First Deputy Mayor Anthony Shorris was grilled for 2.5 hours by the Council, and essentially shouldered the blame for everything that went wrong after the deed restrictions were lifted on the Lower ...

The intricacies of New York City’s zoning laws tend to make even the wonkiest of city wonks’ eyes glaze over, but it’s almost impossible to overstate the importance of those byzantine rules and the ...

The interior of the Yale Club. Photo by the Wurts Brothers, courtesy of the New York Public Library. Modern private social clubs (which are usually seen as distinct from fraternal organizations such ...

The New York City housing market could not look more different today than it did at the beginning of the 2010s. The financial crisis in 2008 didn’t hit New York housing as hard as it did in other ...

For many decades, Willets Point was one of New York City’s most unique neighborhoods. Hundreds of junkyards and auto body shops lined its ragged streets, luring in a constant parade of damaged cars.

If you buy something from a Curbed link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics policy. Part of The beginner’s guide to New York City There are hundreds, if not thousands, of books about New ...

One sunny afternoon about a year ago, I rendezvoused with two old friends for a beer. Each of us arrived on a CitiBike from our respective neighborhoods. We convened at a newly opened outdoor ...

Down on the Red Hook waterfront, a part of Brooklyn’s history is being erased. This week, two of the neighborhood’s most significant historic industrial structures—the S.W. Bowne Grain Storehouse and ...

Does it feel like I am always yelling at you that this plaza from 1968, or that building from 1983, must be saved? It feels like that to me, because I am, because the architecture that makes New York ...

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The complicated history of the Port Morris Branch, a decommissioned rail line in the South Bronx, has recently been brought back into the spotlight. All photos by Nathan Kensinger. Welcome back to ...

Along the banks of the Flushing Creek—one of New York’s most vital and most polluted waterways—dozens of construction cranes loom over the landscape, and half-finished glass towers cast ominous ...