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 It makes about 3 million spins a year. By Christopher Bonanos
  1. 8 Especially Excellent New Shops The best of the many stores that have popped up around the city lately.
    By Jenna Milliner-Waddell
  2. VanMoofers After the Bankruptcy Will the Dutch e-bike’s acquisition by a new company be enough to restore riders’ faith?
    By Clio Chang
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. Atelier Jolie Has Been Defaced The former Basquiat studio turned Angelina Jolie concept project has been painted pink.
    By Clio Chang
  6. It’s Not a Chess Club. It’s Club Chess. The game of kings has become an unlikely downtown craze.
    By Bindu Bansinath
  7. ‘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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. Is There a Serial Killer Stalking the Brooklyn Mirage? Or maybe this EDM club is just too big and messy.
    By Brock Colyar
  11. New York Is Overrun by Rats and Feral Cats And yet.
    By Clio Chang
  12. 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
  13. Noise Horror Stories From Our Readers Readers respond to Curbed’s Noise Week.
    By Curbed editors
  14. 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
  15. They Tried to Make a ‘New Hamptons’ The New York Post chose the unsuspecting town of Atlantic Beach.
    By Clio Chang
  16. The Candy Sellers The lives and livelihoods of some of the city’s newest migrant children.
    By Jordan Salama
  17. 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
  18. Redesigning the Siren What if the piercing sound of emergency vehicles was replaced by something else altogether?
    By Yessenia Funes
  19. A Woman Screaming Blood of Christ and 5 a.m. Construction Six noise horror stories.
    By Laura Thompson
  20. 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
  21. 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
  22. Arline Bronzaft Will Talk to Your Noisy Neighbor “I deal with sex. I deal with crime. It goes beyond noise.”
    By Clio Chang
  23. 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
  24. 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
  25. 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
  26. A Basement Housing Bill Killed by Conspiracists Huntington seemed poised to legalize ADUs. Then things got weird.
    By Molly Osberg
  27. The Last Painted Doors of Ridgewood Faux wood graining is an architectural quirk of the neighborhood. And a dying trade.
    By Clio Chang
  28. The Most Instagrammed Bench in Brooklyn Dumbo’s highly photogenic intersection at Water and Washington gets seating designed by Bjarke Ingels.
    By Clio Chang
  29. The Two Newest Luxury Towers Are a Mood Charcoal and bronze dominate at Brooklyn’s tallest building and Adjaye’s latest.
    By Justin Davidson
  30. 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
  31. ‘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
  32. 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
  33. An Island of Affordable Housing at the World Trade Center A third of the tower’s residents will have cheap rent and expensive neighbors.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  34. Everyone in the Hamptons Is Reading The Guest “Simon is every wealthy middle-aged man I know.”
    By Stephanie Krikorian
  35. On New York’s First 110-Degree Summer Day, What Will Break First? Asphalt like molasses, grounded planes at midday, sun-buckled railroad tracks: a sweat-inducing list.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  36. U.S. Women’s Soccer Fans Are Having a Moment “I’m overstimulated.”
    By Lauren Tousignant
  37. The Sloth King of Long Island Tried His Hand at Venomous Lizards But was ordered to pay a fine for it, which the exotic-animal purveyor says he paid “no problem.”
    By Clio Chang
  38. We’re Paying to Catsit Now? On Listings Project, people are charging subletters $2,800 a month for the pleasure of cleaning a litter box.
    By Clio Chang
  39. What’s in the Subway Water That Drips on Your Head? A semi-scientific inquiry.
    By Clio Chang
  40. Why Are Citi Bike’s Electric Bikes Always Broken? Some blame teen riders, but it’s likely the bikes themselves.
    By John Surico
  41. The Look Book Goes to a West Village Med-Spa At Ject, clients get everything from Botox and filler to plasma under-eye treatments.
    By Jenna Milliner-Waddell and Kelsie Schrader
  42. Is Universal Studios Landscaping or Strike Busting? A suspiciously timed trim for some ficuses left writers in blazing heat on the picket line, sans shade.
    By Clio Chang
  43. Reconsidering the Grand Civic Staircase At Steven Holl’s Hunters Point Library and across the city, a familiar architectural gesture has become a trap.
    By Justin Davidson
  44. A Makeover for Third Avenue More bike and bus lanes on the Upper East Side. It’s better!
    By Christopher Bonanos
  45. The Cube Is Back Refreshed and ready to spin.
    By Clio Chang
  46. Times Square’s New Thrill Ride Looks Like It Came From Las Vegas But it’s just another classic New York developer gambit.
    By Karrie Jacobs
  47. The Gilgo Beach Murder Suspect Was a Busy New York Architect Rex Heuermann’s clients included Cipriani, Target, and Nike.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  48. Angelina Jolie Had to Have Basquiat’s Former Studio To open her concept store about tailoring.
    By Clio Chang
  49. So Is the BQE Going to Collapse? Talking to the former chief engineer of the DOT about highway nightmare scenarios and the long, long road to a real fix.
    By Clio Chang
  50. Yu & Me Books, After the Fire The Chinatown shop needs a gut renovation, but more than $320,000 in donations will keep the business afloat and staff paid.
    By Wilfred Chan
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