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,{{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 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 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."{{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}}

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.{{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, 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,{{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–winning architecture and music critic Justin Davidson and the magazine's acclaimed design writer Wendy Goodman.