It’s a 46-story skyscraper being built on a graveyard that’s brought together shadowy Russians and a billionaire brand name to attract internationals in a zoning-skirting scheme that’s enraged the neighborhood, sent glass shattering to the street, and killed a construction worker. It’s New York in the aughts, and inside there’s a luxury suite just for you.

The last great New York recession was prolonged and deep. And it’s eerily familiar.

What went so catastrophically wrong.

The shadowy new owner is jacking up rents ($54,000 a month?!) and taking the creaky palace condo. And the tenants are going a little nuts.

The city’s real-estate market is unlike every other market in America. Until it isn’t. Evaluating the arguments for New York’s exceptionalism, including year-by-year best- and worst-case scenarios.

One man’s unintended detour into the cult of bespoke.

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A day in the life of Hakim Elnagar.

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