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Wouldn’t it be amazing if living in New York could suddenly become easier — and even more enjoyable?Whether you’ve been here since birth or are still discovering (and adjusting to) the city’s peculiarities and price tags, one fact remains the same: Staying for the long haul takes endurance — and you should take advantage of any little edge you can grab (ethically, of course) to make it work. Our "How To Be a New Yorker" course will give you that upper hand. For our 2026 installment, we’ve delved into more advanced New York–ing — how to throw a party, where to get a haircut (and a facial, and your lashes tinted), how to work out without going broke, how to catch the best concerts, how to keep a child (and your schnoodle) relatively happy, where to sharpen your thinking, and even how to plan a funeral. We’ve also taken the time to help you bulk up your local Rolodex by asking discerning notables to tell us where they reliably — even gleefully — run all their errands.We’re about to upgrade aspects of your city life that you didn’t even realize we could improve. Sign up at the link in our bio. Illustrations: @brunozocca_The Best of New York issue is presented by @CalvinKlein. by @curbed

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When our “Classifieds” section debuted in 1971, the listings reflected the moment: There was a polar-bear-pelt rug priced at $2,500, a build-your-own-dulcimer kit, wild rice from Minnesota going for $4 a pound, and “Scientology jewelry.” The majority of the ads were for services, and by the ’90s, that included yacht rentals, psychics, and gift-basket-makers. At one point, there were over a dozen listings for party caricaturists for hire.While the demand for the latter has waned, New Yorkers’ desire for other people’s stuff has not, so we’re bringing back our “Classifieds” for New York–based subscribers. Each edition will have a theme — “I Love It, But It’s Just Not ‘Me’” is the first — and for our inaugural installment, we asked some tasteful New Yorkers to submit things they’re willing to part with that fit the prompt. Unlike in the ’70s, there’s no fee to submit a listing and it’s up to the buyer and seller to coordinate payment and pickup.Head to the link in our bio to see those first listings or sell the stuff that just doesn’t feel like ‘you’ anymore. by @curbed

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The last time the Knicks made it to the Finals, there were 268 billionaires on the Forbes list. Today, there are 3,428, at least some of whom identify as Knicks fans and are now competing for a limited number of prime seats against what’s become a global fan base.Erica Jackowitz, a lifestyle manager, just sourced a client a pair of game-six seats “with feet on the floor” for $500,000 each. And that’s just the tickets. There are jets to be chartered, helicopters from the jets to be booked, and glam squads to be assembled in hotel suites where stylists have filled out racks. Jackowitz’s clients are coming to the Garden to be seen. “It’s a fashion show,” she says. “We call it ‘Knicks Couture.’”At the link in our bio, read more from @adrianeadriane about the Knicks fans paying small fortunes to catch a game.Photo: Getty Images by @curbed

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Claire Valdez rents her Ridgewood two-bedroom apartment and is running to take over Nydia Velázquez’s open congressional seat in District 7, which is, like most of the city, a constituency that’s majority tenant. Valdez has fellow democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani’s support in a primary against Brooklyn borough president Antonio Reynoso. Per the latest polling, Valdez and Reynoso are pulling similar support, though most voters describe themselves as undecided about what they’ll do come the June 23 election.On Tuesday, Valdez shared her housing plan with us as an exclusive: The 36-year-old assemblymember is running on universal rent control, a federal version of New York’s Good Cause Eviction, the creation of new public housing, and a more aggressive approach to taking properties away from landlords with records of neglecting their buildings.Some of this aligns with what Mamdani is trying to do in the city, but the particulars are different — how does a federal approach to tenant protections even work? Clio Chang spoke with Valdez about her plan, what she’s learned from the mayor’s short time in office, and how she thinks any of this can actually get done if she makes it to Washington.Read their full conversation at the link in our bio.Photo: Karya Schanilec by @curbed

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The robots are on the move, whether you can see them or not. Far from New York City, Waymo — the autonomous-driving-technology venture from Alphabet, the company most of us think of as Google — is racking up miles and experience. It’s available to the public in 11 cities, perhaps most prominently in Phoenix and the San Francisco Bay Area, where its autonomous vehicles are well out of the pilot-program stage and increasingly just part of the roadscape. Elsewhere, Waymo is now running more than half a million rideshare trips per week. In New York, though, its cars are all parked.After more than a year of Waymo test-driving around the city, its two permits to test in New York lapsed near the end of March. One was a statewide permit with a carve-out allowing New York City to regulate itself. The second was the city’s own. In reapplying for those permits, Waymo faces little resistance at the state level. Downstate, though, the smart money is on a further delay. As Sarah Kaufman, the director of NYU’s Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management, who studies AV policy, put it, “There is an opportunity for us to be last.”There is value in being, at the very least, late, writes city editor Christopher Bonanos (@polaroidland). “As progressive and forward-thinking a city as we can be, we are also wisely skeptical about major shifts that might affect many people who are, economically and otherwise, barely hanging on.” Meera Joshi, who ran the Taxi and Limousine Commission under Bill de Blasio and then served as a deputy mayor under Eric Adams, said that the TLC’s attitude when she ran it was to treat the arrival of AVs as a straightforward matter of consumer protection: The stance, back then, was “It’s never too early to start regulating.”At the link in our bio, Bonanos argues that the city should take the chance to demand more from the self-driving-car company.Photo-Illustration: Source Photographs for Photo-Illustration: George Rose/Getty Images (Street), hapabapa/Getty Images (Waymo) by @curbed

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Drinks are on us! This month’s perk is a double feature: subscribers will receive a complimentary round of bubbly for the table when they dine at either @balthazarny or @morandinyc (or both). Cheers! 🥂In case you missed it, last month we launched ‘New York’ Perks: a lineup of monthly treats exclusively for our subscribers. Tap the link in our bio to learn more about how to redeem your perk this month. by @curbed

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“From a governance standpoint, we seem to be treated like any other neighborhood — like Cobble Hill or Boerum Hill — and we are actually more like Times Square,” said Jamel Talbi, a 15-year Dumbo resident and condo-board president. “We are at our wits’ end.” Talbi should know; he lives on the cobblestoned stretch of Washington Street leading from the Brooklyn Bridge pedestrian walkway to the waterfront that is said to be the most Instagrammed location on the planet.Talbi launched an 11-page online petition, directed at elected officials and signed by nearly 400 Dumbo residents, which includes a list of demands one might expect from folks living in a neighborhood so dense with tourists that it’s sometimes hard to push a stroller down the sidewalk: restrictions on street vendors and tour buses, for instance, and a crowd-management plan. While the petition is just the latest in an ongoing crusade to tame the streets, tension in the neighborhood is building up, and for good reason. “People are anxious because there is a World Cup village under the Brooklyn Bridge this summer, the 250th anniversary of our independence, the Macy’s fireworks, and the tall ships coming,” said Lincoln Restler, the city councilperson representing the area. “They look ahead to June and July and say, ‘Holy shit! This is going to get a lot worse!’” Some residents are now taking cues from global anti-tourism tactics — such as Amsterdam’s “Stay Away” campaign discouraging British tourists from traveling to the city to party and Seoul’s visiting hours for Bukchon Hanok Village — and suggesting measures far beyond the usual.At the link in our bio, read Anne Kadet’s report on the Dumbo residents losing their patience against tourists — and resorting to guerrilla tactics. Photo: Anne Kadet, Courtesy of Pamela Alabaster by @curbed

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Alexandra Cushing Howard and Philip Howard have been holding musical salons in the double-cube living room of their home in Gramercy Park for over 40 years.The gatherings began sometime after the couple, who have raised four children since marrying in 1972, bought the three-bedroom apartment in the early 1980s. At a friend’s house party, Philip and the playwright John Guare, competing over who could remember more lyrics to an obscure Cole Porter song, serenaded the crowd. The tradition carried over to Gramercy, where the other fixture is chicken potpie on the menu. “People come. They have dinner and take turns performing,” says Philip. “It could be a singer from the Met or a 9-year-old from downstairs.”The couple are members of distinguished families with deep American roots. He is a lawyer, author, and distant relative of Josiah Bartlett, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and she is an architectural historian whose grandfather was the American impressionist Howard Gardiner Cushing. They moved in with little furniture; for a while, they propped up a door on sawhorses to use as a table.At the link in our bio, read more about the Howards’ music-filled Gramercy home.Photos: @stephenkentjohnson by @curbed

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You can enjoy a glass as soon as you're unpacked 🍷Head to the link in our bio for more tips on 'How to Be a New Yorker,' where we cover the under-the-radar secrets to basic existence: eating, commuting, taking in a little culture, finding an apartment, and beyond.Illustrations: @brunozocca_Presented by @verizon by @curbed

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@a24’s ‘Backrooms’ is a psychological thriller where the villain is bad architecture — the aging, empty offices and tragic McCafés that populate online forums devoted to liminal space, though architects might prefer the term junkspace. One particularly grim example — a photo of an emptied furniture showroom under blazing yellow lights — made it onto a 4chan thread in 2019, where commenters started riffing, spinning out a new genre of horror that plays on the idea of being lost, endlessly, in a soul-sucking corporate maze. The form’s auteur is Kane Parsons, a teenager when his short film got millions of views and now, at 20, is A24’s youngest director.Under the name @kanepixels, he had used visual-effects software to imagine a camera operator lost in the maze. Expanding this into a feature involved making that virtual world physical — a problem that fell to production designer @vermettedanny. Vermette talked to @adrianeadriane about translating something created in a visual-effects program into a physical build, sourcing 1990s furniture on Facebook Marketplace and creating a dizzying variety of bland wallpaper.Read their full conversation at the link in our bio.Photos: Asterios Moutsokapas, Courtesy of A24 by @curbed

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In this week's #ApprovalMatrix: Even Trump couldn't stomach watching Don Jr. get married again (despicable), Everlane sells out to Shein (also despicable), and we’ve got our first Finals berth since 1999 (brilliant!).To read more about what we find highbrow, lowbrow, despicable, and brilliant, subscribe to the magazine at the link in our bio.Photo: New York Magazine by @curbed

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On a scale of morning commute to 11 o’clock number, what is @catsjellicleball star Tempress Chasity Moore’s NYQ?This is NYQ, a series where we find out how “New York” notable New Yorkers really are. Disagree with @i_am_tempress's answers? Let us know yours in the comments below, and head to the link in our bio to read more about @catsjellicleball.Video by @zachschiffmanEdited by @melissa_edits_stuff by @curbed

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