Beth Stebner

While Manhattan still boasts the most Michelin-starred restaurants in the city, Brooklyn and Queens residents have slowly but surely seen a rise in notable eateries that have been recognized by the 100-year-old institution. In the newly unveiled 2016 edition, 61 local restaurants made the cut—12 in Brooklyn—you can check each of them out on this handy map by Eater—and two in Queens.

Unless you've been living under a proverbial rock, New York City has gone papal with Pope Francis making his way here today. Consider yourself blessed if you managed to get tickets to the Holy See’s various NYC events (most notably the Central Park processional)—we hear it's such a score, the city's Cardinal Dolan and city officials have wagged their scolding finger at those trying to make money off the entire enterprise. 

For better or worse, co-op boards are the ultimate NYC gatekeepers. They decide who to let in, and to keep out. But for those of us not blessed with a bottomless bank account that any co-op board would find peerless, or connections to pave away, the next best route may be to find a more relaxed building to try to enter in the first place. The benefits aren't just at the point of entry, of course. You want to live in a building that won't prescribe how you live in every single way. (And by relaxed, we also don't mean a co-op that will let the building fall apart.)

In the not-too-distant past, the de facto way to go about a wedding registry was grab a scanner in the home goods section of a department store and go to town, stockpiling theoretical decor as if the home goods apocalypse was nigh. 

It’s been more than a decade since Sex and the City went dark, but some things never change —New York is still a city for singles.

According to data Match.com sent over from their 2014 “Singles in America” study , most New Yorkers remain perpetually single, whether or not by choice, and treat dating like a competitive sport that's more Hunger Games than Dating Game.