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Keith McNally should get some credit for the bathtub in the middle of Nick Poe’s 1,500-square-foot loft on the Lower East Side. Poe, an architectural designer, roomed with McNally’s son Harry in the early au... More »

Much of Clove Lakes Park, alongside Staten Island’s Sunnyside neighborhood, is about as close to untamed as city parkland gets. It’s designated “Forever Wild,” mostly unchanged from primeval land. It also smells really bad. That isn’t a cheap Staten Island joke: Nearby residents have long complai... More »

When Colin Faber and Leni Niemegeers-Faber bought their carriage house in 2009, they had been looking for a place to serve two functions: home and showcase. The married architects run a design firm, SHED Studio, and wanted to give clients a sense of what they... More »

For a global city, New York can be awfully provincial. Its architecture firms export designs across the world, but only a handful of outside auteurs manage to penetrate the city’s insular development world, not always with great success. The reputations of

Well, the White House ballroom is on hold at least for a moment. Judge Richard G. Leon yesterday ruled in favor of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which had sued to stop ... More »

Just about everyone can agree that it’s a bad time to be 432 Park. In the years since the New York Times published a damning story about the

Are people still buying Labubus? Pop Mart, the company behind the viral collectible plush toys seems to think so — the New York Post reports that the Labubu-maker signed a re... More »

For under a million dollars, one can find all sorts of housing configurations: park- and subway-adjacent studios, one-bedrooms hidden in carriage houses or former shoe factories, and even the occasional true two-bedroom. We’re combing the market for particularly spacious, nicely renovated, or... More »

In the Chrysler Building’s 96 years of occupancy, exactly two people have managed to pull off the children’s-book fantasy of living there. (Officially, or at least semi.) They couldn’t have been more different; one was an artist, the other a corporate titan. In the mind’s eye, it’s a Fred Astaire... More »

Sean McLaughlin (pictured above)Graphic designer, Greenpoint More »

David Drumgold’s room in what was until recently the Jane Hotel is small and showing its age. A full-size bed in the 9-by-13-foot space juts out against a gray armchair that is buried under a mountain of clothing waiting to be sent to the dry cleaner. The door paint is chipping, revealing the “as... More »

Hanya Yanagihara is making quite a few moves. The author of A Little Life is leaving T magazine, where she’s currently editor-in-chief, to “pursue opportunity in theater.” She is also, we noticed, trying to sell ... More »

It’s a bad time to be a Transportation Security Officer at La Guardia. A fatal crash closed the airport Monday morning, leaving travelers with canceled flights and winding, hourslong security lines — which only compounded the challenges of week five of a government shutdown that has forced TSA of... More »

Welcome to “Apartment Department,” Curbed’s advice column by Clio Chang. Join us every other Wednesday for questions about making peace with noisy-sex neighbors, the nuances of roommate fridge etiquette, and whatever else you might need to know about renting, buying, or crying in the New York Cit... More »

By this afternoon, the main MTA app on your phone will likely have updated, and not a moment too soon. Launched in 2024 and built by an outside contractor, the old app — and I refer here to the principal one, simply called MTA, that’s used for way finding and travel planning — was not a disaster,... More »

A decade ago, when the Jehovah’s Witnesses sold off their prime real-estate portfolio in Brooklyn Heights, one of the prizes was a complex of old industrial buildings next to the Bro... More »

For under a million dollars, one can find all sorts of housing configurations: park- and subway-adjacent studios, one-bedrooms hidden in carriage houses or former shoe factories, and even the occasional true two-bedroom. We’re combing the market for particularly spacious, nicely renovated, or... More »

Over a half-melted peanut-butter açai bowl at a picnic table in the Bronx’s Pelham Bay neighborhood, Kenny Burgos explains why rents for nearly a million apartments in New York need to go up. “The Bronx, to this day, has buildings that are almost 100 percent — if not 100 percent — regulated,” he ... More »

It’s fitting that the director of an arts organization known for its association with minimalism lives in a home light on stuff. More »

On the occasion of her 2016 retrospective at the New Museum, Nicole Eisenman grabbed me by the shoulders and pleaded, “Get me out of here!” One didn’t look at art in the old, claustrophobic version of the building; one endured it. Now, the snazzy stacked boxes on Bowery