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How New York Ruined Its Summer Vacation

 Options include: Floral displays, TikTok influencers, and Alan Dershowitz. By Clio Chang
  1. Manhattan Rents Broke Another Record Average rents reached more than $5000 in July.
    By Clio Chang
  2. At Last, Congestion Pricing Fee Previews Some numbers to fuel the battle.
    By Clio Chang
  3. ‘They’re Destroying an Artists’ Block’: Locals on the Vornado Penn Station Plan A furrier, a circus school, and other shops on the big changes coming to their block.
    By Kim Velsey
  4. Can New York’s Hotels Make Breakfast Important Again? Our late-rising diner-at-large gets up for some new spreads.
    By Tammie Teclemariam
  5. Issey Miyake Was A Designer’s Designer The Japanese fashion designer was not just a favorite of architects; he was an early supporter of many young practices.
    By Diana Budds
  6. The Ranch Thinks New Yorkers Can’t Handle the Ranch The luxury Malibu boot camp is coming to the Hudson Valley with shorter hikes and later wake-up times.
    By Clio Chang
  7. Westworld Has Become West Side World Present-day New York, with a few digital additions, was perfectly suitable as a dystopian set.
    By Justin Davidson
  8. Magda Sawon Is Always Too Early The co-founder of Postmasters Gallery answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
    By Diana Budds
  9. The Times’ ‘Hunt’ Columnist Is Being Sued for Back Rent But it looks like Joyce Cohen is just trying to finish out her sublet term.
    By Kim Velsey
  10. Before and After in Bed-Stuy Laura Higby and Rebecca Stubbs knew their new 19th-century brownstone would be beautiful. A look at the work that got it there.
    By Wendy Goodman
  11. Training the Next Generation of Shop Owners Is Key to Chinatown’s Survival Takeaways from a new report on the pandemic impact and future of the neighborhood.
    By Wilfred Chan
  12. Dystopian Housing Issue? There’s an App for That. It’s become so impossible to get an apartment that apps have emerged to make it easier — for a fee, of course.
    By Bridget Read
  13. The Department of Sanitation Has an Oddly Excellent TikTok It’s full of googly-eyed snowplow trucks and earnest charm.
    By Rebecca Alter
  14. Eric Adams vs. New York’s Greatest Boat Ride Pay the Staten Island Ferry staff, please.
    By Bridget Read
  15. Simply Stop Watering Your Lawn They’re gonna run out of water. And the Southampton Fire Department is nervous.
    By Choire Sicha
  16. It’s Hot Garbage Month Curbed looks at the curb.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  17. The Best Mold Experts in New York For selling a house, cleaning the HVAC system, and more.
    By Jack Denton
  18. The Look Book Goes to 500 Weddings On a recent weekend, Lincoln Center invited couples whose weddings had been disrupted by the pandemic to renew their vows.
    By Kelsie Schrader and Jenna Milliner-Waddell
  19. Eastern Parkway Was Never Meant to Be a Highway The case for making the street more like the pleasure road Frederick Law Olmsted intended.
    By Diana Budds
  20. What If We Stole the West Side Highway for Bikes? Closing down a car lane, adding a bike lane.
    By Choire Sicha
  21. A Fake Developer Scammed 20 Brooklyn Families Out of $4 Million After trusting a familiar face in the Chinese community, they are suing him to stave off eviction.
    By Clio Chang
  22. Kingston Becomes the First Upstate City to Adopt Rent Control The move will probably set the stage for other cities upstate to follow suit.
    By Clio Chang
  23. The San Jose Realtor Whose Clients Would Rather Be in Palo Alto “Even my most wealthy and successful clients can’t touch that market.”
    By Alyssa Shelasky
  24. Why Ivana Trump Was Buried at Bedminster Golf Course: 3 Theories With his ex-wife’s burial in a simple grave, Trump’s weird 15-year dream of turning his New Jersey property into a cemetery has come true.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  25. Chella Man Wants to Redesign Headphones As Armor The artist and activist answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
    By Diana Budds
  26. Todd Oldham’s Place in the Poconos It’s a patchwork of new and old ideas and … it’ll never be finished.
    By Wendy Goodman
  27. Shark Spotters Looking for what lurks off New York’s beaches.
    By James D. Walsh
  28. Bishop Lamor Whitehead Owns a Lot of Real Estate. Or Does He? The Brooklyn pastor, who said he was robbed of $1 million mid-sermon last Sunday, is reportedly in default on a $4.5 million house.
    By Kim Velsey
  29. We’re So Close to Having Cars That You Can’t Drive Drunk A simple fix that Republicans are trying to oppose.
    By Alissa Walker
  30. Never Look at Someone While They’re Locking Their Bike They are vulnerable. And sweaty.
    By Clio Chang
  31. Candy-Inspired Tables, an Archive of NYC Water, and More Finds Plus, a new ashtray from Seth Rogen’s weed brand Houseplant.
    By Diana Budds
  32. Trump’s Grotesque Plan to ‘End Homelessness’ Is Already Mainstream Policy Among plenty of Democrats, too.
    By Alissa Walker
  33. Jimmy Fallon Found the Perfect Buyer for His Clown House And that buyer is Cara Delevingne.
    By Zach Schiffman
  34. Rat Dinnertime May Be Pushed Back by 4 Hours What is this, Europe?
    By Clio Chang
  35. It’s Actually Good News That Google Bought the Thompson Center Helmut Jahn’s iconic Chicago building now has a chance at being preserved.
    By Diana Budds
  36. New York Moving Companies Go to War Over Tech Secrets The long-running grudge match between Piece of Cake and Dumbo Moving and Storage.
    By Kim Velsey
  37. 4 Days to Find a Not-Horrible Apartment for a Family of Four The search, at long last, concludes.
    By Emily Gould
  38. Get In, Losers, We’re Moving to Montague Street The block is heating up.
    By Clio Chang
  39. A Tea-Spilling Lawsuit Upends a Hell’s Kitchen Gay Club Just how woke can a megaclub hosting underwear parties really ever be?
    By Brock Colyar
  40. The Flight Hack Is Dead Abandon hope all ye who enter security.
    By Clio Chang
  41. Waterline Square Is Better Than We Had a Right to Expect The last piece of Riverside South clicks into place.
    By Justin Davidson
  42. Why Is It So Hard to Buy a Copy of the Times? Once ubiquitous, now surprisingly tough to find.
    By Alice Markham-Cantor
  43. The Regulars Rooting for a Crash at Brooklyn’s Foreclosure Auctions Hope springs eternal for the small-time hustler.
    By Molly Osberg
  44. There Is Now a Raya for Home-Swapping DTC furniture and well-maintained Monsteras only.
    By Clio Chang
  45. DALL-E Is Actually Kind of Good at Designing Walkable Streets In case we want to replace car-centric engineers with bots.
    By Alissa Walker
  46. Qualeasha Wood Wants to Get Crab Legs With Cardi B. The textile artist answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
    By Diana Budds
  47. Bunny Heaven in Williamsburg Rachel Nuwer and Paul Dix’s 2,300-square-foot rooftop garden is home to bees, trees, crickets, and gamboling rabbit friends.
    By Wendy Goodman
  48. The Monkeypox Vaccine Hunger Games Are On Everybody’s angry, some are in denial, and … it’s hot out here.
    By Brock Colyar
  49. The Best-Smelling Street in the City Nolita’s scent strip.
    By Clio Chang
  50. Is It Better to Host Abortion Seekers or Just Find Them Hotel Rooms? Why some abortion aid groups have shifted their strategies.
    By Paula Aceves
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