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Is New York’s Crypto-Mining Moratorium the Start of a Trend?

 The two-year ban is the first of its kind, possibly not the last. By Clio Chang
  1. The Look Book Goes to Kathy Hochul’s Election Night Party The governor and fellow New York Democrats hosted a crowd of hundreds at Capitale as the midterm results came in.
    By Kelsie Schrader and Jenna Milliner-Waddell
  2. The Six-Way Race for One New York Casino License And a closer look at the Hudson Yards option.
    By Audrey Wachs
  3. The Upper East Side Is Thrilled at Barnes & Noble’s Return Which tells us something about what a neighborhood needs (besides books).
    By Christopher Bonanos
  4. The Great G-Wagen Sell-Off A looming recession and a crypto crash seem to be driving many to offload their status-symbol SUVs at deep discounts.
    By Jack Denton
  5. GM Is Fixing Busted Teslas Now About 11,000 of them so far, according to GM’s president.
    By Alissa Walker
  6. There Is Too Much Weed Stockpiled in New York Right Now Cannabis farmers say they’re struggling to keep their crops fresh while retail licenses get off the ground.
    By Clio Chang
  7. The University of California Strike Has Been 50 Years in the Making An obscure 1978 property-tax law helps explain why nearly 50,000 grad workers walked out.
    By Alissa Walker
  8. What Happens When You House More Than 1,000 Refugees on a Cruise Ship? Lessons for New York from Rotterdam’s six-month experiment.
    By Wilfred Chan
  9. Listening In Outside the Spence School Parents were highly concerned about RSV, Thanksgiving plans, and after-school activities.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  10. When Caves Were Avant-Garde Architecture At the Noguchi Museum, the joys (and damp) of living below grade.
    By Justin Davidson
  11. A Sealed-Up Midtown Arcade Opens Back Up to the City With a lush new Snøhetta-designed garden, 550 Madison finally has an exceptional privately owned public space.
    By Diana Budds
  12. Out of Horror, Beauty: A Visit to the New Sandy Hook Memorial “It was worth the wait.”
    By Justin Davidson
  13. The Many Intrigues of the Hamptons’ Most Secretive Island A new documentary short explores the mysteries of Gardiner’s Island — and the family behind it.
    By Curbed editors
  14. Eric Adams Closes His Big Tent on Randall’s Island Migrants are moving to hotels, which is what many advocates asked for in the first place.
    By Clio Chang
  15. Can Transit Ambassadors Make the Subway Safer Just by Being There? Los Angeles and other cities are trying to find out if better customer service offers an alternative to policing.
    By Alissa Walker
  16. Norman Foster’s Skyscrapers Are Perfect for the City That Just Disappeared An impeccable space for office work arrives with everything—except a guarantee of office work.
    By Justin Davidson
  17. The Look Book Goes to a Democratic-Socialist Convention In a church on the Upper East Side, the NYC-DSA recently gathered to decide on its plans for 2023.
    By Kelsie Schrader and Jenna Milliner-Waddell
  18. The Democrats’ Election Night Party in Chinatown Was Actually Fun “NY Dems get down! Put that on the record!”
    By Louis Cheslaw
  19. Listening In Outside Twitter’s New York Office A few days after layoffs began.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  20. What Neighborhoods Went for Lee Zeldin? A micro-breakdown of Tuesday night’s results.
    By Clio Chang
  21. The Embattled Women of the FDNY The FDNY’s first woman commissioner puts its gender gap in relief.
    By Nia Prater
  22. Stephen Burks Wants to Finish a 20-Year-Old Conversation With Fran Lebowitz The industrial designer answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
    By Diana Budds
  23. The Jersey City Realtor Who Wishes There Were More Condos “We currently have nothing for people to buy, whatsoever. But there’s plenty more room to develop.”
    By Alyssa Shelasky
  24. Seoul’s Itaewon Nightlife District Was Built for Tragedy A decade of unchecked development crowded the already narrow alleys where more than 150 people were killed on Halloween weekend.
    By Se-Woong Koo
  25. There’s a Campaign-Sign War Happening in Brooklyn According to at least three people.
    By Clio Chang
  26. The Department of Buildings Seems Like a Mess Right Now The Buildings commissioner was just interviewed in relation to an illegal gambling investigation, and that’s just the half of it.
    By Clio Chang
  27. Keeping It Weird at 550 Madison The former AT&T/Sony tower gets a few of its spikier details sanded off but retains a lot of its Johnsonian strangeness.
    By Justin Davidson
  28. Why One Chinatown Mini-mall Languishes While Another Thrives On East Broadway, one shopping center has become an art-and-fashion destination. It isn’t just the cheap rent.
    By Wilfred Chan
  29. Pete Davidson and Colin Jost’s Ferry May Be Full of Asbestos and Roaches According to its former captain.
    By Clio Chang
  30. David Korins Keeps a Hand-Drawn Sketch by Alexander Hamilton in His Closet The creative director of Beetlejuice and Hamilton answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
    By Diana Budds
  31. ‘Once I Decorate a House, It Becomes a Competition on the Block’ Talking to the man who makes the Upper East Side’s Halloween extravaganzas.
    By Clio Chang
  32. The Look Book Goes to a Dinner at MoMA PS1 For three nights, the popular Bed-Stuy Nigerian restaurant Dept of Culture Brooklyn took up residence at the Queens museum.
    By Kelsie Schrader and Jenna Milliner-Waddell
  33. Mike Davis Was Right About the fires in Malibu, the hostile approach to urban planning, the inequality crushing Los Angeles.
    By Alissa Walker
  34. New York Is Not the Country’s Top Rat City We’re No. 2.
    By Clio Chang
  35. Listening In at the New York Film Festival The Eavesdropper hung around outside Lincoln Center.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  36. The Driving Instructor to New York’s Teen Elite “If these walls could talk in this car, oh my God.”
    By Matthew Schneier
  37. The MTA Is ‘Completely Obsessed’ With Reopening Its Bathrooms Starting with just eight, to be exact.
    By Clio Chang
  38. Wet Leaves Are the Enemy of the Suburban Commuter But laser trains could be the solution.
    By Chris Stanton
  39. Rosalie Genevro Wants to Redesign the City’s Diners and Coffee Shops The outgoing executive director of the Architectural League answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
    By Diana Budds
  40. Plywood Gourmet How thousands of restaurants speedily, messily, and probably permanently took over the street.
    By Simon van Zuylen-Wood
  41. The Last-Ditch Effort to Save the United Order of Tents’ Bed-Stuy Headquarters A bureaucratic hurdle over tax and vacancy laws threatens the survival of this Black history site.
    By Diana Budds
  42. Listening In at Goldman Sachs Well, just outside their lobby. In our new series, The Eavesdropper, we visit ultraspecific spots to see what people are chattering about.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  43. The Randalls Island Migrant Shelter Is Looking a Lot Less Temporary “There is no limit to how long people that are seeking asylum can stay in this facility.”
    By Clio Chang
  44. ‘I Didn’t Pick This Height’ A review of the FAA’s extremely lively public-comment period on airplane-seat dimensions.
    By Zach Schiffman
  45. Everywhere and Nowhere All at Once at BravoCon Thousands of fans descended on Manhattan for BravoCon, but they could have been anywhere else.
    By Bridget Read
  46. The Billionaire Behind New York’s Most Luxe Hotel Vladislav Doronin’s ambitious, contentious journey from Leningrad to Aman New York.
    By Chris Pomorski
  47. There Are So Many Good New Stores in New York Over the last few months, there’s been an influx of especially-excellent spots.
    By Louis Cheslaw
  48. Joyce Szuflita Is Brooklyn’s School-Admissions Whisperer “No, shut up. Shut up and listen to me. You’re not going to get everything you need to know.”
    By Caitlin Moscatello
  49. Mario Gooden Holds On to All of His Early Mac Computers The architect answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
    By Diana Budds
  50. The Look Book Goes to Gramercy Park Hotel’s Liquidation Sale Those nostalgic for the hotel’s glory days fought over Champagne buckets and beds at its monthlong “everything must go” sale.
    By Kelsie Schrader and Jenna Milliner-Waddell
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