Even with prohibitive real-estate prices and recession tremors, amazingness lives.

Writer-artist Sloane Tanen picks Mom’s Day presents she’d like to get.

She says all she wants for Mother’s Day is some love from her kids, but read between the lines.

Front and center at the fall fashion shows, lace has new vigor.

Give the farmers’ market bounty a proper home.

The fruits of the season are weeks from local harvest, but a good-looking bowl is a harbinger of tasty things to come.

For four decades, a former synagogue on Hester Street has been a studio, living space, and renovation project for the artists Thomas Nozkowski and Joyce Robins.

A last glimpse of Mrs. Astor’s apartment.

A West Village townhouse transformed.

St. Marks Place, minus the tacky.