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A landowner named Hezekiah Beers Pierrepont started selling plots of his Brooklyn land in the 1820s restricted by eight-foot setbacks still in effect today, rankling modern developers.

A dozen red roses is timeless. But its price tag is not. At Ditmars Flower Shop in Queens, where costs have soared in recent years, a bouquet is $72, up from $60 in 2019.

Two research labs known for some of the tech industry’s most important innovations have merged in hopes of recapturing their glory days.

Seeking social media stardom for their underage daughters, mothers post images of them on Instagram. The accounts draw men sexually attracted to children, and they sometimes pay to see more.

Blame rising costs, shrunken crowds and a black-market permit trade. Chicken over rice costs $10 at the Halal Plates, a cart in Lower Manhattan, up from $6 prepandemic.

Amid wild cost fluctuations and extreme weather conditions, a small army of workers toiled for years at Wyckoff’s Christmas Tree Farm in Belvidere, N.J. The goal? Producing this year’s crop, including this seven-foot Norway Spruce, which is sold for $105.

Hip-hop got its start in a Bronx apartment building 50 years ago. The concept of home has been at the center of the genre ever since.

The humble cotton button-down helps power New York City, through its presence in practically every office in town. But few people understand the shirt’s transformation from dirty to clean, which at Kingbridge Cleaners & Tailors will run you $6.

The pandemic upended everything at the Red Hook Lobster Pound. By mid-2022, the co-founder felt she had no choice but to raise the price of her signature item, a lobster roll and fries.

Two designers and graphics editors teamed up with a Food reporter to answer a question that has haunted New Yorkers: How can you snag a hard-to-get restaurant reservation?

Scoring a table in New York can seem impossible, but may be easier than you think. Here’s how the competition played out for one dinner, with tips from the winning players.

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Alice Oseman on bringing her viral webcomic, “Heartstopper,” to life.

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Through text messages, death certificates, social media posts, satellite imagery and personal testimony, we retraced the final moments of dozens of Ukrainians killed along one street in Bucha.

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Leaked emails detail how Russia’s biggest state broadcaster, working with the nation’s security services, mined right-wing American news and Chinese media to craft a narrative that Moscow was winning.

Songs with familiar samples dominated pop and performed well on the charts, lending upstart artists a trick to break through — and tossing older ones a lifeline.

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Is it Kuh-TAR, like guitar? Or KUH-ter, like cutter? A vital World Cup investigation.

We’re tracking the remaining uncalled House races — and showing when they are called — as states continue to count the outstanding votes from the midterm elections.

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