Photo-Illustration: Marcus Peabody/Getty We couldn’t imagine a better fit. Today, Curbed NY and the Curbed flagship join New York as the magazine’s home for coverage of cities and city life. We can’t imagine a better fit. When New York Magazine was founded in 1968, its absolute focus was New York City life: its politics, accents, art, social dynamics, and best lo mein. In 2020, the magazine still has New York City at its center. For nearly 16 years, Curbed NY has documented the ever-evolving shape of New York City. We began as a tiny blog, and thanks to the wit, obsession, and style of innumer ..read more

A row of apartment buildings in Brooklyn.fotog/Getty Images Here’s what’s going on around town this week. Landlords Strike Out in Lawsuit Against New York Rent Laws Last year, renters across New York rejoiced when the State Legislature passed a spate of robust tenant laws. The landlord lobby, unsurprisingly, was not too pleased after its failed campaign to curb the legislation. It wasn’t long before the lawsuits began streaming in against the new laws, which limit rent increases, cap the ways apartments can be deregulated, and made it a bit tougher to evict tenants who violate their leases, a ..read more

A row of apartment buildings in Brooklyn. | Leslie Pankowski/Getty Images It’s “still full of loopholes,” as one lawyer put it. It was just a few brief sentences, but they sent reporters and housing lawyers into a frenzy: On a Monday call with journalists, three days before a state ban on evictions was set to expire, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced plans to extend residential eviction protections through January 1. The measure, he pledged, would provide “fundamental stability” in the lives of New York renters and ensure “nobody is going to be evicted.” Few details were shared, but some news ou ..read more

This Beresford duplex has retained its old-fashioned contained kitchen — something that’s actually hard to find in a name-brand building like this. | Denis Vlasov for Sotheby’s International Realty “Over the years, I’ve marveled at 3 Riverside Drive, mooned over Milton Glaser’s studio, and dreamed of Aaron Shikler’s windows.” A few weeks ago, the New York Post’s cover featured the headline “UPPER WEST SLIDE” and the image of a local mother and her teenage son. The accompanying article explained that the mom in question was “fleeing the neighborhood amid crime and chaos,” and, afraid to let the ..read more

Rob Kim/Getty Images Here’s what’s going on around town this week. Why is City Hall Park still barricaded? For nearly a month this summer, the 8.8-acre green space surrounding City Hall was home to the Occupy City Hall protesters as they called on the mayor and City Council to defund the NYPD. The cops cleared out the encampment on July 22, and since then, the park — which has several grassy lawns, seating areas, and fountains — has been heavily barricaded, making it inaccessible to the neighboring lower-Manhattan community, and residents can’t get an answer as to why. A group of neighbors ca ..read more

This prewar one-bedroom on Horatio Street has two skylights. | Donna Dotan Photography Skylights, built-ins, and a 250-square-foot private terrace. Apparently, not even the reliably expensive West Village is immune to the COVID-induced housing price drops sweeping Manhattan. According to residential-real-estate analytics firm UrbanDigs, the median asking price for new listings in the area has decreased to the lowest figure in years, from $2.8 million in May to $1.765 million in August. Or, in sum: “Buyers may soon start to find real deals in the West Village,” says John Walkup, CEO of UrbanDig ..read more

Industry City sits on the northwest edge of Sunset Park. | Max Touhey Developers pulled the plug on a major rezoning, and the implications could be felt across the city. On the Sunset Park waterfront is a hodgepodge of warehouses, factories, and piers, historically known as Bush Terminal, that have moved between private and public ownership for decades. The latest effort to reimagine a swath of that area would have seen a 16-building complex known as Industry City dramatically expanded and converted into a commercial hub. But after years of fighting over the Brooklyn waterfront, the developers ..read more

A jail on Rikers Island. | Erik Pendzich/Shutterstock A judge’s ruling is the latest bad news for the mayor. A lawsuit has landed a decisive blow to Bill de Blasio’s plan to replace Rikers Island with a smaller network of borough-based jails. Under the vision the mayor put forward in 2018, four new towering jails would rise near courthouses in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx at a cost of $8.7 billion in what was an effort to halve the city’s jail population by 2026. Now, less than a year later, a State Supreme Court judge has effectively scrapped the building of a lower Manhattan ja ..read more

Andrew H Walker/Shutterstock Here’s some of what happened around town this week. In-Person Learning Delayed for Most New York City Public-School Students — Again It was an eventful week for New York students (and stressful for parents and teachers): Four days before kids were set to return to the classroom, the de Blasio administration decided once again to delay in-person instruction at most public schools. The chaos-inducing announcement comes after mounting pressure from principals and unions over the mayor’s reopening plans, including about concerns of unsafe conditions in older buildings ..read more

Photos by Michael Weinstein/Courtesy of Melissa Leifer, Keller Williams NYC So close to the water. Price: $675,000 Location: Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn This one-bedroom apartment inside the five-story co-op at 87 Columbia Heights sits right in between an entrance to the Brooklyn Heights Promenade and the newly reopened, now structurally sound Squibb Park Bridge, which leads to Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 1. The apartment is a five-minute walk from a bunch of restaurants, bars, and cafés on Henry Street, like Noodle Pudding, Kogane, and Henry Street Ale House. The A/C trains at High Street and ..read more