New York Magazine Biography of a Building Series

An Exhaustive Oral History of the McKibbin Lofts

Villa Charlotte Brontë, a Cliffside Co-op in the Bronx

One Fifth Avenue, the Downtown Co-op

Graham Court, the Gilded Age Rental

Local/Metro

What’s Going On in Washington Square Park? — Curbed

Co-op Boards Ghost Their Residents — Curbed

Parents Scramble as N.Y.C. Schools Close Over Coronavirus — The New York Times

Kosher in Brooklyn, by Way of Cairo — The New York Times

Business

How a Restaurant Leaves New York — Grub Street

Can Groceries Save New York’s Restaurants? — Grub Street

Restaurant Workers Look Outside the Industry to Stay Employed — Eater

A Restaurant With No Leftovers — The New York Times

How Much Do Cooks and Chefs Really Make These Days? — Eater

Cooks Adopt Apps to Snap Up Shifts — The New York Times

Craft Brewers Lighten Up — The New York Times

Where a Day’s Worth of Food Came From (Gray’s Papaya) — New York Magazine

Science

When Cancer Patients Battle for Taste — TASTE

Meowing at Your Partner is Actually Normal — The Washington Post

Resurrecting Ancient Wines That Can Survive Climate Change — The Atlantic

Worms Could Inspire Plastic Waste-Degrading Tools — Scientific American

Art & Photography

Jason Everman: The Life Quixotic — Avaunt Magazine

On Lawrence Sumulong’s “Dead to Rights” — The New York Times

How Rap Became the New Punk — Pigeons & Planes

Revival Of Soul Music & Its History In Hip-Hop Production — Stereogum