The Latest

Curbed
21 questions

Billie Tsien Wants Someone to Go Eat a PB&J in the Middle of Hudson Yards

 The Obama Center architect answers Curbed’s 21 Questions. By Diana Budds
  1. New York Went From Worst to Best At Handing Out Rent Relief There’s still a lot of work to be done, but Governor Kathy Hochul deserves credit for getting us this far.
    By Caroline Spivack
  2. With Google Moving In, Hudson Square Is Trying to Spruce Up the Place The neighborhood is now a major tech hub, so it should probably be connected to the rest of the city.
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  3. Manhattan West Is (a Little Bit) What Hudson Yards Should Have Been It’s still a corporate simulacrum of a city, but given the history of such gestures, it’s surprising they got it anywhere close to right.
    By Justin Davidson
  4. It’s Time to Let the Elizabeth Street Garden Go It may be a pretty oasis, but we as a city are desperate for affordable housing.
    By Kim Velsey
  5. The Look Book Goes to Chess in the Park At the tournament, which is held yearly near Bethesda Fountain, more than 700 children (and a few adults) faced off over six rounds of rapid chess.
    By Daniel Varghese and Louis Cheslaw
  6. The Nation’s Monuments Are Male, Pale, and Stale A new audit makes the case for a more fluid landscape of public memory.
    By Diana Budds
  7. Humans Have Officially Killed Off the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker The U.S. will declare the bird and 22 other species extinct. There may be many more to come.
    By Benjamin Hart
  8. A $485,000 Greenwich Village Studio and a Renovated Boerum Hill One-Bedroom This week’s picks also includes a Midtown studio with checkered marble floors and a Kensington one-bedroom with a private terrace.
    By Jenny Xie
  9. P.S. 705’s Welcome Committee The teachers who turned the school-drop-off line into a shindig.
    By Jane Starr Drinkard
  10. East River Park Activists Chain Themselves to Tree, Make Weirdly Modest Demand Really, they just want to ask questions.
    By Caroline Spivack
  11. You Can No Longer Stay in an East Village Van for $97 a Night The red Econoline and six others listed on Airbnb have been impounded.
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  12. What Makes a Team Name Quintessentially ‘Staten Island’? A new minor-league baseball team is coming to the borough, and it needs a name that reflects its community. What does that mean, exactly?
    By Joe DeLessio
  13. Garbage Truck Drags Dining Shed Down Sixth Avenue With Diner Inside Oh, no, nothing scary about that.
    By Choire Sicha
  14. The Very Tiny Fight Over a Midtown Park’s Locked Garden Can one determined person continue to keep the public out of a public park?
    By Kim Velsey
  15. You Can Now Buy Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld’s “Dinner Party-Gate” House The Yale Law professors’ five-bedroom, five-bath New Haven home is listed for $1,080,000.
    By Irin Carmon
  16. Maybe Forcing City Workers Back to the Office Wasn’t the Best Idea Civil servants are now looking for new jobs en masse.
    By Caroline Spivack
  17. An Artist’s Bed-Stuy House That Feels Like It’s in the Country Adrian Nivola found what he wanted.
    By Wendy Goodman
  18. It Just Keeps Getting Worse for 432 Park A new lawsuit seems likely to spoil sales at the Billionaires’ Row tower.
    By Kim Velsey
  19. The Preelection Honeymoon of Eric Adams From Met Gala after-parties to Monaco.
    By Choire Sicha
  20. An Angular Time Capsule in Ardsley Inside, there’s a cathedral-like living room with original redwood walls and ceilings, a gigantic brick fireplace, and extensive sliding glass doors.
    By Jenny Xie
  21. BTS at the United Nations, Doughy Furniture, and Other Things I Liked This Week Plus, Richard Neutra’s VDL House reopens in L.A.
    By Diana Budds
  22. As a Delivery Worker, I Still Want More From the New Delivery-App Bills They’re a good start, but they won’t apply to all restaurants, for starters.
    By Wilfred Chan
  23. A New Arts Compound in East Williamsburg That Draws You In The Amant arts center faces the city with severity but aims to cosset visitors.
    By Justin Davidson
  24. The Street Fight Is Back Everybody wants a piece of your block, and it’s going to take a lot more than planters and metal barricades to resolve who gets what.
    By Diana Budds
  25. What It’s Like at Rikers, According to People Who Just Got Out “They’re not feeding people, there’s no water, no showers, no phone calls.”
    By Rebecca McCray
  26. Outdoor Dining Saved My Business. Now We Must Save Open Restaurants. The program has proven itself to be a transformative power for good.
    By Annie Shi
  27. The Grown-up Hysteria Around TikTok’s Devious Licks The hottest new teen trend is stealing from your school. But not everything you see on the internet is real.
    By Brock Colyar
  28. This Pristine ’60s Ranch Is Actually From … 2021? It came together with dead-stock appliances and a half-century-old blueprint.
    By Emma Alpern
  29. The Apple Expert Who Turned New York City Into His Personal Orchard “Some of the best fruit I’ve ever tasted has been from the you-might-die places … ”
    By Emma Orlow
  30. A Metallic Living-Room Set Inspired by … the Elevator An exclusive first look at the latest monochrome furniture from Harry Nuriev of Crosby Studios.
    By Osman Can Yerebakan
  31. A $369K Sunnyside One-Bedroom and a Hudson Heights Convertible Two-Bedroom This week’s picks also include a Park Slope one-bedroom with a sunken living room.
    By Jenny Xie
  32. Some Under-$500 Architect-Approved Side Chairs A cousin to the popular CB2 Gwyneth Chair, a crushed velvet swivel, and more.
    By Ming Thompson
  33. ‘That’s What Hurt the Most: The Things You Can’t Replace’ Five East Elmhurst residents on what they lost to Hurricane Ida.
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  34. Is Brian Benjamin the Person Who Can Turn NYCHA Around? Among advocates, there is cautious optimism.
    By Caroline Spivack
  35. A Brooklyn Storefront Church, Resurrected As a Family Home Virginie Sommet’s latest project, in Ocean Hill.
    By Wendy Goodman
  36. Robert Durst Found Guilty of Murdering Friend The real-estate heir was convicted of first-degree murder for killing Susan Berman in 2000 in an attempt to conceal how he had murdered his wife.
    By Chas Danner
  37. Change of Plans: You’ll Still Be Able to Browse the NYPL’s Picture Collection Researchers howled and the library reversed itself.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  38. What a Spectacularly Decrepit Greenwich Village Apartment It’s being inundated with interested buyers.
    By Jenny Xie
  39. Will World of Interiors Get a Gut Reno Under Hamish Bowles? The British magazine gets its third editor in 40 years, with a mandate to bring it into the digital age.
    By Matthew Schneier
  40. Post-Recall, California Governor Gavin Newsom’s Next Big Win Is Against NIMBYs California also says “no” to single-family-only zoning.
    By Alissa Walker
  41. Climate Change Is Putting More Poop in New York’s Waters A crappy side effect of all this rain.
    By Lauren Vespoli
  42. How Kenny Rivero Went From Night Doorman to Armory Art Fair Artist It was a snooty building near Gramercy Park. Not everybody was nice.
    By Carl Swanson
  43. I Wish I Liked the New Brooklyn Bridge Bike Lane More A hard-won symbolic victory that’s a baby step.
    By Diana Budds
  44. Continuum’s Towers Were Nixed by the City. So the Developer Is Suing. The Botanic Garden fight may go another round.
    By Kim Velsey
  45. Will a Post-Bankruptcy ABC Carpet & Home Still Be Over-the-Top Maximalist? A store whose retail experience is a maximalist performance.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  46. The Look Book Goes to the Obama Portraits During a preview party at the Brooklyn Museum, guests got an early look at Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald’s presidential portraits.
    By Daniel Varghese and Louis Cheslaw
  47. River Ring Gets Okayed, With 13 Conditions Smaller towers, more affordable apartments, and a slew of other requirements.
    By Kim Velsey
  48. The Lower East Side Tailor to the Scene Clients have generally found Ramon Tailor through word of mouth. Now — suddenly — there are lines out the door for his custom pants.
    By Louis Cheslaw
  49. How Clean Is the Air in Your Classroom? Your Theater? It’s Not Easy to Find Out There’s little transparency about what we breathe inside big congregate spaces.
    By Justin Davidson
  50. We’re Falling Short on Even the Simplest Fix for Storm Flooding Plugged-up drains should be the most straightforward problem to solve, and the city can’t keep up.
    By Diana Budds
Load More