Cover of the May 6, 2013 issue. Get the story behind this week’s cover, “City Flair” by Birgit Schössow as well as a slide show of other New Yorker covers depicting city flair: http://nyr.kr/18827FZ

A call for the 92nd Street Y to reconsider its decision and maintain 92Y Tribeca, from Richard Brody: http://nyr.kr/11jvrZi

In this week’s issue of the magazine, Kelefa Sanneh writes about Dapper Dan, a designer who co-opted luxury-brand logos out of his Harlem boutique, creating one-of-a-kind outfits for hip-hop artists, rappers, and gangsters in the eighties. The photographers of the day, like Janette Beckman, Glen E. Friedman, and Paul Natkin, captured Dapper Dan’s custom outfits. Click-through for a slideshow: http://nyr.kr/ZHROm8

Joseph Mitchell started at The New Yorker in 1938, and was a staff writer for fifty-eight years, until his death in 1996. His journalism chronicled everyday life in New York City—he wrote about Mohawk steelworkers, fishermen, street-preachers, bartenders, ticket-takers, and bearded ladies. In the mid nineteen-sixties, he stopped publishing any work in the magazine. But apparently he never stopped writing. In this week’s issue, there’s a previously unpublished chapter from an unfinished memoir that he started in the late nineteen-sixties and early nineteen-seventies. On this week’s podcast, The New Yorker’s editor David Remnick and staff writer Ian Frazier talk with Sasha Weiss about their memories of Mitchell, why he didn’t publish for so many decades, and the influence his writing has had on them and on the magazine. Listen now: http://nyr.kr/Y3TcwH

Grand Central Terminal turns a hundred today. In a January, 1929, Casual, E. B. White wrote, “The cold weather is setting in. Should anyone decide to dig in for the winter, I recommend the Grand Central as a good place. That terminal, with its catacombs and its connecting clubs, offices, and hotels now offers a complete existence—all of the necessities of life, plus clean fun.” That’s still true today, though it would be nice is there were still an official organist. Here are some of Grand Central Terminal’s appearances on the cover of The New Yorker over the years: http://nyr.kr/TmVYR0

Richard Brody on “One P.M.,” a must-see rare Jean-Luc Godard film at Film Forum in New York City today: http://nyr.kr/WkBs09

A building worker from SuCasa on F.D.R. drive removes leaves from a drain in the East Village. October 30th. Photograph by Ashley Gilbertson/VII Photo.

See more images of Hurricane Sandy’s damage in New York City from our photographers: 

http://nyr.kr/T3cWjw

Cartoon of the night by William Haefeli. For more: http://nyr.kr/QjtK3u

Alec Wilkinson catches up with the “hybrid classical musician and orchestral rapper from Montreal who lives in Paris,” Chilly Gonzales: http://nyr.kr/STqNXS

If you’re in N.Y.C. and have a free hour this weekend, head to the Lower East Side for “Imagining the Lowline,” a visionary exhibit in an abandoned warehouse on Essex and Broome. The exhibit is really just an amuse-bouche, a showcase for the real thing: it’s there to help you imagine what it might be like to step into the world’s first underground park.

Meghan O’Rourke visits “Imagining the Lowline,” and explores the plan behind the underground park: http://nyr.kr/QFqDE8

Image courtesy of RAAD.