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Wouldn’t it be amazing if living in New York could suddenly become easier — and even more enjoyable?
Whether you’ve been here since birth or are still discovering (and adjusting to) the city’s peculiarities and price tags, one fact remains the same: Staying for the long haul takes endurance — and you should take advantage of any little edge you can grab (ethically, of course) to make it work.
Our "How To Be a New Yorker" course will give you that upper hand. For our 2026 installment, we’ve delved into more advanced New York–ing — how to throw a party, where to get a haircut (and a facial, and your lashes tinted), how to work out without going broke, how to catch the best concerts, how to keep a child (and your schnoodle) relatively happy, where to sharpen your thinking, and even how to plan a funeral. We’ve also taken the time to help you bulk up your local Rolodex by asking discerning notables to tell us where they reliably — even gleefully — run all their errands.
We’re about to upgrade aspects of your city life that you didn’t even realize we could improve. Sign up at the link in our bio.
Illustrations: @brunozocca_
The Best of New York issue is presented by @CalvinKlein.
11 Mar 2026
The Tesla Cybertruck, a product that exists at the curious intersection of low-emissions global responsibility and red-pilled macho Trumpism, is done. Elon Musk says production will wind down around the middle of next year to make way for the future Cybercab, a putatively autonomous vehicle of much more conventional shape. Announced with a prototype in 2019, the truck became available for the 2023 model year, a timeframe that approximately parallels Musk’s public-image collapse, as he went from “huckster with genuinely big ideas who is nonetheless annoying” to “danger to the republic.”
At the link in our bio, city editor Christopher Bonanos (@polaroidland) remembers the vehicle that was “designed to provoke.”
Photo: Getty Images
06 Nov 2026
On September 23, Richie O’Brien was walking his bicycle across Central Park’s East Drive at 84th Street, near the Metropolitan Museum, on his way to his job as a steamfitter when another biker crashed into him. O’Brien died. Less than two weeks later, a golden retriever darted out onto East Drive near the same spot and a 71-year-old cyclist slammed on the brakes, flew over the handlebars, and was killed.
The six-mile Central Park Drive that loops around the park’s edge was built as a carriage road, later requisitioned for cars, and temporarily cleansed of motorized vehicles. Now it’s a chaotic conduit for one- and two-wheeled vehicles, electrified and not. While flocks of road racers treat the 20-mile-per-hour speed limit as a challenge, families on holiday see the roadway as a safe space for a leisurely two-wheeled amble. The trouble is that members of the large groups, the slow and the fast, collide with bone-crushing regularity. Death is a rare result, but its specter is ever-present.
“So far, the Central Park Conservancy and the NYPD have tackled those threats with an ineffectual combination of pleading, finger-wagging, and a few tickets a week,” writes architecture critic Justin Davidson. “None of that goes far enough.” In the end, making the Drive less scary means promoting the one thing most New Yorkers loathe: slowness. The most radical move is the most necessary — altering the geometry of the Drive.
At the link in our bio, read Davidson on why a redesign of Central Park Drive is essential to slowing it all down.
Photo: Charly Triballeau/AFP/Getty Images, Maxmust/Wikimedia Commons, Jonathan Harbourne/Alamy
06 Nov 2026
On a scale from the Astor Place cube to Circle in the Square, where does @deneebenton fit?
This is NYQ, the series where we find out how “New York” notable New Yorkers really are. Would you answer these questions differently? Let us know in the comments.
If you’re a fan of Denée on @gildedagehbo, sign up for our TV club at the link in bio to follow along this season. And listen to the cast’s Christmas album, out now!
Video by @zachschiffman
Edited by @melissa_edits_stuff
06 Nov 2026
The #LookBook goes to @artbasel Paris, where artists, gallerists, and collectors roamed the Grand Palais before demonstrations forced the fair to close early. Tap the link in our bio for more.
Photos: @frankiealduino
Interviews by @freemans_land
05 Nov 2026
Zohran Mamdani racked up more wins Tuesday night, as New Yorkers passed the five ballot measures spun up by his independent Commission on Government Efficiency. The whole slate was shaped by a major Mamdani campaign theme — affordability, this time through better and faster city government — and each of the proposals received more than 61 percent of votes. “We are cutting red tape that will directly address the affordability crisis and help New Yorkers stay in the city they love,” the mayor said Tuesday.
Who are the winners and losers of the night when it comes to the city’s infrastructure? The dining and hospitality industry is arguably the biggest beneficiary of Proposition 1, which speeds up permitting for the outdoor cafés and streeteries that have proven a lifeline for restaurants. The third proposal, intended to make it easier for the city to start bike- and bus-lane projects, was championed by safe-streets and transit advocates. And the building industry loves Proposition 4, which is slated to create a hub for construction-permit applications.
Broadly, the ballot proposals’ sweep seems like a win for the so-called abundance movement, the progressive version of supply-side economics that has gained prominence in the past half-decade.
Read more from @mattsedacca at the link in our bio.
Photo-Illustration: Curbed; Photos: Getty Images
04 Nov 2026
Zohran Mamdani sailed into City Hall a year ago on a promise to make New York City more affordable, and this election cycle, the mayor has had a related goal in mind: cutting red tape. Earlier this year, the mayor tasked his Commission on Government Efficiency with hearing out New Yorkers, including municipal employees, on approaches they thought would help get things done faster. Now, as New Yorkers head to the polls, they will be voting on COGE’s proposed changes to the city charter aiming to do just that. Propositions 1, 3, and 4 are arguably the most infrastructure related, and @mattsedacca has evaluated them all.
A common theme across a number of these ballot measures is removing requisite public meetings and inputs, which is why some of the loudest opposition to some of these proposals is coming from community and local preservation groups that aren’t necessarily aligned against Mamdani most of the time. While the fights aren’t anywhere near the level of last year’s disputes between the mayor and the City Council, there’s been grumbling, as expected, about the fact that the measures would once again chip away at some of the council’s oversight powers.
Get Sedacca’s full breakdown at the link in our bio.
Photo: Bloomberg
02 Nov 2026
The Miami gallerist Nina Johnson (@ninajohnsongallery) had always fantasized about an apartment and exhibition space in New York. “It felt like a pipe dream,” she says. “It never occurred to me to be serious about it.”
Then, last year, she saw a listing for a penthouse in Tudor City, the apartment-building complex developed in the late 1920s by Fred R. French. It was not her ideal neighborhood — “When have I ever been to 41st and the East River?” — but it spread out over three stories, including a terrace, and the living room had double-height ceilings. “You could hang a show on the first floor without the artists having to deal with my bed in the corner,” she says.
Johnson called on interior designer @adamcharlaphyman and architect @andreherrero, who had worked on her namesake gallery in Miami’s Little Haiti, and gave them instructions to be respectful of the building’s history without skimping on the drama. Charlap Hyman took his cues from the tower’s gargoyles and turrets, pointing to a chandelier he installed by the Italian designer Luigi Caccia Dominioni. “I associate this style with Milanese Gothic Revival,” he says. “The conceit became to do Gothic Revival on Gothic Revival because it would all be harmonious.”
Swipe to see what they created in the Tudor City penthouse, and head to the link in our bio for more.
Photos: @thomasloof
31 Oct 2026
On a scale from a pocket park to 'The Only Living Pickpocket in New York,' where does @therealjohnturturro fit?
This is NYQ, a series where we find out how “New York” notable New Yorkers really are. Would you answer these questions differently? Let us know in the comments below.
Video by @zachschiffman
Edited by @melissa_edits_stuff
30 Oct 2026
On October 27, Oren, Alon, and Tal Alexander were each sentenced to 30 years in prison for sex trafficking. At almost every milestone of their decade of luxury-real-estate success, there is now an allegation of assault — by Oren, or Tal, or Oren and Alon, or Tal and Alon and Oren. And the allegations go back to 2003, when the brothers were in high school. More than 70 women told prosecutors they were raped by the brothers, sometimes as a pack. Eleven testified at trial. Bridget Read and James Walsh’s reporting, which you can read at the link in our bio, was the basis for ‘The Wolves of Real Estate,’ a three-part docuseries now on Peacock, produced by Vox.
29 Oct 2026
Ahead of their move from the coastal Southern California suburbs to Manhattan this spring, a physician and her businessman husband went searching for suburbia in an Upper West Side condo. Their must-haves were plenty and perhaps unsurprising given their current lifestyle: a laundry room where they could spread out a drying rack; an office for her husband, who sometimes works 12-hour days with early-morning starts; and a guest room for visiting friends and relatives. Also, they had one young daughter and plans for a second child, and they wanted both kids to have their own room.
Their ideal home, it turned out, was an $8.9 million four-bedroom apartment at Extell’s 50 West 66th Street. “We didn’t look at too many places,” the doctor told @mattsedacca, although that wasn’t exactly by choice. “There weren’t that many options.”
According to data from Marketproof, 10 percent of Manhattan and Brooklyn condo proposals accepted by the New York Attorney General’s Office since 2024 have had apartment mixes where half or more of the units had four or more bedrooms, up from less than 4 percent of the condo plans submitted between 2015 and 2023. This is especially the case in blue-chip neighborhoods, where, one person who’s worked on several new development projects says, larger layouts are now king.
At the link in our bio, read more on the developers stuffing their new projects with larger units.
Photos: Francisco Rosario/DDReps/FRoPhoto Inc, The Boundary
28 Oct 2026
A federal judge sentenced disgraced real-estate brokers Oren and Tal Alexander and their brother Alon to 30 years in prison, along with 10 years of supervised release for Oren and Alon, and Tal subject to a search of his electronic devices upon release.
The judge also ruled that each brother pay a $50k fine for each count of conviction, with Oren and Alon ordered to pay an additional $300,000 and Tal $350,000.
Oren and Tal had been among the top luxury-real-estate brokers in the country before they were arrested and charged with sex crimes in 2024; Alon, who is Oren’s twin, worked for the family’s private security business. The three brothers were found guilty on ten counts of sex trafficking and related charges in March.
Read the full update at the link in our bio.
Photo: Jane Rosenberg/Reuters
27 Oct 2026
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