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NYC’s Airbnb Law Has Thinned Out Listings. But Can It Bring Down Rents?

Airbnb hosts have charged that the law is an attack on "middle class" homeowners. But has it done anything to alleviate NYC's severe housing crunch?

‘Young People Saved Me’: Lucy Sante on Gen Z, the Virgin Mary, and Drugs

Sante is a legend, incisive and unsentimental, and she does not soften her renowned critical eye when turning it selfward.

Hochul: Sorry I Joked About Doing to Canada What Israel Is Doing to Palestine

Listen, sometimes politicians say their blood-soaked fantasies out loud, and other links to start your short week.

Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys Invite Brooklyn In. So Where’s the Show?

In "Giants," the couple's exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum, diverse works are suffocated by a vague narrative of Black excellence.

Bounced from Shelter to Shelter, a Family of Asylum Seekers Struggles to Stay New Yorkers

An interview with a family that never imagined themselves in New York City, and now have nowhere else to go.

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