Cityscape

Curbed
street fights

Travis Scott Made Dean Street Quake

 Monday night’s show at Barclays caused neighboring buildings to vibrate. The Fire Department was summoned. By Bridget Read
  1. It’s Going to Be a Long Winter at Floyd Bennett Field Families who weathered this week’s storms are worried about what happens when it snows.
    By Luis Feliz Leon
  2. The Look Book Goes to The Nutcracker at Lincoln Center Kids and grown-ups put on their holiday best to see New York City Ballet’s annual production.
    By Kelsie Schrader
  3. It’s Sublet-My-Apartment Season Everyone you know is leaving town for four days and has a “v calming, chill” place you should message them about.
    By Bridget Read
  4. Cars for Kids Might Kill Kars4Kids A 20-year legal dispute between the semi-infamous nonprofit and a similarly named rival came to a head this week.
    By Bridget Read
  5. First in Line at the MTA’s Memorabilia Sale Shopping for train doors, wooden benches, and subway signage in a south Brooklyn lot.
    By Emma Alpern
  6. When New York’s Biggest Private Landlords Are Columbia and NYU A new bill proposes the schools start paying taxes accordingly.
    By Clio Chang
  7. Making Headway on the Perfect New York Street Two years after our last close look, real signs of progress.
    By Justin Davidson
  8. My Morning on the Beam Rockefeller Center’s 1932 stunt photo is now its $25 tourist ride, minus lunch.
    By Zach Schiffman
  9. The Limelight’s Next Act: Theater From church to club to mall to gym — and, now, to performance space. Will this plan stick?
    By Christopher Bonanos
  10. Unbending License Plates With Gersh Kuntzman Congestion pricing might bring the transit vigilante out of retirement.
    By Clio Chang
  11. The Beginning of the End of the Turnstile A visit with the MTA’s new anti-fare evasion gates in Queens.
    By Clio Chang
  12. The SUV That Tried to Take the Subway A mishap in Washington Heights highlights a bad year for traffic accidents.
    By Paula Aceves
  13. What We Know About the ‘Mystery’ Dog Illness That’s Spreading So far, vets aren’t too worried about the respiratory illness circulating among dogs.
    By Lane Brown
  14. The Landlords Are Merging Two organizations representing owners of rent-stabilized buildings across the city may be teaming up because one of them is going broke.
    By Clio Chang
  15. The Boys Who Got Lost Under Staten Island A sixth-grade adventure.
    By Alexandra Kleeman
  16. Reasons to Love New York Right Now Maybe because the year was so challenging, our 37 reasons to love New York this year feel even dearer.
    By The Editors
  17. We Took New York’s TikTokers to Lunch The people who tell the world about dating, dining, and celebrity apartments met up at Bad Roman (where else?).
  18. Good-bye, Beautiful Trash Cans We’re ditching you for something better.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  19. How This Lost Dog Got Found It’s Waylon, and he’s a good boy.
    By Emily Gould
  20. Huge Hunks of Concrete Are Key to the Mayor’s Plan for Safer Intersections Not all approaches to “daylighting” are created equal.
    By Clio Chang
  21. The Look Book Goes to an Anime Convention Cosplayers and gamers went all out for Anime NYC’s three-day event at the Javits Center.
    By Kelsie Schrader and Jenna Milliner-Waddell
  22. A Postcard From Driverless San Francisco Unexplained stops. Incensed firefighters. Cars named Oregano. The robotaxis are officially here.
    By Theodore Gioia
  23. Los Angeles After the Freeway A less car-dependent L.A., already in motion, may have something to teach the rest of the country.
    By Justin Davidson
  24. A Frank Talk About Thanksgiving Travel Tips from a Port Authority veteran on flying out during this week’s storms.
    By Clio Chang
  25. Someone Had to Build the Giant Mushrooms for the Candy Forest Designing the hallucinatory spectacle of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
    By Clio Chang
  26. The Great ‘Fentanyl Trash Can’ Freak-out How competing text threads, park litter, and a tragic Bronx day-care death made Brooklyn parents lose their minds.
    By Clio Chang
  27. The Look Book Goes to the New York City Marathon We stopped sweaty, exhausted, Gatorade-drenched runners at the finish line of the 52nd annual race.
    By Kelsie Schrader and Jenna Milliner-Waddell
  28. The FBI’s Eric Adams Probe Focuses on Brooklyn Construction Firm KSK has ties to Turkey and is mostly been known for its unremarkable luxury buildings.
    By Kim Velsey
  29. The New Jersey Hindu Temple Covered With 10,000 Sculptures Marble elephants, ample parking, and a federal investigation into how it all got built.
    By Justin Davidson
  30. Licensing E-Bikes Won’t Make the Sidewalks Safer “Every few years it’s the same neighborhoods asking the city to go after the same group of people.”
    By Clio Chang
  31. Jewish Schools Around New York City Are Hiring Armed Guards “We didn’t wait to hear that people wanted to increase security. We did it immediately.”
    By Adriane Quinlan
  32. Someone Broke Moynihan Train Hall’s Skylights — From the Outside The indoor scaffolding is just a precaution while the glass is replaced.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  33. Feeling Exposed in Little Yemen Members of a Bronx mosque met with the NYPD to talk about protecting their community. And why police seem to ignore their calls.
    By Chris Crowley
  34. Prayer and Protest in Bay Ridge’s Little Palestine The mood was mournful and resolute on the day before a Gaza peace rally.
    By Ismail Ibrahim
  35. The Absolute Mayhem of Halloween on Garden Place The Brooklyn Heights brownstones go big (and only hand out the good stuff).
    By Clio Chang
  36. No Ring, No Blood, No Glory In this underground wrestling scene, scripted death matches unfold just inches from the crowd.
    By Joshua Needelman
  37. The Mostly Monochrome OMNY Kiosk Is Here Stainless-steel machine delivers (in our extremely unscientific test) stainless performance.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  38. Walling Up the East Side to Save It Why the floodgates on the waterfront look the way they do.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  39. The Deadly School-Zone Crossing The deaths of a 7-year-old in Fort Greene and a Woodhaven crossing guard were preventable and predictable.
    By Clio Chang
  40. Welcome to the McGuinness Boulevard Parking Lot–Bike Lane–Loading Zone The mayor made a mess of the planned redesign. Now everyone’s confused.
    By Clio Chang
  41. The Look Book Goes to the Central Park Conservancy Fall Luncheon The Women’s Committee and guests brought in over $325,000 at the annual fundraiser.
    By Kelsie Schrader and Jenna Milliner-Waddell
  42. What a School-bus Crash in Jerusalem Reveals About Life in Occupied Palestine A deadly collision exposes the system of checkpoints and borders that made it inevitable.
    By Nathan Thrall
  43. Crumps’ Illusions Mike Crumplar, the self-mythologizing Substacker of Dimes Square, is convinced he’s in a Balzac novel.
    By Brock Colyar
  44. The 2024 Streetery Is All About Light and Air A look at the new renderings from the city.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  45. Thomas Heatherwick Thinks Nearly All New Buildings Are Boring A critique of his critique.
    By Justin Davidson
  46. All the City People on Our “Inside Power” List From a co-op whisperer to the longtime ruler of Manhattan parks.
    By The Editors
  47. Imagining Gaza Without Borders and Without War Revisiting urban designs by Michael Sorkin and other architects after the 2014 Gaza War.
    By Deen Sharp
  48. When New York Started to Wake Up The photographs in Metropolitan Melancholia, made in 2021 and 2022, document a city learning to un-shelter in place.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  49. Where Are All the Legal Weed Shops? Two years since legalization, you can count the number of actual brick and mortars in the city on two hands.
    By Clio Chang
  50. ‘We’re Fighting Over Inches’ New York cyclists on their near misses and collisions on the city’s bridges.
    By John Surico
Load More