the greenhouse. Some affordable housing for Crown Heights.
  37. A Clinton Hill One-Bedroom With an Ideal Layout for $685,000 And a handsome little studio that made us reconsider the Financial District.
  38. ‘New York City Will Have to Defend a Lot of Programs We Rely On’ What housing here might look like under a second Trump administration.
  39. Now the Wildfires Are Burning Here That smell in the air is from brush fires in Prospect Park and the Palisades.
  40. A Former Arts Colony With a Saltwater Pool in Woodstock And a David Henken retreat in the woods for less than a million.
  41. The Best Wine & Spirits Shops in New York According to a sommelier, a restaurateur, and more.
  42. ‘I Don’t Think There’s Anything in This Apartment That Wasn’t Custom’ This Noho duplex on the market is full of clever interventions.
  43. Chick-fil-A Tries to Tame the Delivery Chaos The chicken megachain swears a second Brooklyn location and a bike corral for delivery workers will help.
  44. Attention, Satmar Shoppers: A Visit to Williamsburg’s W Mall A milchig food court and a refuge for weary mothers.
  45. Trump’s Election Means It’s Now or Never for Congestion Pricing Three billion dollars in federal matching funds will likely evaporate after January 20.
  46. The Reddening of New York City How the boroughs voted may surprise you.
  47. Don’t Look! Here’s Your No-Election Zone Let us help you rehab your attention span.
  48. Watching New York Watch the Election From Trump Tower to a Chelsea art gallery, here’s where the city gathered and waited.
  49. What Am I Supposed to Do During This Drought Watch? Your dry-spell questions, answered.
  50. A Kips Bay One-Bedroom With Brownstone Charm for $595,000 And a Greenwich Village studio with lovely built-ins and a Murphy bed.
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