Get Intimate With Your Morning Cup of Joe; The History of 4th Avenue’s Book Row

• Single and lonely? The Kiss coffee cup lid can bring a little intimacy to your daily routine. [designboom]
• City Tech students created a prefabricated “apartment of the future,” which will compete in the 2015 Solar Decathalon. You can tour it now at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. [DNAinfo]
• The history of NYC’s lost Book Row on 4th Avenue. The six-block span was once home to 48 bookstores. [Untapped]
• If you’re torn on whether to fly home for Thanksgiving or Christmas, this map will tell you which is cheaper. [Business Insider]
• A Tribeca Q&A with neighborhood resident (and actor/director) Edward Burns. [Tribeca Citizen]

Images: Kiss lid via Jang WooSeok (L); The Strand bookstore in 1968 (R)