Practice Sidewalk Social Distancing
Staying home is ideal, but sometimes we need to don our masks and run an errand or two (or just run). Unfortunately, maintaining the six-foot rule of social distancing in a city of eight-and-a-half million people is no small feat. So urban planner Meli Harvey created an interactive
Art Up Your Place for a Good Cause
Now through May 8, artist Doron Langberg and Chelsea's Yossi Milo Gallery are hosting an emergency benefit art sale on Artsy.com, featuring works by more than 100 stars of the art world (Jenna Gribbon's "Couched," pictured on the wall above, has emerged as one of the sale's hottest
Break a Sweat Before Summer — for Free
Fitness juggernaut Peloton, the maker of the world's most covetable stationary exercise bike, also happens to maintain a huge and growing library of pretty awesome workout videos — thousands of them, encompassing everything from meditation and yoga to strength training
Two Corcoran Agents Share Their Craziest Deals
A check snatched off the closing table by a wayward husband and a complicated rental that hinged on a live-in chicken — two real estate veterans share their wackiest deals.
Get Yourself Counted
Along with everything else going on in the world, 2020 is a census year. That constitutionally mandated count of the population is going ahead, pandemic or no, so it’s a good thing the government spent the last decade getting its
Make Some Feathered Friends
You’re staring out the window anyway, why not make the most of it? Spring avian migrations make April prime time for birding, a tranquil, solitary pastime enjoyable — at home or at large when practicing safe social distancing. Grab your
Color Inside Louise Lawler’s Lines
New York City's Museum of Modern Art has partnered with artist Louise Lawler on perhaps the most meta coloring book ever created. The free downloadable book includes a dozen tracings from Lawler's 2017 MoMA exhibition, "Why Pictures Now" (pictured above), themselves inspired by the artist's photographs of objets
Take a Shot with Hamilton
The Broadway event of the decade didn’t spring fully formed from the head of Lin-Manual Miranda. It took years of meticulous historical research into primary sources, making Hamilton the world’s most successful AP history project. The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and
Think Outside the Atmosphere
As has been too-frequently noted of late, Shakespeare wrote King Lear while quarantined during an outbreak of the plague. But there’s no need for you to aim so low. Think Like a Rocket Scientist is the debut how-to of Ozan Varol, who is, well, a