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Up on the Rooftop in Gohar World

 Sisters Laila and Nadia Gohar launched a line of coolly unusual housewares with a party on a Rockefeller Center rooftop. Cue the doves. By Matthew Schneier
  1. This Filipino American Designer Is Reclaiming the Peacock Chair “To me, it’s about more than designing a collection; I’m inventing a style,” says Cheyenne Concepcion.
    By Diana Budds
  2. Rockin’ Out With the Mayor and ‘Late-Night Dorinda’ at the New Hard Rock Hotel Don’t expect Sid and Nancy; it’s pretty swanky.
    By Brock Colyar
  3. The A Train Commute That’s an Extreme Sport The escalators are busted at one of the city’s deepest-set stations.
    By Clio Chang
  4. Cuck Money Is the New Key Money Get ready to raise your own rent.
    By Bridget Read
  5. You Won’t Have the Cube to Push Around Anymore For now.
    By Clio Chang
  6. Ann Coulter Discovers the War on Cars Her math checks out.
    By Alissa Walker
  7. The 18th Century’s Surround-Sound Machine Inside the organ at St. Bartholomew’s.
    By Justin Davidson
  8. New York Now Has More Airbnb Listings Than Apartments for Rent Even though Airbnb’s listings count has dipped this year.
    By Kim Velsey
  9. Century 21 Lives! Fidi, rejoice.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  10. Mayor’s Office Proposes Emailing Your Landlord to Solve Housing Discrimination Just ask them nicely.
    By Clio Chang
  11. Rope Masks, Nubby Vases, a Steel Bar Cart, and More Design Finds A special dispatch from NYCxDesign’s 10th anniversary.
    By Diana Budds
  12. The Williamsburg Building That Painted Over Basquiat Were the residents of a former factory on South 11th Street living in the “Sistine Chapel” of SAMO graffiti?
    By Diana Budds
  13. The Nolitafication of Dimes Square A State of the Neighborhood that’s soon to get its very first hotel.
    By Emily Sundberg
  14. Architect Hani Rashid Goes to Bear Mountain, or the Metaverse, to Be Alone The architect answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
    By Wendy Goodman
  15. A Fidi Loft With Room for the Pokémon: Before and After Photos Architect Shane Neufeld’s streamlined renovation for Yuan Jiang and William Chen.
    By Wendy Goodman
  16. A Mexican Design Exhibition Has Taken Over a Rockefeller Center Post Office “Intervención/Intersección” celebrates creative kinship.
    By Diana Budds
  17. That Light in the Distance May Be an Oncoming Tesla Elon Musk’s new Vegas tunnel will, for the time being, alternate one-way traffic in two directions.
    By Alissa Walker
  18. Finding a Future for Ukraine’s Destroyed Cities The country’s planners want to reclaim its independent identity and plan for life after Russian oil.
    By Justin Davidson
  19. Things Are Going Well in Bitcoin City A rendering arrives right on time.
    By Clio Chang
  20. The Ugliest Divorce in Manhattan Real Estate HFZ’s luxury developers staked their futures on Bjarke Ingels’s High Line debut and lost everything.
    By James D. Walsh
  21. The Trump International Hotel, Remembered by Yelp “It reeks.”
    By Clio Chang
  22. The Look Book Goes to a Harlem Gospel Concert An afternoon of music and soul food at Glendale Baptist Church.
    By Kelsie Schrader and Jenna Milliner-Waddell
  23. Eric Adams Is Design’s New Hype Man And by design, he means fashion.
    By Diana Budds
  24. Samuel Alito’s Right to Privacy The justice’s wealthy neighborhood, now a site of protests, was built to keep people out.
    By Alissa Walker
  25. Straight Line Crazy Gives Us Robert Moses Without the Fire A very talky, very static play.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  26. The Best City Landscapers From terrace renovations to edible gardens.
    By Trupti Rami
  27. Woodstock Divided by Lawn-Sign Saboteurs The drama centers around the local library.
    By Clio Chang
  28. The City’s First Mass-Timber Condos Are Now for Sale Designed by Mesh Architectures, 670 Union almost didn’t happen.
    By Diana Budds
  29. The Back-to-the-Office Gang How Henry Kravis and other New York chief executives are urging employees back to their desks.
    By Jen Wieczner
  30. Uber Is Ready to Accept Failure, Sort Of In a leaked memo, the CEO admits the plan was never going to work.
    By Alissa Walker
  31. MTA’s Latest Effort on Fare Evasion Is Mostly Just Annoying Back door!
    By Clio Chang
  32. Could the USPS Become the Nation’s Largest Abortion Provider? If Roe falls, the beleaguered federal agency may eclipse the clinic.
    By Bridget Read
  33. Deborah Berke Wants to Live in the 79th Street Boat Basin The architect answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
    By Diana Budds
  34. Mort & Me in Bed-Stuy The artist Simone Bodmer-Turner lives in this apartment of her own devising with her rescue dog, Mort.
    By Wendy Goodman
  35. There’s a War Raging Between Parents and Dog Owners at Cooper Park “Kids don’t pee and poop on the grass nor anywhere!”
    By Clio Chang
  36. Disrupting the Funeral Are millennials killing the death industry?
    By Kim Velsey
  37. Building the Corporate Menace of Severance Saarinen’s impeccable Bell Labs campus conveys the terror of utopian office design.
    By Diana Budds
  38. One Times Square, Long Empty, Will Now Bring the Billboards Inside The building is using its interior floors again (and it will, of course, get an observation deck).
    By Kim Velsey
  39. ‘Stay in Jersey’ Has Some Merit A troll campaign makes the accidental case for congestion pricing.
    By Alissa Walker
  40. Disney Comes for the West Elm Parents For the discerning buyer who wants every surface in the house covered in Mickey merch … but in a classy way.
    By Rebecca Alter
  41. Landlords Can Now Screen Your Pet’s ‘Credit Score’ And charge you accordingly.
    By Clio Chang
  42. Cheap Meat or Luxury Rentals? Inside the Fight at Western Beef A son’s plan to upscale the grocery’s real-estate empire is reined in by his father.
    By Jasper Craven
  43. Women to Get Museum of Ice Cream Treatment At last.
    By Katie McDonough
  44. Revisiting Barbra Streisand’s 300-Page Home-Design Manifesto Featuring Martha Stewart’s advice on cow urine.
    By Rachel Handler
  45. The Untold Story of the Met Gala Red Carpet As in the actual carpet.
    By Katie McDonough and Diana Budds
  46. The Worst Career Advice Lynn Yaeger Ever Got Was ‘Try to Look Normal’ The fashion writer and editor answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
    By Wendy Goodman
  47. Japanese Company Realizes the American Dream, Buys Single-Family Homes If only everyone else could too.
    By Kim Velsey
  48. Artist Sam Van Aken Wants You to Taste Governors Island–Grown Apples “I’m hoping you bite into something and you’re like, Why have I been kept from this? What sort of compromised existence have I been living?”
    By Diana Budds
  49. Bill de Blasio Is Living in the Downtown Brooklyn Marriott Possibly rubbing elbows with people in town for conferences and graduations.
    By Clio Chang
  50. Let’s Make Our New Townhouse Feel Like This Biophilic Hotel The couple who bought this new townhouse loved the natural feel of 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge, so they hired its architects.
    By Wendy Goodman
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