Novelist Rumaan Alam's Favorite Zillow Saves

A daily mix of stories about cities, city life, and our always evolving neighborhoods and skylines. [Curbed]( thursday, october 29 my week in zillow saves [The Real-Estate Listings Novelist Rumaan Alam Likes to Stare At]( “Listen, I’d probably do bad things to get this house.”   Photo-Illustration: Curbed/Photo: David A. Land   I don’t care about sports, unless you count real estate. The appeal seems the same: spectacle and fantasy, numbers and statistics. Basketball and football are, to me, a foreign language. I divert myself gawking at real-estate listings. Instead of by proxy inhabiting the body of the heroic athlete, I’m this same old subpar self, wandering rooms that are not, and never will be, mine. [Continue reading »](     Curbed is now at home at New York. [Subscribe today]( for 60% off.     [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( The Latest [How Does a Sidewalk Just Collapse and Swallow a Guy Up? Oh, great.]( [Remembering Fort Thunder: 11 Dudes, Two Bands, One Working Toilet Jim Drain looks back at life in the Providence punk art commune.]( [Are There Really Billions of Dollars in Sandy Aid to Help NYCHA Fight COVID? Turns out the money is spoken for and is being spent on a fairly inflexible schedule.]( [The Look Book Goes to the Hudson Yards Equinox Where members were working out on treadmills, ellipticals, and weight machines under a tent.]( [A $389K Studio Wrapped in Wood and a Park Slope Spot With Issey Miyake Lighting Plus, an ornate brownstone studio on the Upper West Side, a quirky two-bedroom in Bed-Stuy, and more.]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Read More From Curbed](       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