Curbed Design

When architects Eliot Lee and Eun Sun Chun began exploring what might be available in their price range on the East End of Long Island, one of the first listings they found was a dated Cape Cod–style cottage clad in vinyl siding with a crystal chandelier in the kitchen and an illegal deck. The ho... More »

On a scale of Sweetgreen to the Greenmarket, what is Justine Doiron’s NYQ? This is NYQ, a series in which we find out how “New York” notable New Yorkers really are. More »

Between the Knicks’ playoff run and the World Cup, there’s been a game to watch practically every day of the week this summer. Now it’s time to see some baseball. Writer James McClellan spoke to die-hard fans and ballpark regulars about the snacks to get before the first pitch, the m... More »

A quarter-century ago, when the Twin Towers still stood, Rudolph Giuliani was still a largely rational mayor, and ’N Sync sold out the Garden, the media tycoon Michael Bloomberg climbed out of his car on a tumbledown stretch of the Williamsb... More »

Zohran Mamdani got his rent freeze, and the grocery-store pilots are on the way. Now comes the third of the three campaign promises everyone remembers: Make the buses fast and fre... More »

When the Commercial Observer revealed developers’ plans for the former Macy’s space on Fulton Mall, I was both super disappo... More »

Just before 8 a.m. on Tuesday morning, firefighters were called to the old Pfizer headquarters at 235 East 42nd Street after receiving reports about bricks falling from the 37-story high-rise. City officials later said that no bricks had in fact fallen, but it turned out the situation was much mo... More »

Justin and Hailey Bieber are moving to the West Village. After years of living together at the Oosten in South Williamsburg and renting around lower Manhattan, the couple bought a condo at 160 Leroy, per The Wall Street Journal. So what’s the apartment like? Does anyone ... More »

“Oh, that’s why all the streets are closed off?” two sailors in town for Fleet Week said to me. They were blissfully unaware that Seventh Avenue from 30th to 34th Streets had been shut down because of

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 »

The fashion designer Lusha Wang and her husband, Rodion Steshenko, a software engineer, were about to close on a brownstone in Boerum Hill when they were outbid. That may have been for the best because the place they bought instead, a 19th-century former boardinghouse in Park Slope, had an unlike... More »

On a scale of a dollar slice to “For a dollar!,” where does the Billy on Billy author fit? This is NYQ, a series in which we find out how “New York” notable New Yorkers... More »

People crossing the Gowanus Canal will soon spot a glowing 30-foot-tall polar bear. Standing next to it will be a second mirror-encrusted 13-foot cub. This pair of sculptures is the work of Bushwick-based artist Jen Lewin, and they are set to live pe... More »

Listen, it’s not as though getting an apartment in New York has ever been easy. But one could probably argue it has never been harder than it is right now. The most god-awful studios are regularly renting for thousands and thousands of dollars with lines of interested tenants out the door. He... More »

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So it really does look like Taylor Swift is getting married here on July 3. We know there will be roughly 1,000 guests, some sort of castle, live performances (

LeRoy Neiman first arrived at the Hotel des Artistes in the early 1960s. When the painter and longtime Playboy illustrator was ready to buy in the neo-Gothic co-op on West 67th Street, he paid $100,000 for a pair of apartments, reportedly

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 »

The Folly Tree Arboretum in Springs is an outdoor museum of 250-plus rare trees curated by artist Tucker Marder, a scion of a local landscaping family. Reserve online and hear tales about the sycamore grown from a seed flown to the moon on Apollo 14 o... More »

A thoughtfully renovated Horace Gifford in the Fire Island Pines is on the market just in time for peak season. The three-bedroom, three-bathroom house previously owned by fashion designer De... More »