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The Look Book Goes to a Nordic Fitness Class

 Instructors and students broke a sweat at Nrthrn Strong, a new cross-country-skiing-inspired workout studio in the Flatiron District. gallery By Jeremy Rellosa
  1. A Paul Rudolph on 58th Street That Will Actually Last It wasn’t easy saving the Modulightor building, which once housed the architect’s offices. But now it holds much more.
    By Anthony Paletta
  2. Mamdani’s First Week Was Very Good for Cyclists The new mayor revived two road redesigns and flattened a hazardous Williamsburg Bridge bump.
    By Clio Chang
  3. Adams’s 11th-Hour Move to Save Elizabeth Street Garden Flops The fate of the garden now rests with the courts — and the Mamdani administration.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  4. The Look Book Goes to The Carlyle Hotel On a recent Thursday, guests dined during Rufus Wainwright’s performance at Café Carlyle, part of the singer’s five-night residency.
    By Jeremy Rellosa
  5. In Defense of the Sidewalk Shed Yes, they’re annoying and a little ugly. I love them anyway.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  6. Swipe and Let Go It had a good run, but the MetroCard is ready for retirement.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  7. The Year of Subway Slop AI and nonsense ads trolled us on our commutes.
    By Clio Chang
  8. What Did Eric Adams Build? Less than you’d hope, more than you might think.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  9. Building Marty Supreme’s New York Production designer Jack Fisk on creating a 1950s playground for Timothée Chalamet.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  10. The Man Who Controls the Lights at 270 Park Avenue Leo Villareal’s installation for JPMorgan Chase’s new tower has more than a million programmable LEDs.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  11. How Performa Turned New York Into a Stage How Performa Turned New York Into a Stage
    By Rachel Corbett
  12. The Design Libraries Tucked Into Japanese Streetwear Stores and Home-Goods Shops These four spectacularly niche archives feature rare and out-of-print titles and are free to browse.
    By Emma Orlow
  13. The Look Book Goes to a Night at the Museum After a five-year hiatus, kids brought their pillows and flashlights to the American Museum of Natural History for a sleepover under the Blue Whale.
    By Jeremy Rellosa
  14. Curbed’s 20 Most-Read Stories of 2025 A real-estate tour with Timothée Chalamet’s mother, life in an empty Brooklyn supertall, and Hamptons lawsuits made the list.
    By Curbed Staff
  15. Mamdani Wants Abundant Affordable Housing. Can He Make it Beloved, Too? There are plenty of precedents — he just has to look abroad.
    By Justin Davidson
  16. 39 Reasons to Love New York Right Now From congestion pricing to Cameron Winter.
    By The Editors
  17. Making Sense of 2025 The world may be a runaway train right now, but here in New York we’re all still on the uptown local.
    By Sam Lipsyte
  18. Your Subway Station May Finally Get an Elevator At long last, funds from congestion pricing and a new approach have given the MTA’s efforts a major lift.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  19. Is There an Afterlife for Frank Gehry’s Issey Miyake Flagship? After 24 years, the brand’s Tribeca shop is closing. Its titanium waves may live on elsewhere.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  20. The Reflective City Sarah van Rij, photographer of fragmentation, talks about her solo project.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  21. Watch the Wythe Diner Get Lifted Out of Williamsburg “Have you ever seen a floating diner before?”
    By Clio Chang
  22. The Waldorf Astoria Residences Invites You to Sit on JFK’s Rocking Chair But you’ll have to buy a condo first — the Presidential Library and Bar is residents-only.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  23. The Look Book Goes to a Pokémon Store Fans, collectors, and out-of-towners stopped by the newly opened Poké Court in the Meatpacking District to browse the collection and catch ’em all.
    By Jeremy Rellosa
  24. What Robert A.M. Stern Understood About New York City Remembering the architect whose buildings and books embraced the city as a collective project.
    By Justin Davidson
  25. Arki Busson Is Building Hollywood in New Jersey A long-abandoned brownfield will soon house the largest film studio in the region.
    By Andrew Rice
  26. A Co-Working Space (With Caviar Benefits) Is Coming to Lever House With fees starting at $25,000, Industrious Reserve is more like a members’ club for executives seeking trophy office space.
    By Kim Velsey
  27. A First Look at a New Public Library Complex in the Bronx The Grand Concourse project will come with more than a hundred affordable apartments on top.
    By Clio Chang
  28. How Nice Should a Sidewalk Shed Be? New designs banish the ugliness that has been standard-issue for decades. But we shouldn’t let these hang around for years, either.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  29. The Look Book Goes to Mood Fabrics On a recent Saturday, designers, students, and crafty types browsed the textile retailer’s three floors for supplies and inspiration.
    By Jeremy Rellosa
  30. Is That an EV Charger Hiding in a Poop-Bag Dispenser? While the city studies the potential for lamppost charging, New York drivers are going rogue.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  31. Emery Roth Was a Downtown Architect Too For the first time, a new book catalogues what the architect best known for the Beresford and the San Remo built for the rest of the city.
    By Robert Khederian
  32. The Novelists Are Fighting Over Desks at the Center for Fiction Space is tight at the Brooklyn nonprofit. Writers are quietly seething at their laptops.
    By Brendan O'Connor
  33. The U.S. Open Is Not Pleased With Steve Cohen’s Casino Plan The USTA’s lawsuit against the city claims the proposal may infringe on the tennis association’s lease.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  34. 270 Park Rises in Mamdani’s New York Jamie Dimon’s brawny altar to capitalism declares this billionaire isn’t going anywhere.
    By Justin Davidson
  35. A Good Life in Jane Jacobs’s House An empty nester left the Connecticut suburbs for 555 Hudson. She got a lot more than a home.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  36. You Should Really See the Lightbulbs at Sotheby’s Breuer Building Herzog & de Meuron didn’t change too much, but tinkered just enough with the signature lighting.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  37. When a Woodworker Moves Upstairs Alana Zack didn’t plan to bring her chainsaws home. It just worked out that way.
    By Kayla Levy
  38. The Look Book Goes to the Ragas Live Festival A lineup of over 50 artists played South Asian classical, jazz, and ambient music for 24 hours straight at Pioneer Works in Red Hook.
    By Jeremy Rellosa
  39. The Lonely Zohran Clusters of the Upper East Side And other election intrigues, block by block.
    By Matthew Sedacca, Clio Chang, and Adriane Quinlan
  40. Introducing Mayor Freeze-the-Rent Zohran Mamdani won the election on a campaign built almost entirely around housing.
    By Clio Chang
  41. The Reopened Studio Museum’s Chilly Elegance In two museum projects, David Adjaye returns post-scandal with his characteristic, neo-brutalist swagger.
    By Justin Davidson
  42. Pete Davidson and Colin Jost’s Ferry Took to the Sea, Briefly The decommissioned boat, inoperable on its own, was towed around the harbor as part of a Nike ad campaign.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  43. The First Week of the E-Bike Speed Limit Was Confusing Cops warned delivery workers to slow down, but the apps haven’t changed a thing: “People still want their food fast.”
    By Clio Chang
  44. How’s Mamdani Going to Vote on Those Housing Measures? We may have a hint.
    By Clio Chang
  45. A First Look Inside JFK’s New Terminal One For now, it’s all about the art.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  46. Trump Used His Dad’s Dirtiest Move on the East Wing Knock it down before they can fight you.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  47. Ken Burns at the Barricades Talking British New York and PBS cuts with the co-director of The American Revolution.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  48. Canal Street After the Raid The blocks of bustling vendors are quieter — for now.
    By Matthew Sedacca
  49. The Look Book Goes Skateboarding Under the Brooklyn Bridge Months after the reopening of the legendary Brooklyn Banks (now part of Gotham Park), skaters rolled up for an all-day jam.
    By Jeremy Rellosa
  50. The Zohran Canvassers in Cuomo-ville An evening following the volunteers who work the ultrawealthy doorman buildings of the Upper East Side.
    By Clio Chang
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