Curbed | A Site for City People

Curbed

evictions

Here’s What Happens When You Fight the City’s ‘Worst Landlord’

The tenants of a crumbling Crown Heights building went on a rent strike and now the owner’s trying to evict everyone. By Caroline Spivack

ask a set designer

Inspecting 11 Rooms From The Queen’s Gambit

Designer Uli Hanisch on painting wallpaper, leaving taste behind, and building a “temple to chess.” By Megan Barber

streeteries

Oh, Great: The Wind Flipped a Streetery Into the Middle of First Avenue

This doesn’t bode well for the winter, does it? By Valeria Ricciulli

The Latest

streeteries

Oh, Great: The Wind Flipped a Streetery Into the Middle of First Avenue
evictions

Evictions Caused More Than 10,000 COVID Deaths
evictions

Here’s What Happens When You Fight the City’s ‘Worst Landlord’
design news

5 Things to Buy From Nest’s New Capsule Collection
great rooms

A Maximalist Bedroom With a Chakra-Enhancing Headboard

See All See All See All

evictions Evictions Caused More Than 10,000 COVID Deaths And led to 400,000 additional infections too. By Jeff Andrews

street fights People in COVID Testing Lines Are Turning on Each Other Line-cutters, it turns out, aren’t treated kindly by those waiting six hours for a nose swab. By Valeria Ricciulli

design news 5 Things to Buy From Nest’s New Capsule Collection The interiors magazine with a cult following is back with home goods and apparel By Diana Budds

great rooms A Maximalist Bedroom With a Chakra-Enhancing Headboard Bailey Li designs by her own rules. By Wendy Goodman

evictions Evictions Caused More Than 10,000 COVID Deaths And led to 400,000 additional infections too. By Jeff Andrews

street fights People in COVID Testing Lines Are Turning on Each Other Line-cutters, it turns out, aren’t treated kindly by those waiting six hours for a nose swab. By Valeria Ricciulli

design news 5 Things to Buy From Nest’s New Capsule Collection The interiors magazine with a cult following is back with home goods and apparel By Diana Budds

great rooms A Maximalist Bedroom With a Chakra-Enhancing Headboard Bailey Li designs by her own rules. By Wendy Goodman

On The Market

listings edit We Unearthed the 55 Best Rent Deals in NYC Right Now

under a million A $695K Soho One-Bedroom and a Prewar Apartment With Gramercy Park Access

buy it for the architecture McKim, Mead & White Designed This Castle, the Olmsted Brothers Did the Grounds

a truly terrific new york listing Upper West Side Home Has 4 Floors, 3 Spiral Staircases, and a Catwalk

Cityscape

evictions

Evictions Caused More Than 10,000 COVID Deaths And led to 400,000 additional infections too. By Jeff Andrews
cityscape

What You Need to Know Now About the Upper West Side Homeless-Shelters Saga The latest: A judge ruled that the city is allowed to transfer the over 200 Lucerne Hotel residents to the Radisson in the Financial District. By Valeria Ricciulli
street view

New York’s Approval System for New Building Is a Recipe for Mediocrity In Gowanus, we’re dredging for an idea everyone can live with. By Justin Davidson
the group portrait

The Remaining Rockettes on Their Spectacular-less Christmas “Our kick lines look the same, but we are doing them socially distanced.” By Matthew Schneier

Design Hunting

design news

5 Things to Buy From Nest’s New Capsule Collection The interiors magazine with a cult following is back with home goods and apparel By Diana Budds
great rooms

A Maximalist Bedroom With a Chakra-Enhancing Headboard Bailey Li designs by her own rules. By Wendy Goodman
ask a set designer

Inspecting 11 Rooms From The Queen’s Gambit Designer Uli Hanisch on painting wallpaper, leaving taste behind, and building a “temple to chess.” By Megan Barber
great rooms

A Lounge in the Sky in the West Village How architect Alexander Gorlin turned a badly renovated studio into a sunny and starlit day-to-night home — with enough space for 30 Dutch soldiers. By Wendy Goodman

The Real Estate

my week in zillow saves

The Real-Estate Listings Tech Reporter Taylor Lorenz Likes to Stare At “I literally know every house in Chagrin Falls, Ohio.” By Taylor Lorenz and Jenny Xie
buy it for the architecture

Stone, Stucco, and Chimneys Galore: A Chateau in Litchfield County for $2.2M On the market for the first time in 26 years. By Megan Barber
a truly terrific new york listing

Blue’s Clues Steve Is Selling His (Blue!) Converted Garage in Williamsburg The Williamsburg home has a huge courtyard surrounded by glass walls (and two more big roof decks). By Jenny Xie
the real estate

The $99,900 Studios on Billionaires’ Row Carnegie House residents are racing to offload their apartments. Why? By Hilary Reid