New York House Calls
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’70s beach house becomes minimal family retreat, with a terrazzo twist
In a quiet corner of the Hamptons, a designer-artist couple saves a 1972 gem and turns it into a year-round family home.
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Inside New York City’s best homes
From a converted factory in Gowanus to a designer’s own apartment on the Upper East Side
Making room for dinner with friends
The author of The Friendsgiving Handbook offers a few simple hosting how-to’s.
Starry-eyed first-time homebuyers fall for a Victorian—and land in a massive remodel
The warm renovation reflects the Hudson Valley home’s history.
A home for four centers around one river—and 200 plants
Cultivating calm, a duo designs a respite in Brooklyn Bridge Park.
Inside a beekeeper and business owner’s idyllic home
Entrepreneur Claire Marin opens the door to her home near New York’s Catskill Mountains.
A Fire Island house brings the spirit of sand and surf indoors
A Fire Island, New York, couple teams up with Delson or Sherman Architects and interior designer Alexandra Angle to fashion their family getaway.
A 190-year-old Tribeca townhouse is reborn with historic—and eclectic—touches
Two artists revive a piece of old New York.
‘Nature is the ultimate luxury, and no fancy city house can match it’
New York City residents find peace upstate in an historic farmhouse
A 320-square-foot cabin offers refuge in upstate New York
This library-cabin in upstate New York is an expression of one man's history, heritage, and passion.
We (might) own the smallest house in the Hamptons
An architect couple jokes that their 520-square-foot former fishing shack in Amagansett could be a serious contender for the title of Hamptons’ smallest house.
Compact Williamsburg rental loses '70s shag for Victorian charm
A taste for maximalism is on full display in a couple’s refurbished apartment, which they revamped mainly with their own two hands.
On Staten Island, a firehouse becomes a family's dream home
The Abbate family lives in a home that’s like few others: a decommissioned fire station built shortly after the turn of the 20th century.
7 bucolic NYC outdoor spaces to inspire you this spring
Find inspiration for your own patch of grass in these New York homes
Call for submissions: Curbed wants to see Staten Islanders’ homes!
Do you live in a gorgeous Staten Island home? We want to take a peek inside!
A Manhattan apartment renovation unearths historic charms
Life, work, and passion happen in a reimagined Gramercy apartment, where century-old details take center stage.
In Gowanus, designer creates stylish home from happy accidents
Go inside the Gowanus, Brooklyn, home of designer Sarah Zames and her husband, Jonathan. When Sarah remodeled their apartment, she broke some of her own rules, with some serendipitous results.
Midcentury modern and 19th-century charm collide in a Greenpoint apartment
Liz Shea and Mark Valenti’s Greenpoint apartment is a cozy, minimalist haven
How a quintessential East Village pad became a New Yorker’s colorful home
Alexis Tirado’s rent-stabilized East Village apartment is now a bright, cheerful oasis
After a lifetime in the South, two architects embrace a ‘mid-life adventure’ in Chelsea
Greg Tankersley and Mary Robin Jurkiewicz have created a cozy Manhattan nook, thanks to lots of planning
In Gramercy, ‘fantastic bones’ give way to an exquisite home
"When you’re transitioning to your late 20s, early 30s, the peace and quiet that you find on these streets is really nice," Scott Francis said of his time spent in Gramercy.
A neglected house becomes a home in the Hudson Valley
Sky-high prices in Brooklyn forced one couple to look farther afield for a home. The house they found in the Hudson Valley wasn’t perfect, so they had to work to make it a fit for them. The learning curve was steep, but the rewards were great.
Brooklyn Heights duplex, filled with art and curios, is interior designer's oasis
ASID New York chapter president Glenn Gissler invites Curbed NY in for a tour of his Brooklyn Heights duplex, an apartment full of antique details and modern trinkets.
Call for submissions: see your home featured on Curbed!
Do you have a cool, quirky, fantastic home in NYC? We want to see it!
Transforming a 475-square-foot UWS pad into a 'light and airy' home
In this week's edition of House Calls, Upper West Side resident Meisha Hunter shows off her small one-bedroom co-op, which she transformed through a total gut renovation. Now it's the tranquil, cozy home that she's always wanted.
In Greenpoint, an elegant home full of auction house finds
Kearney Sevier and Zack Kortright have lived in their Greenpoint loft for five years now, but have only just stopped moving things around. The couple are always finding better ways to live in their 2,000-square-foot, $3,300/month apartment.
A 225-square-foot Midtown East studio is enlivened by a DIY redesign
Having never been to New York City before, Courtney Duffey came to Manhattan for a new job and had two days to find an apartment. She landed in a roughly 225-square-foot studio and after a few redesign projects, she's come to love it.
What it's really like to live in NYC's first micro-unit building
According to Dan Tomita, who moved into Carmel Place earlier this summer, it's not really all that different from a typical New York City apartment.
How a family of 3 fits into a 400-square-foot Chelsea studio
Rebecca and Greg Binns moved to NYC from California, in 2006 with a plan: to land an apartment in Chelsea, with a garden, without breaking the bank every month. And they managed to do it. Ten years later, the couple welcome a son into the mix.
In 300 square feet, an architect embraces simplicity on the Upper West Side
Architect Jacob Bek has lived in New York for almost 20 years now, and each time he's moved it's inevitably been to a smaller sized apartment. That's brought him to the smallest space he's lived in yet, a studio apartment on the Upper West Side.
Over three generations, a family creates a vibrant Upper East Side home
Ariel Colangelo moved into her Lenox Hill studio in August 2010, soon after she had graduated college, and just as she was preparing to attend Law School. It made her the third generation of her family to have moved into the apartment.
Call for submissions: Curbed wants to see your tiny home!
Find out how to have your tiny apartment (or house, or boat, or whathaveyou) featured during Curbed’s upcoming Micro Week.
A tiny cabin in an all-American town offers a designer respite
A petite cabin in an upstate New York town offers respite for a New Zealand expat and homeware designer.
A couple’s UES pied-à-terre becomes a passion project
When Barbara and Mark Levy first set eyes on the studio that would become their UES pied-à-terre, they knew it was perfect. But what they didn’t know a few minutes before stepping foot into the apartment was that they were even in the market.
A dated Queens townhouse is transformed into a modern family home
In this week's House Calls tour, meet Charmaine and Roman Mendoza, lifelong Queens residents who turned an East Elmhurst townhouse from the 1950s into a comfortable space for them and their four children.
In Dumbo, vintage touches enliven a native New Yorker’s modern condo
In this week's edition of house calls tour the Dumbo one-bedroom apartment of ESL teacher Zack Praskin and his husband Will who originally wanted a Park Slope brownstone. They looked at over 50 apartments before finally settling on this one.
Modern meets classic in an eclectic Brooklyn home
Inside Carlo Geraci’s spirited home in Brooklyn, where the tastemaker has made good living his art form.
In Greenpoint, a Brooklyn restaurateur adopts a 'more-is-more' aesthetic
In this week's edition of House Calls, Littleneck co-owner Aaron Lefkove shows off his Greenpoint apartment, which is filled with art, records, and memorabilia—all of which has a story.
A Tiny Chinatown Studio Becomes a Busy Publicist's Personal Oasis
"I like to say it's like a little boutique hotel home," says Helen Zhang while standing in her petite Chinatown studio. But the publicist's Pell Street apartment is her own personal oasis, and her spare, yet well-articulated, decor speaks to that.