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Lucio Schiavone has been operating the Prospect Park Carousel for 26 years, but he’ll retire next month. [NYT] Whole Foods is implementing a rewards program. [Grub Street] Take a tour of Hillary Clinton’s Brooklyn campaign headquarters, where over 500 young campaign workers roam the halls. [WNYC] A Chinese architecture student designed this 75-square-foot tiny house. [imgur] Two emerging […]

Donald Trump is planning his victory party at the Midtown Hilton. [USA Today] Bjarke Ingels’ Via 57 West tetrahedron is the winner of the 2016 International Highrise Award. [ArchDaily] A new exhibit of Bob Dylan’s sketches, watercolors, and acrylic paintings is on view in London and it features none other than the most Instagrammed spot in Brooklyn. […]

The Soul Cycle effect: proximity to fitness studios is the new real estate must have. [NYO] Hillary Clinton’s campaign is planning a two-minute fireworks display to go off on election night. They’d launch from the Javits Center, where she’d have her victory party. [Gothamist] Photographer Ed Reed has been capturing the candid moments of NYC’s […]

A Barnes & Noble in Co-op City, the Bronx’s only bookstore, is closing by the end of the year. [New Yorker] This year’s Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree is a Norway Spruce from a backyard upstate in Oneonta. It’ll be cut down on November 10th and brought to the city on the 12th. [NBC NY] A new […]

St. Paul’s Chapel, Manhattan’s oldest church that survived the September 11th attacks without even a broken window, marks its 250th anniversary by unveiling a 9/11 Chapel of Remembrance. [NBC] 10 “trumpkins” that are making Halloween great again. [Inhabitat] There are 47 gravestones at the Old Southampton Burial Ground on Long Island, but a cemetery-mapping service found close to […]

Soho’s beloved Pearl River Mart closed its doors in February after nearly 50 years in business, but it will reopen next month in Tribeca. [Crain’s] Santacon 2016 announces details that’ll bring 20,000 drunk revelers out to Williamsburg. DNAinfo] All the criminals (and gangsters, billionaires, and celebrities) who have called Trump Tower home. [Bloomberg] A Queens funeral […]

Using a 100,000-pound hydraulic excavator, crews started debris removal at the Gowanus Canal. So far they’ve uncovered two boats, a tree, and countless random objects like tires and bikes. [DNAinfo] What nine shoppers wore to the Williamsburg Whole Foods. [NYT] Remember that “Naked Trump” statue that appeared in Union Square and then near the Holland Tunnel? […]

Before being ousted from “Today,” Billy Bush bought a Chelsea townhouse so he could relocated from LA. But amid the scandal, sources say he’s already selling it. [NYP] Donald Trump‘s ancestors arrived in Castle Garden from Germany in 1885; here’s their immigrant story. [New Yorker] The cheapest condos in Dumbo are more expensive than properties in Manhattan ‘hoods […]

Every single real estate reference on the first season of “Sex and the City.” [Brick Underground] Governor Cuomo is seeking artists to design an LGBT memorial in the West Village. [DNAinfo] When the Statue of Liberty was renovated in the ’80s, this man spent $3 million on 50,000+ pounds of discarded materials from the statue and a historic […]

The Tiles for America are back on display in Greenwich Village’s Mulry Square. [Untapped] Donald Trump‘s childhood home in Jamaica Estates has hit the auction block for $849,000, after originally listing for $1.65 million in July. [Crain’s] Explore Bob Dylan’s New York with this interactive map. [NYT] A 95th floor penthouse at 432 Park listed for $82 million, […]

Bohlin Cywinski Jackson has revealed the design of their seventh Apple store in NYC, this one in Santiago Calatrava’s World Trade Center Oculus. [Architizer] Forget combining Gwyneth Paltrow’s penthouse with the apartment below; her downstairs neighbor just sold her loft for $3 million. [NYO] The number of cideries in New York has tripled since 2014, thanks […]