A number of design libraries opened this year, dedicated to interiors, architecture, art, and fashion. Tucked away in office buildings, home-goods shops, and even a streetwear store, they are dedicated to rare, out-of-print, and niche collections.

The Music Hall of Williamsburg, one of the last vestiges of the early aughts wave of development on North 6th, will lose its lease next year.

The only thing celebrities love more than selling a house is buying one. This year we had Lily Allen and David Harbour putting their Brooklyn townhouse up for sale and Ellen DeGeneres looking for more room for horses.

After a five-year hiatus, kids ages 6 through 12 brought their pillows and flashlights to the American Museum of Natural History for a sleepover under the Blue Whale.

How the big-kitchen, big-bathroom, big-window trend took over the workaday middle-class studios of previous eras.

Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos have been renovating the $165 million Beverly Hills estate they bought from David Geffen in 2020. The finishing touch? A model Apollo 11 capsule spaceship on the lawn.

In 2025, Curbed readers spent the most time reading stories about run-club haters, luxury-tower shenanigans, and Hamptons gossip, among other things.

Zohran Mamdani comes to office with an ambitious affordable-housing program. To create homes that are beloved, not just abundant, he can look abroad — to Rome, London, and Vienna, for one.

Bianca Censori, designer and wife of Kanye West, debuted ‘Bio Pop,’ a performance-art piece that’s centered on a bunch of medical sex-dungeon furniture.

Here are some apartments to buy in New York City for under a million dollars, including Crown Heights, Upper East Side, Windsor Terrace, and Astoria.

The 21st edition of New York Magazine’s ‘Reasons to Love New York,’ including Night Club 101, congestion pricing, and Cameron Winter.

AI, ICE, MAGA: 2025 has felt very end-of-the-road, edge-of-the-acronymic-cliff. Author Sam Lipsyte has cycled through various perspectives to process the horror show, and found ways to cope when the fascism fatigue makes it hard to get out of bed.

The MTA has taken decades to make a relatively small number of subway stations accessible. That has changed dramatically since 2020, and it required civic will, congestion-pricing money, and a huge amount of complex engineering.

Designer Minjae Kim’s unconventional furniture upends his traditional prewar apartment in Bed Stuy.

Issey Miyake’s Tribeca shop is closing on December 12, 2025, after more than two decades in the neighborhood. Its Frank Gehry–designed titanium waves may live on elsewhere.

Kaia Gerber relocated to Los Angeles for a new Ryan Murphy series and has put her Soho loft on the market for $5.79 million.

Round Swamp Farm helped kill a neighboring affordable housing project in East Hampton, a development of 79 condos slated to be sold to local businesses for worker housing.

Round Swamp Farms helped kill a neighboring affordable housing project in East Hampton, a development of 79 condos slated to be sold to local businesses for worker housing.

After zany exhibitions and major sales, the design gallery R & Company is offloading an obsessively designed exhibition space in a cast-iron Tribeca building.

A series of photos selected from Sarah van Rij’s new book, ‘Atlas of Echoes,’ shows the photographer’s fascination with layers, collage, reflections, and the city.