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  1. Be Safe Out There, Junior Bankers Walking and subwaying are maybe dangerous!
    By Caroline Spivack
  2. Elliman’s Top Brokers Are Selling Luxury Real Estate in the Metaverse Taking the real out of real estate, for fun and profit.
    By Kim Velsey
  3. It Looks Like the Millennial Aesthetic Is Finally, Officially Over According to 1stDibs’s trend survey.
    By Diana Budds
  4. Concrete Doesn’t Have to Be an Ecological Nightmare New technologies may drastically reduce its huge carbon footprint.
    By Justin Davidson
  5. New York City Nurses Can’t Take It Much Longer “There are times … when our staff is half of what it should be.”
    By Caroline Spivack
  6. Gift of the Day: A Shimmery Odds-and-Ends Tray “It looks good on anything and everything — leather, wood, grass cloth, even an upholstered table.”
    By Alexandra Ilyashov
  7. A Bunch of Ivermectin Peddlers Put Up That Anti-Vaxx Bus Stop Ad It appears that the Brooklyn bus shelter ad itself was a guerilla operation.
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  8. A Smattering of Zizmorcore Gifts A Curbed curation of New York City-ish merch.
    By Jenny Xie
  9. We Unearthed the 31 Best Rent Deals in NYC Right Now This week, we found a couple of renovated studios that have especially pleasing private outdoor spaces.
    By Jenny Xie
  10. Design, a Love Story The finale of Nice Try! Interior explores how objects enchant us.
    By Diana Budds
  11. Gift of the Day: A Lavish English Greenhouse At nearly $17,000, this is — needless to say — something of a splurge.
    By Alexandra Ilyashov
  12. Can Pop-Up Banksy and Van Gogh Shows Save Retail? Vacant big-box stores are turning into a very odd sort of “art” gallery.
    By Sophie Haigney
  13. ‘The Mayor Knew’ Eric Garcetti’s top aide was a serial harasser, according to multiple accusers. The mayor, they say, ignored it.
    By Alissa Walker
  14. Gift of the Day: A Designer Couple’s Favorite Elderflower Candies “The packaging caught our eye, as did the idea of an artisanal Swedish fish with elderflower, a flavor we love.”
    By Alexandra Ilyashov
  15. Why Is Montague Street Perpetually Drab? There’s little beyond deli muffins for the celebrity moms of Brooklyn Heights.
    By Lysandra Ohrstrom
  16. Gift of The Day: Some Wall-Worthy Rugs “They definitely have those ’90s Much Music and Dunkaroos vibes.”
    By Alexandra Ilyashov
  17. All Manner of Animal-Themed Décor Some horse-printed sheets and an armadillo pillow.
    By Ming Thompson
  18. Gift of the Day: A Color-Blocked Coffee Machine A collaboration between two Singapore-based companies.
    By Alexandra Ilyashov
  19. The Best New Books to Give Architecture, Design, and Urbanism Enthusiasts Five Curbed staffers recommend their favorite new releases, from an atlas of iconic houses to an illustrated history of New York.
    By Curbed Staff
  20. J. Morgan Puett’s 94-Acre Industrial-Chic Country Compound It’s featured in photographer Simon Upton’s book, New York Interiors.
    By Wendy Goodman
  21. Welcome to the Beach Cafe, the Upper East Side’s Republican Cheers Ann Coulter, Cindy Adams, and Donald Jr. hang out there; try the (Roger) Stone Burger.
    By Shawn McCreesh
  22. Gift of the Day: A Spotty Ceramic Vessel Recommended by a self-described ceramics aficionado.
    By Alexandra Ilyashov
  23. Gift of the Day: Jill Singer’s Favorite Lumpy Goblet “They’re highly impractical and honestly superfluous, which is exactly why they’re such a fun gift.”
    By Alexandra Ilyashov
  24. 30 Hours With American Christmas, New York’s Go-To Holiday Decorator The frantic race to drape the city in wreaths and lights before Thanksgiving weekend.
    By Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey
  25. Design’s Unruly, Organic, and Wild Year A dispatch from NYCxDesign’s 2021 edition.
    By Diana Budds
  26. Chris Cornelius Wants to Challenge the Expectations of Indigenous Design The founder of studio:indigenous talks tree funerals and tricksters.
    By Whitney Mallett
  27. How Is Paperboy Love Prince Possibly Running for Congress in 11 Districts? The former mayoral candidate can run, but getting on the ballot on all the districts may be a challenge.
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  28. Gift of the Day: An Architect’s Favorite Black-Paged Notebook It comes with jelly pens.
    By Alexandra Ilyashov
  29. This Is the Beginning of Gowanus’s New Skyline An expansive rezoning passed today has developers ready to build, build, build.
    By Caroline Spivack
  30. Why Do New Buildings Look So Basic? We can embrace ornamentation in architecture without returning to the past.
    By Justin Davidson
  31. A $399,000 Chelsea Studio and a Floor-Through 2-Bedroom in Crown Heights Plus a Brooklyn Heights one-bedroom with a large private roof-deck.
    By Jenny Xie
  32. Gift of the Day: The Simplest, Handsomest Socks As recommended by a Canadian with a substantial cold-weather collection.
    By Alexandra Ilyashov
  33. Curbed’s 2021 Advent-Calendar Gift Guide Over the course of the next 25 days, we will be doling out, one by one, the gifts recommended by dozens of design bigwigs with extremely good taste.
    By Alexandra Ilyashov
  34. Gift of the Day: A (Somewhat Strange) Fruit Tree It produces funky-tasting calamondins.
    By Alexandra Ilyashov
  35. A Blue-Floored Loft That ‘Looks Like a Hardware Store Exploded’ An impromptu visit with artist and How to Make Mistakes on Purpose author Laurie Rosenwald.
    By Wendy Goodman
  36. Hey, That Bull Looks Familiar Brazil’s stock exchange is the latest to install a “Charging Bull” knockoff.
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  37. There’s Only One Church Shelter That’s Reopened This Winter Dozens of other faith-based shelters remain closed.
    By Luke Cregan
  38. What We Know About Princess Mako’s Strikingly Mundane Hell’s Kitchen Apartment We weren’t expecting her first spot to have ballrooms and gilded ceilings, but 525 West 52nd Street is a bit blander than one might expect.
    By Jenny Xie
  39. The Best Gifts for Design-Minded Kids From a Keith Haring play mat for babies to a highly adaptable jumpsuit for teens.
    By Fiorella Valdesolo
  40. This Andrew Yang Administration Is Really Coming Together Wait, who won?
    By Choire Sicha
  41. Emmanuel Olunkwa Wants to Redesign New York City Windows The new editor of PIN-UP answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
    By Diana Budds
  42. The Bathroom Gadget Americans Are Finally Starting to Get Behind Nice Try! meets the bidet.
    By Diana Budds
  43. More People Are Moving to New York Now Than Before the Pandemic And many people who left last year are coming back too.
    By Caroline Spivack
  44. A Modular Furniture Kit That’s the Anti-Ikea Loose Parts riffs on an Erector set to solve furniture’s enormous waste problem.
    By Diana Budds
  45. As a New Arena Opens in New York, the Steinbrenner Stadium Strategy Is Finished The opening of UBS Arena on Long Island marks the end of a longtime New York sports phenomenon: teams threatening to leave town.
    By Joe DeLessio
  46. It Takes How Long to Fill NYC Affordable Apartments Through the Lottery? We now know just how slow the process is.
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  47. What Wendy Goodman Loved the Most During Design Week So many wonderful things! But a few of the absolute standouts …
    By Wendy Goodman
  48. Infrastructure Bill Spares New Yorkers From MTA Fare Hikes for Now Governor Kathy Hochul said that billions in federal funding means that fare increases are suspended and service cuts are “off the table.”
    By Matt Stieb
  49. Everything We Know About the Immense, Messy Macklowe Art Auction $600 million worth of Giacomettis, Picassos, de Koonings, and more; one really messy divorce.
    By Kim Velsey
  50. Take a Trip Around Little Yemen “I’ve been in the Bronx for 20 years — I never expected that this would happen.”
    By Chris Crowley
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