Want an apartment that narrows to a point? The Flatiron Building is going residential. Christopher Bonanos writes curbed.com/2023/10/flatir…

The Flatiron Building, after a long partnership dispute that was resolved with an auction last year, will be converted to luxury apartments. trib.al/GuJalNZ

'The point I’m at right now is basically in Balzac’s Lost Illusions where Lucien has fallen on his face. This naïve, idealistic writer goes to Paris and gets immersed in the city and kind of gets chewed up and spit out by it.” ⁦Brock Colyar⁩ ⁦ nymag.com/intelligencer/…

What's going on with all the mutli-family debt coming due? We asked and found out. curbed.com/2023/10/multif…

New York Magazine’s “Look Book” goes to the Central Park Conservancy fall luncheon. The Women’s Committee and guests brought in over $325,000 at the annual fundraiser. trib.al/KojCPYL

The new Louis Armstrong House Museum emphasizes the cultural legend's unpretentious life at home. trib.al/QXDxZMl

The author and architectural preservationist has filled his home with the history of Harlem. He found some of it on the street. trib.al/R6aiX5l

Dae, a Carroll Gardens café and home-goods shop, has taken the drastic step of banning photos and videos. trib.al/z6Sirfq

The director’s new book, Archive, is a showcase for the little temples, or little cells, she creates for her characters. trib.al/pl2Xtwv

Poet Patricia Grodd grew up in a family of fashion designers who owned Paul Stuart. For a duplex at the Hotel des Artistes building on 67th, she designed the furniture, carpeting, tile, screens, and cabinetry around a mural, now listed for $4.95 million trib.al/9s3Xf0F

In Thomas Heatherwick’s new book ‘Humanize,’ he argues that cities are drowning in architectural dullness. @jdavidsonNYC reviews trib.al/ItLuvBx

Maybe the best way to celebrate 1989 (Taylor's Version)'s upcoming release is to buy the $3.7 million Union Square apartment that housed the original version's Polaroid photoshoot? Adriane Quinlan writes trib.al/REOq4h8 trib.al/FfRBl6l

When it came time to leave his home of 20 years, @pogue took on a daunting quest: engineering a landfill-free move. That became a six-month project — one that opened his eyes to the big and friendly secondhand economy. trib.al/vGehNYD

To make sense of how multifamily landlords got into this looming crisis and what might happen next, Kim Velsey talked to Manus Clancy, a senior managing director at Trepp, a commercial real estate data firm, to find out what’s going on trib.al/wSTmwb3

Some owners of rent-stabilized multifamily buildings thought their loans would stay cheap and rents would go up forever. It was a bad bet, and now the debt is due to be paid. trib.al/WxZwoX3

Looking at the new renderings for streetery guidelines from the city, it looks like the emphasis will be on open-air, seasonal dining. It’s certainly a farewell to all the enclosed dining sheds of the past several years. trib.al/CI8OOet

Reformed “wild man” painter John Alexander and ceramicist Fiona Waterstreet wanted a “residential feel” for their Soho loft. “I’m English,” Waterstreet says. “I want square rooms, little rooms with light.” trib.al/apAv5cN

Dae, a Carroll Gardens café and home-goods shop, has taken the drastic step of banning photos and videos. trib.al/o6TuEMF

The photographs in Metropolitan Melancholia, taken mostly in 2021, document a city learning to un-shelter in place. trib.al/nCWcZBK

Poet Patricia Grodd grew up in a family of fashion designers who owned Paul Stuart. For a duplex at the Hotel des Artistes building on 67th, she designed the furniture, carpeting, tile, screens, and cabinetry around a mural, now listed for $4.95 million trib.al/ko9Aubh