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32 Days to Find a Not-Horrible Apartment for a Family of 4

 Too exhausted to go on, Emily hands the hunt over to her husband, Keith. By Emily Gould
  1. A Funny Thing Happened in Trump’s SUV on the Way to the Capitol Riot Maybe he should have walked after all.
    By Alissa Walker
  2. In a Soho Loft, Tech Bros Plot an Autonomous City Praxis, a “grassroots movement of modern pioneers,” lures members with grocery-store crudités and vague conversation.
    By Nevin Kallepalli
  3. Inside Olympic Tower, Where Foreign Billionaires Have Long Flocked The midtown high-rise is ideal for those who’d rather not do much of anything themselves.
    By Matthew Sedacca
  4. Walking the Mall With Alexandra Lange The architecture critic and Meet Me by the Fountain author sizes up her local food court.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  5. Ruoyi Jiang Hates the Lower East Side’s Bad Public Art The founder of Chop Suey Club answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
    By Diana Budds
  6. Eric Adams Tracks Homeless Encampments on a Google Doc It’s his “system,” and he gets mad when police don’t use it.
    By Clio Chang
  7. The Year REBNY Tried to Get Cool And the real power players left early.
    By Kim Velsey and Clio Chang
  8. The End of Abortion As We Knew It In a 6–3 decision, the Supreme Court has ruled to overturn Roe v. Wade.
    By Irin Carmon
  9. Meet Eric Adams’s Other Brooklyn Apartment An unofficial tour of the Prospect Heights co-op he forgot he still owned.
    By Clio Chang
  10. Bring on the SUV Crushing If New York City wants to do safety spectacle, let’s go big.
    By Alissa Walker
  11. The Austin Broker With a Robust Country-Club Client Base “A colleague sends me some stats from the Census Bureau saying that Austin’s population is increasing by 146 people every day. Wowza!”
    By Alyssa Shelasky
  12. Julia Haart’s $65 Million Penthouse Is Politically Neutral Also it’s technically not her apartment.
    By Clio Chang
  13. The Annual Circus That Makes Landlords and Tenants Mad Why is the Rent Guidelines Board vote always like this? And is there a fairer way?
    By Kim Velsey
  14. The Best Tailors in New York Equipped for any type of alterations.
    By Arielle Avila
  15. The Look Book Goes to a WNBA Game On a recent Sunday at Barclays Center, we spoke to fans moments after the Chicago Sky beat the New York Liberty.
    By Kelsie Schrader and Jenna Milliner-Waddell
  16. Rent-Stabilized Apartments Are About to Get More Expensive The Rent Guidelines Board voted, tenants booed, landlords cleaned up.
    By Clio Chang
  17. Billionaires Think a Recession Will Force You Back Into the Office Stephen Ross and friends smell worker desperation in the water.
    By Clio Chang
  18. What Landlords Privately Think About the Real-Estate Boom “Why shouldn’t I charge what I can charge? Doesn’t that sound nasty, though?”
    By Kim Velsey
  19. What Wendy Goodman Loved at This Year’s Milan Furniture Fair The off-site wonders and provocative installations of the design world’s biggest showcase.
    By Wendy Goodman
  20. Dario Calmese Misses His Jean Paul Gaultier Corset The artist answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
    By Diana Budds
  21. Can Dumbo’s Selfie Street Handle Another Attraction? Performance artists and TikTok influencers will have to learn to share the cobblestones.
    By Zach Schiffman
  22. The MTA Bus Driver Who Won’t Tell You to Pay “I’m not enforcing a fare that can lead to me being hurt.”
    By Alissa Walker
  23. Hoboken Hasn’t Had a Traffic Death in 4 Years. What’s It Doing Right? For starters: Street corners rebuilt for visibility, and decisive politicians.
    By Christopher Robbins
  24. A ‘Comical Dungeon’ Designed in VR Takes Over a Chinatown Gallery Neo-feudalism and medieval creatures inspired Ryan Decker’s first solo show.
    By Diana Budds
  25. The Weed World Trucks Are Apparently Terrible at Parking According to this week’s impound rate.
    By Clio Chang
  26. How I Found the New Roof Park at Pier 57 The city’s newest public park tries to be everything at once and ends up feeling like a private space.
    By Eva Hagberg
  27. For Rent: Two-Bedroom, Great Light, and a Tenant With COVID Who is about to show you the apartment.
    By Clio Chang
  28. The 3-Day Return to Office Is, So Far, a Dud Hybrid work is supposed to be the future of the office. Except a lot of people just don’t like it.
    By Kim Velsey
  29. Tribeca Festival’s Post-Film Reboot Jane Rosenthal has run it from the start and now has Murdoch money. And yes, it still shows movies.
    By Shawn McCreesh
  30. Checking In With the Real-Estate Brokers Who Stormed the Capitol And their current listings, from Chicago’s Trump Tower to a Colorado car wash franchise.
    By Bridget Read
  31. Los Angeles Is Trying to Ban Bike Repair in Public The council just advanced an ordinance that would make it illegal to be in public space with bike parts.
    By Alissa Walker
  32. Cars Stuck Like the Suez Canal but in the Bronx.
    By Clio Chang
  33. Google Maps Renamed Bedford Avenue ‘Maple Avenue’ But they’re trying to fix it.
    By Clio Chang
  34. What a Wood Boat and a Concrete Chaise Reveal About the African Diaspora A sculpture exhibition at Brooklyn Bridge Park explores modern Black identity.
    By Diana Budds
  35. Why Do the Men of SNL Live in Such Horrifying Apartments? Live from New York … wow, this is kind of a dump, huh?
    By Rebecca Alter
  36. What Is Going On With This Architect and the Buildings He Fake-Approved? The strange case of Warren L. Schiffman and the Marx Development Group.
    By Clio Chang
  37. Laura Raicovich Thinks Museums Should Have Fewer Shows a Year The writer and curator answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
    By Diana Budds
  38. Author Sloane Crosley’s Favorite Spots in the West Village A Wonka-esque Japanese grocery, a bar that will put candied ginger in anything, and a tennis court where timing is key.
    By Emma Alpern
  39. A Debonair Gut Reno of a Bohemian East Village Co-op: Before and After Photos Tech entrepreneur Matt Hackett and designer Archie Archambault remade an apartment in the storied Onyx Court.
    By Wendy Goodman
  40. Architect-Designed Birdhouses, a Busway Mural, and More Design Finds Plus fashion designer Duro Olowu mines the Cooper Hewitt’s archive.
    By Diana Budds
  41. Outsourcing Public Bathrooms to Starbucks Maybe Wasn’t the Best Idea What Howard Schultz giveth, Howard Schultz may taketh away.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  42. The Best Tilers in New York Who to call for impeccably tiled floors, walls, and showers.
    By Jane Starr Drinkard
  43. The Morgan Library’s Gilded Age Garden Gets a Glow-up A restoration that looks as rich as it should.
    By Justin Davidson
  44. Somehow, the Rental Market Is Only Getting Worse Prepare for a hellish summer.
    By Clio Chang
  45. Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches for Good Cause Eviction Tenant activists released a swarm of the noisy bugs into an Albany courtroom.
    By Clio Chang
  46. The American Dream Is Almost in Default The mall, that is.
    By Alissa Walker
  47. The Look Book Goes to a Marc Jacobs Sample Sale Shoppers waited for hours — and in some cases bought spots at the front of the line — in hope of snagging their desired designs for less.
    By Kelsie Schrader and Jenna Milliner-Waddell
  48. The Hamptons Broker Whose Clients Think $60,000 a Month is a Great Deal “My colleague has this funny line that I thought was fitting here: ‘This is the Hamptons, honey. We can disappoint you at any price point.’”
    By Alyssa Shelasky
  49. The Talented Security Guards of the Met They’re enforcers, tour guides, artists.
    By Clio Chang
  50. 49 Days to Find a Not-Horrible Apartment For a Family of Four “Even if you could imagine this unit being clean, it still would have a general ambiance I can only describe as serial-killer-y.”
    By Emily Gould
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