When the Board of Commissioners of Central Park decided it was time to build Central Park in 1857, they announced a design contest with a prize to the tune of $2,000 (around $50,000 today). Obviously, it was Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux’s design won. But there were 33 other failed entries, only five of which still exist.
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New Yorkers are notoriously proud of their city, and what better way to show hometown love than with a .nyc address? According to Mayor Bloomberg’s official Twitter account, that will soon be possible for Big Apple residents. The just-launched website for the “ultimate New York City address” (har, har) says the top-level domain will help local businesses’ visibility in search results, in addition to eliminating all doubt as to where you reside. “Businesses, organizations and residents” will be eligible for the TLD, with registration beginning in late 2013. When it launches, .nyc will be the first city in the United States to receive a geography-based domain. Did you think New York would settle for anything less?
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Source: .NYC, @MikeBloomberg
The East River? Oh, we dammed that thing up and threw a new City Hall on top. The Hudson? Filled it with traffic years ago. New Yorkers have never been prudes about changing the natural landscape of their city, but if you dig into the archives, you’ll find dozens of ideas so radical, they make present-day Gotham feel like a nature reserve.
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Whether you’ve got to deal with a crotchety landlord or a dopey locksmith, we can all agree that replacing lost or stolen keys can be a drag. KeyMe, a new service launched this week in New York, seems to have found a solution by storing your keys in the cloud and making them accessible via a kiosk 24/7.
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When you build a monolithic tower that reaches hundreds of feet up into the sky, it’s going to cast a shadow. That can be a big problem for those on the ground, if they’d like to occasionally see the sun. But the designers of a new building being planned in lower Manhattan have figured out a way around the problem: An oddly-shaped building that will not only shed light on occupants, but spread it around for neighbors as well.
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New Yorkers rarely have time to stop and look up at the city around them, but the Museum of Modern Art is pushing us to do just that with a city-wide scavenger hunt that challenges players to explore the city’s architectural landmarks.
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If a Citi Bike is suffering from mechanical issues, courteous riders have begun turning the seat around to face the wrong way, a signal that other users should avoid that particular bicycle.
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Can you imagine what it would be like to report crimes via Facebook or call for a fire truck through Twitter? It would be pretty convenient, right? None of that scary "Call 911!" business. No ambling down to the precinct to fill out paperwork. No need to leave your living room at all, actually. It would be equivalent to a socially networked Neighborhood Watch.
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Earth Day has officially started in the U.S. which means we’ll all have to use the bathroom less, turn off all of the lights or whatever else you do in order to celebrate today’s event, but New York City decided today would be the best day to unveil its new electric taxi pilot program.
Don’t expect all taxis in the New York City area to magically be replaced with electric vehicles, as only six Nissan LEAF cabs will hit the streets as a way to introduce the program to those looking to take a ride inside of a green vehicle. The Taxi and Limousine Commission believes electric cabs could recede gas emissions by nearly 90,000 tons annually while also reducing fuel and maintenance costs as electric cabs don’t have belts that would wear out with normal use as combustion engines. (more…)
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It was rumored earlier this month T-Mobile may become a contract-less network some time in March, specifically on March 24, and it looks as though the stars are aligning just right for it to become fact as the company has started to send out invitations for an exclusive event to be held next week.
The event will take place on March 26 in New York City and its invite teases a possible future of becoming a contract-less wireless carrier as it says “we’re still a wireless company. We’re just not going to act like one anymore.” That could certainly be a hint at either becoming a contract-less carrier or T-Mobile could also be planning to sell oranges at the side of the freeway in L.A. We’d bet our money on the former.
With T-Mobile’s plans to roll out 4G LTE service some time this month as well as it’s possible merger with MetroPCS, this certainly could be considered a big month for the fourth-largest US wireless carrier. Hopefully whatever they’re planning for next week’s event will be big enough to gain interest from wireless consumers on competing carriers.
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