Lockhart Steele is an American blogger best known for the Curbed family of real estate, restaurant, and shopping news sites.

[1][2] Steele moved to the Lower East Side of Manhattan in February 2001 and built a personal blog with short news on New York's social scene.

Within three years, his site was popular mainly for its New York real estate posts on apartments and restaurants, with 3,000 daily page views.

He moved these posts to Curbed.com in May 2004[1] and by early next year, left his job at the real estate magazine Cottages & Gardens, where he was an editor, to pursue blogging.

The firing occurred several days after former Vox Media employee Eden Rohatensky published a post on Medium.com describing being sexually harassed by a supervisor.