A fancy new hotel digs in its old latrine.

An art collector adds steam of a different sort to the locker room of an old Y.

He’s making money at it!

A stinky drink for Hollywood yogis.

Artists leave work outside; pigeons refuse to poop on it.

$17.3 million, or best offer.

New yorkers are drawn to other cities in much the same way great chefs like to check out each other’s restaurants. We’re confident that we do, in fact, live in the best place in the world, but we’re curious to see what other people have done with their urban environment. For this special edition of Strategist, we subjected six great metropolises—London, Paris, Los Angeles, Sydney, Rome, and Miami—to the same scrutiny we bring to our own city every week. Where are the best places right now to drink, shop, flirt, eat, sleep, dance? We found them. Now all you have to do is get on the plane.

Clean, sober, on the town.

When one of New York’s most-eligible hard-living, jet-setting, model-dating, turban-wearing bachelors decides (or, more precisely, when his dad decides) the time has come for him to get married, it’s bound to be quite a party.

'Maury wanted to call the show 'Mr. and Mrs. Chung', but the heads wouldn't let us.'