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 The city is having a wet, chaotic day. By Curbed Staff
  1. How Fort Greene Park Got Fenced In To maintain its grass, my local park was carved up by wooden posts and caution tape.
    By Kim Velsey
  2. Celebrities Seem to Like the Brooklyn Waterfront Sprawling apartments, water views, and relatively paparazziproof.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  3. Charles Renfro’s Fire Island Beach House Feels Like a Stage The architect bought the simple 1961 bungalow designed by Horace Gifford, and only added outdoor rooms.
    By Wendy Goodman
  4. What If Wind Turbines Got a Makeover? From Western New York to Ocean City, New Jersey, fights against wind farms often begin with how they look.
    By Chris Stanton
  5. End-of-Summertime Sadness Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
  6. Is There a Serial Killer Stalking the Brooklyn Mirage? Or maybe this EDM club is just too big and messy.
    By Brock Colyar
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. The Street Vendors Fighting for a Space in Sunset Park Plaza Tonatiuh is a spirit and the spirit is resilient.
    By E. Alex Jung
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. New York Is Overrun by Rats and Feral Cats And yet.
    By Clio Chang
  15. 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
  16. Noise Horror Stories From Our Readers Readers respond to Curbed’s Noise Week.
    By Curbed editors
  17. 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
  18. Curbed’s August Report: An All-Cash Summer and Frenzied Open Houses Plus the most saved one-bedroom under $1 million.
    By Curbed Staff
  19. 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
  20. 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
  21. 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
  22. A House Made Up of Four Hexagons This strange Briarcliff Manor property is on the market for the first time.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  23. Mad Montauk Art Neighbors A yearlong squabble over Warhol proximity has ended with a slap.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  24. 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
  25. They Tried to Make a ‘New Hamptons’ The New York Post chose the unsuspecting town of Atlantic Beach.
    By Clio Chang
  26. 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
  27. The Candy Sellers The lives and livelihoods of some of the city’s newest migrant children.
    By Jordan Salama
  28. 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
  29. WeWork’s Own Office Leasing Apocalypse The company was struggling long before its grim announcement this week.
    By Kim Velsey
  30. Good-bye, Incandescent Bulbs Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
  31. Redesigning the Siren What if the piercing sound of emergency vehicles was replaced by something else altogether?
    By Yessenia Funes
  32. 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
  33. Bad News About Kevin Costner’s Buffalo Sculpture After a decades-long legal battle, he may be forced to sell it.
    By Clio Chang
  34. A Woman Screaming Blood of Christ and 5 a.m. Construction Six noise horror stories.
    By Laura Thompson
  35. All the Quiet Money Can Buy Talking to the professional soundproofers for the ultrarich.
    By Kim Velsey
  36. 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
  37. 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
  38. 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
  39. Arline Bronzaft Will Talk to Your Noisy Neighbor “I deal with sex. I deal with crime. It goes beyond noise.”
    By Clio Chang
  40. A Writer’s Shed in the Springs Glyn Vincent writes his books in a former workshop for duck decoys.
    By Wendy Goodman
  41. 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
  42. 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
  43. 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
  44. 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
  45. 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
  46. A Basement Housing Bill Killed by Conspiracists Huntington seemed poised to legalize ADUs. Then things got weird.
    By Molly Osberg
  47. What the Architect of Grey Gardens Built for Himself The six-bedroom East Hampton home is for sale.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  48. The Best Vintage-Furniture Stores in New York For walnut dressers, Cassina gems, and more.
    By Lauren Ro
  49. The Last Painted Doors of Ridgewood Faux wood graining is an architectural quirk of the neighborhood. And a dying trade.
    By Clio Chang
  50. 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
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