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  1. atmospheric rivers
    L.A.’s ‘Green Alley’ Experiments Are WorkingThe city’s efforts to become flood- and drought-resilient are ready to be scaled up.
    By Alissa Walker
  2. the group portrait
    To Dream of Pickleball CityThe sport’s die-hard fans are fighting for courts they can call their own.
    By Bindu Bansinath
  3. mysteries
    The Bean, Once Half, Is Now WholeFour years later, Anish Kapoor’s legume at 56 Leonard is complete.
    By Clio Chang
  4. neighborhoods
    Does New York’s Chinatown Really Need an Arch?Hochul has granted the money to build one, but younger residents ask whether the money would be better spent on other community needs.
    By Wilfred Chan
  5. streets
    Clearing Vendors From the Brooklyn Bridge Won’t Solve Its Overcrowding ProblemThe bridge deserves a more comprehensive plan.
    By Diana Budds
  6. housing
    The NYCHA Chair Position Is Likely Getting a $255,000 Pay CutGood-bye, inflated salary, and good luck with all the repairs and back rent.
    By Clio Chang
  7. celebrity real estate
    Julia Fox Gave a ‘Maximum Transparency’ Tour of Her ApartmentWe also have a hallway where “nothing happens.”
    By Clio Chang
  8. street fights
    The Tiny Newspapers at War in the West VillageFeaturing alleged graphic-design theft, 9/11 truthers, and Sarah Jessica Parker.
    By Clio Chang
  9. cityscape
    ‘Use That Time As a Meditation Time’: The MTA’s New, Very Long EscalatorTen stories down into the new Grand Central Madison terminal.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  10. getting around
    An EV in Every Driveway Is an Environmental DisasterWe can’t lithium mine our way out of climate crisis.
    By Alissa Walker
  11. the talented mr. santos
    What George Santos Was Really Like as a Roommate“He was home all day.”
    By Bridget Read
  12. street view
    The Upper West Side’s Zone of Pedestrian DeathThe area around 96th Street is dangerous. And it’s hardly the worst in town.
    By Justin Davidson
  13. rikers
    How a Rikers Unit That Protects Trans Women Fell ApartA decade ago, New York set out to lead the nation in efforts to support incarcerated trans people. Now they are stranded in all-male housing units.
    By George Joseph
  14. state of the city
    Working for New York City When Everyone Else Is LeavingEmpty cubicles, giant caseloads that leave low-income tenants without rent aid, and “no end in sight.”
    By Ross Barkan
  15. public art watch
    The Problem With Boston’s MLK Memorial Isn’t That It Looks Like a PenisIt’s how it reminds us of how little Boston — and other cities — have advanced the civil-rights leader’s racial-justice agenda.
    By Diana Budds
  16. urban fauna
    There Are Dolphins in the Bronx RiverMaybe you don’t want to swim there, but the Parks Department says it’s good news.
    By Zach Schiffman
  17. street view
    One Way to a Better City: Ask Disabled People to Design ItWouldn’t everyone fare a little better if (to take just one example) airport luggage-screening counters were lower?
    By Justin Davidson
  18. biography of a building
    A Queens Co-Op Full of ElectriciansIt remains basically as it was imagined in 1949: a surprisingly affordable city-within-a-city.
    By Kayla Levy
  19. look book
    The Look Book Goes to a Samoyed MeetupFor eight years, NYC Samoyeds has arranged regular park gatherings for owners of the cheerful Siberian breed.
    By Kelsie Schrader and Jenna Milliner-Waddell
  20. crime
    Here’s Why Everything at Walgreens Is Suddenly Behind PlasticThe recent spike in shoplifting is both overblown and real. And almost everyone is profiting from it (including you).
    By James D. Walsh
  21. the group portrait
    The Mammoth Bone Hunters of the East River“We were looking for the big boys and the small stuff, too,” says one fossil hunter. “Any kind of bones.”
    By Matt Stieb
  22. getting around
    Al Roker Is at War With His TeslaHe can’t get in, and he can’t get out.
    By Alissa Walker
  23. energy
    Get Ready to Be PropanefluencedIt’s more than HGTV hosts. Meet the #vanlife, #cottagecore, and #milkmaid influencers boosting liquefied petroleum gas.
    By Zach Schiffman
  24. remembering
    The East Village Standoff I MissedIn 1995, I was oblivious to the drama in my neighborhood. Today, the East Village squatters’ battle for their houses is at the center of my novel.
    By Dan Kois
  25. design
    How Did a Plastic Box Come to Symbolize Everything Wrong with Retail?The Keeper’s unlikely journey from record stores to guarding Spam at your pharmacy.
    By Diana Budds
  26. california storms
    California’s Lost TreesAfter the current storms end, the state will face a new challenge: restoring an already diminished urban canopy.
    By Alissa Walker
  27. on the curb
    24 Hours in the Life of a Discarded Christmas TreeThe end of Christmas doesn’t mean the end of your tree.
    By Colin Schappi
  28. rats
    ‘We Were Killing Them With These Little Pitchforks’Talking to Matt Deodato, rat specialist.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  29. street view
    Two Supportive-Housing Projects Make the Case for Building Many MoreThey’re cheaper than the alternatives, acceptable to the neighbors, and successful among people who were living on the street.
    By Justin Davidson
  30. the eavesdropper
    Listening in at Goldman Sachs AgainHours after the largest round of layoffs since the financial crisis began.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  31. architecture
    Bolsonaro’s Mob Targeted a Modernist MasterpieceIn attacking Brasilia, the Oscar Niemeyer–designed capital, rioters carried out a familiar far-right agenda.
    By Diana Budds
  32. natural gas
    Are Gas Stoves the New Cigarettes?A federal ban may be in the cards.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  33. mysteries
    Why Can’t We Figure Out Where Politicians Live?Lester Chang and George Santos are just the latest.
    By Clio Chang
  34. look book
    The Look Book Goes to Julie Macklowe’s Birthday PartyTo celebrate her 45th, the socialite threw a 600-person “Leather and Lingerie” bash at Cipriani’s Club Musica.
    By Kelsie Schrader and Jenna Milliner-Waddell
  35. street view
    An Office Is Wherever We Decide It IsA new book chronicles employers’, architects’, and employees’ relentless reinvention of the workplace.
    By Justin Davidson
  36. our mayor
    Eric Adams Has More RatsEven his patented rat bucket didn’t solve the problem.
    By Clio Chang
  37. you’ve got mail
    The Package Pickup Business Coming to the Bodega Near YouFrustrated by package thefts, New Yorkers are turning to a growing list of startups and lockers to hold their online orders.
    By Wilfred Chan
  38. artifact
    The MetroCard’s 28 Years As a Blank CanvasAs the clock runs down on this ubiquitous object, a collector walks us through its many variations.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  39. 21 questions
    Deeda Blair’s Work-From-Home Uniform Is the Same Jacket in Six ColorsThe style icon and medical philanthropist answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
    By Wendy Goodman
  40. goodbye 2022
    The Weed Bodega Was Beautiful While It LastedThe city’s first legal storefront is coming and its deranged predecessors are about to be regulated out of existence.
    By Bridget Read
  41. q&a
    The Would-Be Salt Kings of New York CityTalking to Joe Bucci Jr. and Joe Bucci Sr.
    As told to Adriane Quinlan
  42. year in review
    Curbed’s 20 Most-Read Stories in 2022They included bitter real-estate feuds, our deep dive into trash, and a report from Caroline Calloway’s drawn-out good-bye to the city.
    By Curbed Staff
  43. street life
    Riding Around Tompkins Square Park With the Citi Bike BoyzJerome Peel will jump over anything with the 45-pound clunker.
    By Jeremy Rellosa
  44. hotels
    Did New York Miss Its Moment To Turn Hotels Into Housing?“It’s hard to look at the timing of these programs and say that it was treated as an emergency.”
    By Bridget Read
  45. getting around
    Make 2023 the Year of the BusCori Bush’s first-of-its-kind BRT bill is a start.
    By Alissa Walker
  46. street view
    Walkable City’s Jeff Speck Knows There Are Worse Things Than Crawling TrafficTen years on, he reflects on pipe dreams turned real (like California’s ADU boom) and not (like truly safe streets).
    By Justin Davidson
  47. neighborhoods
    Is Everyone Really Moving to Turtle Bay in 2023?If pub grub and postwar buildings are hot, then what is hotness anyway?
    By Christopher Bonanos
  48. urban fauna
    Los Angeles’s Celebrity Mountain Lion Was Also Its HostageWithout an easy way to cross the freeways that bisect his natural habitat, P-22’s life in the city was a lonely one.
    By Alissa Walker
  49. urban fauna
    Fugitive Cow Located at Long Island Golf CourseVienna had been missing for four months, but “her capture went flawlessly.”
    By Clio Chang
  50. hotels
    ‘I Know That I’m Living This Cinderella Life’The city’s closure of emergency hotels leaves former inmates scrambling to find housing by the New Year.
    By Annie Grossinger
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