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Christopher Bonanos is New York’s city editor. He joined the magazine in 1993 and began contributing to Curbed in 2020. He covers urbanism, transit, and theater and runs the magazine’s Reread newsletter, surfacing the best of its archives. He is the author of Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Best Biography of 2018, and Instant: The Story of Polaroid.

  1. museums
    Sotheby’s Was the Only Serious Option for the BreuerThe Whitney’s old home has officially been sold.
  2. neighborhood news
    JPMorgan Chase Bets Big on the Revival of MidtownIf you build it, 270 Park says, they will commute.
  3. developing
    Owner of Flatiron Building Buys Flatiron BuildingJeffrey Gural got it on the second try and saved a bunch of money in the process.
  4. open restaurants
    The Permanent-Outdoor-Dining-Shed Bill Is Finally HereBut the design regulations are still up in the air.
  5. urban wildlife
    Pale Male, Fifth Avenue’s Beloved Hawk, Has DiedHe grew famous for nesting on — and then being evicted from and welcomed back to — a window lintel on Fifth Avenue opposite Central Park.
  6. curbed glossary
    The Hurb Is the Pop-Up Package Hub We’re Stuck With (For Now)It eats up precious street space. But unless the city acts, it’s the only way you’re going to get your Amazon socks and coffee filters.
  7. listings
    Miranda Priestly’s House Is for SaleUpper East Side, seven bedrooms and a private basketball court, $27.5 million. That’s all.
  8. bidding wars
    The Flatiron Sale Was a FlopA mystery buyer backed out, and the second-place bidder doesn’t want to pay.
  9. landmarks
    Who Wants to Buy the Flatiron Building?It goes up for auction today. Here’s what you could get for a couple hundred million.
  10. getting around
    The La Guardia AirTrain Is Dead. Now What?It’s a bus lane to the airport for now, and maybe a hard-to-build subway extension in the far, far future.
  11. preservation
    City to Tom Ford: Don’t Move That DoorThe Landmarks Preservation Commission decides his Paul Rudolph–designed house will keep its deep vestibule. Sidewalk urinators can rest easy.
  12. rendering judgment
    Is a Coney Island Casino a Good Idea?Could be a recipe for job growth, could be the next Atlantic City dead zone.
  13. hold please
    Will You Get a 212?They’re finally handing them out again. With a little luck, you could be one of the elite several million.
  14. getting around
    Why It Costs So Much to Build Our SubwaysAn NYU study finds that most of the overspending isn’t where you think it is.
  15. getting around
    Why Is the Floor of the Oculus Already Crumbling?Seven years in, the marble slabs are chipping and flaking. It didn’t have to be this way.
  16. listings
    Joan Didion’s Apartment Is for SaleMissed out on the estate auction? Seven and a half million dollars will get you the whole house.
  17. typography
    U.S. Department of State Cuts Diplomatic Ties With SerifsFor memos, Times New Roman is out, Calibri is in.
  18. rendering judgment
    The Casino–Apartment–Ferris-Wheel–Hotel Proposal for Midtown EastIs Stefan Soloviev’s plan a jackpot or a bust?
  19. artifact
    The MetroCard’s 28 Years As a Blank CanvasAs the clock runs down on this ubiquitous object, a collector walks us through its many variations.
  20. neighborhoods
    Is Everyone Really Moving to Turtle Bay in 2023?If pub grub and postwar buildings are hot, then what is hotness anyway?
  21. from the editors
    One Intersection, 72 Celebrities, 10,912 Clicks of the ShutterThe making of our ‘Reasons to Love New York’ cover.
  22. openings
    The Upper East Side Is Thrilled at Barnes & Noble’s ReturnWhich tells us something about what a neighborhood needs (besides books).
  23. remembrance
    George Lois, the Impossible Ad ManThe madman (but not a Mad Man, he was quick to tell you) behind Maypo, MTV, and Muhammad Ali’s Esquire cover has died at 91.
  24. can it
    New York City: What If We Put Trash Inside Cans?If you want to put out your trash before 8 p.m., we’ve got a bold idea.
  25. goodbyes
    The Gramercy Park Hotel’s Liquidation Sale Was a Real Scene““People were coming out with tears streaming down their faces.”
  26. preservation watch
    60 Wall Street’s Lobby Is Weird and Ridiculous and Deserves to Be SavedThe Landmarks hearing on Tuesday is a make-or-break day.
  27. getting around
    The Era of the Not-Too-Empty, Not-Too-Crowded SubwayIt’s peak comfort. And a huge problem for the MTA.
  28. hot garbage
    The Church Left on the CurbA chance trash-day encounter reveals a 170-year institutional history.
  29. trash city
    It’s Hot Garbage MonthCurbed looks at the curb.
  30. investigations
    Caroline Calloway’s ‘$3,000’ ‘Murano-Glass’ Chandelier Is Probably Neither“Murano”? Maybe no.
  31. books
    Walking the Mall With Alexandra LangeThe architecture critic and Meet Me by the Fountain author sizes up her local food court.
  32. bathrooms
    Outsourcing Public Bathrooms to Starbucks Maybe Wasn’t the Best IdeaWhat Howard Schultz giveth, Howard Schultz may taketh away.
  33. brick and mortar
    Century 21 Lives!Fidi, rejoice.
  34. little ukraine
    ‘The World Was Ukrainian’A stubborn and surprising immigrant enclave, hiding in plain sight on the Lower East Side.
  35. little ukraine
    What the Little Ukraine Neighbors RememberFourteen recollections of hot beeswax, scouting, smuggling, and resurrections.
  36. honors
    Donald Trump Finally Gets a Jail CellMaybe he’ll visit soon!
  37. rendering judgment
    2 World Trade Center’s New Design Is Pretty Good (for 2007)Foster + Partners revamped its early-aughts tower, and it’s not bad. But does downtown still need an extra 3 million square feet of offices?
  38. obituary
    Sheldon Silver Was Albany’s Foremost ‘No’ for DecadesHe spent nearly 40 years in the state assembly, and the past two in prison.
  39. confederate monuments
    Richmond’s Robert E. Lee Statue Will Be Freed From the Wastewater PlantLost Cause monument, all washed up.
  40. our mayor
    Eric Adams Is Returning His Well-worn Borough Hall Mattress to AideYou know, the one he’s had in his office for the past two years.
  41. maritime news
    The MTA’s Boat Got Wrecked — Wait, the MTA Had a Boat?The agency bought it 20 years ago, for reasons now lost in the harbor fog of bureaucracy.
  42. books
    Walking the Streets, Looking for a Long-Lost MadamThe historian Debby Applegate knows where all the best disreputables once hung out.
  43. getting around
    This Is the OMNY Card, and You Might Be Able to Buy One TodayBut not in the subway (yet).
  44. good news
    Change of Plans: You’ll Still Be Able to Browse the NYPL’s Picture CollectionResearchers howled and the library reversed itself.
  45. retail apocalypse
    Will a Post-Bankruptcy ABC Carpet & Home Still Be Over-the-Top Maximalist?A store whose retail experience is a maximalist performance.
  46. 9/11: 20 years later
    Visiting the Visitors: Photographs at the 9/11 MemorialSome tourists are more respectful than others.
  47. getting around
    The FDR Drive, Swamped Last Night, Is Full of Abandoned Cars TodayTow trucks are trying to clear the road.
  48. developing
    So Long, 666 Fifth AvenueIts past lives included Noguchi art, a cigar lounge, that satanic address, and Jared Kushner.
  49. the group portrait
    New York Public Library’s Human Search Engines“One thing that historians learned this year is that digitization can never replace the archives.”
  50. books
    The Power Broker Is Still Not Available As an E-Book. Except … It Is.“A myth,” says Robert Caro’s publisher. Yet, somehow, I just bought the Kindle edition.
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