Your NYC week, all in one place.

Chad Robertson, the James Beard-winning Tartine co-founder, is opening an all-day bakery-café at 184 North 8th Street with an on-site mill grinding East Coast grain. A clean break from Tartine, not an outpost.

The MacDougal Street debut from Ahris Kim, longtime operations director for Atomix and Atoboy, is a lighthearted Asian-American neo-bistro where you'll often find Kim working the floor. That team's cooking, minus the Atomix reservation gauntlet.

Robert Sietsema goes beyond Coney Island and maps the metro area's finest franks: natural-skin snappers, regional oddities, the works. Unfashionable, deeply reported service journalism that beats any new-opening list.

Working with neuroscientists in Kyoto, Huyghe had a neural network reconstruct images a person merely imagined inside an fMRI scanner; the machine's shifting hallucinations now play on screens across MoMA's Sculpture Garden. Through November 29, and genuinely unlike anything else on view this summer.

The Met's first exhibition dedicated to Orientalism pulls roughly 180 objects from 12 departments, from Napoleon's Egypt to Ottoman painter Osman Hamdi Bey. On view through February 2027, so no excuse.

CEO Marc Glimcher calls the mega-gallery's cut of 50 artists and 50 staff a "model correction"; laid-off workers say the cuts landed on the lowest-paid while zero executives lost their jobs.

The Manhattan DA and the Met's own provenance team returned another batch of looted antiquities in June, pushing total returns since 2017 past $95 million across 120-plus objects.

Hell Gate spent a night at Pacha's new New York outpost, the storied Ibiza superclub reborn with Masters at Work on the decks, and argues it may already have eclipsed the room it replaced.

The Honorable William Wall is a two-story party barge anchored near Ellis Island, reachable by shuttle from Jersey City, capacity 149. Weekday tickets run about $25, boat ride included.

Edebiri on eight-show weeks alongside Don Cheadle: "I don't understand why I have a pounding headache every day." The revival closes July 19, so this is your last week.

The tournament's real winner is the city's watch-party economy: Bohemian Hall bought two dozen big screens and is up 200% year-over-year, the Intrepid's free pier parties draw 1,500 a match, and Queens bars report beer sales up 30%.

The free outdoor production at Marcus Garvey Park is drawing raves as one of the strongest stagings in recent memory, and it doesn't require fighting for Central Park tickets.

The Medal spinout raised $320M to train AI on billions of action-labeled gameplay clips. Investor Vinod Khosla, to TechCrunch: "The quantum leap is the emergence of intuition in the AI."

The 7 World Trade Center company runs an "AI-native law firm": human attorneys supervising AI agents, priced on outcomes rather than hours. Blackstone is both an investor and a customer.

Mercor is buying the New York startup that builds simulated office software so AI agents can rehearse work before doing it for real, three months after Deeptune's $43M Series A. Funding rounds and exits are now separated by roughly a fiscal quarter.

Hochul's executive order sets AI loose on roughly 18 million words of state law to flag outdated rules, with Stanford's RegLab and Recoding America advising. Humans still review everything flagged, for now.

Weeks after a tourist died in a runaway-carriage incident, the Conservancy released a poll showing 68% of New Yorkers back a ban, days before the July 15 Council hearing on the bill. The drivers' union says a ban would cost ~200 immigrant workers their jobs.

With 46 confirmed cases on the UES, the question is how the city actually enforces the cooling-tower law written to prevent exactly this. Testing has since wrapped: 31 buildings, the Guggenheim among them, were ordered to drain and disinfect.

NYC becomes the first US city to require canceling a subscription be as easy as signing up, aimed squarely at gym-membership traps. Effective October 1, with fines from $525 to $3,500.

A structural column failed on the 21st floor of the Pfizer Building at 235 E 42nd, an office-to-apartments conversion with 22 open violations dating to 2020. A pointed warning about how fast the city is racing to turn offices into housing.