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This Week’s Worth-It New York City Apartment Listings

Wraparound windows on the Upper West Side and arched casement windows in the West Village.
  1. A Passive House in Ghent With Its Own Spring-Fed Lake The hexagonal windows and north-south layout maximize light while minimizing energy bills.
  2. The City’s Crawling With Feral Cats Obsessed volunteers are the only thing standing between the city and a stream of disease-ridden cats. They’re barely making a dent.
  3. Oh No, We Like the New MTA Lamp The OnlyNY design revives an old logo and is, unfortunately, kind of great.
  4. Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor Power Supply Is Ancient and Failing Those hot-weather slowdowns and stoppages are largely the fault of one outdated piece of infrastructure.
  5. Hobby Lobby Has Chosen Tribeca The arts-and-crafts giant will open its first Manhattan location at 270 Greenwich Street.
  6. Crest Hardware Is Closing Owner Joe Franquinha confirmed the news in a letter to customers.
  7. A Central Park South Studio With a Room of Windows for $770,000 Plus a charming little one-bed with garden views in historic Hudson Heights.
  8. Melting, Jeweled, Chiseled Glass in July’s Design Shows Plus Todd Merrill’s glowing installation at Bergdorf Goodman and a design weekend upstate.
  9. Clarissa and Edgar Bronfman Jr. Are Selling Their Park Avenue Penthouse They’ve listed the triplex for $22 million.
  10. The Perfect Kitchen in Ridgewood Architectural designer Brianne Doak had one hard line when looking for a rental: no landlord specials.
  11. The Best Facialists in New York Domino Kirke-Badgley’s aesthetician and where models like Kaia Gerber and Adriana Lima go for clearer skin and smoother texture.
  12. The Sag Harbor Greek Revival That Chinatown Bought A film producer and his textile-collecting wife lived there for over 25 years.
  13. People Are Getting Stuck in Airplane Ceilings Now? A new genre of flight horror.
  14. The Look Book Goes to Brooklyn Prep’s Prom The high school’s senior class (and one precious junior) celebrated at Russo’s on the Bay in Queens with steak dinners and dancing.
  15. Diddy Is Overpricing His Mansion Post raid, he’s trying to sell his L.A. place for $30 million more than he bought it for.
  16. What Did Brooklyn Bridge Park Get So Right? Nearly 20 years after we broke ground, it’s more impressive than ever.
  17. A Pinwheel House From a Frank Lloyd Wright Disciple The New Canaan four-bedroom also has stained-glass ceilings and lots of built-in seating.
  18. ‘Becoming Karl Lagerfeld’ Feels Just Like Disco-Decadent Paris Did to Me “Cinema can’t be satisfied with historical reality,�� says the production designer on the Hulu series.
  19. Ikea Will Try (for the Third Time) to Open a Manhattan Store Three previous mini-stores, like your Lack coffee table, fell apart after only a couple of years.
  20. An Art-Filled Dutch Colonial Hidden Behind the Hedges in Bridgehampton All Nicholas Howey and his late husband, Gerard Widdershoven, did with their house was paint it — and fill it with art.
  21. A Two-Bedroom Near the Frick for Just $950,000 And another in Jackson Heights with lots of light and good details.
  22. MoMA’s ‘Crafting Modernity’ Tries to Cover Most of a Continent And ends up not saying much about it at all.
  23. What We Know About the Sexual-Assault Lawsuits Against Oren and Tal Alexander Both Official founders, Tal and Oren Alexander, along with Oren’s twin brother, have been accused of rape in three lawsuits.
  24. Trouble at the Rent Guidelines Board Owner member Christina Smyth is getting sued for alleged harassment of Section 8 tenants.
  25. The Citi Bike Battery Crew Racing to Keep 15,000 Bikes Online Most docks don’t charge e-bikes (yet). These folks do.
  26. The Approval Matrix: Everyone’s a Pundit Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
  27. Core Club vs. Michael Shvo The private club on Fifth Avenue is suing the developer for failing to provide sufficiently luxurious accommodations.
  28. The West Village ‘Pink House’ Where the Naked Angels Play Developer Mark O’Brien bought a 185-year-old townhouse. Then he let actors take over.
  29. What Superfund? Brokers say the Gowanus luxury market is impervious to toxic fumes.
  30. Faust Goes to Fidi The producers of Sleep No More are back with the whirlwind immersive-theater project Life and Trust.
  31. Ryan Serhant Was a Hand Model for AT&T The broker and Owning Manhattan reality star on his earliest days in the city.
  32. Congestion Pricing’s Promises Never Reached East Harlem And now the Second Avenue Subway won’t either.
  33. Hot Bird Becomes Chick-fil-A Time marches on for the hulking tower at 809 Atlantic.
  34. A Well-Engineered BQE Plan, Inspiration Not Included The city’s latest proposal rearranges the triple-cantilever section and declines the opportunity to do much more.
  35. An Elusive 3-Bedroom Near Prospect Park for $950,000 And a Brooklyn Heights one-bed that could probably fit another.
  36. Apothecary Lamps, Shaker-Inspired Wall Hooks, and More Debut Design Collections New work from a design residency at Colony in Tribeca.
  37. The What to Expect When You’re Expecting Townhouse The Eisenberg family wrote the book (and many others) in this 20-foot-wide Renaissance Revival on West 80th.
  38. The Broker Always Knows the Breakup Is Coming It isn’t just Ben and Jen.
  39. What Is Stonewall in 2024? A touristy dive bar, an unfinished liberation movement, and now a visitor center within the National Park Service.
  40. Broker Tal Alexander Is Accused of Rape in New Lawsuit The suit alleges that Tal, a co-founder of Official, assaulted a woman along with his brothers Oren and Alon.
  41. The Four Seasons Hotel Is Coming Back After a four-year stalemate, Beanie Babies magnate Ty Warner has agreed to a reopening plan.
  42. Your Rent Is Going Up The Rent Guidelines Board voted last night to approve increases on one- and two-year leases.
  43. A Riverdale Two-Bedroom With a Pool and a View for $437,000 As the heat dome sets in, we found you places to cool off.
  44. Anne Hanavan’s ‘Freedom Pad’ Was Always Going to Be Painted Pink “It was a wreck,” she says of the 350 square foot LES apartment. “But I could see the potential.”
  45. Is a $199,000 Penthouse on East 84th a Bargain or a Bad Idea? A what-if right off Park Avenue.
  46. How to Throw a Child’s Park Birthday Party in New York How tricky could it be to gather 25 kindergartners and their caregivers in Prospect Park on a Saturday afternoon? Actually quite.
  47. What Made Kathy Hochul Flip? Inside the governor’s sudden U-turn on congestion pricing.
  48. An Emporium of Everything From a Former Pencil-Shop Owner The Locavore Variety Store stocks everything from Wiffle balls to pizzeria dish detergent. And, of course, pencils.
  49. The Approval Matrix: Kathy and Nathan’s Brat Summer Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
  50. The Look Book Goes to the Governors Ball Between sets by the Killers, Sabrina Carpenter, and Sexyy Red, we mingled with amped-up festivalgoers and a few performers.
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