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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. A Smattering of Zizmorcore Gifts A Curbed curation of New York City-ish merch.
    By Jenny Xie
  4. 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
  5. Design, a Love Story The finale of Nice Try! Interior explores how objects enchant us.
    By Diana Budds
  6. Gift of the Day: A Lavish English Greenhouse At nearly $17,000, this is — needless to say — something of a splurge.
    By Alexandra Ilyashov
  7. 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
  8. ‘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
  9. 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
  10. Why Is Montague Street Perpetually Drab? There’s little beyond deli muffins for the celebrity moms of Brooklyn Heights.
    By Lysandra Ohrstrom
  11. Gift of The Day: Some Wall-Worthy Rugs “They definitely have those ’90s Much Music and Dunkaroos vibes.”
    By Alexandra Ilyashov
  12. All Manner of Animal-Themed Décor Some horse-printed sheets and an armadillo pillow.
    By Ming Thompson
  13. Gift of the Day: A Color-Blocked Coffee Machine A collaboration between two Singapore-based companies.
    By Alexandra Ilyashov
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. Gift of the Day: A Spotty Ceramic Vessel Recommended by a self-described ceramics aficionado.
    By Alexandra Ilyashov
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. Design’s Unruly, Organic, and Wild Year A dispatch from NYCxDesign’s 2021 edition.
    By Diana Budds
  21. Chris Cornelius Wants to Challenge the Expectations of Indigenous Design The founder of studio:indigenous talks tree funerals and tricksters.
    By Whitney Mallett
  22. 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
  23. Gift of the Day: An Architect’s Favorite Black-Paged Notebook It comes with jelly pens.
    By Alexandra Ilyashov
  24. This Is the Beginning of Gowanus’s New Skyline An expansive rezoning passed today has developers ready to build, build, build.
    By Caroline Spivack
  25. Why Do New Buildings Look So Basic? We can embrace ornamentation in architecture without returning to the past.
    By Justin Davidson
  26. 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
  27. Gift of the Day: The Simplest, Handsomest Socks As recommended by a Canadian with a substantial cold-weather collection.
    By Alexandra Ilyashov
  28. 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
  29. Gift of the Day: A (Somewhat Strange) Fruit Tree It produces funky-tasting calamondins.
    By Alexandra Ilyashov
  30. 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
  31. Hey, That Bull Looks Familiar Brazil’s stock exchange is the latest to install a “Charging Bull” knockoff.
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  32. There’s Only One Church Shelter That’s Reopened This Winter Dozens of other faith-based shelters remain closed.
    By Luke Cregan
  33. 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
  34. 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
  35. This Andrew Yang Administration Is Really Coming Together Wait, who won?
    By Choire Sicha
  36. Emmanuel Olunkwa Wants to Redesign New York City Windows The new editor of PIN-UP answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
    By Diana Budds
  37. The Bathroom Gadget Americans Are Finally Starting to Get Behind Nice Try! meets the bidet.
    By Diana Budds
  38. 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
  39. 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
  40. 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
  41. It Takes How Long to Fill NYC Affordable Apartments Through the Lottery? We now know just how slow the process is.
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  42. What Wendy Goodman Loved the Most During Design Week So many wonderful things! But a few of the absolute standouts …
    By Wendy Goodman
  43. 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
  44. 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
  45. 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
  46. The First Sex Toy Ads on the Subway Are Predictably Tame And it took a lawsuit and three years of legal wrangling to even get this campaign approved.
    By Caroline Spivack
  47. A Dated Fifth Avenue Penthouse Sees the Light WORKac architects let the views in.
    By Wendy Goodman
  48. I Fell In Love With Stackabl’s Colorful, Sustainable Furniture At the Salon of Art + Design.
    By Wendy Goodman
  49. We Already Knew How to Prevent the Disaster at Astroworld Crowd management is key, but no one has more power than the artist onstage.
    By Alissa Walker
  50. New Yorkers Are Trying to Get Rid of Trump’s Name Anywhere They Can A small highway sign was the latest victory.
    By Valeria Ricciulli
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