Insider Life: Fitness status symbols - Las Vegas is booming - Mercedes' new luxury sedan

Welcome to another edition of Insider Life, where we bring you our top reads at the intersection of luxury, health, culture, and travel. Today, we're taking a look at high-performance fitness apps, exploring how Las Vegas is booming (against the odds), and hey, heard of "pizza babka?" Now you have. Let's dig in.

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Take a look inside Mercedes' new $82,000 E450 sedan - a master class in luxury, even if it's not the most user-friendly.

Read our review of the luxury car.

During quarantine, people with means have turned to obsessive health tracking as a hobby - and apps like Peloton, Oura, and Whoop became status symbols.

Here's how that happened.

Las Vegas casinos and tourism have struggled during the pandemic - but now, the city's booming as hordes of Californians move in.

Inside Las Vegas' boom.

Millennials are driving the indoor dining scene in New York City - and splurging on dinners, which is sending checks and tips higher.

More on that here.

A billionaire's Manhattan mansion is finally set to sell after nearly 8 years on and off the market - and at a 47% discount.

See inside the NYC townhouse.

Plus...

• Millennial New Yorkers are nabbing luxury apartments at $1,000-plus discounts.
• 'Pizza babka' is all over social media now. Here's why.
• The biggest private island for sale in the Bahamas is about to hit the auction block.