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Once an Open Sewer, New York Harbor Now Teems With Life. Thank the Clean Water Act.
Fifty years ago, Congress voted to override President Richard Nixon’s veto of the Clean Water Act. It has proved to…
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Creating the Exiled Sea Creature of ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’
Payakan, the estranged young tulkun, exemplifies the director James Cameron’s obsessive attention to the biomechanics of every entity that inhabits…
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Giancarlo Esposito Plays Other People So He Can Know Himself
Giancarlo Esposito is thinking about robbery. “Have you ever walked into a bank and thought, ‘There’s all this money here’?”…
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These Young Musicians Made an Album. Now It’s Nominated for a Grammy.
The debut album of the New York Youth Symphony, featuring some players who were in middle school, is up against…
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A Housing Market Hangover
In the year ahead, the housing market may be slow to start, with home prices, rents, inventory and interest rates…
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A ‘Bargain’ on Billionaires’ Row Still Clocks in at $50 Million
In a seasonal slowdown in top sales in Manhattan in December, there were still lofty prices, but many fell below…
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The 2022 High School Yearbook of American Politics
It wasn’t exactly a feel-good year. With brutal inflation, the war in Ukraine, periodic pandemic surges, gun massacres and the…
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How Low Can Airlines Go?
My traditionally cheery holiday social media feeds, usually populated by adorable children viciously ripping open presents like tiny animals, were…
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Have I Been Good or Bad This Year? Here’s Some New Math.
Here we are at the end of another year, and as humans are wont to do around this time, I’ve…
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The Meter Eats First
GLASGOW — I grew up in a string of dilapidated slum rentals, project housing and homeless hostels. I grew up…