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the unhoused

The Homeless Shelter Bearing Alex Trebek’s Name Is Finally Open

 The Jeopardy! host was a generous and outspoken advocate for more housing. By Alissa Walker
  1. We Buy Baby Formula! A long-running black market bursts into the open.
    By Molly Osberg
  2. Rockin’ Out With the Mayor and ‘Late-Night Dorinda’ at the New Hard Rock Hotel Don’t expect Sid and Nancy; it’s pretty swanky.
    By Brock Colyar
  3. You Won’t Have the Cube to Push Around Anymore For now.
    By Clio Chang
  4. The 18th Century’s Surround-Sound Machine Inside the organ at St. Bartholomew’s.
    By Justin Davidson
  5. Mayor’s Office Proposes Emailing Your Landlord to Solve Housing Discrimination Just ask them nicely.
    By Clio Chang
  6. The Williamsburg Building That Painted Over Basquiat Were the residents of a former factory on South 11th Street living in the “Sistine Chapel” of SAMO graffiti?
    By Diana Budds
  7. The Look Book Goes to a Harlem Gospel Concert An afternoon of music and soul food at Glendale Baptist Church.
    By Kelsie Schrader and Jenna Milliner-Waddell
  8. The City’s First Mass-Timber Condos Are Now for Sale Designed by Mesh Architectures, 670 Union almost didn’t happen.
    By Diana Budds
  9. Could the USPS Become the Nation’s Largest Abortion Provider? If Roe falls, the beleaguered federal agency may eclipse the clinic.
    By Bridget Read
  10. Deborah Berke Wants to Live in the 79th Street Boat Basin The architect answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
    By Diana Budds
  11. Cheap Meat or Luxury Rentals? Inside the Fight at Western Beef A son’s plan to upscale the grocery’s real-estate empire is reined in by his father.
    By Jasper Craven
  12. Women to Get Museum of Ice Cream Treatment At last.
    By Katie McDonough
  13. The Worst Career Advice Lynn Yaeger Ever Got Was ‘Try to Look Normal’ The fashion writer and editor answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
    By Wendy Goodman
  14. Artist Sam Van Aken Wants You to Taste Governors Island–Grown Apples “I’m hoping you bite into something and you’re like, Why have I been kept from this? What sort of compromised existence have I been living?”
    By Diana Budds
  15. The Good-Luck-With-That Pandemic The city has moved on. The rest is a little puzzle for you to solve.
    By Katy Schneider
  16. The Houseboat That Is a Brooklyn Assembly District A political mystery floats on the Red Hook channel.
    By Clio Chang
  17. The Look Book Goes to an NYPD Boxing Match On a recent Friday night in Flushing, Smoker Talk convened for its first NYC indoor boxing event since COVID.
    By Louis Cheslaw, Kelsie Schrader, and Jenna Milliner-Waddell
  18. Ifeoma Ebo Wants Eric Adams to Appoint a Public Realm Czar The urban designer answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
    By Diana Budds
  19. Who’s Afraid of the Subway? Riding every line in the days after the Sunset Park shooting.
    By Reeves Wiedeman
  20. I Was a Teenage Subway Terror Now I’m the elder on the subway, praying that the band of teens next to me on the platform doesn’t get in the same car.
    By Collier Meyerson
  21. How Will New York Remember the Subway Shooter? The city is lousy with people who do horrible things and pass into legend.
    By Mark Jacobson
  22. The Subway Is New York’s Safety Net It’s not merely a picture of who any of us might become but of who we are right now.
    By Ryu Spaeth
  23. How to Get to the Closest Weed Dispensaries in New Jersey on Public Transit Hypothetically.
    By Clio Chang
  24. Audrey Gelman’s Reactionary Little English Village Fantasy On Barrow’s Green, the fictional heart of her new country store.
    By Grace Lavery
  25. Lincoln Center Resets Itself as a Cultural Town Square for Spring Quinceañeras, dance parties, and underground jazz will animate the plaza, but will that energy extend past Labor Day?
    By Justin Davidson
  26. The Doormen of Park Avenue Got Their Deal “I don’t think anybody is going to get their own mail.”
    By Bridget Read
  27. Justin Garrett Moore Gets Inspired by Watching Judge Judy Yell at People The urban designer and architect answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
    By Diana Budds
  28. What If the Office Isn’t the Problem? The debate taking place right now isn’t exactly where the worker is being called back — but to what.
    By Clio Chang
  29. The One-Page Guide to Flying Private-ish In recent years, a handful of new companies have launched with “semi-private flights.”
    By Laura Thompson
  30. The Look Book Goes to Herbert Von King Park On the first 70-degree day of the year, we joined sunbathers at the century-old Brooklyn park and community space.
    By Louis Cheslaw and Kelsie Schrader
  31. ‘That’s the Guy’ Talking to Saifee Hardware manager Francisco Puebla about helping to bring in alleged subway shooter Frank R. James.
    By Rachel Handler
  32. Are These the Metal Detectors Eric Adams Is Talking About? It’s honestly hard to tell.
    By Clio Chang
  33. The Case Against Bail Reform Was Always a Tabloid Mirage For the rollback to succeed, New Yorkers would have to be made to feel afraid of where they live.
    By Nick Pinto
  34. Suchi Reddy Lives Happily in Her 375-Square-Foot Micro-Apartment The architect and artist answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
    By Diana Budds
  35. Fare-Evasion Arrests Are Back With a Vengeance Eric Adams’s subway crackdown has arrived.
    By Clio Chang
  36. A Community’s History in Four Buildings The key landmarks of the Ukrainian East Village, including Veselka’s candy shop days.
  37. ‘The World Was Ukrainian’ A stubborn and surprising immigrant enclave, hiding in plain sight on the Lower East Side.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  38. What the Little Ukraine Neighbors Remember Fourteen recollections of hot beeswax, scouting, smuggling, and resurrections.
  39. A Basquiat Family Reunion The artist’s sisters have put on an exhibition of his work to remind the world where he came from — and have a party.
    By Carl Swanson
  40. A Forgotten Crime on East 6th Street In 1938, a kidnapping and murder played out at Ukrainian Hall.
    By Sarah Weinman
  41. Trust Me, To-Go Drinks Will Solve Everything What budget problems?
    By Clio Chang
  42. The Invisible Scrubbers at the Bottom of the Gowanus In the “black mayonnaise,” a microscopic community has learned how to break down the toxic sludge.
    By Sasha von Oldershausen
  43. Have You Seen Jemima Kirke’s Cat? Her Nextdoor post about Mr. Chips is a suspenseful novella.
    By Zach Schiffman
  44. The 8-Hour Standoff Against a Homeless-Encampment Sweep in the East Village Seven people were arrested after protesting the removal of the tents near Tompkins Square Park.
    By Sam Russek
  45. A Streets Plan That’s Really a Time Machine NYC’s City Council wants you to get everywhere faster.
    By Alissa Walker
  46. Denis Woychuk’s Favorite Spots in Ukrainian Village Vegan pizzas, a barman’s bar, and plenty of borscht.
    By Ludwig Hurtado
  47. Greenpoint’s Newest Superfund Site Is Very Residential But that doesn’t mean anyone has to move.
    By Willy Blackmore
  48. Whose Broken Pole Is This? An epic tour through city agencies and utility companies about a pole that could (probably) fall over.
    By Clio Chang
  49. The Bizarre Drama Over Clinton Hill’s New Sex Shop I did not expect allegations of paid protesters to be part of this.
    By Clio Chang
  50. Glenn Adamson Is Still Drinking From the Mug He Got at His First Job The design historian and curator answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
    By Diana Budds
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