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The Rec Center Goes Deluxe

In East Flatbush, Studio Gang designed the bold Shirley Chisholm center on a lean city budget.
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The Sidewalks Are Covered in Snow-Poop. Who’s Going to Clean It Up?

The ice is melting, but a secondary problem has emerged.
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How Can I Tell If the Apartment I Want Is Rent-Stabilized?

What’s with all the secrecy? I’m just looking for an affordable place to live!

On The Market

Cityscape

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    openings The Bleak Scene at Polymarket’s ‘Free Grocery Store’ People waited up to 11 hours for socks and Barilla pasta. Most had never heard of the crypto betting platform.
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    living arrangements The Musician Dorms of Midwood On Ocean Avenue, there’s a klezmer singer on the third floor, a saxophonist below, a trumpeter above, and a pair of trombonists across the street.
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    neighborhoods I Miss My Black Brooklyn A notable number of Black residents are leaving the city — no longer able to afford it. I might be one of them. podcast
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    street view A Rave in a Bronx Castle? The city is betting that Kingsbridge Armory, closed for 30 years, could become LiveNation’s uptown Madison Square Garden.
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look book Do you come here often? I teach kids how to sew, so I get fabric for them here. I think it’s important that they have an elective class like sewing because they might be inspired to become a designer like me in a few years.  The Look Book Goes to Mood Fabrics

Design Hunting

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    on view When the Ashtray Was Everywhere A new show at the International Museum of Dinnerware Design invokes a pre-Bloombergian moment.
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    great rooms This Old Sea-Biscuit Factory The poet Paul Muldoon and the novelist Jean Hanff Korelitz wanted to live in the 19th century, architecturally speaking, so they relocated to Fidi.
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    great rooms The Cuban House of Spirits The home of the artists José Parlá and Claudia Hilda is a monument to the tropics in Fort Greene.
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    great rooms The Palazzo on Beekman Place A pied-à-terre in a 1925 building overlooking the East River channels Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Venice.

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