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unaffordable housing

Amazon’s Affordable Housing Pledge Won’t Fix Anything

The nearly $2 trillion company will put $2 billion toward low-cost loans to developers. By Jeff Andrews

nëws

Everything We Know About the New ‘Mini’ Ikea Store in NYC

There will be meatballs. By Megan Barber

today in oligarch news

Let the LLC Unmasking Begin

Shell-corporation condo buyers will be nameless no more (at least to the Feds). By Christopher Bonanos

The Latest

unaffordable housing

Amazon’s Affordable Housing Pledge Won’t Fix Anything
today in oligarch news

Let the LLC Unmasking Begin
cityscape

Chuck Schumer Shows Up in Community-Board Zoom, Surprising Everyone and No One
nëws

Everything We Know About the New ‘Mini’ Ikea Store in NYC
developing

Build a Tower, Save a Museum?

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listings edit We Unearthed the 47 Best Rent Deals in NYC Right Now Great Crown Heights apartments under $2,000, a dramatic Flatiron penthouse, and more. By Jenny Xie and Katy Schneider

subdivisions Wait — Kim Owns the Land and Kanye Owns the House? Who cares about the divorce — is the couple in a land-lease situation? By Hilary Reid

barriers How Did Trump Supporters Breach the U.S. Capitol So Easily? The rioters were able to scale the ornamental features as if it was all just a giant Lego set. By Tanvi Misra

great rooms A 1915 Crown Heights House That’s Only On Its Third Owners After living all over the world, Thomas Gensemer and Gabe Brotman settled down in a Brooklyn place with “a bit of an English feel to it.” By Wendy Goodman

listings edit We Unearthed the 47 Best Rent Deals in NYC Right Now Great Crown Heights apartments under $2,000, a dramatic Flatiron penthouse, and more. By Jenny Xie and Katy Schneider

subdivisions Wait — Kim Owns the Land and Kanye Owns the House? Who cares about the divorce — is the couple in a land-lease situation? By Hilary Reid

barriers How Did Trump Supporters Breach the U.S. Capitol So Easily? The rioters were able to scale the ornamental features as if it was all just a giant Lego set. By Tanvi Misra

On The Market

listings edit We Unearthed the 47 Best Rent Deals in NYC Right Now

under a million A $575K Park Slope One-Bedroom and Two Grand Duplexes

on the market A Townhouse on Prospect Park West With a Perfectly Preserved Art Deco Bathroom

worth it for this room alone A Wall-to-Wall (to Bed) Floral Room in Gwyneth Paltrow’s Childhood Townhouse

Cityscape

cityscape

Chuck Schumer Shows Up in Community-Board Zoom, Surprising Everyone and No One Even an attack on the Capitol can’t keep an extroverted politician down. By Christopher Bonanos
developing

Build a Tower, Save a Museum? That’s the gamble in the Seaport historic district. By Caroline Spivack
capitol riot

Visualizing a Riot: Where the Attacks on the Capitol Played Out How the insurrection approached and moved throughout the federal building. By Deane Madsen and Christopher Bonanos
look book

The Look Book Goes to a Blood Drive In the midst of New York’s blood shortage, some Bronx residents came to donate at the St. Frances de Chantal Church. By Jane Starr Drinkard and Brock Colyar

Design Hunting

at home

Why Is it So Hard to Design a Good Can Opener? Bean Dad was only part of the problem. By Diana Budds
great rooms

A 1915 Crown Heights House That’s Only On Its Third Owners After living all over the world, Thomas Gensemer and Gabe Brotman settled down in a Brooklyn place with “a bit of an English feel to it.” By Wendy Goodman
great rooms

A Brooklyn Family’s Pet-Friendly, Kid-Filled Self-Made Comfort Zone Ada Davila and Agustin Hurtado transformed part of a 19th-century brewery in East Williamsburg into a bright and lively home. By Wendy Goodman
shopping

5 Things to Buy From Yinka Ilori’s New Home Goods Line The British-Nigerian designer’s color-obsessed work is about joy, hope, and optimism. And now you can bring it to your table. By Diana Budds

The Real Estate

subdivisions

Wait — Kim Owns the Land and Kanye Owns the House? Who cares about the divorce — is the couple in a land-lease situation? By Hilary Reid
landmarks

Why Hasn’t Anyone Bought This William Lescaze House? A pioneering 1935 house has been on and off the market for years. By Christopher Bonanos
biography of a building

Inside Villa Charlotte Brontë, a Cliffside Co-op in the Bronx It remains today much as it was nearly a century ago: 17 units, no two alike, teetering over the Hudson. By Matthew Sedacca
stay here

9 (Vetted) Winter Airbnbs to Rent Within Three Hours of NYC Including a Nordic-style two-bedroom with a dry sauna and a Belleayre Mountain spot where the host provides s’more kits. By Megan Barber