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Neighbors

Shouts & Murmurs

How to Survive an Encounter with Your Apartment Neighbor

If you say hello and they dislike it, they may react defensively by growling and aggressively speeding up and swerving around you.
Shouts & Murmurs

What to Do About Your Noisy Neighbors

Try pounding on the wall. Show up at their door—covered in fake blood.
Shouts & Murmurs

Pavlov’s Neighbor Has Had It

“Every day, for months now, I have watched you lead a pack of dogs into your laboratory, only for the dinging to commence.”
Letter from the South

Surviving Hurricane Ian in a Fort Myers Apartment Complex

Facing high winds, rising waters, and careening yachts, a group of neighbors managed a harrowing rescue.
Cultural Comment

A Trump Tableau

Politics and art in a Catskill front yard.
Cover Story

Tom Gauld’s “Captive Audience”

The artist discusses his cover for the March 15, 2021, issue of the magazine.
Shouts & Murmurs

Ten Types of Neighbors You May Encounter in an Apartment Complex

The neighbor who always catches you doing something embarrassing, the compulsive online shopper, the late-night lone raver, and others.
Daily Cartoon

Daily Cartoon: Friday, January 15th

“Well, well, if it isn’t 6-C! It seems that you haven’t been getting my notes about vacuuming after 10 P.M.”
Cover Story

Chris Ware’s “Last Days”

The artist discusses his cover for the September 21, 2020, issue, as well as neighborhood not-quite get-togethers and the ways Americans are still trying to get along.
Culture Desk

Making Peace with My Summer Neighbor

A new roof leads to a new understanding.
Fiction

White Noise

Shouts & Murmurs

What’s Behind Window No. 1?

Enjoy the always fascinating views into your neighbors’ homes!
The New Yorker Documentary

Watch Neighbors Connect in “Shelter in Place”

Stuck in his New York City apartment, a street photographer started interviewing his neighbors, who shared surprisingly intimate stories from their windows.
Personal History

The Assassin Next Door

My family’s immigrant journey and James Earl Ray’s path to targeting Martin Luther King, Jr., intersected at an unglamorous corner of East Hollywood.
Sunrise, Sunset

Manafort’s Monster House in the Hamptons

With Trump’s former campaign chairman headed to Rikers, his Water Mill neighbor recalls the man whose McMansion—with moat, waterfall, putting green, and M-shaped flower bed—blocked out the sunset.
Personal History

Outside Voices

“All five of the windows in my apartment faced Jared’s house. And, for as many years, I heard every word this kid said.”
Fiction

The Dog

Books

Red Neighbor, Blue Neighbor

You have a Clinton sign on your lawn. He has a Trump sign on his. Can you get along?
Shouts & Murmurs

The Disturbing Case of the Dead Witch

I thought I lived in a safe neighborhood, until I discovered the corpse, smashed up against the front of this house.