The Next Mayor Can Reshape New York City

A daily mix of stories about cities, city life, and our always evolving neighborhoods and skylines. [Curbed]( thursday, october 15 street view [The Next Mayor’s Next City]( Bill de Blasio’s successor can make life easier, nicer, and fairer — or just keep us going the way we were before.   Photo: Alexei Hay   Sometime soon, even as office workers still give each other latitude and exchange muffled greetings through their masks, you may find yourself waiting for an elevator. If the building is old, with a cramped lobby, the line begins outside, where it crisscrosses other ones, so that the sidewalk resembles Thanksgiving check-in at JFK. You maneuver to avoid vendors and delivery guys, maybe even the first returning tourists, all overflowing the sidewalk. The morning jam-up becomes severe enough that local businesses petition to ban private vehicles from that block, possibly neighboring ones, too. Employers start staggering workday hours, and pressure mounts to impose the congestion pricing that was intended to thin traffic but then deferred. That, in turn, means overhauling the inchoate mess of bridge and tunnel tolls. With the subway in distress, busways and bike lanes proliferate. To satisfy employees who want to minimize their commutes, businesses open outer-borough satellites, energizing shopping streets that were badly in need of a boost. Soon, we’re living in a different New York, and maybe a better one. [Continue reading »](     Curbed is now at home at New York. [Subscribe today]( for 60% off.     [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( The Latest [This Spring, We All Drove Much Less. Yet Traffic Deaths Went Up. Why? The lure of the open street.]( [The Look Book Goes to a Bed-Stuy Stoop Sale Organized by a fashion editor and a photographer, a sale where passersby picked up a snakeskin hat, white leather bell-bottoms, and a pink kimono.]( [Everything You Need to Know About NYC’s Housing Market The COVID-19 pandemic turned New York’s housing market on its head, creating sometimes conflicting trends that house hunters need to be familiar with.]( [Theo Henderson Influences L.A. City Policy. For 7 Years, He’s Lived in the Park. His podcast, We the Unhoused, is made from wherever he can charge up his phone.]( [A $395K Studio on Central Park West and a (Newly Discounted) Clinton Hill Co-op Plus five more noteworthy apartments asking under $1 million.]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Check Out More Real Estate News](       Curbed readers save 60% on a subscription to New York. For [unlimited access]( to more great stories — and everything New York — become a digital subscriber!     We value your feedback. Send us a note at engage@nymag.com. [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe](param=curbed)   |   [privacy notice](   |   [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on e-mail newsletters please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 11th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2020, All rights reserved