Bridget Read

Jan 15, 2025 | curbed.com | Bridget Read

Realtors Gita Vasseghi and Melea Avrach started hearing from clients looking for temporary housing as early as January 7, the day the Los Angeles fires began. Based on the East Side of the city, they quickly began helping friends, friends of friends, and desperate cold callers displaced from the massive Eaton fire in Altadena. But just as soon as they mobilized, something else started happening: Prices started going up.

Jan 15, 2025 | curbed.com | Bridget Read

encounter Eleonora Srugo, friend to Mayor Adams and star of Netflix’s new Selling the City, thinks so. Noho is rainy and gray, but Eleonora Srugo’s tan is a deep ocher. We’re standing in the entrance to 40 Bleecker, a brick-and-glass luxury building, waiting to visit one of her clients in his multimillion-dollar condo.

Dec 17, 2024 | curbed.com | Bridget Read

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. They were going to be late — that much became clear as clouds gathered over São Tomé, a verdant island 190 miles off the coast of West Africa. The group of eight — six Americans and two Australians — had left its Norwegian Cruise Line ship that morning, March 27, for a day trip across the island. But they had car trouble on the way back.

Dec 11, 2024 | curbed.com | Bridget Read

Oren, Tal, and Alon Alexander have been taken into FBI custody in Miami. The three brothers were arrested early Wednesday morning, according to sources close to the investigation. Agents were seen outside Oren’s Miami home, but authorities have yet to release any specifics about the charges. In March, two women, Kate Whiteman and Rebecca Mandel, accused Oren and Alon of rape in lawsuits filed in New York; in June, Angelica Parker filed a lawsuit accusing all three brothers of rape.

Nov 15, 2024 | curbed.com | Bridget Read

Columbia Heights is likely one of the most famous streets in Brooklyn Heights — once home to Walt Whitman and Norman Mailer, now Matt Damon, Jennifer Connelly, and Michelle Williams. The Civil War–era rowhouses on the avenue look out over the promenade, with views extending from the East River all the way to the Statue of Liberty. Each is nicer than the next, with period-specific details, immaculate built-in bookcases, and perfectly lit art visible from the street. Then you get to 194.