Rent relief fund runs dry, Midtown feels like a 'ghost town,' & more

New York State stops accepting applications for pandemic rent relief for struggling tenants after the program runs out of money (The New York Times)

Opinion: New York City is mostly back to normal but Midtown still feels like a "ghost town" (Daily News)

Prices for houses around the U.S. surge and some New Yorkers submit bids sight unseen (The New York Times)

Manhattan’s net effective median rent—which reflects concessions—increases a whopping 20 percent since January (New York Post)

What the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill in Washington could do to address the division created by NYC’s urban highways (amny)

Jenna Lyons, the former creative force behind J.Crew, introduces a new line of furniture with Brooklyn brand Roll & Hill (Architectural Digest)