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"Rather than a traditional theatre, we are creating a garden of earthly delights. Empyrean is a place of ecstasy, artistry and real interpersonal connection. When the curtain falls, the night has just begun."

Cyclist Jake Missen branded the redesigned stretch of Bedford Avenue 'an absolute warzone,' emphasizing the dangers cyclists now face as they navigate between parked cars and fast-moving traffic.

Bodega Nights is not a bodega or a wine bar, but a fun, sophisticated restaurant concept from the couple behind Babysips in a neighborhood that desperately needed a grown-up dinner option.

How buildings are designed impacts people's lives every day. If every day you're living in a space where you can't use your home, that gnaws away at you.

I once lived in a Black mecca. But by the summer of 2022, my toddler son and I were often the only Black folks on the playground in Bedford-Stuyvesant, a fact that felt both alienating and surreal. We moved to Bed-Stuy that summer to be close to my sister and her family. Reeling from a recent separation and scrambling for child care in a different neighborhood, I often found myself on the playground, trying to make sense of both our new life and this

Our picks for open houses to check out this weekend are found in Prospect Heights, Dyker Heights, and Madison. Photo via Madison Estates Sotheby's International Realty by Susan De Vries Our picks for open houses to check out this weekend are found in Prospect Heights, Dyker Heights, and Madison. They range in price from $874,999 to $3.199 million. All of the open houses are scheduled for Saturday, so they should be proceeding despite the big storm predicted to arrive on Sunday.

There's a three-story turret, a front porch the size of some one-bedrooms, and a private driveway (with a porte cochere, no less). Wave-shaped dormer windows overlook the Spanish-tile roof. Inside, there's parquet for miles, wood paneling, stained glass, beamed ceilings, and a classical frieze of men in togas. Out back, there's a pergola and a small pond. "They don't build them like that anymore," says broker Joe Brikman,

The days appear numbered for the striking butter yellow Italianate manse on Fort Greene's South Oxford Street, with developers applying to raze the attractive wood structure and replace it with a five-story apartment building.

Buying a home in New York City has rarely been described as "relaxed," but 2026 is quietly shaping up to be one of the most buyer-friendly years in recent memory-at least in the right neighborhoods. According to a new analysis from StreetEasy using listing data from December 2025 , rising inventory and falling asking prices are finally giving buyers something they haven't had in years: options. The real estate platform's annual list of the 10 best NYC neighborhoods for buyers highlights areas where the balance of power is shifting from sellers to people ready to move.