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Louis CK Is Selling His Shelter Island House

The renovated Tudor-style house is listed for $7 million more than he paid for it in 2014.
  1. Vornado CEO Steve Roth Selling Longtime East Hampton Home He and his wife, Daryl Roth, might be moving from the four-bedroom, shingle-style house into something much bigger.
  2. ‘The Baldwin Property Is Lovely, But …’ Brokers were a bit brutal about why Alec Baldwin’s Hamptons house isn’t selling.
  3. An Immense Soho Townhouse That Was Used in a Beyoncé Video Its 40-foot pool, specifically.
  4. A Frankenmansion Is Coming to Gay Street A landmarked house wrecked by an aggressive renovation will be completely replaced.
  5. The MTA’s Oldest Computer Controls Kept Going During the Global Tech Outage Most of the Cuomo-era countdown clocks on the lettered subway lines failed; the old ones on the numbered lines did not.
  6. Kareem Rahma Wore Wool Suits in the Summer Because of Mad Men The host of Subway Takes on moving to New York the year of Hurricane Sandy and the Alphabet City apartment where everyone came to crash.
  7. Stay in a Steven Holl Twelve architecturally significant places (just outside New York) you can stay for a night or more.
  8. This Week’s Worth-It New York City Apartment Listings There’s a sprawling ten-room English revival house for rent in Flatbush.
  9. Shigeru Ban’s Dazzling Architecture of Time The architect’s approach (and choice of materials) embraces simplicity and change.
  10. A Paris Pied-à-Terre With an Olympic View New Yorkers Sean Cassidy and Gerry Logue will be watching the opening ceremony from their balcony on the Left Bank.
  11. Is Outdoor Dining Over? New regulations are here. Restaurants are trying to make sense of them.
  12. The Look Book Goes to the Campus Galleries Upstate For the opening of Bortolami, James Cohan, kaufmann repetto, Anton Kern, Andrew Kreps, and kurimanzutto’s shared art space in Claverack.
  13. Jenni Kayne, Real-Estate Flipper Will her new shoppable farmhouse and spa in Tivoli be the next on the market?
  14. Did Biden Just Propose National Rent Stabilization? The president says he wants to cap increases at 5 percent. There are some catches.
  15. Uncovering Good Modernist Bones at U.N. Plaza James Spindler and John Vitale bought their apartment from the family of its original owner, who decorated it in a prewar style. They opened it up.
  16. A Two-Bedroom Bed-Stuy Duplex for Under $1 Million Plus a Tudor City one-bedroom with a working fireplace and lots of original details in Park Slope.
  17. The City’s Quiet Crackdown on Kava Bars The businesses selling kava and kratom drinks have found themselves in a legal limbo.
  18. Do You Know Mr. Mango? “It’s like a surrender— shopping there means I am opening myself up to whatever Mr. Fruit is telling me.”
  19. Why the Third Avenue Bridge Got Stuck Aging infrastructure? Global warming? Not exactly.
  20. The Approval Matrix: Too Many Cats in Heat Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
  21. Turns Out Those Giant Link5G Towers Don’t Have 5G Two years later, most of them are just glorified internet kiosks.
  22. What the Architect Thierry Despont Built for Himself His sprawling office in an 1899 Tribeca warehouse is for sale for $25 million.
  23. A Passive House in Ghent With Its Own Spring-Fed Lake The hexagonal windows and north-south layout maximize light while minimizing energy bills.
  24. 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.
  25. Oh No, We Like the New MTA Lamp The OnlyNY design revives an old logo and is, unfortunately, kind of great.
  26. 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.
  27. Hobby Lobby Has Chosen Tribeca The arts-and-crafts giant will open its first Manhattan location at 270 Greenwich Street.
  28. Crest Hardware Is Closing Owner Joe Franquinha confirmed the news in a letter to customers.
  29. 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.
  30. Melting, Jeweled, Chiseled Glass in July’s Design Shows Plus Todd Merrill’s glowing installation at Bergdorf Goodman and a design weekend upstate.
  31. Clarissa and Edgar Bronfman Jr. Are Selling Their Park Avenue Penthouse They’ve listed the triplex for $22 million.
  32. The Perfect Kitchen in Ridgewood Architectural designer Brianne Doak had one hard line when looking for a rental: no landlord specials.
  33. 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.
  34. The Sag Harbor Greek Revival That Chinatown Bought A film producer and his textile-collecting wife lived there for over 25 years.
  35. People Are Getting Stuck in Airplane Ceilings Now? A new genre of flight horror.
  36. 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.
  37. 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.
  38. What Did Brooklyn Bridge Park Get So Right? Nearly 20 years after we broke ground, it’s more impressive than ever.
  39. 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.
  40. ‘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.
  41. 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.
  42. 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.
  43. A Two-Bedroom Near the Frick for Just $950,000 And another in Jackson Heights with lots of light and good details.
  44. MoMA’s ‘Crafting Modernity’ Tries to Cover Most of a Continent And ends up not saying much about it at all.
  45. 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.
  46. Trouble at the Rent Guidelines Board Owner member Christina Smyth is getting sued for alleged harassment of Section 8 tenants.
  47. The Citi Bike Battery Crew Racing to Keep 15,000 Bikes Online Most docks don’t charge e-bikes (yet). These folks do.
  48. The Approval Matrix: Everyone’s a Pundit Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
  49. Core Club vs. Michael Shvo The private club on Fifth Avenue is suing the developer for failing to provide sufficiently luxurious accommodations.
  50. 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.
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