New York Magazine: October 15, 2012 Issue

Table of Contents

October 15, 2012

Cover Story

Global Urban Design 2012

A truly green house in Singapore; a hôtel particulier fit for a seventeenth-century Parisian nobleman, complete with an indoor swimming pool. By Wendy Goodman

On the Cover: A hôtel particulier in Paris renovated by Pierre Yovanovitch. Photograph by Jean-François Jaussaud.

Features

The Geek in the Gown

When 37-year-old Marissa Mayer bolted Google for Yahoo, she became the first Fortune 500 CEO to take the top job while pregnant.

By Lisa Miller
From 0 to 12 Million Square Feet

Hudson Yards, Manhattan’s largest remaining chunk of emptiness, is about to become the city’s most massive real-estate development.

By Justin Davidson
This Is What $90 Million Looks Like

New York’s most preposterously expensive new building, One57, is a still-in-construction 90-story tower with drop-dead views of Central Park.

By Matthew Shaer

Intelligencer

Culture

Columns

The Etch-a-Sketch Moment

At the debate in Denver, it finally happened—but Obama looked like the one who was shaken.

Agenda

Chocolate for the Waterfront

Williamsburg microchocolatier Mast Brothers expands to South Street Seaport.

Strategist

Departments