Lockhart Steele is the founder and president of Curbed.com LLC, a New York City-based media company which publishes the popular blogs Curbed.com (neighborhood and real estate news), Eater.com (restaurant and nightlife gossip), Racked.com (local shopping and retail intelligence), and Gridskipper.com (advice for urban travelers).

Now published in New York City, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, the Curbed Network endeavors to tell the story of each city it covers from the pavement on up, with copious contributions from readers. Most recently, the Curbed Network expanded with the launch of Eater National and the addition of Eater correspondents in cities including Chicago, Miami, Las Vegas, and Portland.

Prior to founding Curbed, Steele served as the managing editor of New York-based Gawker Media, one of the web's largest independent media firms. Gawker Media, the most-trafficked blog network on the web, publishes such top-100 web brands as Gizmodo, Gawker, and Deadspin. In his position as managing editor, Steele oversaw editorial operations for the entire company, growing editorial staff from 12 people to over 150 and network-wide pageviews from roughly 25 million to over 200 million.

Before Gawker, Steele served as managing editor of Manhattan-based Cottages and Gardens Publications.

Steele is the co-author of three books. The pithy Book of Ages series (Crown, 2004 and 2005) chronicles the landmark life ages of 30 and 40, while The Pharmer's Almanac (Penguin, 1998) obsessively chronicles the rock group Phish.

Steele graduated magna cum laude from Brown University.

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