Oct 22
Crime! Cars! Lululemon! There’s always something trying to bring your neighborhood down, right? Each week, we’ll round up the stories about what exactly you think is ruining our cities. See a story we missed? Drop it in the comments.
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Oct 18
Even if you’ve lived in New York for decades, gaining access to a rooftop you’ve never explored can still be surprisingly fun: The burst of wind, the sound of traffic, and an entirely new vantage point on a city you’d think you’d be sick of after so many years. That’s the basic concept behind Stories Above New York, a visual archive of New York’s rooftop views that’s three years in the making.
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Oct 17
If there’s one thing you can count on in a large crowded city like New York, it’s that there’s always someone waiting on the subway platform. So while we love this gorgeous $48 backpack from Mojo featuring a subway door screen print that actually opens to reveal a platform, we’re left a little unsettled by the lack of passengers waiting to cram on.
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Oct 16
At 5pm today, the complete Manhattan section of City Water Tunnel No. 3 became operational, sending drinking water through this colossal piece of subterranean infrastructure—under construction since 1970—for the very first time.
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Oct 11
I remember my very first trip to New York City at eight years old in vivid—though brief—detail. A flash of Columbus Circle horns blaring, buildings towering. A pack of baseball cards from a surly street vendor. A seagull on the Circle Line, shitting on my leg. "This city is scary," I thought. "I want to come back."
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Oct 11
As growth in China proper plods along, Chinese corporations are eager to expand into foreign investments—the latest of which is centrally located in downtown Brooklyn. Greenland Holdings Group, a Shanghai-based developer, will buy the majority share in the long-beleaguered Atlantic Yards Housing Development, a $4 billion housing scheme tacked onto the deal that built the Barclays Center.
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Oct 11
The government has been shut down for over a week, as have plenty of federally funded websites. Which makes me appreciate a good civic website even more. I was able to find seven city sites that will make you feel good about government again. Maybe.
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Oct 10
When James Kastner took off from Newark International Airport he had no idea he’d soon be taking such an incredible photo of One World Trade Center.
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Oct 10
Almost everybody knows Berenice Abbott’s famous "Night View, New York" photograph. It’s Manhattan in a nutshell—a solid wall of city, cold and bright. But we’ve never known the whole story behind this definitive image.
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Oct 08
I think people who live in New York City are extremely lucky, because there are so many developers out there who are setting up all sorts of apps and services targeted especially for them. One of the latest of these is TipTop.
It’s described as “a simple way to find the best of NYC.” It’s essentially a search service for those living in the area, but with a twist: it only displays results of the purported “best” of whatever it is you’re looking for.
Be it the best burger, the best pizza, or the best haircut even, just fill out the fields on the TipTop NYC site and click on the magnifying glass icon to start your search. And the bests aren’t just picked by critics – they’re ranked by the community’s votes.
The service was built and recently launched by Betaworks. Let’s hope they add the rest of the major cities in the great US of A to their database soon.
[via Laughing Squid]
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