Cheap, Colorful Danish Design Coming to Flatiron; Curbside Gardens to Help Clean Up the Gowanus Canal
- The New York Public Library is launching a new website called OLDNYC.ORG that will take all NYPL’s digitized images and tie them to a geo-location. [Bowery Boogie]
- Denmark’s quirky, super-affordable home decor chain Tiger is coming to NYC with a 5,000-square-foot Flatiron store opening next month. Ninety percent of the store’s colorful products will be under $15. [Fast Co. Design]
- The IRS’ secretive “tax collector’s spies” work out of the Ted Weiss Federal Building in downtown Manhattan. [Phase Zero]
- Ninety curbside gardens known as bioswales are being built to help clean the Gowanus Canal. [DNAinfo]
- Today in NYC history: the grisly Doctors’ Riot of 1788 prompted by severed limbs and gravedigging. [Untapped]
Images: Tiger store (L); bioswale (R)