Nadja Popovich

The Rise of the Manhattan Mega-Mansion In the West Village and other historic neighborhoods, buyers are consolidating apartments and combining townhomes, a sign of New York’s allure to the ultra-rich.

We looked at where and how the ultra-rich are buying and combining two – sometimes three – adjacent townhomes to convert them into single-family housing (often featuring an elevator and a flashy central staircase.)
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NYC’s newest billionaire status symbol: a double-wide townhouse.

Ultra-wealthy buyers are combining 2–3 historic townhomes into mega-mansions designed to feel like suburban estates — in the middle of the Manhattan.

Here's the latest with @sooophie.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

It's a trend that is quietly changing the character of neighborhoods, block by block, as buildings that once housed a dozen or more New Yorkers become single-family dwellings.

In the West Village, one out of every six small multifamily buildings has been turned into a single-family home since 2004. Citywide, more than 9,600 units have been eliminated as part of this trend.

The Rise of the Manhattan Mega-Mansion In the West Village and other historic neighborhoods, buyers are consolidating apartments and combining townhomes, a sign of New York’s allure to the ultra-rich.

Behind the preserved historical facades, the ultra-rich are buying up adjacent townhomes in the West Village and Upper East Side, combining them into a megamansion. It's part of a broader trend of small multifamily buildings being turned into single-family homes. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Luxury Apartments Are Bringing Rent Down in Some Big Cities

“New building openings are bringing rents down as wealthy tenants trade up, forcing landlords to drop prices for older apartments.” @bloomberg.com

Arrested by Phone: A Graphic Novel No texting. No visitors. No escape. She was caught in India’s new digital nightmare.

I hope you’ll check this out. We turned an investigative story about the "digital arrests" sweeping the world’s most populous country and turned it into a web comic that captures the psychological horror for victims.

The brilliant Anand RK (anandrk.art) did the illustrations.
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Arrested by Phone: A Graphic Novel No texting. No visitors. No escape. She was caught in India’s new digital nightmare.

Was reading this, fully hooked and immersed into the sheer horror, while constantly thinking 'Wait, why is this so good?! Who did this?'

Until I got to the end and saw it was Anand RK, with lettering by @adityab.net and then it just made total sense lmfao.

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Arrested by Phone: A Graphic Novel No texting. No visitors. No escape. She was caught in India’s new digital nightmare.

This is an INCREDIBLE investigative story, told in the form of a graphic novel. Arrested by phone - a true story.

A must read

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Arrested by Phone: A Graphic Novel No texting. No visitors. No escape. She was caught in India’s new digital nightmare.

Haven't been posting much lately but had to come share the latest piece I helped edit + produce @bloomberg.com — worth your time!

Arrested by Phone: A Graphic Novel

Illustrations by the amazing Anand RK (anandrk.art)
Written by a crack reporting team

Gift link:
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Arrested by Phone: A Graphic Novel No texting. No visitors. No escape. She was caught in India’s new digital nightmare.

Haven't been posting much lately but had to come share the latest piece I helped edit + produce @bloomberg.com — worth your time!

Arrested by Phone: A Graphic Novel

Illustrations by the amazing Anand RK (anandrk.art)
Written by a crack reporting team

Gift link:
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

NJ Transit Is NYC’s Least Reliable Commuter Rail — By a Long Shot An analysis of real-time train data shows its passengers face major service disruptions at six times the rate of riders on other NYC commuter railways.

NJ Transit is much worse than all other commuter rails in the NYC area. @agordon.me and @suryamattu.com collected and analyzed many weeks of transit feeds to quantify how bad (and it includes angry emojis).
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We can also look at global daily absolute temperatures (rather than anomalies), which show just how much global temperatures have shifted over time:

Outstanding data viz of China's auto sales in Asia. Speaking locally: very evident in Singapore how much market share BYD in particular is gaining www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202... #energysky

China has overtaken Europe in historical greenhouse gas emissions, which could scramble the debate on who pays for global warming

New story w/ @bradplumer.bsky.social:
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The World’s Best Hope to Beat Climate Change Is Vanishing To have a chance against global warming, key economies and industries need to hit crucial emissions targets by 2030. They’re far off track.

To have a chance against global warming, key economies and industries need to hit crucial emissions targets by 2030. They’re far off track.

This article is free to read, along with all of our coverage of the COP29 climate summit

Reinventing Concrete, the Ancient Roman Way By learning the secrets of 2,000-year-old cement, researchers are trying to devise greener, more durable modern options.

Glorious article about the Roman inspired self-repairing concrete. Wonderful materials science! www.nytimes.com/2024/10/19/s...

The NYT climate team is looking for a graphics editor — come work with me!!

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Should You Trust Zillow’s Climate Risk Data? It’s flawed, but not worthless. Here’s how you should think about it.

Zillow users will soon see a “climate risk” rating for each home.

The ratings are potentially a big deal and could shape buying decisions.

But are they accurate? And if not, how should home buyers think about climate risk?

I spoke with @madisoncondon.bsky.social and @michaelwara.bsky.social:

This climate scientist spent his career warning about extreme rain. Then he lived it Researchers in Asheville, North Carolina have warned for years that rainfall is becoming increasingly dangerous. But experiencing it firsthand with Hurricane Helene is something totally different.

"David Easterling has tracked extreme weather at NOAA for decades. Still, he wasn't prepared to see it firsthand when his community of Asheville, North Carolina flooded after Hurricane Helene."

I will no longer be covering climate, energy and the environment exclusively, but plan to stay on top of important stories as both an editor and sometimes-reporter. Send data tips and ideas my way --> npopovich3@bloomberg.net

*Some personal news*

After 7+ years as a graphics reporter and sometimes-editor on The New York Times' climate team, I'm leaving to take a new role: Starting Monday, I'll be a Senior Editor at Bloomberg focused on collaborative projects across data reporting and visualization

Where Americans Have Been Moving Into Disaster-Prone Areas As Americans have flocked south and west, more people have been exposed to the risk of hazards like hurricanes, floods, wildfires and dangerous heat.

More people across the U.S. are exposed to the risk of natural hazards and dangerous heat as climate change is amplifying extreme weather. A New York Times analysis shows where.

Opinion | America’s Disaster Recovery System Is a Disaster The help Americans receive after disasters isn’t just inadequate; it’s complicated to navigate and painfully slow to arrive.

A particularly brutal recovery lays ahead.

Our approach to recovery has long been inadequate but only incramental changes have been made to try and make it better. www.nytimes.com/2023/10/28/o...

Two charts. One shows that in April 2021 California had barely any grid-scale battery power on its gird. The other shows that by 2024 batteries were providing several gigawatts of power during evening peaks, extending the reach of solar power after the sun goes down.

Batteries the size of shipping containers are delivering solar power after dark in California and helping to stabilize grids in other states. And it's only the beginning.

Read our full story -- w @bradplumer.bsky.social --> www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

New piece out today -->

Where Electric Vehicles Are (and Aren’t) Taking Off Across the U.S www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

How to Move a 1,000-Pound Rescued Manatee (Swimming Isn’t an Option) Three orphaned calves were found in Florida. Then they racked up the frequent flyer miles.

<3 Am now a manatee superfan <3

New piece out today -->

Where Electric Vehicles Are (and Aren’t) Taking Off Across the U.S www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

How Much Can Forests Fight Climate Change? A Sensor in Space Has Answers. A new NASA program is helping researchers more accurately calculate how much planet-warming carbon protected areas are storing. It’s a lot.

A new NASA program is helping researchers more accurately calculate how much planet-warming carbon protected areas are storing. It’s a lot. www.nytimes.com/2023/12/08/c...