Last week, the New York Times produced a beautiful feature that serves as a monument to monuments, of sorts, highlighting the often-forgotten statues, plaques, pillars and benches that mark Important Sports and Important People across New York City.
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This so-called Manatus map, originally drawn in 1639, is the oldest map of New York City in the New York Public Library’s Digital Gallery. The prominence offered to Brooklyn, that massive land mass in the bottom middle, ought to please the hipster types. Manhattan is that little nub above it. [Untapped Cities]
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361 Broadway, a cast-iron building in lower Manhattan, has stayed put as the neighborhood around it transformed its factories and workshops into restaurants and high-end boutiques. Now, after 133 years, it’s changing too—thanks to two $15 million metal penthouses due to alight on its roof.
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This week, MoMA confirmed its plans to raze a neighboring museum, creating a continuous connection to the luxury supertall going up next door.
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The only thing cooler than gawking at record-breaking architecture is watching record-breaking architecture get built. The tallest hotel in North America
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IBM just put the pedal to the metal on Watson’s crawl towards relevance. The company just announced a $1 billion investment, giving the supercomputer its own business division as well as an office in New York City’s Astor Place.
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Now that we know it was an eight-inch steel pipe that brought the world’s largest-diameter tunneling machine to a halt
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Michael Bloomberg leaves office tomorrow after 12 years as New York City’s mayor. No mayor in recent memory has added so much to a city. Or taken so much away. To remember him properly, here’s a list of everything Bloomberg banned during his time in office.
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The bright ball that hovers over Times Square on New Year’s Eve is special this year. Sure, it’s iconic and colorful and mesmerizing as it always is. This year, however, the ball will captivate us all with a brand new crystal coating. And, boy, is it pretty.
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The new year is less than a week away and those who have made plans to ring in 2014 at special locations around the world are already gearing up for travel. Search the internet for popular spots and you’ll find dozens, but every list is bound to include Times Square in New York City. Over a million people from around the world gather at this famous location in midtown Manhattan where one of the world’s largest celebration of New Year’s Eve takes place. Moreover, the celebration is broadcasted and viewed by over a billion people. The official Times Square New Year’s Eve 2014 app has been released which lets you keep up with the festivities even if you can’t make it to New York.
The ball drop has taken place at Times Square since 1907, with the exception of 1942 and 1943. It is over 12 feet in diameter, weighs almost 6 tons and contains more than 32,000 LEDs making for a very colorful affair. Through the app, you can watch live streaming of events in Times Square which leads up to the new year as well as the iconic ball drop. The app lets users customize the countdown clock according to their timezones, so that they don’t miss the festivities. It will also display tweets from the Times Square Ball, which will include news and pictures taken from the very top. The Times Square New Year’s Eve 2014 app is available as a free download from the App Store and Google Play Store.
Times Square New Year’s Eve 2014 Ball Drop App Released original content from Ubergizmo. 
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