Curbed is an American real estate and

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website published by ''New York'' magazine. Founded as a blog by Lockhart Steele in 2006 to cover New York City real estate, 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. In November 2013,

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purchased the Curbed Network, which, apart from ''Curbed'', also included dining website ''Eater'' and fashion website '' Racked''. ''

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'' 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." Curbed had expanded to include area-specific editions for

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, Austin,

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, and Washington, D.C. 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

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, many of Curbed's area-specific sites closed, leaving

as the site's sole remaining metropolitan focus. In October 2020, ''Curbed'' was integrated into ''New York'' magazine's suite of digital publications, 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

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

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