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Where Is the Tesla Bus?

 Elon Musk announced it alongside the Tesla Semi all those years ago. So what gives? By Alissa Walker
  1. The Best Electricians in New York For brownstone restorations and bar buildouts.
    By Jack Denton
  2. The Look Book Goes to a Democratic-Socialist Convention In a church on the Upper East Side, the NYC-DSA recently gathered to decide on its plans for 2023.
    By Kelsie Schrader and Jenna Milliner-Waddell
  3. The Democrats’ Election Night Party in Chinatown Was Actually Fun “NY Dems get down! Put that on the record!”
    By Louis Cheslaw
  4. Listening In Outside Twitter’s New York Office A few days after layoffs began.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  5. What Neighborhoods Went for Lee Zeldin? A micro-breakdown of Tuesday night’s results.
    By Clio Chang
  6. Joan Didion in Your Living Room, Telling Stories The Year of Magical Thinking gets comfy.
    By Brock Colyar
  7. From the Archives: We Renovated Our Own Brownstone — It Was a Million Laughs “When someone asks was it worth it, I say yes, because while my arm didn’t heal properly, the ceiling job is beautiful.”
    By Fred Powledge
  8. The Embattled Women of the FDNY The FDNY’s first woman commissioner puts its gender gap in relief.
    By Nia Prater
  9. Ron Lauder Likes Lee Zeldin Because He’s Afraid to Ride the Subway And definitely not because he’s mad about a Hamptons wind-farm cable.
    By Clio Chang
  10. The Best New Books for Design, Architecture, and Urbanism Enthusiasts From an encyclopedia of furniture to an especially gorgeous travel guide to Florida.
    By Curbed Staff
  11. Saturday Night at Slutty Vegan Brooklyn’s best party is a line for veggie burgers.
    By Chris Crowley
  12. Why These $20 Million Uptown Co-ops Aren’t Selling “In the past, big money needed co-ops to be accepted and established, But no one needs 740 Park anymore.”
    By Kim Velsey
  13. The Elizabeth Street Garden Fight Is Not Over After All A new court ruling is the latest in a ten-year delay. Will the city’s seniors live to see the affordable housing approved in their name?
    By Kim Velsey
  14. Stephen Burks Wants to Finish a 20-Year-Old Conversation With Fran Lebowitz The industrial designer answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
    By Diana Budds
  15. The Jersey City Realtor Who Wishes There Were More Condos “We currently have nothing for people to buy, whatsoever. But there’s plenty more room to develop.”
    By Alyssa Shelasky
  16. Móyòsórè “Moyo” Martins Makes Art At Night In A Former Bronx Furniture Factory He painted the skylights black and has furniture from Tim Burton’s Batman movie.
    By Wendy Goodman
  17. Elon Musk’s ‘Hyperloop Prototype’ Was Always a Gimmick At least a parking lot will be useful?
    By Alissa Walker
  18. Seoul’s Itaewon Nightlife District Was Built for Tragedy A decade of unchecked development crowded the already narrow alleys where more than 150 people were killed on Halloween weekend.
    By Se-Woong Koo
  19. California Has a Brand-new, Very Tiny Renters’ Caucus Talking to the chair of the four-member group about skyrocketing costs, landlord colleagues, and what he pays for a one-bedroom.
    By Alissa Walker
  20. There’s a Campaign-Sign War Happening in Brooklyn According to at least three people.
    By Clio Chang
  21. The Mennonite Airbnb Hustler of Upper Manhattan Konrad Bicher, calling himself “the Wolf of Airbnb,” ran a sublet scheme that made him rich — for a while.
    By James D. Walsh
  22. The Department of Buildings Seems Like a Mess Right Now The Buildings commissioner was just interviewed in relation to an illegal gambling investigation, and that’s just the half of it.
    By Clio Chang
  23. What to Bid on in the Joan Didion Estate Auction A rattan Peacock chair, a slipcovered sofa, and powder-pink pressed glassware, for starters.
    By Diana Budds
  24. Tiwa Select Moves to New York With an exhibition of textile screens and collages by Megumi Arai.
    By Diana Budds
  25. Keeping It Weird at 550 Madison The former AT&T/Sony tower gets a few of its spikier details sanded off but retains a lot of its Johnsonian strangeness.
    By Justin Davidson
  26. We’re Getting Closer to a Martian Housing Market Nine subterranean caves have been identified as potentially suitable habitats, if you’re into that kind of thing.
    By Clio Chang
  27. Why One Chinatown Mini-mall Languishes While Another Thrives On East Broadway, one shopping center has become an art-and-fashion destination. It isn’t just the cheap rent.
    By Wilfred Chan
  28. Pete Davidson and Colin Jost’s Ferry May Be Full of Asbestos and Roaches According to its former captain.
    By Clio Chang
  29. What Happens to All Those Temporary Dining Sheds Now? In the twilight of the city’s emergency Open Restaurants program, Chinatown’s small businesses are preparing their dining sheds for the long run.
    By Diana Budds
  30. This “Not-Handy” Couple Really Didn’t Think They Wanted to Buy a Townhouse Before and after photos.
    By Wendy Goodman
  31. David Korins Keeps a Hand-Drawn Sketch by Alexander Hamilton in His Closet The creative director of Beetlejuice and Hamilton answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
    By Diana Budds
  32. 7-Inch Platform Gaps Are Keeping Disabled Riders Off the Subways A new class-action lawsuit is demanding the MTA do something to actually fix them.
    By Alissa Walker
  33. What Could Go Wrong With Crypto Island Just three NFTs can buy you a villa and great offshore-banking access on the site of the Fyre Festival.
    By Bridget Read
  34. ‘Once I Decorate a House, It Becomes a Competition on the Block’ Talking to the man who makes the Upper East Side’s Halloween extravaganzas.
    By Clio Chang
  35. The Saga of the Park Slope Dog Murderer Is Never-ending Let us catch you up.
    By Clio Chang
  36. The Look Book Goes to a Dinner at MoMA PS1 For three nights, the popular Bed-Stuy Nigerian restaurant Dept of Culture Brooklyn took up residence at the Queens museum.
    By Kelsie Schrader and Jenna Milliner-Waddell
  37. The Best Nail Artists in New York For bejeweled manicures, hand-painted press-ons, and more.
    By Arielle Avila
  38. A One-Dimensional Robert Moses in Straight Line Crazy Ralph Fiennes stars in this talky, static retelling of Moses’s misdeeds.
    By Jackson McHenry
  39. Mike Davis Was Right About the fires in Malibu, the hostile approach to urban planning, the inequality crushing Los Angeles.
    By Alissa Walker
  40. Rents Have Fallen a Tiny Bit A better-than-nothing 2 percent.
    By Kim Velsey
  41. New York Is Not the Country’s Top Rat City We’re No. 2.
    By Clio Chang
  42. From the Archives: When Williamsburg Became the New Bohemia A portrait of an artists’ colony in Brooklyn, circa 1992.
    By Brad Gooch
  43. New York’s Halloween Streets Plan Should Be in Place Year-Round It shouldn’t be this dangerous for kids to walk around their neighborhoods.
    By Alissa Walker
  44. Listening In at the New York Film Festival The Eavesdropper hung around outside Lincoln Center.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  45. The Bees of Wrath Rorie Woods knew foreclosure all too well. And when her friend was evicted, she rushed over with a venomous posse.
    By James D. Walsh
  46. Steal My Couch A selection of shoppable sleepers, settees, and more — as recommended by their passionate owners.
    By Liza Corsillo and Jen Trolio
  47. The Driving Instructor to New York’s Teen Elite “If these walls could talk in this car, oh my God.”
    By Matthew Schneier
  48. The MTA Is ‘Completely Obsessed’ With Reopening Its Bathrooms Starting with just eight, to be exact.
    By Clio Chang
  49. The Last Traces of Elizabeth Wurtzel Everything the author owned was sold off unexpectedly at bargain-basement prices.
    By Choire Sicha
  50. 1 Oak Was Evicted And it apparently came as a surprise.
    By Clio Chang
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