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Christopher Bonanos

City editor, New York Magazine
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Christopher Bonanos is New York’s city editor. He joined the magazine in 1993 and covers urbanism, transit, and theater, as well as running the magazine’s Reread newsletter and OldNYMag Instagram feed, surfacing the best of its archives. He is also the author of Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Best Biography of 2018, and Instant: The Story of Polaroid.

  1. photography
    Will Vogt Sees Rich PeopleThe photographs in These Americans depict the wealthy at leisure, with their guard down.
  2. neighborhood news
    JPMorgan Chase Bets Big on the Revival of MidtownIf you build it, 270 Park says, they will commute.
  3. developing
    Owner of Flatiron Building Buys Flatiron BuildingJeffrey Gural got it on the second try and saved a bunch of money in the process.
  4. open restaurants
    The Permanent-Outdoor-Dining-Shed Bill Is Finally HereBut the design regulations are still up in the air.
  5. urban wildlife
    Pale Male, Fifth Avenue’s Beloved Hawk, Has DiedHe grew famous for nesting on — and then being evicted from and welcomed back to — a window lintel on Fifth Avenue opposite Central Park.
  6. america decides
    ‘If the Election Doesn’t Feel Legitimate, Everything Else Is at Risk’A chat with Eric Schultz, one of Succession’s politics consultants.
  7. curbed glossary
    The Hurb Is the Pop-Up Package Hub We’re Stuck With (For Now)It eats up precious street space. But unless the city acts, it’s the only way you’re going to get your Amazon socks and coffee filters.
  8. listings
    Miranda Priestly’s House Is for SaleUpper East Side, seven bedrooms and a private basketball court, $27.5 million. That’s all.
  9. the real estate
    Is $63 Million Too Much for Logan Roy’s House?Marcia and Connor make one of the quickest deals in history.
  10. remembrance
    Al Jaffee’s Snappy, Not So Stupid MAD LegacyMAD’s longest-serving cartoonist invented a way to do something unusual: turn a pulp-magazine page into an animated, interactive feature.
  11. napoleonica
    How Much Are Napoleon and Josephine’s Letters Worth?The only wedding gift fit for a Roy.
  12. obituary
    Logan Roy Wouldn’t Look Back“I fuckin’ love news.”
  13. remembrance
    Mimi Sheraton Ate Everything for UsIn 1972, she nibbled her way into magazine history.
  14. great moments in journalism
    Logan Roy Pulls a Rupert MurdochThese fellas seem similar.
  15. bidding wars
    The Flatiron Sale Was a FlopA mystery buyer backed out, and the second-place bidder doesn’t want to pay.
  16. landmarks
    Who Wants to Buy the Flatiron Building?It goes up for auction today. Here’s what you could get for a couple hundred million.
  17. getting around
    The La Guardia AirTrain Is Dead. Now What?It’s a bus lane to the airport for now, and maybe a hard-to-build subway extension in the far, far future.
  18. preservation
    City to Tom Ford: Don’t Move That DoorThe Landmarks Preservation Commission decides his Paul Rudolph–designed house will keep its deep vestibule. Sidewalk urinators can rest easy.
  19. rendering judgment
    Is a Coney Island Casino a Good Idea?Could be a recipe for job growth, could be the next Atlantic City dead zone.
  20. hold please
    Will You Get a 212?They’re finally handing them out again. With a little luck, you could be one of the elite several million.
  21. getting around
    Why It Costs So Much to Build Our SubwaysAn NYU study finds that most of the overspending isn’t where you think it is.
  22. getting around
    Why Is the Floor of the Oculus Already Crumbling?Seven years in, the marble slabs are chipping and flaking. It didn’t have to be this way.
  23. listings
    Joan Didion’s Apartment Is for SaleMissed out on the estate auction? Seven and a half million dollars will get you the whole house.
  24. typography
    U.S. Department of State Cuts Diplomatic Ties With SerifsFor memos, Times New Roman is out, Calibri is in.
  25. rendering judgment
    The Casino–Apartment–Ferris-Wheel–Hotel Proposal for Midtown EastIs Stefan Soloviev’s plan a jackpot or a bust?
  26. vulture lists
    The Best Books of 2022Yes, this list features more than one book set in a postapocalyptic world, but have you looked around lately?
  27. artifact
    The MetroCard’s 28 Years As a Blank CanvasAs the clock runs down on this ubiquitous object, a collector walks us through its many variations.
  28. neighborhoods
    Is Everyone Really Moving to Turtle Bay in 2023?If pub grub and postwar buildings are hot, then what is hotness anyway?
  29. from the editors
    One Intersection, 72 Celebrities, 10,912 Clicks of the ShutterThe making of our ‘Reasons to Love New York’ cover.
  30. openings
    The Upper East Side Is Thrilled at Barnes & Noble’s ReturnWhich tells us something about what a neighborhood needs (besides books).
  31. remembrance
    George Lois, the Impossible Ad ManThe madman (but not a Mad Man, he was quick to tell you) behind Maypo, MTV, and Muhammad Ali’s Esquire cover has died at 91.
  32. it’s his town
    Things Eric Adams Has Called ‘My’My cops, my nightlife, my Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
  33. breakfast
    I Made an Egg-Yolk Omelet James Corden Would Hate“This was going to be a variation on a classic: omelette aux fines herbes à la Corden pique.”
  34. can it
    New York City: What If We Put Trash Inside Cans?If you want to put out your trash before 8 p.m., we’ve got a bold idea.
  35. goodbyes
    The Gramercy Park Hotel’s Liquidation Sale Was a Real Scene““People were coming out with tears streaming down their faces.”
  36. preservation watch
    60 Wall Street’s Lobby Is Weird and Ridiculous and Deserves to Be SavedThe Landmarks hearing on Tuesday is a make-or-break day.
  37. getting around
    The Era of the Not-Too-Empty, Not-Too-Crowded SubwayIt’s peak comfort. And a huge problem for the MTA.
  38. hot garbage
    The Church Left on the CurbA chance trash-day encounter reveals a 170-year institutional history.
  39. trash city
    It’s Hot Garbage MonthCurbed looks at the curb.
  40. investigations
    Caroline Calloway’s ‘$3,000’ ‘Murano-Glass’ Chandelier Is Probably Neither“Murano”? Maybe no.
  41. theater review
    A Near-Perfect Into the Woods, for a MomentSara Bareilles leads a cast without a weak link.
  42. books
    Walking the Mall With Alexandra LangeThe architecture critic and Meet Me by the Fountain author sizes up her local food court.
  43. bathrooms
    Outsourcing Public Bathrooms to Starbucks Maybe Wasn’t the Best IdeaWhat Howard Schultz giveth, Howard Schultz may taketh away.
  44. brick and mortar
    Century 21 Lives!Fidi, rejoice.
  45. theater review
    Straight Line Crazy Gives Us Robert Moses Without the FireA very talky, very static play.
  46. little ukraine
    ‘The World Was Ukrainian’A stubborn and surprising immigrant enclave, hiding in plain sight on the Lower East Side.
  47. little ukraine
    What the Little Ukraine Neighbors RememberFourteen recollections of hot beeswax, scouting, smuggling, and resurrections.
  48. honors
    Donald Trump Finally Gets a Jail CellMaybe he’ll visit soon!
  49. rendering judgment
    2 World Trade Center’s New Design Is Pretty Good (for 2007)Foster + Partners revamped its early-aughts tower, and it’s not bad. But does downtown still need an extra 3 million square feet of offices?
  50. obituary
    Sheldon Silver Was Albany’s Foremost ‘No’ for DecadesHe spent nearly 40 years in the state assembly, and the past two in prison.
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