The first week of April marks the anniversary of the founding of this magazine, back in 1968, and it occurred to us that it might be interesting to commemorate the occasion with an issue—maybe even an annual issue—that looks back at the history of the city itself. For this initial foray, we decided to take a rather sideways glance backward. What you see here is not a treatise on a specific period or event like New Amsterdam trading or the 1986 Mets. Instead, we’ve chosen to explore, across time, one of the things that has most defined New York life for centuries and has become a unit of measurement for our successes and failures: the apartment.
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What's Worse for the Chelsea Hotel: Going Condo or Boutique?
Freeman Gunter's Life at the Ansonia
Home on Screen- Projections of the New York apartment.
Attention Seekers- The grandest, smallest, and scariest homes in the city's history.
The Perpetual Garret- Where the starving artists slept.
My Dealing, Stealing, Squealing Neighbors
- By Luc Sante
My Vertical Land Grab- By Gay Talese
My Beauty Complex- By Shalom Auslander
My Homeless Houseguest- By Anne Roiphe
My Erotic House-sit- By David Rakoff
My Tugboat Sublet- By Philip Gourevitch
Benedict Cumberbatch, Out of Darkness
Inspecting Donald Judd's Loft Building 
The Judy Blume File
Exit Poll: Lauryn Hill
Fashionables: Little White Dresses
Summer Rental Fantasies
Adam Platt on Lafayette
The New Israeli Cuisine
Welcome to the Real Space Age
The Stop-and-Frisk Trials of Pedro Serrano
Matt Harvey, Pitch by Phenomenal Pitch
Joe Hynes Gets His Television Show
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