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 Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
  1. End-of-Summertime Sadness Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
  2. Is There a Serial Killer Stalking the Brooklyn Mirage? Or maybe this EDM club is just too big and messy.
    By Brock Colyar
  3. Get Ready to Spend $5,000 on That Floor of a Brownstone “I get applications and people are making half a million a year in income. One person.”
    By Kim Velsey
  4. The Menace of the Megamansion Buyers who are turning multiunit buildings into single-family palaces have taken away hundreds of thousands of housing units.
    By Kim Velsey
  5. The Saugerties Cottage That Boob Pots Built Isaac Nichols, a lifelong student of architectural salvage, restored and rebuilt simultaneously. “Nobody should do that.”
    By Adriane Quinlan
  6. The Case of the $13.5 Million Price Gap Why did two nearly identical penthouses at 150 Charles sell for vastly different amounts?
    By Adriane Quinlan
  7. The Street Vendors Fighting for a Space in Sunset Park Plaza Tonatiuh is a spirit and the spirit is resilient.
    By E. Alex Jung
  8. A Myron Goldfinger Mansion That’s Never Been on the Market The architect, who died this month, designed a unique pinwheel layout to give a family with teenagers enough privacy.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  9. An Edible Garden in Bed-Stuy That Feels like a Living Room JC Garcia-Lavin and George Fesser had a barren backyard when they bought their house in 2019. Then things went wild.
    By Wendy Goodman
  10. New York Is Overrun by Rats and Feral Cats And yet.
    By Clio Chang
  11. A Treatment Program Kept Binzai From Killing Himself, But Now It’s in Peril A staff and funding shortage threatens the future of a mental-health lifeline for Chinese immigrants.
    By Rong Xiaoqing
  12. Noise Horror Stories From Our Readers Readers respond to Curbed’s Noise Week.
    By Curbed editors
  13. Should Landlords Cover Broker Fees? Talking to a broker who thinks Chi Ossé’s new bill will be better for everyone involved.
    By Clio Chang
  14. Curbed’s August Report: An All-Cash Summer and Frenzied Open Houses Plus the most saved one-bedroom under $1 million.
    By Curbed Staff
  15. A Developer and a Landlord Go to War Over 22 Air Conditioners Extell’s Diamond District neighbor is trying to claim the air next door.
    By Kim Velsey
  16. The Look Book Goes to Rock The Bells Festival Slick Rick, Queen Latifah, Salt-N-Pepa, Big Daddy Kane, and LL Cool J performed at this year’s sold-out concert at Forest Hills Stadium.
    By Kelsie Schrader and Jenna Milliner-Waddell
  17. Why Subway Surfers Find It So Hard to Quit After four surfing deaths this year, Michael stopped. But so many kids he knows are still chasing the high.
    By Joshua Needelman
  18. A House Made Up of Four Hexagons This strange Briarcliff Manor property is on the market for the first time.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  19. Mad Montauk Art Neighbors A yearlong squabble over Warhol proximity has ended with a slap.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  20. The Tribeca Townhouse of an Art Collector Who ‘Doesn’t Like Boring’ After Page West had the six-story building to herself, it was time for a bold redesign.
    By Wendy Goodman
  21. They Tried to Make a ‘New Hamptons’ The New York Post chose the unsuspecting town of Atlantic Beach.
    By Clio Chang
  22. Why Ivana Trump Was Buried at Bedminster Golf Course: 3 Theories For 15 years, Donald Trump dreamed of turning his New Jersey property into a cemetery. Now his ex-wife is buried there in a simple, overgrown grave.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  23. The Candy Sellers The lives and livelihoods of some of the city’s newest migrant children.
    By Jordan Salama
  24. Vlogging and Rapping Through the Kai Cenat Giveaway in Union Square “I already knew it was going to be chaos because his fan group is just too strong.”
    By Kelsey Weekman
  25. WeWork’s Own Office Leasing Apocalypse The company was struggling long before its grim announcement this week.
    By Kim Velsey
  26. Good-bye, Incandescent Bulbs Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
  27. Redesigning the Siren What if the piercing sound of emergency vehicles was replaced by something else altogether?
    By Yessenia Funes
  28. Megan Ellison Is Selling Her Dome Apartment It’ll be the seventh home the Annapurna producer and heiress has put on the market since 2008.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  29. Bad News About Kevin Costner’s Buffalo Sculpture After a decades-long legal battle, he may be forced to sell it.
    By Clio Chang
  30. A Woman Screaming Blood of Christ and 5 a.m. Construction Six noise horror stories.
    By Laura Thompson
  31. All the Quiet Money Can Buy Talking to the professional soundproofers for the ultrarich.
    By Kim Velsey
  32. The Noise Next Door Tyquan Pleasant knocked on his neighbor’s door to ask her to stop the ear-shattering music and banging. Shaun Pyles heard a threat.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  33. A Frank Lloyd Wright–Inspired House in Queens It has an art studio, a darkroom, and a perfectly maintained Japanese-style garden.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  34. What’s That New Glass Building Attached to the Old Met Life Tower? One Madison Avenue will house offices for IBM and a Daniel Boulud steakhouse.
    By Audrey Wachs
  35. Arline Bronzaft Will Talk to Your Noisy Neighbor “I deal with sex. I deal with crime. It goes beyond noise.”
    By Clio Chang
  36. A Writer’s Shed in the Springs Glyn Vincent writes his books in a former workshop for duck decoys.
    By Wendy Goodman
  37. Floating Away in Chelsea Sam Zeiger runs the city’s oldest sensory-deprivation tank in his one-bedroom on West 23rd Street.
    By Fran Hoepfner
  38. Rudy Giuliani Is Selling His Upper East Side Co-op The corner three-bedroom has lots of original details if a buyer can get past the fact that it was once raided by the FBI.
    By Clio Chang
  39. Voguing Through the Pain at O’Shae Sibley’s Memorial Hundreds gathered at the vigil for the dancer, whose killing has been charged as a hate crime.
    By Bindu Bansinath
  40. Barely Surviving the Sounds of New York City Hyperacusis is a rare medical condition that can make ordinary noises painful. Rarer still — having it and living in Manhattan.
    By Clio Chang
  41. It’s Noise Week Stories about the people who make it, are trying to stop it, and are losing their minds over it.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  42. A Basement Housing Bill Killed by Conspiracists Huntington seemed poised to legalize ADUs. Then things got weird.
    By Molly Osberg
  43. What the Architect of Grey Gardens Built for Himself The six-bedroom East Hampton home is for sale.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  44. The Best Vintage-Furniture Stores in New York For walnut dressers, Cassina gems, and more.
    By Lauren Ro
  45. The Last Painted Doors of Ridgewood Faux wood graining is an architectural quirk of the neighborhood. And a dying trade.
    By Clio Chang
  46. Outdoor Dining Is Officially Here to Stay New York City lawmakers voted to approve a bill that makes sidewalk (and street) eating permanent.
    By Chris Crowley
  47. The Most Instagrammed Bench in Brooklyn Dumbo’s highly photogenic intersection at Water and Washington gets seating designed by Bjarke Ingels.
    By Clio Chang
  48. The Two Newest Luxury Towers Are a Mood Charcoal and bronze dominate at Brooklyn’s tallest building and Adjaye’s latest.
    By Justin Davidson
  49. The Look Book Goes to the Blade Aqua Lounge Passengers were on their way to the Hamptons, via helicopter and seaplane, for a long weekend.
    By Kelsie Schrader and Jenna Milliner-Waddell
  50. ‘We Can’t Sleep Because of the Worry’ Overnight at the Roosevelt Hotel, where hundreds of migrants are still waiting for somewhere to go.
    By Luis Feliz Leon
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