Katie McDonough

Jan 7, 2025 | curbed.com | Katie McDonough

For under a million dollars, one can find all sorts of housing configurations: park- and subway-adjacent studios, one-bedrooms hidden in carriage houses or former shoe factories, and even the occasional true two-bedroom. We’re combing the market for particularly spacious, nicely renovated, or otherwise worth-a-look apartments at various six-digit price points. This week, future-you lives in northish Brooklyn or the West Village.

Sep 4, 2024 | curbed.com | Katie McDonough |Katy Schneider |Christopher Bonanos |Wendy Goodman

Curbed relaunched as part of New York Magazine in 2020 with a mandate to cover cities and city life with the verve, wit, and obsessiveness of the original city magazine. Before joining New York, Curbed began in 2004 as a voicey site for urban obsessives that chronicled everything from real-estate news to lower Manhattan’s last remaining gas station.

Oct 6, 2023 | curbed.com | Katie McDonough

interiors The director’s new Archive is a showcase for these little temples — or little cells. “We shot hours of footage of the sisters lying around together,” the director writes of The Virgin Suicides. “We shot hours of footage of the sisters lying around together,” the director writes of The Virgin Suicides. Sofia Coppola makes bedroom movies.

Sep 29, 2023 | curbed.com | Clio Chang |Katie McDonough |Sukjong Hong |Chris Stanton

There were threats of flash floods across the city on Friday; cars drove through small rivers, and JFK had already reported three inches by mid-morning. “We urge New Yorkers to prepare for heavy rain and potential flooding throughout Friday and Saturday morning,” NYC Emergency Management commissioner Zach Iscol said Thursday night. (Meanwhile, flash-flood phone alerts went off long after most people had already left for work and school.) The MTA warned of “major disruptions,” and they were right.

Sep 6, 2023 | nymag.com | Katie McDonough

Photo-Illustration: The Strategist; Photos: Retailers The coolest anyone has ever looked doing anything is Carrie Bradshaw losing Aidan’s dog because she is cheating on him. Walking Pete as cover to meet Big, wearing navy dolphin shorts, a gauzy white blouse, and stiletto sandals, she is perfect in this moment — casually hot, barreling toward self-sabotage, uninterested in animals.