Curbed

{{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 | registration = Optional | language = English | owner = Vox Media | launch_date = {{start date and age|2006}} | current_status = Active }}

'''Curbed''' is an American real estate and urban design website published by ''New York'' magazine. Founded as a blog by Lockhart Steele in 2006 to cover New York City real estate,<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> 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 after a three-martini lunch". The site hosted an annual contest, the Curbed Cup, to pick the best neighborhood in each city.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

In November 2013, Vox Media purchased the Curbed Network, which, apart from ''Curbed'', also included dining website ''Eater'' and fashion website ''Racked''. ''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 won a New York Press Club award for her story "No Loitering, No Skateboarding, No Baggy Pants."<ref>{{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}}</ref>

Curbed had expanded to include area-specific editions for Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York City, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D.C.<ref>{{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 }}</ref> 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, many of Curbed's area-specific sites closed, leaving New York City as the site's sole remaining metropolitan focus.

In October 2020, ''Curbed'' was integrated into ''New York'' magazine's suite of digital publications,<ref>{{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}}</ref> 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–winning architecture and music critic Justin Davidson and the magazine's acclaimed design writer Wendy Goodman.

In 2026, ''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".<ref name=":0">{{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 |language=en-US}}</ref> Vox Media stated a 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".<ref name=":0" />

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==External links== * {{official website|https://www.curbed.com/}}

Category:American real estate websites Category:Architecture websites Category:Mass media companies based in New York City Category:Vox Media Category:American companies established in 2006 Category:Real estate companies established in 2006 Category:Design companies established in 2006 Category:Internet properties established in 2006 Category:2006 establishments in the United States