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 A running list. By Curbed Staff
  1. Stephen Burks Wants to Finish a 20-Year-Old Conversation With Fran Lebowitz The industrial designer answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
    By Diana Budds
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. Elon Musk’s ‘Hyperloop Prototype’ Was Always a Gimmick At least a parking lot will be useful?
    By Alissa Walker
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. There’s a Campaign-Sign War Happening in Brooklyn According to at least three people.
    By Clio Chang
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. Tiwa Select Moves to New York With an exhibition of textile screens and collages by Megumi Arai.
    By Diana Budds
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. Pete Davidson and Colin Jost’s Ferry May Be Full of Asbestos and Roaches According to its former captain.
    By Clio Chang
  16. 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
  17. This “Not-Handy” Couple Really Didn’t Think They Wanted to Buy a Townhouse Before and after photos.
    By Wendy Goodman
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. 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
  21. ‘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
  22. The Saga of the Park Slope Dog Murderer Is Never-ending Let us catch you up.
    By Clio Chang
  23. 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
  24. The Best Nail Artists in New York For bejeweled manicures, hand-painted press-ons, and more.
    By Arielle Avila
  25. A One-Dimensional Robert Moses in Straight Line Crazy Ralph Fiennes stars in this talky, static retelling of Moses’s misdeeds.
    By Jackson McHenry
  26. Mike Davis Was Right About the fires in Malibu, the hostile approach to urban planning, the inequality crushing Los Angeles.
    By Alissa Walker
  27. Rents Have Fallen a Tiny Bit A better-than-nothing 2 percent.
    By Kim Velsey
  28. New York Is Not the Country’s Top Rat City We’re No. 2.
    By Clio Chang
  29. From the Archives: When Williamsburg Became the New Bohemia A portrait of an artists’ colony in Brooklyn, circa 1992.
    By Brad Gooch
  30. 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
  31. Listening In at the New York Film Festival The Eavesdropper hung around outside Lincoln Center.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  32. 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
  33. Steal My Couch A selection of shoppable sleepers, settees, and more — as recommended by their passionate owners.
    By Liza Corsillo and Jen Trolio
  34. The Driving Instructor to New York’s Teen Elite “If these walls could talk in this car, oh my God.”
    By Matthew Schneier
  35. The MTA Is ‘Completely Obsessed’ With Reopening Its Bathrooms Starting with just eight, to be exact.
    By Clio Chang
  36. The Last Traces of Elizabeth Wurtzel Everything the author owned was sold off unexpectedly at bargain-basement prices.
    By Choire Sicha
  37. 1 Oak Was Evicted And it apparently came as a surprise.
    By Clio Chang
  38. Wet Leaves Are the Enemy of the Suburban Commuter But laser trains could be the solution.
    By Chris Stanton
  39. Rosalie Genevro Wants to Redesign the City’s Diners and Coffee Shops The outgoing executive director of the Architectural League answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
    By Diana Budds
  40. The Art Is Always Changing in Michael and Susan Hort’s Live-in Museum in Tribeca You can even sit on some of it!
    By Wendy Goodman
  41. Plywood Gourmet How thousands of restaurants speedily, messily, and probably permanently took over the street.
    By Simon van Zuylen-Wood
  42. The Last-Ditch Effort to Save the United Order of Tents’ Bed-Stuy Headquarters A bureaucratic hurdle over tax and vacancy laws threatens the survival of this Black history site.
    By Diana Budds
  43. Sag Harbor Worried About Becoming Port Jefferson And a group of residents is suing over an affordable-housing development.
    By Clio Chang
  44. The Watcher in The Watcher Is (Probably) a Trad-Arch Guy They don’t just have strong opinions about your countertops.
    By Diana Budds
  45. ‘The Only Reason We Got It Was That I Lied’ In a brutal market, renters are fabricating everything from credit scores to income to employers.
    By Kim Velsey
  46. The Glamping Wars of Woodstock Local officials are trying to keep the peace as residents go all out against a proposed 77-acre “outdoor resort.”
    By Clio Chang
  47. Listening In at Goldman Sachs Well, just outside their lobby. In our new series, The Eavesdropper, we visit ultraspecific spots to see what people are chattering about.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  48. Can You Make Drivers Pay Attention to Cyclists? Automakers are betting that a series of built-in alerts will help save lives.
    By Alissa Walker
  49. The Randalls Island Migrant Shelter Is Looking a Lot Less Temporary “There is no limit to how long people that are seeking asylum can stay in this facility.”
    By Clio Chang
  50. From the Archives: When Gentrification Hit the Lower East Side There goes the neighborhood.
    By Craig Unger
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