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  1. please be advised
    Ask an Airbnb Host If You Can Rent Their ApartmentWith a little convincing, that soon-to-be de-listed garden unit could be yours.
    By Clio Chang
  2. housing
    Airbnb Hosts Are Feeling AbandonedAs the city prepares to crack down on short-term rentals, the hosts say the company is out of its depth.
    By Molly Osberg
  3. mysteries
    Atelier Jolie Has Been DefacedThe former Basquiat studio turned Angelina Jolie concept project has been painted pink.
    By Clio Chang
  4. getting around
    ‘Just Befriend the Doorman and Don’t Arouse Suspicion’E-bike riders are sneaking past their buildings’ bans with flattery (and sometimes deception).
    By Clio Chang
  5. the rent is too damn high
    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
  6. housing
    The Menace of the MegamansionBuyers who are turning multiunit buildings into single-family palaces have taken away hundreds of thousands of housing units.
    By Kim Velsey
  7. mysteries
    The Case of the $13.5 Million Price GapWhy did two nearly identical penthouses at 150 Charles sell for vastly different amounts?
    By Adriane Quinlan
  8. buy it for the architecture
    A Myron Goldfinger Mansion That’s Never Been on the MarketThe architect, who died this month, designed a unique pinwheel layout to give a family with teenagers enough privacy.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  9. the rent is too damn high
    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
  10. state of the market
    Curbed’s August Report: An All-Cash Summer and Frenzied Open HousesPlus the most saved one-bedroom under $1 million.
    By Curbed Staff
  11. the real estate
    A Developer and a Landlord Go to War Over 22 Air ConditionersExtell’s Diamond District neighbor is trying to claim the air next door.
    By Kim Velsey
  12. feuds
    Mad Montauk Art NeighborsA yearlong squabble over Warhol proximity has ended with a slap.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  13. long island
    They Tried to Make a ‘New Hamptons’The New York Post chose the unsuspecting town of Atlantic Beach.
    By Clio Chang
  14. office space
    WeWork’s Own Office Leasing ApocalypseThe company was struggling long before its grim announcement this week.
    By Kim Velsey
  15. celebrity real estate
    Megan Ellison Is Selling Her Dome ApartmentIt’ll be the seventh home the Annapurna producer and heiress has put on the market since 2008.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  16. who’s selling
    Rudy Giuliani Is Selling His Upper East Side Co-opThe 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
  17. long island
    A Basement Housing Bill Killed by ConspiracistsHuntington seemed poised to legalize ADUs. Then things got weird.
    By Molly Osberg
  18. architecture
    The Last Painted Doors of RidgewoodFaux wood graining is an architectural quirk of the neighborhood. And a dying trade.
    By Clio Chang
  19. housing
    Airbnb Wants to Fix Loneliness With Gwyneth PaltrowAnd zoning.
    By Clio Chang
  20. developing
    Eliot Spitzer Can Build His Faux-Prewar Condo NowA lawsuit over a ditch couldn’t stop his luxury development with a view of the Met.
    By Kim Velsey
  21. preservation watch
    Modernist Houses Can’t Survive the HamptonsThey’re being torn down and replaced with cookie-cutter mansions.
    By Kim Velsey
  22. who’s selling
    Adam Neumann Still Can’t Sell His Gramercy TriplexFour years later, the WeWork founder seems to think a $5 million price chop and the Alexander Brothers will help.
    By Clio Chang
  23. office apocalypse
    Offices Are the New MallsThe office tower has overtaken retail and hotels in the ranking of distressed real-estate assets.
    By Clio Chang
  24. office apocalypse
    The Teetering Tech OfficeMeta and Twitter are shedding square footage, while Amazon and Google aren’t giving up the dream.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  25. office apocalypse
    New Glut CityThe city’s mega-office landlords are panicking, pivoting, and shedding what’s worthless. One opens his books.
    By Andrew Rice
  26. office apocalypse
    A Typology of Unwanted Manhattan Office BuildingsCertain kinds of properties are more doomed than others. Here, four case studies.
    By Kim Velsey and Ian Volner
  27. office apocalypse
    Three Bleak Blocks of Third AvenueWhat the office-space crisis has looked like for one stretch of Midtown East.
    By Kim Velsey
  28. the rent is too damn high
    Are the Landlords Bluffing?They say thousands of rent stabilized apartments are too cheap and too far gone to rent. You’ll just have to take their word for it.
    By Clio Chang
  29. who’s buying
    Angelina Jolie Had to Have Basquiat’s Former StudioTo open her concept store about tailoring.
    By Clio Chang
  30. a truly terrific new york listing
    A Bed-Stuy Townhouse That Was Once a Prep SchoolFour floors, now obsessively restored.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  31. the real estate
    It’s the Summer of Postdivorce CohabitationBill and Chirlane, Steve and Miranda, Ariana and Tom …
    By Kim Velsey
  32. who’s buying
    Adjaye’s Luxury Fidi Tower Will Do Just Fine“Buyers just like beautiful buildings. They don’t even know who designed it most of the time.”
    By Adriane Quinlan
  33. developing
    Brooklyn’s First Supertall Gets a Very Breezy Basketball CourtThe SHoP-designed amenity will be on the tower’s “wind floor” and open to the elements 629 feet up.
    By Clio Chang
  34. street fights
    Is Taylor Swift’s Sidewalk Properly Maintained?Dozens of tickets from the Department of Sanitation say one thing. Neighbors insist it’s fine.
    By Zach Schiffman
  35. cults
    Sex, Analysis, and 40 Communal Apartments on the Upper West SideThe Sullivanians’ New York, revisited.
    By Alexander Stille
  36. street fights
    McNally Jackson Joins the Elizabeth Street Garden FrayAn appeals court ruled the affordable-housing development could move forward; the bookstore was not pleased.
    By Clio Chang
  37. a truly terrific new york listing
    Part of an An East Village Synagogue Long Inhabited by Artists Is for SaleIn the ’80s, photographers William Wegman, Jack Sal, and Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and model Maria von Hartz bought the place for $154,500.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  38. the real estate
    The Great Resignation Was Actually Because of the Pandemic Housing BoomBoomers sold their houses and quit their jobs.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  39. hotels
    Who Wins the Plaza?It’ll either be the Four Seasons or the Raffles Hotels & Resorts who’ll end up managing it.
    By Clio Chang
  40. housing
    Where’s a Summer Intern Supposed to Live?Thousands of students join the city’s workforce each June. Finding an apartment is its own hazing ritual.
    By Margaret Dunn
  41. who’s selling
    Why the Gucci Penthouse Has Been on the Market for 8 YearsThe $35M listing price seems to have been plucked out of the air, say some brokers.
    By Kim Velsey
  42. a truly terrific new york listing
    This Clinton Hill Townhome Has 8 Working FireplacesAnd a three-story turret. And loggias at the scale of dollhouses.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  43. return to office
    What Really Brings People Back to the Office? The Easiest Commute.Forget the rock-climbing wall. People just want an easy commute.
    By Kim Velsey
  44. the real estate
    The Ultimate Start-up Office Is for SaleKickstarter’s 29,000-square-foot Greenpoint space is a fossil of how we once worked.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  45. drought
    No Water? No Subdivision.The end of Arizona’s desert sprawl may be near. It’s a good first step.
    By Alissa Walker
  46. the real estate
    The Trouble With 23 Cornelia StreetSome brokers are skeptical that Taylor Swift’s onetime rental can fetch its $18 million asking price.
    By Kim Velsey
  47. the real estate
    Why Are There So Many Bathrooms in the Houses on Selling Sunset?Brokers explain the deranged bed-to-bath ratio of ultra-high-end listings.
    By Kim Velsey
  48. brick & mortar
    Pickleball Is Taking Over Empty Bed Bath & BeyondsThe sport’s rising empire is replacing defunct retail space in malls across the country.
    By Clio Chang
  49. neighborhood news
    JPMorgan Chase Bets Big on the Revival of MidtownIf you build it, 270 Park says, they will commute.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  50. housing
    A Sale and a Suicide on East 12th StreetAfter a private-equity firm bought an East Village apartment complex, one of the tenants jumped. Neighbors say he was right to be paranoid.
    By Bridget Read
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