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How New York Ruined Its Summer Vacation

 Options include: Floral displays, TikTok influencers, and Alan Dershowitz. By Clio Chang
  1. This Woman Is TikTok’s No. 1 Spotted-Lanternfly Influencer Someone has to do it.
    By Wilfred Chan
  2. Rat Infestation? Leaky Ceiling? Good Luck in Court Tenants say judges are taking too long to order landlord repairs since the pandemic began.
    By Bryce Covert
  3. At Last, Congestion Pricing Fee Previews Some numbers to fuel the battle.
    By Clio Chang
  4. ‘They’re Destroying an Artists’ Block’: Locals on the Vornado Penn Station Plan A furrier, a circus school, and other shops on the big changes coming to their block.
    By Kim Velsey
  5. Westworld Has Become West Side World Present-day New York, with a few digital additions, was perfectly suitable as a dystopian set.
    By Justin Davidson
  6. Magda Sawon Is Always Too Early The co-founder of Postmasters Gallery answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
    By Diana Budds
  7. Training the Next Generation of Shop Owners Is Key to Chinatown’s Survival Takeaways from a new report on the pandemic impact and future of the neighborhood.
    By Wilfred Chan
  8. The Department of Sanitation Has an Oddly Excellent TikTok It’s full of googly-eyed snowplow trucks and earnest charm.
    By Rebecca Alter
  9. Eric Adams vs. New York’s Greatest Boat Ride Pay the Staten Island Ferry staff, please.
    By Bridget Read
  10. It’s Hot Garbage Month Curbed looks at the curb.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  11. Eastern Parkway Was Never Meant to Be a Highway The case for making the street more like the pleasure road Frederick Law Olmsted intended.
    By Diana Budds
  12. What If We Stole the West Side Highway for Bikes? Closing down a car lane, adding a bike lane.
    By Choire Sicha
  13. Chella Man Wants to Redesign Headphones As Armor The artist and activist answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
    By Diana Budds
  14. Never Look at Someone While They’re Locking Their Bike They are vulnerable. And sweaty.
    By Clio Chang
  15. Rat Dinnertime May Be Pushed Back by 4 Hours What is this, Europe?
    By Clio Chang
  16. It’s Actually Good News That Google Bought the Thompson Center Helmut Jahn’s iconic Chicago building now has a chance at being preserved.
    By Diana Budds
  17. Get In, Losers, We’re Moving to Montague Street The block is heating up.
    By Clio Chang
  18. Waterline Square Is Better Than We Had a Right to Expect The last piece of Riverside South clicks into place.
    By Justin Davidson
  19. Why Is It So Hard to Buy a Copy of the Times? Once ubiquitous, now surprisingly tough to find.
    By Alice Markham-Cantor
  20. Qualeasha Wood Wants to Get Crab Legs With Cardi B. The textile artist answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
    By Diana Budds
  21. All These Sharks Is Actually Good News A shark expert explains.
    By Clio Chang
  22. A Bike Lane Built for a Car Crash Why did L.A.’s 6th Street Bridge turn into just another altar to the automobile?
    By Alissa Walker
  23. The French-Bulldog Drama That You Needed The situation has spiraled.
    By Clio Chang
  24. The Weed Merchants of Washington Square Park “We try to keep this very professional, seven days a week, as a business.”
    By Victoria Bekiempis
  25. We’ve Surrendered the Subway to the Flood The water is winning.
    By Clio Chang
  26. What to Do With a Crumbling Church West Park Presbyterian wants to demolish its deteriorating landmark building. We asked an architecture firm for a plan to keep it standing.
    By Justin Davidson
  27. Design Gallerist Jean Lin Used to Bedazzle Skullcaps for J. Lo The owner of Colony answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
    By Diana Budds
  28. The Second Amendment Takes Aim At the First It’s shutting down New Yorkers’ right to public space.
    By Karrie Jacobs
  29. 52 Empty School Buses Drove to Ted Cruz’s House The mobile memorial is visiting NRA-funded politicians to remind them of the 4,368 U.S. children murdered by gun violence since 2020.
    By Alissa Walker
  30. Defending a Soho Abortion Clinic How one reproductive rights collective directly confronts the religious anti-abortion group trying to interrupt Planned Parenthood
    By Sarah Jones
  31. Caroline Calloway’s ‘$3,000’ ‘Murano-Glass’ Chandelier Is Probably Neither “Murano”? Maybe no.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  32. Storming the Hamptons A weekend of protests, featuring private planes and bewildered J.Crew customers.
    By Choire Sicha
  33. At 90, James Wines Never Goes a Day Without Drawing The architect answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
    By Diana Budds
  34. NYCHA Delays E-Bike Ban As Delivery Workers Push Back “You are forcing them to choose between their work and their home.”
    By Wilfred Chan
  35. The Look Book Goes to a Manhattan Yacht Party On a recent Saturday night, guests left Pier 40 for Pure on the Hudson, an annual all-white-outfit-themed dinner cruise and dance party.
    By Kelsie Schrader and Jenna Milliner-Waddell
  36. The NYPD Changed Its Fitness-Test Requirements And some cops are upset about it.
    By Clio Chang
  37. Why Is No One Talking About This Bike Lane in Westworld? I need people to be talking about it.
    By Katie McDonough
  38. Fleet of Tiny Street Sweepers Coming to a Bike Lane Near You Cute.
    By Clio Chang
  39. The Lobby Newsstand Could be the Future of Abortion People lease federal land to sell chips and drill for oil. Why not a clinic?
    By Alissa Walker
  40. Obama Blames Liberal NIMBYs for the Housing Crisis Too At the American Institute of Architects’ 2022 convention, he criticized “bipartisan resistance” to affordable, mixed-income housing.
    By Diana Budds
  41. Inside Olympic Tower, Where Foreign Billionaires Have Long Flocked The midtown high-rise is ideal for those who’d rather not do much of anything themselves.
    By Matthew Sedacca
  42. Walking the Mall With Alexandra Lange The architecture critic and Meet Me by the Fountain author sizes up her local food court.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  43. Ruoyi Jiang Hates the Lower East Side’s Bad Public Art The founder of Chop Suey Club answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
    By Diana Budds
  44. Eric Adams Tracks Homeless Encampments on a Google Doc It’s his “system,” and he gets mad when police don’t use it.
    By Clio Chang
  45. The Look Book Goes to a WNBA Game On a recent Sunday at Barclays Center, we spoke to fans moments after the Chicago Sky beat the New York Liberty.
    By Kelsie Schrader and Jenna Milliner-Waddell
  46. Dario Calmese Misses His Jean Paul Gaultier Corset The artist answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
    By Diana Budds
  47. Can Dumbo’s Selfie Street Handle Another Attraction? Performance artists and TikTok influencers will have to learn to share the cobblestones.
    By Zach Schiffman
  48. Hoboken Hasn’t Had a Traffic Death in 4 Years. What’s It Doing Right? For starters: Street corners rebuilt for visibility, and decisive politicians.
    By Christopher Robbins
  49. The Weed World Trucks Are Apparently Terrible at Parking According to this week’s impound rate.
    By Clio Chang
  50. How I Found the New Roof Park at Pier 57 The city’s newest public park tries to be everything at once and ends up feeling like a private space.
    By Eva Hagberg
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