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Every four years, in the lead up to the presidential election, a new group of voters declare they will leave the country if their candidate does not get elected. According to the Google Data Editor Simon Rogers, searches for “how can I move to Canada” spiked 350 percent following March’s Super Tuesday results. But, in […]
The American flag seen in the iconic photo of the firefighters at ground zero on 9/11, which mysteriously went missing only hours after it was raised, has been found and will be displayed in a museum forevermore. Thomas E. Franklin, the photojournalist who took the photo for The Record newspaper, had heard a few years ago that the flag […]
Marisa Tomei will voice Jane Jacobs in the upcoming documentary “Citizen Jane: Battle for the City.” Vincent D’Onofrio will voice Robert Moses. [NYP] This is New York in the not-so-distant future, when sea levels have risen several feet. [NY Mag] One World Trade Center “gains popularity in the pantheon of New York kitsch.” [NYT] Take a look […]
The world might be your oyster, but Jamaica Bay is full of the bivalve molluscs. Starting with 36 thousand oysters last week and 12 thousand more this week, the largest single installation of breeding oysters in New York City began. A spokesman from the mayor’s office said hundreds of thousands of juvenile oysters will be added […]
Controversial plans to raze and condo-fy Park Slope’s iconic Pavilion Theater have been scrapped. It’ll instead become home to an outpost of Williamsburg’s popular dine-in movie theater Nitehawk. [NYT] Bjarke Ingels‘ skyline-changing tetrahedron Via 57 West has wrapped up construction. [6sqft inbox] The American flag immortalized in the ground zero from 9/11 was lost until 2014. Now that it’s […]
In the 1980s, the idea that Avenue C would eventually be home to condo developments with names like Boutique 67 would have sent most local residents into a fit of laughter and possibly a fit of rage. At the time, heroin was so widely available in Alphabet City that junkies would simply line up outside local tenements […]
The Isidor and Ida Straus Memorial at Straus Park, modeled after Audrey Munson. Via Wiki Commons.
The Environmental Protection Department is working to restore a self-sustaining oyster population in Jamaica Bay to improve water quality, protect the shoreline from erosion, and revive fish and wildlife habitats. [NYT] Uber proposes temporary “rideshare” deregulation to deal with L train shutdown. [Politico] The tong wars: how 1900s Chinatown descended into violence, bloodshed and savvy politics. [Post Magazine] From overpasses to […]
New York-based fashion designer Misha Nonoo is giving away front row seats to her latest collection—and you don’t even have to leave the house. In fact, you don’t even have to leave bed, because this fashion show is happening on Snapchat. The womenswear designer made headlines when she opted out of a traditional show in […]
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You might be able to get some fresh air in Manhattan—if you hang out in Central Park all day. Otherwise, the hazards of breathing city air change just about as quickly as it takes for your Uber to arrive at your destination, according to a new study from MIT Senseable City Lab. The MIT team […]
Every Friday 6sqft rounds up five of the best rental deals showcased on CityRealty.com’s no-fee rentals page, a space where house hunters can find the best concessions being offered by landlords across the city.
This United Nations office got a midcentury Danish renovation. [Curbed] Commercial needs and recreational desires are struggling to coexist in New York’s waterways. [NYT] The last two World Trade Center PATH train cars from 9/11 will open to the public for first time. [Untapped] Essex Crossing— the Lower East Side’s 1.65 million square foot mixed-use development–reaches a milestone with 175 […]
If you rent an apartment from a Victoria’s Secret model, you might expect some pretty posh digs, but one Airbnb customer is suing for the exact opposite. Christian Pugaczewski, a West Hollywood attorney with the New York-based firm Shearman & Sterling, rented a Roosevelt Island apartment from Lyndsey Scott, a Victoria’s Secret model in June. Pugaczewski […]