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Maybe Manhattan Needed a Beach

 The Gansevoort Peninsula is a sweet, sandy little respite. By Clio Chang
  1. What Was Trump Tower? His co-star, his political launch pad, his longest-term companion.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  2. Scenes From a Flooded New York Subway evacuations, school day chaos, a missing mayor, and at least one fugitive sea lion.
    By Curbed Staff
  3. How to Fake-Own the New Yorker Hotel A fraudster got himself a rent-stabilized lease at the Hell’s Kitchen landmark. Then he tried to take it over.
    By Clio Chang
  4. A $50,000 Permit May Have Killed the Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade But there may still be hope for your bichon frise dressed as Oppenheimer.
    By Clio Chang
  5. Light-Drenched Offices Fill the Shell of Domino Sugar A refinery with a dirty past, spotlessly reimagined.
    By Justin Davidson
  6. Eric Adams’s Big Housing Plan Is 100 Small Ideas in a Trenchcoat A lot of them are good. But can he push them through neighborhood resistance?
    By Christopher Bonanos
  7. Listening In At News Corp A few hours after the news broke that Rupert Murdoch would be stepping down.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  8. Tiger Woods and Justin Timberlake’s ‘Golf-Infused’ Midtown Bar An entire block filled with golf simulators and New York’s largest indoor TV.
    By Clio Chang
  9. Louis Armstrong’s Wonderful World Was in Queens A museum to a cultural legend emphasizes his unpretentious life at home.
    By Justin Davidson
  10. Zombie Renovations Are Coming Landlords are claiming that work completed decades ago is grounds to take a building out of rent regulation. What’s a tenant supposed to do?
    By Clio Chang
  11. A Brief Oral History of a Muddy Burning Man “We were teasing this camp of furries next to us all week long. Turns out they saved our lives.”
    By Anya Kamenetz
  12. Need Housing? Need a Rail Line? Stack Them Up. Studio V’s proposal for a Borough Park rail cut.
    By Justin Davidson
  13. The Trashy, Freaky, DIY East Village Scene That Birthed Modern Drag Where RuPaul, Lady Bunny, and Lypsinka got their start.
    By Hugh Ryan
  14. New York City’s 15,000 (and Counting) Private Pools Over the past 50 years, developers have been on a pool-construction spree while the city has built just a handful.
    By Nicolas Kemper and A.L. Hu
  15. Ask an Airbnb Host If You Can Rent Their Apartment With a little convincing, that soon-to-be de-listed garden unit could be yours.
    By Clio Chang
  16. 4 Precarious Plots on Fifth Avenue A construction project has become a nightmare for the neighbors.
    By Kim Velsey
  17. The Look Book Goes to the U.S. Open We chatted with tennisgoers at the American Express Fan Experience tent.
    By Kelsie Schrader
  18. Airbnb Hosts Are Feeling Abandoned As the city prepares to crack down on short-term rentals, the hosts say the company is out of its depth.
    By Molly Osberg
  19. 8 Especially Excellent New Shops The best of the many stores that have popped up around the city lately.
    By Jenna Milliner-Waddell
  20. VanMoofers After the Bankruptcy Will the Dutch e-bike’s acquisition by a new company be enough to restore riders’ faith?
    By Clio Chang
  21. Inside the City’s Gleaming New Performance Cube The Perelman Performing Arts Center is a standout at the reconstructed World Trade Center site. Will people come?
    By Justin Davidson
  22. The Look Book Goes to East Hampton Library’s Authors Night More than 2,000 people showed up at the annual fundraiser to meet everyone from Misty Copeland to Robert Caro.
    By Kelsie Schrader and Jenna Milliner-Waddell
  23. Atelier Jolie Has Been Defaced The former Basquiat studio turned Angelina Jolie concept project has been painted pink.
    By Clio Chang
  24. It’s Not a Chess Club. It’s Club Chess. The game of kings has become an unlikely downtown craze.
    By Bindu Bansinath
  25. ‘Just Befriend the Doorman and Don’t Arouse Suspicion’ E-bike riders are sneaking past their buildings’ bans with flattery (and sometimes deception).
    By Clio Chang
  26. How Fort Greene Park Got Fenced In To maintain its grass, my local park was carved up by wooden posts and caution tape.
    By Kim Velsey
  27. What If Wind Turbines Got a Makeover? From Western New York to Ocean City, New Jersey, fights against wind farms often begin with how they look.
    By Chris Stanton
  28. Is There a Serial Killer Stalking the Brooklyn Mirage? Or maybe this EDM club is just too big and messy.
    By Brock Colyar
  29. New York Is Overrun by Rats and Feral Cats And yet.
    By Clio Chang
  30. A Treatment Program Kept Binzai From Killing Himself, But Now It’s in Peril A staff and funding shortage threatens the future of a mental-health lifeline for Chinese immigrants.
    By Rong Xiaoqing
  31. Noise Horror Stories From Our Readers Readers respond to Curbed’s Noise Week.
    By Curbed editors
  32. Why Subway Surfers Find It So Hard to Quit After four surfing deaths this year, Michael stopped. But so many kids he knows are still chasing the high.
    By Joshua Needelman
  33. They Tried to Make a ‘New Hamptons’ The New York Post chose the unsuspecting town of Atlantic Beach.
    By Clio Chang
  34. The Candy Sellers The lives and livelihoods of some of the city’s newest migrant children.
    By Jordan Salama
  35. Vlogging and Rapping Through the Kai Cenat Giveaway in Union Square “I already knew it was going to be chaos because his fan group is just too strong.”
    By Kelsey Weekman
  36. Redesigning the Siren What if the piercing sound of emergency vehicles was replaced by something else altogether?
    By Yessenia Funes
  37. A Woman Screaming Blood of Christ and 5 a.m. Construction Six noise horror stories.
    By Laura Thompson
  38. The Noise Next Door Tyquan Pleasant knocked on his neighbor’s door to ask her to stop the ear-shattering music and banging. Shaun Pyles heard a threat.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  39. What’s That New Glass Building Attached to the Old Met Life Tower? One Madison Avenue will house offices for IBM and a Daniel Boulud steakhouse.
    By Audrey Wachs
  40. Arline Bronzaft Will Talk to Your Noisy Neighbor “I deal with sex. I deal with crime. It goes beyond noise.”
    By Clio Chang
  41. Rudy Giuliani Is Selling His Upper East Side Co-op The corner three-bedroom has lots of original details if a buyer can get past the fact that it was once raided by the FBI.
    By Clio Chang
  42. Voguing Through the Pain at O’Shae Sibley’s Memorial Hundreds gathered at the vigil for the dancer, whose killing has been charged as a hate crime.
    By Bindu Bansinath
  43. Barely Surviving the Sounds of New York City Hyperacusis is a rare medical condition that can make ordinary noises painful. Rarer still — having it and living in Manhattan.
    By Clio Chang
  44. A Basement Housing Bill Killed by Conspiracists Huntington seemed poised to legalize ADUs. Then things got weird.
    By Molly Osberg
  45. The Last Painted Doors of Ridgewood Faux wood graining is an architectural quirk of the neighborhood. And a dying trade.
    By Clio Chang
  46. The Most Instagrammed Bench in Brooklyn Dumbo’s highly photogenic intersection at Water and Washington gets seating designed by Bjarke Ingels.
    By Clio Chang
  47. The Two Newest Luxury Towers Are a Mood Charcoal and bronze dominate at Brooklyn’s tallest building and Adjaye’s latest.
    By Justin Davidson
  48. The Look Book Goes to the Blade Aqua Lounge Passengers were on their way to the Hamptons, via helicopter and seaplane, for a long weekend.
    By Kelsie Schrader and Jenna Milliner-Waddell
  49. ‘We Can’t Sleep Because of the Worry’ Overnight at the Roosevelt Hotel, where hundreds of migrants are still waiting for somewhere to go.
    By Luis Feliz Leon
  50. What Dan Doctoroff Built Under Mayor Bloomberg, the power broker remade the city with astonishing speed. Now, as New York is again mired in crisis, he faces his own.
    By Justin Davidson
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