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Clio Chang

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Clio Chang is a staff writer at Curbed who covers everything New York City. She was previously at New Republic and VICE.

  1. landlords and tenants
    Landlords Are Tanking Their Tenants’ Credit ScoresAn increasingly popular tactic to pressure tenants to pay rent on time.
  2. the royals
    Landlord King Charles Has Shady MethodsHe’s been secretly upgrading his portfolio with money from his dead subjects.
  3. getting around
    A Frank Talk About Thanksgiving TravelTips from a Port Authority veteran on flying out during this week’s storms.
  4. new york jobs
    Someone Had to Build the Giant Mushrooms for the Candy ForestDesigning the hallucinatory spectacle of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
  5. openings
    Harry Styles Is Coming to SohoPleasing, the singer’s perfume and skin-care sundries line, is opening on Crosby Street.
  6. street fights
    The Great ‘Fentanyl Trash Can’ Freak-outHow competing text threads, park litter, and a tragic Bronx day-care death made Brooklyn parents lose their minds.
  7. getting around
    Licensing E-Bikes Won’t Make the Sidewalks Safer“Every few years it’s the same neighborhoods asking the city to go after the same group of people.”
  8. neighborhood news
    The Absolute Mayhem of Halloween on Garden PlaceThe Brooklyn Heights brownstones go big (and only hand out the good stuff).
  9. getting around
    The Deadly School-Zone CrossingThe deaths of a 7-year-old in Fort Greene and a Woodhaven crossing guard were preventable and predictable.
  10. getting around
    Welcome to the McGuinness Boulevard Parking Lot–Bike Lane–Loading ZoneThe mayor made a mess of the planned redesign. Now everyone’s confused.
  11. who’s selling
    Matt Drudge Lists Very Beige Miami Compound for $2.9 MillionThe secluded property promises buyers “FOREVER PRIVACY.”
  12. who’s buying
    Ken Griffin Is Building the Most Expensive House in the WorldAnd it will almost certainly get swallowed by the ocean.
  13. brick and mortar
    Where Are All the Legal Weed Shops?Two years since legalization, you can count the number of actual brick and mortars in the city on two hands.
  14. trash
    Small-Building Owners Will Soon Join New York City’s War on TrashMost of the city’s residential buildings will be covered by DSNY’s newest containerization rule.
  15. brick and mortar
    A Brooklyn Café That Said No More InfluencersDae, a Carroll Gardens café and home-goods shop, has taken the drastic step of banning photos and videos.
  16. urban fauna
    How Not to Get Bedbugs From Everyone Returning From Paris Fashion WeekAn exterminator recommends heated luggage, bedbug-sniffing dogs, and prayer.
  17. street fights
    Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade Is Un-CanceledThanks to a dog food company.
  18. parks
    Maybe Manhattan Needed a BeachThe Gansevoort Peninsula is a sweet, sandy little respite.
  19. housing
    Rent Stabilization Isn’t Going to the Supreme Court This TimeThe justices declined to hear a case against rent regulation brought by New York landlord groups. But there will be others.
  20. environment
    Scenes From a Flooded New York Subway evacuations, school day chaos, a missing mayor, and at least one fugitive sea lion.
  21. street fights
    How to Fake-Own the New Yorker HotelA fraudster got himself a rent-stabilized lease at the Hell’s Kitchen landmark. Then he tried to take it over.
  22. the business of brokering
    I Didn’t Know My Broker Was a BotRenters hoping to meet Brook E. and Emily O. at that Greenpoint open house will be sorely disappointed.
  23. shopping
    Beverly’s Is Making It PermanentBeverly Nguyen’s roaming homewares pop-up signed a lease at 27 Orchard.
  24. openings
    Tiger Woods and Justin Timberlake’s ‘Golf-Infused’ Midtown BarAn entire block filled with golf simulators and New York’s largest indoor TV.
  25. the rent is too damn high
    Zombie Renovations Are ComingLandlords are claiming that work completed decades ago is grounds to take a building out of rent regulation. What’s a tenant supposed to do?
  26. state of the market
    Curbed September Report: Rainy Open Houses and Midtown East Still on TopPlus, the listings that brokers are obsessed with.
  27. the real estate
    The Townhouse Where Ivana Trump Died Has Been Hard to SellWill a $4 million price cut help?
  28. please be advised
    Ask an Airbnb Host If You Can Rent Their ApartmentWith a little convincing, that soon-to-be de-listed garden unit could be yours.
  29. just noticing
    Who Knew So Many Celebrities Wanted to Design WallpaperSarah Jessica Parker, Drew Barrymore, and Gwyneth Paltrow found a lucrative side hustle.
  30. getting around
    VanMoofers After the BankruptcyWill the Dutch e-bike’s acquisition by a new company be enough to restore riders’ faith?
  31. mysteries
    Atelier Jolie Has Been DefacedThe former Basquiat studio turned Angelina Jolie concept project has been painted pink.
  32. getting around
    ‘Just Befriend the Doorman and Don’t Arouse Suspicion’E-bike riders are sneaking past their buildings’ bans with flattery (and sometimes deception).
  33. urban fauna
    New York Is Overrun by Rats and Feral CatsAnd yet.
  34. the rent is too damn high
    Should Landlords Cover Broker Fees?Talking to a broker who thinks Chi Ossé’s new bill will be better for everyone involved.
  35. state of the market
    Curbed’s August Report: An All-Cash Summer and Frenzied Open HousesPlus the most saved one-bedroom under $1 million.
  36. long island
    They Tried to Make a ‘New Hamptons’The New York Post chose the unsuspecting town of Atlantic Beach.
  37. land disputes
    Bad News About Kevin Costner’s Buffalo SculptureAfter a decades-long legal battle, he may be forced to sell it.
  38. loud town
    Arline Bronzaft Will Talk to Your Noisy Neighbor“I deal with sex. I deal with crime. It goes beyond noise.”
  39. who’s selling
    Rudy Giuliani Is Selling His Upper East Side Co-opThe corner three-bedroom has lots of original details if a buyer can get past the fact that it was once raided by the FBI.
  40. loud town
    Barely Surviving the Sounds of New York CityHyperacusis is a rare medical condition that can make ordinary noises painful. Rarer still — having it and living in Manhattan.
  41. architecture
    The Last Painted Doors of RidgewoodFaux wood graining is an architectural quirk of the neighborhood. And a dying trade.
  42. furniture
    The Most Instagrammed Bench in BrooklynDumbo’s highly photogenic intersection at Water and Washington gets seating designed by Bjarke Ingels.
  43. housing
    Airbnb Wants to Fix Loneliness With Gwyneth PaltrowAnd zoning.
  44. urban fauna
    The Sloth King of Long Island Tried His Hand at Venomous LizardsBut was ordered to pay a fine for it, which the exotic-animal purveyor says he paid “no problem.”
  45. the rent is too damn high
    We’re Paying to Catsit Now?On Listings Project, people are charging subletters $2,800 a month for the pleasure of cleaning a litter box.
  46. mysteries
    What’s in the Subway Water That Drips on Your Head?A semi-scientific inquiry.
  47. who’s selling
    Adam Neumann Still Can’t Sell His Gramercy TriplexFour years later, the WeWork founder seems to think a $5 million price chop and the Alexander Brothers will help.
  48. office apocalypse
    Offices Are the New MallsThe office tower has overtaken retail and hotels in the ranking of distressed real-estate assets.
  49. trees
    Is Universal Studios Landscaping or Strike Busting?A suspiciously timed trim for some ficuses left writers in blazing heat on the picket line, sans shade.
  50. astor place
    The Cube Is BackRefreshed and ready to spin.
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