A Sale and a Suicide on East 12th Street After a private-equity firm bought an East Village apartment complex, one of the tenants jumped. Neighbors say he was right to be paranoid.
migrant crisis
May 19, 2023
‘I Was Told to Say This and That , or Be Quiet.’ Talking to two men who say they were recruited to pose as homeless veterans displaced by migrants.
Ariana Madix Is Making a Fortune From All This If only getting cheated on were this lucrative for everyone.
‘I Was Always in Awe Seeing Him Dance’ Jordan Neely, as remembered by his Michael Jackson “fanmily.”
the it girl issue
Apr. 24, 2023
What Happened to Baby Jane Holzer, the Original Warhol Girl? She doesn’t think that much about her time in the limelight.
the security state
Apr. 21, 2023
LeFrak City Tenants on Life With NYPD’s New Spy Robot “She would get stuck if she was surrounded by a bunch of little kids.”
amenity wars
Mar. 9, 2023
‘Like College or Camp for Rich People’ The lifestyle managers hosting mezcal classes and meditation hour at the city’s amenity-packed bubble buildings.
the group portrait
Feb. 25, 2023
‘This War Stole a Year of My Life’ Bombings, blackouts, exodus: How sixteen young Ukrainians have survived.
My Valentine’s Day Date With Bernie Sanders The senator railed against Über -capitalism, signed autographs, and ordered soup.
scene report
Feb. 9, 2023
Partying With the New YIMBYs on the Block The data bros, jaded brokers, and occasional lefty ready to build, baby, build.
the talented mr. santos
Jan. 25, 2023
goodbye 2022
Dec. 26, 2022
The Weed Bodega Was Beautiful While It Lasted The city’s first legal storefront is coming and its deranged predecessors are about to be regulated out of existence.
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.”
The 23-Year-Old Queen of Real-Estate TikTok As New York’s luxury market cools, Lizza Prigozhina is helping panicked agents sell another asset: themselves.
street fights
Nov. 23, 2022
‘We Were Called Gentrifiers, and We Were Called NIMBYs’ Councilmember Julie Won on how the largest private affordable-housing development in Queens history was won.
sbf: the virtue was the con
Nov. 19, 2022
Was Caroline Ellison a Main Character or the Fall Girl? How the 28-year-old CEO LARP-ed her way into the collapse of FTX.
second acts
Oct. 28, 2022
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.
street fights
Oct. 19, 2022
13 Years, 3 Mayors, Countless Community Board Meetings, and Just One Building The tortured saga of turning a Hell’s Kitchen parking lot into 112 affordable apartment units.
scene report
Oct. 18, 2022
Everywhere and Nowhere All at Once at BravoCon Thousands of fans descended on Manhattan for BravoCon, but they could have been anywhere else.
‘I Don’t Think Anyone Should Buy Land in Any Metaverse Right Now’ Chatting with Jessica Stocker, Winter House ’s skeptical virtual real-estate agent.
the real estate
Sept. 28, 2022
housing crisis
Sept. 27, 2022
‘It Was Imperfect by Definition’ Talking to the lawyer behind New York’s “right to shelter” 40 years later.
The West Village ‘Nightmare Share’ Is Over The “grifter” accused of squatting in an Airbnb rental for three years has been evicted.
bad landlords
Aug. 25, 2022
‘He’s Kicking Me Out Because My Daughter Wouldn’t Sleep With Him.’ A housing lawyer on how often landlords insert “sexual clauses” in leases.
Adam Neumann, Vibes Landlord Marc Andreessen backs the WeWork founder’s second coming of … something?
Dystopian Housing Issue? There’s an App for That. It’s become so impossible to get an apartment that apps have emerged to make it easier — for a fee, of course.
getting around
Aug. 4, 2022
the real estate
July 7, 2022
The Woo-woo Agents of Real Estate Can unblocking your chakras get you a house? Maybe!
The Small, Litigious New York Real-Estate Dynasty You’ve Never Heard Of Suing your own mother for being a “slumlord” is just the tip of the iceberg.
Donate to an Abortion Fund Right Now If you’re terrified about the overturning of Roe v. Wade , it’s the best thing you can do.
capitol riot
June 15, 2022
Checking In With the Real-Estate Brokers Who Stormed the Capitol And their current listings, from Chicago’s Trump Tower to a Colorado car wash franchise.
curbed glossary
May 19, 2022
Cuck Money Is the New Key Money Get ready to raise your own rent.
special delivery
May 9, 2022
Could the USPS Become the Nation’s Largest Abortion Provider? If Roe falls, the beleaguered federal agency may eclipse the clinic.
life after roe
May 3, 2022
Is New York Really an Abortion Sanctuary State? State Senator Alessandra Biaggi says not yet, but it could be.
dividing assets
Apr. 29, 2022
All Split Up and Nowhere to Go Are pandemic breakups behind the city’s insane one-bedroom shortage?
Housing Court Is Breaking Watching the quiet chaos unfold in a Queens courtroom.
new york jobs
Apr. 19, 2022
The Doormen of Park Avenue Got Their Deal “I don’t think anybody is going to get their own mail.”
What Made the ‘MoMA Stabber’ Snap? And why do so many people want the reason to be homelessness?
In Norma Rae It’s Worker Solidarity First, Ambition Second The 1979 Sally Field classic is even more relevant today, for better or worse.
What Should We Do With Our Nuclear Anxiety? Many of us think of a nuclear attack as the premise for a disaster movie, not a real threat to our lives. Russia’s war in Ukraine is changing that.
Ben McKenzie, Actor Turned Crypto Naysayer Who knew the world needed a celebrity crypto anti-influencer influencer — and that it would be Ryan from The O.C. ?
black lives matter
Jan. 31, 2022
The Countless Lost Friendships “I miss everything about him,” says Ashley Burch, remembering her friend Trayvon Martin. “I miss his laugh. I miss talking to him all the time.”
Working Through the End Days of Roe The staff at the Jackson Women’s Health Organization is too busy to dread what’s very likely to come.
nervous state
Dec. 28, 2021
The Anti-Mantra for 2022 These four words will hit you like a loving slap in the face.
this isn’t a dream
Dec. 9, 2021
New Yorkers Will Endure Any Apartment Nightmare to Live Here Rosemary’s Baby, Dark Water, and more films in the distinct subgenre of New York Apartment Horror.
The Most Sinister Argument of Today’s Supreme Court Hearing The Court’s conservative justices can’t pretend their opposition to Roe isn’t political.
What Happened at Carmine’s A confrontation between a host and dining patrons slid neatly into every outrage narrative of 2021. Maybe a bit too neatly.
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