Venus and Serena Williams Sell Midtown West Apartment for $2M The Bronx Is Getting a New Mixed-Use High-Rise Near Yankee Stadium Facebook Co-Founder Lists His Elegant Bespoke Soho Loft for $8.75M First Look at 23-Story Condominium Replacing Greenwich Village’s Bowlmor Lanes New York Times Custom Birthday Book Features Every Front Page Since Your Birth Inside […]
A new Lomography photography exhibit shows Freshkills‘ transformation from landfill to park. [DNAinfo] Have a look at the colorful murals coming to the construction fence of Brooklyn’s Pacific Park mega-development. [Curbed] Why John Scioli, the 30-year owner of Cobble Hill’s beloved Community Bookstore, is cashing out. [Gothamist] Take a tour of a family’s magical farmhouse upstate […]
Subway trains from 1964 on the C and J/Z lines won’t be replaced until 2022. [NYDN] A local artist is planning a funeral procession down the High Line. [DNAinfo] The world’s first 3D-printed violin sounds pretty darn good. [Fast Co. Design] Have fun in the sun on Saturday at Coney Island’s 25th Anniversary sand sculpting competition. [Brownstoner] These […]
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Greenpoint has the most cases of illegal trash dumping. [NYP] A 1940s house-building machine could supposedly crank out a two-bedroom home in 24 hours. Was this the original 3-D printer? [CityLab] This 17-year-old just opened a gelato shop on the Lower East Side. [Yahoo! Food] Thanks to “hehe,” “haha,” and emoji, no one is using LOL anymore. […]
The new Broadway musical “Hamilton” is the hot ticket in town. Here are all the places in New York Alexander Hamilton frequented. [Broadway Direct] A Rhode Island-based startup called Greycork is promising modern furniture that’s cheaper and easier to assemble than Ikea. [Curbed] Still mourning the end of “Mad Men?” Ease the pain by owning […]
The Q train has the best wireless connection. The 4, 5, 6, J, and Z have the worst. [Gothamist] This tiny “elevator” can be installed in just about any home by doing little more than cutting a hole in the floor. [Fast Co. Exist] Thousands of bees made the Barclays Center’s green roof home. [NYT] […]
First 1,000+ Foot Tower Outside Manhattan May Rise in Downtown Brooklyn Are the City’s Bodegas Becoming a Thing of the Past? Funky Soho Apartment from ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ Keeps Trying 2 World Trade Center Could Be the Most Expensive Office Tower in the World Could This Deconstructivist Office Tower Be Coming to the Garment […]
JR @ 100 Franklin from DDG on Vimeo A British creative agency is bringing an 81,000-ball pit for adults to Soho. You can make a reservation for a 30-minute session. [Gothamist] The MTA says subway stations where trash cans were removed saw a 66 percent decline in the number of garbage bags hauled out. [NYDN] A new […]
Artist Nicholas Holiber crafts a big head out of reclaimed materials that’ll be on display in Tribeca Park until September. [Contemporist] From brothels to boutiques, GreeneStreet.nyc maps out 400 years of one Soho street’s gentrification. [WIRED] CUNY professor William Helmreich did something meshuga (our new favorite word): He walked every block in every borough. [CBS […]
Here’s why NYC airports have so many delays. [Business Insider] The Brooklyn Botanic Garden has announced the winners of its annual Greenest Block contest, and the winners are in Bed-Stuy and Fort Greene. [Curbed] A year after the Meow Parlour opened, the Lower East Side is getting its second cat cafe. [Bowery Boogie] Have a […]
Turns out, there actually is no bubonic plague or anthrax on the subway. The scientists who made these claims back in February are now backing off their findings. [WSJ] Check out this photo essay of lower Manhattan in 1980. [Tribeca Citizen] The term jaywalking, which was coined in the Times in 1915, is celebrating its centennial year. It […]
Are you guilty of gentrifying your neighborhood? Find out with this gentrification calculator. [Slate] New Yorkers don’t like to follow directions. Looks like we’ve been illicitly cracking open fire hydrants for centuries. [Atlas Obsurca] Ten modern playgrounds in the city design-loving-parents will love taking their tiny tykes to. [Curbed] All of the states’ economies were ranked from worst to […]
July’s 10 Most-Read Stories My 425sqft: Tour a Bubbly Packaging Designer’s Boerum Hill Studio Filled with Eclectic Finds Julia Roberts Lists Greenwich Village Apartment for $4.5M New York’s First-Ever Penthouse: A 54-Room Upper East Side Mansion Built for a Cereal Heiress Day vs. Night: What NYC’s Population Looks Like Tetra-Shed: A Portable Wooden Home Office […]
Photo essay by Nathan Kensinger documents the changing Coney Island boardwalk. [Curbed] The city’s 10 oldest surviving commercial real estate dynasties. [BisNow] Thomas Heatherwick’s designs may be unique and evocative (just look at the renderings for his Pier 55 floating park), but at what price? [NYTimes] A new infographic from the Design Trust links urban agriculture to positive […]
Soho is getting a cat camp pop-up this weekend. It will offer a series of educational “cativities.” [NYDN] New dating app Cheekd will let you search missed connections on the subway without any internet. [DNAinfo] New Yorkers think everyone else works less and is lazier than them. [Daily Intelligencer] On Saturday night, digital light images of endangered […]
Can drinking fountains make a comeback in NYC? [CityLab] There’s a tiny island called Tinian, 8,000 miles from New York in the Pacific Ocean, where you’ll find NYC locations like Broadway, Central Park, Greenwich Village, and Riverside Drive. [Gothamist] A table lamp designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for his 1911 Taliesin house in Wisconsin is now available […]
Photo series “Doorway Galleries” documents the spray-painted, stenciled, and stickered doorways of NYC buildings. [BK Mag] Active uses, street furniture, and first-floor windows–are these the three traits shared by the city’s most walkable streets? [CityLab] A mysterious building on West 31st Street is the last remnant of the original Penn Station. [Scouting NY] This device […]
Here are 30 ways to spend a single dollar in NYC. There’s a slice of pizza, a coffee from McDonald’s, and a half mile in a cab. [Business Insider] A history of the comic book industry in New York City. [Bowery Boys] Tour the easy-going Clinton Hill brownstone of a plant designer and a DJ. [Design […]
Here’s How You Can Live in a Billionaire’s Row Condo for Free AND Make Six Figures Julia Roberts Lists Greenwich Village Apartment for $4.5M What Does Your Zip Code Say About You? This Map Tells All The History of Brooklyn Blackout Cake: German Bakeries and WWII Drills BIG Ideas: Bjarke Ingels Talks 2 WTC and […]
We’ve heard of furniture made from local reclaimed wood, but never headphones. Check out these maple beauties. [Contemporist] The city’s streets are the seventh worst in the nation, which costs drivers nearly $800 a year in maintenance and repairs. [NYDN] And speaking of bad roads… Queens’ infamous Boulevard of Death (aka Queens Boulevard) is getting […]
Forced to relocate due to rising rents, the iconic Union Square Cafe is moving just a stone’s throw away to 19th Street and Park Avenue South. [6sqft inbox] Never drive around the block looking for a spot again. A new app called Luxe matches users with parking valets. [Business Insider] This cabinet was inspired by mid-century modern architecture. [Design […]
What doesn’t Google know about us? A new feature in Maps called Your Timeline lets you check where you were at any given time. [Mashable] See how much NYC has changed since the 1990s. [ArchDaily] This new poster from Pop Chart Lab is a chart-itectural history of American houses, from 17th century Postmedieval English abodes to 1990s […]
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