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.
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.
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.