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  1. A New Skate Park Proposes to Take Over the Middle of Mount Prospect Skaters rejoice at the renderings of the Tony Hawk project. But neighbors are miffed it’s taking prime park real estate.
  2. What’sApp, Neighbor? Residents are using the app to thwart package thieves, negotiate rent reductions, and, yes, sometimes gripe about each other.
  3. Trump’s Attempt to End Congestion Pricing Is Shot Down The toll and its myriad benefits will remain in place, per a federal judge’s ruling.
  4. The Megaproject That Mamdani Pitched to Trump The long-dormant Sunnyside Yard plan is back on the table.
  5. The Look Book Goes to the New York City Ballet On a recent Saturday evening, a younger than usual audience watched Justin Peck’s latest ballet, The Wind-Up, as part of NYCB’s Art Series.
  6. American Express Wants All of 2 World Trade One of the last unbuilt WTC sites finally has an anchor tenant.
  7. Of Course Trump Wanted to Get In on the Roosevelt Hotel Deal Just another day for our developer-president.
  8. When Did Going to the Sauna Get So Stressful? New York’s emerging corporate bathing culture is fluent in the language of productivity.
  9. How to Go to a Knicks Game There are ways to score cheap tickets that aren’t in the nosebleeds.
  10. The ICE Contractor Down the Hall A tour through the Midtown intelligence firms and courier services that help keep the agency running.
  11. Now the Trees Are Falling Down Nearly two feet of heavy, wet snow is taking its toll on the city’s already-beleaguered pin oaks and Norway maples.
  12. The Rec Center Goes Deluxe In East Flatbush, Studio Gang designed the bold Shirley Chisholm center on a lean city budget.
  13. The Sidewalks Are Covered in Snow-Poop. Who’s Going to Clean It Up? The ice is melting, but a secondary problem has emerged.
  14. 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.
  15. The Look Book Goes to a Snow Day at the Park The day after a record-breaking downfall, sledders, tubers, and snowboarders enjoyed a fresh foot of snow in Prospect Park.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. Mamdani Takes on the Self-Storage Wild West A new suit filed by the city alleges price hikes seem to have “no correlation to any market conditions or costs.”
  20. Why the Kennedy Center Was an Easy Target for Trump Few loved the building, even as it became D.C.’s defining cultural institution.
  21. Bonhams Comes to Billionaires’ Row The auction house’s new location will also reintroduce the Steinway Hall rotunda to the public for the first time in a decade.
  22. The Old Kickstarter Office Is Now a ‘Soho House for Creators’ A grown-up hype house for wellness influencers and video podcasters opens in Greenpoint.
  23. The Dig-Out King of New York City A chat with an unemployed tech worker making thousands by liberating cars from their icy graves.
  24. New York Didn’t Know What to Do With Isamu Noguchi The sculptor’s rejected playgrounds and plazas come back into view at his namesake museum.
  25. From Bernhard Goetz to Renee Good Two books revisit the 1984 subway shooting and the “reasonable fear” defense.
  26. The New Geography of a Frozen City The single-file sidewalk, the bus-stop mountain, and other features of life after the storm.
  27. The Look Book Goes to a Bridge Club On a recent Wednesday afternoon, dozens of declarers and dummies paired up to play cards and sip coffee at Honors in Midtown East.
  28. So You Want to Build an Ice Rink in Your Tiny Brooklyn Backyard? A detailed conversation with someone who actually did it.
  29. The Pokémon Heist on West 13th Street An armed robbery at the new Poké Court is the latest sign of a collectors’ market that’s gone off the rails.
  30. Building Marty Supreme’s New York Production designer Jack Fisk on creating a 1950s playground for Timothée Chalamet.
  31. How Do I Convince My Super to Compost? After a rocky rollout involving street trash and poop bags, he totally gave up. But I know it can work!
  32. The Look Book Goes to a Nordic Fitness Class Instructors and students broke a sweat at Nrthrn Strong, a new cross-country-skiing-inspired workout studio in the Flatiron District.
  33. A Paul Rudolph on 58th Street That Will Actually Last It wasn’t easy saving the Modulightor building, which once housed the architect’s offices. But now it holds much more.
  34. Mamdani’s First Week Was Very Good for Cyclists The new mayor revived two road redesigns and flattened a hazardous Williamsburg Bridge bump.
  35. Adams’s 11th-Hour Move to Save Elizabeth Street Garden Flops The fate of the garden now rests with the courts — and the Mamdani administration.
  36. The Look Book Goes to The Carlyle Hotel On a recent Thursday, guests dined during Rufus Wainwright’s performance at Café Carlyle, part of the singer’s five-night residency.
  37. In Defense of the Sidewalk Shed Yes, they’re annoying and a little ugly. I love them anyway.
  38. Swipe and Let Go It had a good run, but the MetroCard is ready for retirement.
  39. The Year of Subway Slop AI and nonsense ads trolled us on our commutes.
  40. What Did Eric Adams Build? Less than you’d hope, more than you might think.
  41. The Man Who Controls the Lights at 270 Park Avenue Leo Villareal’s installation for JPMorgan Chase’s new tower has more than a million programmable LEDs.
  42. How Performa Turned New York Into a Stage How Performa Turned New York Into a Stage
  43. The Design Libraries Tucked Into Japanese Streetwear Stores and Home-Goods Shops These four spectacularly niche archives feature rare and out-of-print titles and are free to browse.
  44. The Look Book Goes to a Night at the Museum After a five-year hiatus, kids brought their pillows and flashlights to the American Museum of Natural History for a sleepover under the Blue Whale.
  45. Curbed’s 20 Most-Read Stories of 2025 A real-estate tour with Timothée Chalamet’s mother, life in an empty Brooklyn supertall, and Hamptons lawsuits made the list.
  46. Mamdani Wants Abundant Affordable Housing. Can He Make it Beloved, Too? There are plenty of precedents — he just has to look abroad.
  47. 39 Reasons to Love New York Right Now From congestion pricing to Cameron Winter.
  48. Making Sense of 2025 The world may be a runaway train right now, but here in New York we’re all still on the uptown local.
  49. Your Subway Station May Finally Get an Elevator At long last, funds from congestion pricing and a new approach have given the MTA’s efforts a major lift.
  50. Is There an Afterlife for Frank Gehry’s Issey Miyake Flagship? After 24 years, the brand’s Tribeca shop is closing. Its titanium waves may live on elsewhere.
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