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  1. October 13, 2026 Former Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack listed his 165 East 70th Street carriage house for $80 million, which would beat the city's $77.1 million townhouse record.
  2. October 10, 2026 Five people climbed out of a manhole on East 82nd Street at 2 a.m., the seventh sewer sighting since May; police think treasure hunters are chasing valuables washed into storm drains.
  3. October 4, 2026 The tower at First Avenue and East 77th Street is two-thirds framed and should top out by year's end, with 18 of its 89 rentals rent-stabilized for households at 80 percent of area median income.
  4. September 26, 2026 Two Queens men who came out of a Park Avenue manhole told police they were hunting for valuables washed into the sewers; they pleaded not guilty to trespassing and return to court Nov. 25.
  5. September 23, 2026 Happier Grocery leased the long-empty City Cinemas space at 210 East 86th Street for its second store.
  6. September 21, 2026 Streetsblog documents the Queensboro Bridge bike exit at East 60th Street, where four streams of cyclists and a crosswalk meet at a hairpin; DOT declined to comment.
  7. September 17, 2026 The Met broke ground on Frida Escobedo's modern and contemporary wing, set to open in 2030 with a year-round rooftop cafe over Central Park.
  8. September 16, 2026 the Met broke ground on its Frida Escobedo-designed Tang Wing, adding nearly 50% more modern and contemporary gallery space by 2030.
  9. September 4, 2026 Gloria Steinem died at 92 at the East 73rd Street brownstone she first moved into in 1967, three weeks before her memoir was due out.
  10. September 3, 2026 Hochul and Blakeman traded shots over her wearing a hijab at the Islamic Cultural Center, which he called political pandering; Hochul said she dresses for every house of worship and added, "I just love it when men lecture women on whether or not they are a feminist".
  11. September 2, 2026 John Galliano withdrew from his planned Met Costume Institute exhibition after backlash over the antisemitic and anti-Asian hate speech he was convicted of in France in 2011.
  12. August 30, 2026 Council Speaker Julie Menin wrote the Met urging it to drop plans to build the 2027 Met Gala around John Galliano, convicted of a hate crime in 2011, calling the choice a "serious mistake"; museum executives scheduled an emergency meeting Sunday.
  13. August 17, 2026 Larry Montes, 46, faces hate-crime charges after storming Central Synagogue's Friday Shabbat service, striking a 63-year-old worshipper and hurling slurs, the latest in a run of antisemitic attacks on Jewish New Yorkers this year.
  14. August 16, 2026 The city's "Empire Bins" trash-container rollout would swallow up to 10% of curb parking on the UES and UWS, and Community Board 8 chair Valerie Mason is demanding more input before it goes citywide.
  15. July 30, 2026 Compliance with the city's Legionella testing law jumped to 92% among cooling towers swept up in the outbreak investigation, up from 74% two weeks ago.
  16. July 14, 2026 New curbside "Empire Bins" will each claim roughly 1,500 street parking spots on the Upper East and Upper West Sides, the steepest losses anywhere in the city.
  17. June 29, 2026 The Torkian Group revealed a 30-story, 70-unit rental tower at 301 East 71st Street at Second Avenue, near the Q train's 72nd Street station. Eighteen units will be affordable at 60% AMI, spread across the full height of the building rather than clustered. No construction timeline yet.

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