Curbed Design

Zohran Mamdani sailed into City Hall a year ago on a promise to make New York City more affordable, and this election cycle, the mayor has had a related goal in mind: cutting red tape. Earlier this year, the mayor tasked his Commission on Government Efficiency with hearing out New Yorkers, includ... More »

While his 20th-century contemporaries struggled to shake off the dogma of the Bauhaus, the dominant design ideology in Europe from the 1920s through the end of World War II, Gio Ponti remained blissfully agnostic to any single id... More »

For under a million dollars, one can find all sorts of housing configurations: park- and subway-adjacent studios, one-bedrooms hidden in carriage houses or former shoe factories, and even the occasional true two-bedroom. We’re combing the market for particularly spacious, nicely renovated, or... More »

The Miami gallerist Nina Johnson had always fantasized about an apartment and exhibition space in New York. “It felt like a pipe dream,” she says. “It never occurred to me to be serious about it.” More »

You’ve finally found an apartment in your budget. You hand over the first month’s rent and a security deposit, fill up the moving truck, and arrive at your new apartment. Then you find out the key doesn’t work and the “broker” has gone missing. According to a criminal indictment secured by the Qu... More »

Ever since 270 Park Avenue opened last fall, JPMorgan Chase has been extremely pleased with its new office tower, declaring the brawny Norman Foster–designed skyscraper to be a “true physical... More »

On a scale from a pocket park to The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, where does John Turturro fit? This is NYQ, a series in which we find out how “New York” notable... More »

Listen, it’s not as though getting an apartment in New York has ever been easy. But one could probably argue it has never been harder than it is right now. The most god-awful studios are regularly renting for thousands and thousands of dollars with lines of interested tenants out the door. He... More »

The fourth-floor one-bedroom at 130 Eighth Avenue in Park Slope is lovely, although not all that distinct from others on the market. The listing photos show chocolate-hued parquet floors and a galley kitchen with ample workspace, plus a generous living area drenched in warm morning light. But wha... More »

Ahead of their move from the coastal Southern California suburbs to Manhattan this spring, a physician and her businessman husband went searching for suburbia in an Upper West Side condo. Their must-haves were plenty and perhaps unsurprising given their current lifestyle: a laundry room where the... More »

On Sunday, the filmmaker John Waters walked into a Lower East Side storefront that looked like a set for one of his films. The 400-square-foot space, squeezed between a graffiti-covered apartment door and a menswear boutique, had a flamingo-pink façade, a pink-and-red floor, pink fiberglass chair... More »

In a courtroom in lower Manhattan on Tuesday, federal judge Valerie Caproni sentenced disgraced real-estate brokers Oren and Tal Alexander and their brother Alon to 30 years in prison. They ... More »

For under a million dollars, one can find all sorts of housing configurations: park- and subway-adjacent studios, one-bedrooms hidden in carriage houses or former shoe factories, and even the occasional true two-bedroom. We’re combing the market for particularly spacious, nicely renovated, or... More »

This article was originally published on August 12, 2024. After being found guilty of all ten counts of sex trafficking and sexual assault by a federal jury in March 2026, the three Alexander brothers are due to be s... More »

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It’s been 17 years since the High Line opened, with subsequent phases of the elevated park unfurling to the northern terminus at 34th Street. Chelsea and the entire West Side have transformed in that time — starchitect-designed towers now huddle around the rail park and the enclave of Hudson Yard... More »

Listen, it’s not as though getting an apartment in New York has ever been easy. But one could probably argue it has never been harder than it is right now. The most god-awful studios are regularly renting for thousands and thousands of dollars with lines of interested tenants out the door. He... More »

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David Wallach was walking to his Lower East Side apartment on Tuesday around 8 p.m. when he craned his neck up at one of Lower Manhattan’s latest after-hours spectacles. At the corner of White and Centre Streets, in Chinatown, he watched as a clutch of giant drill rigs across the street bored int... More »

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