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  • What Does It Take to Be New York City's Best Chef?
    The James Beard Awards — AKA "the Oscars of the food world” — are on Monday. Food-obsessed New Yorkers are ready to line up outside the restaurant of this year’s "Best Chef in New York City." Khushbu Shah is a senior food editor at Thrillist. She was also on the committee that whittled down the nominees.
    6 min
  • The Strange Behavior of the MS Drug Market
    The FDA just approved two new drugs to treat Multiple Sclerosis, or MS. For the 12,000 New Yorkers living with the disease, that’s good news. But MS medications have a steep price tag. And as Camille Petersen explains, the MS drug market doesn’t work the way you’d expect it to.
    8 min
  • The Strange Behavior of the MS Drug Market
    The FDA just approved two new drugs to treat Multiple Sclerosis, or MS. For the 12,000 New Yorkers living with the disease, that’s good news. But MS medications have a steep price tag. And as Camille Petersen explains, the MS drug market doesn’t work the way you’d expect it to.
    8 min
  • New York City's waterfronts are getting crowded
    Manhattan’s waterfront used to be home to one of the worlds busiest ports.
    Freighters lined the docks. And the water around the island was severely polluted. Now with the ships mostly gone, the cleaned up waterfront has become prime real estate for development, public parks and other uses.
    But this transition has led a new problem: no one is exactly sure who is in charge. Moira Warburton explores a potential solution.
    5 min
  • New York City's waterfronts are getting crowded
    Manhattan’s waterfront used to be home to one of the worlds busiest ports.
    Freighters lined the docks. And the water around the island was severely polluted. Now with the ships mostly gone, the cleaned up waterfront has become prime real estate for development, public parks and other uses.
    But this transition has led a new problem: no one is exactly sure who is in charge. Moira Warburton explores a potential solution.
    5 min
  • Ikea comes to Manhattan, and it's different
    Furniture giant Ikea just opened a new branch in Manhattan last week. The store is radically different from Ikea’s usual one: it’s smaller, it works as a showroom and it doesn’t sell meatballs.
    Reporter Bianca Giacobone went to the Upper East Side to check it out.
    5 min

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