Cityscape

Curbed
reasons to love new york

The Boys Who Got Lost Under Staten Island

 A sixth-grade adventure. By Alexandra Kleeman
  1. Reasons to Love New York Right Now Maybe because the year was so challenging, our 37 reasons to love New York this year feel even dearer.
    By The Editors
  2. We Took New York’s TikTokers to Lunch The people who tell the world about dating, dining, and celebrity apartments met up at Bad Roman (where else?).
  3. Good-bye, Beautiful Trash Cans We’re ditching you for something better.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  4. How This Lost Dog Got Found It’s Waylon, and he’s a good boy.
    By Emily Gould
  5. Huge Hunks of Concrete Are Key to the Mayor’s Plan for Safer Intersections Not all approaches to “daylighting” are created equal.
    By Clio Chang
  6. The Look Book Goes to an Anime Convention Cosplayers and gamers went all out for Anime NYC’s three-day event at the Javits Center.
    By Kelsie Schrader and Jenna Milliner-Waddell
  7. A Postcard From Driverless San Francisco Unexplained stops. Incensed firefighters. Cars named Oregano. The robotaxis are officially here.
    By Theodore Gioia
  8. Los Angeles After the Freeway A less car-dependent L.A., already in motion, may have something to teach the rest of the country.
    By Justin Davidson
  9. A Frank Talk About Thanksgiving Travel Tips from a Port Authority veteran on flying out during this week’s storms.
    By Clio Chang
  10. Someone Had to Build the Giant Mushrooms for the Candy Forest Designing the hallucinatory spectacle of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
    By Clio Chang
  11. The Great ‘Fentanyl Trash Can’ Freak-out How competing text threads, park litter, and a tragic Bronx day-care death made Brooklyn parents lose their minds.
    By Clio Chang
  12. The Look Book Goes to the New York City Marathon We stopped sweaty, exhausted, Gatorade-drenched runners at the finish line of the 52nd annual race.
    By Kelsie Schrader and Jenna Milliner-Waddell
  13. The FBI’s Eric Adams Probe Focuses on Brooklyn Construction Firm KSK has ties to Turkey and is mostly been known for its unremarkable luxury buildings.
    By Kim Velsey
  14. The New Jersey Hindu Temple Covered With 10,000 Sculptures Marble elephants, ample parking, and a federal investigation into how it all got built.
    By Justin Davidson
  15. 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.”
    By Clio Chang
  16. Jewish Schools Around New York City Are Hiring Armed Guards “We didn’t wait to hear that people wanted to increase security. We did it immediately.”
    By Adriane Quinlan
  17. Someone Broke Moynihan Train Hall’s Skylights — From the Outside The indoor scaffolding is just a precaution while the glass is replaced.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  18. Feeling Exposed in Little Yemen Members of a Bronx mosque met with the NYPD to talk about protecting their community. And why police seem to ignore their calls.
    By Chris Crowley
  19. Prayer and Protest in Bay Ridge’s Little Palestine The mood was mournful and resolute on the day before a Gaza peace rally.
    By Ismail Ibrahim
  20. The Absolute Mayhem of Halloween on Garden Place The Brooklyn Heights brownstones go big (and only hand out the good stuff).
    By Clio Chang
  21. No Ring, No Blood, No Glory In this underground wrestling scene, scripted death matches unfold just inches from the crowd.
    By Joshua Needelman
  22. The Mostly Monochrome OMNY Kiosk Is Here Stainless-steel machine delivers (in our extremely unscientific test) stainless performance.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  23. Walling Up the East Side to Save It Why the floodgates on the waterfront look the way they do.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  24. The Deadly School-Zone Crossing The deaths of a 7-year-old in Fort Greene and a Woodhaven crossing guard were preventable and predictable.
    By Clio Chang
  25. Welcome to the McGuinness Boulevard Parking Lot–Bike Lane–Loading Zone The mayor made a mess of the planned redesign. Now everyone’s confused.
    By Clio Chang
  26. The Look Book Goes to the Central Park Conservancy Fall Luncheon The Women’s Committee and guests brought in over $325,000 at the annual fundraiser.
    By Kelsie Schrader and Jenna Milliner-Waddell
  27. What a School-bus Crash in Jerusalem Reveals About Life in Occupied Palestine A deadly collision exposes the system of checkpoints and borders that made it inevitable.
    By Nathan Thrall
  28. Crumps’ Illusions Mike Crumplar, the self-mythologizing Substacker of Dimes Square, is convinced he’s in a Balzac novel.
    By Brock Colyar
  29. The 2024 Streetery Is All About Light and Air A look at the new renderings from the city.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  30. Thomas Heatherwick Thinks Nearly All New Buildings Are Boring A critique of his critique.
    By Justin Davidson
  31. All the City People on Our “Inside Power” List From a co-op whisperer to the longtime ruler of Manhattan parks.
    By The Editors
  32. Imagining Gaza Without Borders and Without War Revisiting urban designs by Michael Sorkin and other architects after the 2014 Gaza War.
    By Deen Sharp
  33. When New York Started to Wake Up The photographs in Metropolitan Melancholia, made in 2021 and 2022, document a city learning to un-shelter in place.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  34. 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.
    By Clio Chang
  35. ‘We’re Fighting Over Inches’ New York cyclists on their near misses and collisions on the city’s bridges.
    By John Surico
  36. Floral Storefront City When did fake wisteria take over every retail façade in Manhattan?
    By Mia Mercado
  37. When 42nd Street Was the ‘Dead Line’ No One Would Cross How real-estate developers made Times Square out of a sleepy district of horse stables.
    By Karrie Jacobs
  38. Small-Building Owners Will Soon Join New York City’s War on Trash Most of the city’s residential buildings will be covered by DSNY’s newest containerization rule.
    By Clio Chang
  39. This Year’s Unwelcome Guests, According to the East Hampton Police Logs Pantless men, seagull murders, and Ed Sheeran making too much noise.
    By Gabrielle Bluestone
  40. A Brooklyn Café That Said No More Influencers Dae, a Carroll Gardens café and home-goods shop, has taken the drastic step of banning photos and videos.
    By Clio Chang
  41. How Not to Get Bedbugs From Everyone Returning From Paris Fashion Week An exterminator recommends heated luggage, bedbug-sniffing dogs, and prayer.
    By Clio Chang
  42. Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade Is Un-Canceled Thanks to a dog food company.
    By Clio Chang
  43. Maybe Manhattan Needed a Beach The Gansevoort Peninsula is a sweet, sandy little respite.
    By Clio Chang
  44. What Was Trump Tower? His co-star, his political launch pad, his longest-term companion.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  45. Scenes From a Flooded New York Subway evacuations, school day chaos, a missing mayor, and at least one fugitive sea lion.
    By Curbed Staff
  46. 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
  47. Light-Drenched Offices Fill the Shell of Domino Sugar A refinery with a dirty past, spotlessly reimagined.
    By Justin Davidson
  48. 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
  49. Listening In At News Corp A few hours after the news broke that Rupert Murdoch would be stepping down.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  50. 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
Load More