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Faux Pas de Deux: George McNally’s Tribeca Brasserie Has Inherited the Furniture, but Not Yet the Restaurant
Keith McNally’s 23-year-old son has opened a brasserie on Church Street with his father’s old chairs and none of his father’s money. The critics agree it is a mess. They disagree about whether that matters.
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Density on Steroids: The 4,000-Apartment Plan for 100 Gold Street
The city and GFP Real Estate want to replace a Brutalist municipal office block beside the Brooklyn Bridge with two towers, the taller one…
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No Deposit, No Deal: The Pierre Keeps Its Building, and Its Pipes
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Clinton Hill’s New Record Was Never on the Market
An 1880 townhouse at 374 Washington Avenue sold off-market for $9.4 million, toppling the storied Pfizer Mansion as the Brooklyn neighborhood’s priciest sale. Provenance…
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Black Tie and Building Permits: The Dursts Become Living Landmarks, and the Silversteins Take the Room Downtown
The Landmarks Conservancy will honor the Durst family at the Plaza on November 4. Lisa Silverstein, with her…
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The Dynasties’ Ledger: What New York’s Building Families Gave Kathy Hochul, and What Both Parties Say It Bought
The Walentases, Dursts, LeFraks, Elghanayans and Speyers have written checks to the governor’s campaign and her party. Republicans…
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The Rudins at One Hundred: Co-C.E.O.s, a Seat at 350 Park and a Very Good Year Downtown
The fourth generation of New York’s most clubbable landlords now runs the firm as a pair. Michael Rudin…
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The Speyers Take Back the Chrysler Building, This Time for 150 Years
A quarter-century after Tishman Speyer first restored William Van Alen’s spire, the firm has signed a 150-year ground…
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Siena Picks a Fight With Florence, at the Frick
The Frick’s “Siena: The Art of Bronze, 1450–1500” brings a signed Donatello tomb slab to America for the first time and argues that the…
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Roy Lichtenstein, Like New? The Critics Can’t Agree, Which Is the Fun Part
The Whitney’s first New York Lichtenstein retrospective since 1993 argues the Pop master foresaw the age of AI images. ARTnews found it stylish; Jerry…
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‘The Rothko Hit Us’: Sotheby’s Sells the Baums’ $100 Million Eye
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Wynton Marsalis Takes His Last Lap Around the House He Built
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 2026-27 season, “Come Home,” is Wynton Marsalis’s last as artistic director, and October reads like a family reunion with a…
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Dudamel’s First Month: Radio City, Three Premieres and a Plaque From the Governor
Gustavo Dudamel opened his New York Philharmonic tenure with Lizzo, John Adams, three world premieres and Steven Spielberg in the audience. Now the orchestra…
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Blood, Rubble and a Burning Stake: The Met’s ‘Macbeth’ Goes to the Movies
Today’s Live in HD transmission sent Louisa Proske’s divisive new Macbeth to nearly 650 cinemas days before the run closes. Quinn Kelsey is the…
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JAMES BOND: Would Meghan Markle Play 007, if King Charles Asked Her in His Official Capacity?
A thought experiment: Amazon MGM is screen-testing its next Bond, the Sussexes make films for Netflix, and the King has no official role to…
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This Weekend, New York Leaves the Door Open
Open House New York Weekend runs through Sunday, unlocking more than 300 sites from Roy Lichtenstein’s old studio to a Con Edison power plant.…
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A Murdoch Buys New York, Again
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Pink Friday, Unpaid Monday: Nicki Minaj’s Two Billing Fights, From a Fifth Avenue Hotel to a Los Angeles Courtroom
A production company says it is still owed $275,149.62 for Nicki Minaj’s 2023 Jingle Ball dates and her…
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Heavy Is the Contract: Cordae’s First Label Wants $25 Million in Manhattan Federal Court, and a Piece of Everything
Cordae and Anderson .Paak released “Heavy Is the Crown” on Friday. A week earlier, the Florida label that…
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It Ends With an Invoice: The Lively-Baldoni War Is Over, but WME Would Like Its Commission
Blake Lively asked a Manhattan federal judge for about $8 million in legal fees and got $407,451.75. Now…
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Faux Pas de Deux: George McNally’s Tribeca Brasserie Has Inherited the Furniture, but Not Yet the Restaurant
Keith McNally’s 23-year-old son has opened a brasserie on Church Street with his father’s old chairs and none of his father’s money. The critics…
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Thomas Straker Has a Passport and a Lot of Butter
The London chef with two million followers per platform has opened Straker’s in Keith McNally’s old Lucky Strike, a year late and $2 million…
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Three Japanese Restaurants Walk Into a Bank Tower
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No Photos, Please: Hollywood’s Delilah Goes Underground on West 14th Street
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On Fifth Avenue, the Stores Got Bigger
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Last Call at Jake’s Dilemma
After 32 years of game days, first dates and shots of Tully, the Upper West Side sports bar closes Sunday. The building sold; the…
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The LIV Method Moves Downtown, Cold Plunge and IV Drip in Tow
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The Least Glamorous Wellness Ritual in New York
Flu, COVID and RSV season is here. The city and state have picked their guidance, the first mRNA flu shot is on pharmacy shelves,…
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The Hardest Two Weeks of the Marathon
A record 240,000 applied and about 1 percent got in. As the 50th five-borough NYC Marathon nears, runners are tapering, the Bronx route has…
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Mamdani and Hochul Take 2-K to Every Corner of the Bronx and Staten Island
The city’s new program for 2-year-olds will jump to 22 of 32 school districts next fall, adding 10,000 seats. The state’s $1.2 billion is…
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The Council Votes to End Central Park’s Horse Carriages, and This Time the Speaker Was Holding the Reins
Romanch’s Law passed with 40 votes and sets June 1, 2028, as the end of the line. Mayors and Council members have tried for…
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Levine’s Auditors Find the City’s Ambulances Running Late and Its Medics Walking Out
A new Comptroller’s report says response times to life-threatening emergencies rose 41 percent in a decade. EMTs start at $43,932. About 4,300 left their…
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The Last Picture Show on Second Avenue: Kips Bay Fights NYU Langone for Its Multiplex
AMC says it wants to stay. NYU Langone, which is buying the building, says AMC wanted out. The Borough President says no cinema, no…
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Manhattan Is the Center of Everything, Except the Borough President’s Capital Budget
An Independent Budget Office review requested by Brad Hoylman-Sigal finds Manhattan gets about 13.4 percent of borough presidents’ discretionary capital money, barely more than…
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Brooklyn’s Street Fight Comes to the Ballot
As early voting opens, a coalition of Brooklyn neighborhood groups has called a rally at Barclays Center against Proposal 3 and the city’s new…
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Park or Train? Queens Community Board 6 Votes, in Effect, for Both
Forest Hills and Rego Park’s board backed the first leg of the QueensWay park by 26 to 9, while asking the city and state…
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Jackson Heights, Long Without a Pool, Gets $33.8 Million and a Former Pool Hall
The state’s $10 million grant pushes a Variety Boys & Girls Club center on 34th Avenue past the halfway mark of a $60 million…
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On White Plains Road, Little Yemen Gets Its Name on the Map
Governor Hochul has signed a bill making the Van Nest enclave a state cultural district, alongside El Barrio and the Harlem Renaissance district. The…
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Staten Island Is in the Dark, and Its Republicans Would Like the Mayor to Notice
Months-long streetlight outages have become the borough’s most literal quality-of-life complaint. Local Republicans blame a contracting gap at the Department of Transportation; the department…
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“Clove Lakes Is a Jewel”: Staten Island’s Borough Hall Wants the Pipes Pulled Out
Dye tests traced raw sewage in Clove Lakes Park to a Parks Department garage and the Stone House restaurant. Fossella, Lanza and Pirozzolo want…
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In Brooklyn, a Federal Judge Throws Out Washington’s Suit Against New York’s Sanctuary Laws
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At 500 Pearl Street, the Government’s $20 Million Ad Campaign Meets the Purpose Statute
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Judge Furman, for the Second Time, Finds the ICC Sanctions Order Collides With the First Amendment
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Half a Road in Genesee County, and the Court of Appeals Decides It Is “Time for Repose”
New York’s highest court ruled 5–2 that a 117-year-old fish-and-game club owns all of Godfrey’s Pond Road by adverse possession. Judge Rivera, joined by…
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The Kushners’ Former Law-School Building: Still Stabilized, Maybe Deregulated, and Headed Back to Kings County
In Connors v Kushner Cos., the Second Department held that when a dormitory exemption ends, the apartments return to rent stabilization. It also held…
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Founded in 1766, Rutgers Wins the Right to Grade Its Own Majors
A New Jersey appellate panel ruled that Rutgers does not need approval from the state’s higher-education office to add degree programs. The judges cited…
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On the Bridge, a Near-Miss and a Single Shot. In Court, $1 Million Bail and a Charge the Family Calls Too Light
Victor Romero, 62, a retired NYPD detective, was arraigned on a first-degree manslaughter charge in the killing of Koran Irvine, 46, on the George…
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“G.O.A.T.” Stamped on the Envelopes, a Two-Year-Old in the Bedroom: Three Charged in Williamsbridge Fentanyl Mill
The Special Narcotics Prosecutor says agents found about two kilograms of fentanyl mixed with the veterinary sedative medetomidine, tens of thousands of glassine envelopes…
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In Brooklyn Housing Court, the Tenants of Rutland Plaza Lose Their State Defendants but Keep Their Landlord
Judge Logan J. Schiff ruled that the state housing agency, the Housing Finance Agency and a Section 8 administrator are not “owners” under the…
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The “Federal Agent” Who Allegedly Promised Green Cards: Bayonne Woman Indicted in $25,000 Immigration Fraud
Manhattan prosecutors say Edith Capellan, 54, posed as an IRS agent, an immigration agent and an immigration services provider, took upfront fees from four…
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Jeans From Medellín, Interest at 20 Percent: Man Indicted in Manhattan in $343,200 Phony Levi’s Investment Scheme
Prosecutors say Michael D’Antoni, 68, met two of three older victims while overseeing repairs to their damaged homes and the third on vacation in…
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Between Broadway Junction and Woodhaven, a Rush-Hour Stabbing; a Bronx Man Is Charged With Murder
Queens prosecutors say Jyrell Thomas, 25, screamed, drew a knife and repeatedly stabbed Mesias Lojano, 59, a stranger, as a northbound J train neared…
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The Devil and the Cornellian: Lauren Weisberger ’99, a $693 Million Sequel, and the Book She Says She Couldn’t Write Today
Twenty-three years after “The Devil Wears Prada” made her the most talked-about assistant in publishing, the Cornell English major has watched the sequel become…
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The Phantom Never Left: Diane Paulus, Columbia ’97, and the Immersive Masquerade That Keeps Extending
Two years after Broadway’s longest-running show closed, a Columbia School of the Arts alumna has turned a 120-year-old art-supply building on West 57th Street…
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The Big Red Ballot: A Navy Pilot in New Jersey, a Public Defender on the Upper West Side, and the Cornellians Who Stepped Into the Arena
Ten days before the midterms, Rebecca Bennett ’09 is in one of the closest House races in the region against Rep. Tom Kean Jr.,…
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Apollo in the Bronx: Inside the $2.6 Billion Yankees Deal, and Why the Steinbrenners Kept the Keys
Marc Rowan’s firm put $2.6 billion of credit and equity into the parent of the most valuable franchise in American baseball. Al Tylis gets…
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Private Equity Comes for the 401(k): Carlyle’s New Door, Apollo’s Daily Marks and Washington’s Safe Harbor
A Carlyle-SEI product aimed at retirement plans, Apollo’s decision to price its $850 billion credit book every day, and a Labor Department rule in…
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KKR Buys the Back Office: Why a $5.1 Billion Fund Administrator Is the Most Revealing Deal of the Autumn
Gen II keeps the books for more than 275 private-markets managers with over $2 trillion in assets. KKR is paying $5.1 billion for it,…
