# Curbed
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{{short description|News website covering housing and urban design}}
{{Use American English|date=September 2018}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2018}}
{{Infobox website
| name = ''Curbed''
| logo = File:Curbed_Logo.jpg
| url = {{URL|https://www.curbed.com/|curbed.com}}
| commercial = Yes
| type = [Online newspaper](/source/Online_newspaper)
| registration = Optional
| language = English
| owner = [Vox Media](/source/Vox_Media)
| launch_date = {{start date and age|2006}}
| current_status = Active
}}
'''Curbed''' is an American [real estate](/source/real_estate) and [urban design](/source/urban_design) website published by [''New York''](/source/New_York_(magazine)) magazine. Founded as a blog by [Lockhart Steele](/source/Lockhart_Steele) in 2006 to cover New York City real estate,[{{Cite news |last=Mitchell |first=Dan |date=2007-10-30 |title=Not All Is Gloomy in Real Estate: A Blog Network Attracts Capital |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/30/technology/30curbed.html |access-date=2023-10-27 |issn=0362-4331}}][{{Cite news |last=Oppenheimer |first=Mark |date=2010-03-19 |title=The Optimist’s Blogger |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/realestate/keymagazine/21Key-Steele-t.html |access-date=2023-10-27 |issn=0362-4331}}] it grew by 2010 to feature sub-pages dedicated to specific real estate markets and metropolitan areas across the United States. Steele once described ''Curbed.com'' as an "[Architectural Digest](/source/Architectural_Digest) after a three-martini lunch". The site hosted an annual contest, the Curbed Cup, to pick the best neighborhood in each city.[{{Cite web |date=2013-01-04 |title=REVEALED: The San Francisco Neighborhood Of The Year Is... |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/san-francisco-best-neighborhood_n_2410443 |access-date=2023-10-27 |website=HuffPost |language=en}}]
In November 2013, [Vox Media](/source/Vox_Media) purchased the Curbed Network, which, apart from ''Curbed'', also included dining website [''Eater''](/source/Eater_(website)) and fashion website ''[Racked](/source/Racked)''. ''[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)'' reported that the cash-and-stock deal was worth between $20 million and $30 million. In 2018, the Curbed critic [Alexandra Lange](/source/Alexandra_Lange) won a New York Press Club award for her story "No Loitering, No Skateboarding, No Baggy Pants."[{{Cite web |last=Lange |first=Alexandra |date=2017-12-07 |title=How teen-focused design can help reshape our cities |url=https://archive.curbed.com/2017/12/7/16746468/design-parks-skateboarding-teens |access-date=2023-10-27 |website=Curbed |language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201014101407/https://archive.curbed.com/2017/12/7/16746468/design-parks-skateboarding-teens|archive-date=October 14, 2020|url-status=dead}}]
Curbed had expanded to include area-specific editions for [Atlanta](/source/Atlanta), [Austin](/source/Austin%2C_Texas), [Boston](/source/Boston), [Chicago](/source/Chicago), [Detroit](/source/Detroit), [Los Angeles](/source/Los_Angeles), [New Orleans](/source/New_Orleans), [New York City](/source/New_York_City), [Philadelphia](/source/Philadelphia), [San Francisco](/source/San_Francisco), [Seattle](/source/Seattle), and [Washington, D.C.](/source/Washington%2C_D.C.)[{{cite web |url=http://curbednetwork.com/titles/curbed |title=About Curbed |publisher=Curbed |accessdate=January 6, 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20130215190303/http://curbednetwork.com/titles/curbed |archivedate=February 15, 2013 }}] In 2020, however, as a part of a downward trend of layoffs and restructuring of many venture capital-funded sites, and the effects of the [COVID-19 pandemic](/source/COVID-19_pandemic), many of Curbed's area-specific sites closed, leaving [New York City](/source/New_York_City) as the site's sole remaining metropolitan focus.
In October 2020, ''Curbed'' was integrated into [''New York''](/source/New_York_(magazine)) magazine's suite of digital publications,[{{Cite web |date=2020-10-13 |title=Curbed Is Now at Home at 'New York' |url=https://www.curbed.com/article/curbed-new-york-magazine.html |access-date=2023-10-27 |website=Curbed |language=en}}] where it was redesigned and focused more tightly on New York City's built environment, design, architecture, real estate, and urbanism. Its prominent contributors include ''New York''{{'}}s [Pulitzer Prize](/source/Pulitzer_Prize)–winning architecture and music critic [Justin Davidson](/source/Justin_Davidson) and the magazine's acclaimed design writer Wendy Goodman.
In 2026, ''[The Architect's Newspaper](/source/The_Architect's_Newspaper)'' reported that "{{As of|2025|December|lc=y|since=y}}, a significant portion of the [''Curbed''{{'s}}] national coverage and vast network of city-specific beats has been taken offline, the latest in a string of digital publications, alternative weeklies, and local media sites that remain difficult or impossible to access due to ownership decisions".[{{Cite web |last=Sisson |first=Patrick |date=February 13, 2026 |title=Curbed's archive of urban reporting goes dark |url=https://www.archpaper.com/2026/02/curbed-archive-urban-reporting-goes-dark/ |access-date=February 14, 2026 |website=[The Architect's Newspaper](/source/The_Architect's_Newspaper) |language=en-US}}] Vox Media stated a [content management system](/source/content_management_system) transition led to older articles no longer being accessible and that they do not "have a solution for publicly maintaining the ''Curbed'' archive".