Brooklyn now has a liquid nitrogen ice cream shop. [Brooklyn Based] Salt and pepper shakers, copper mugs, even entire place settings — these are the most stolen items from NYC restaurants. [NYP] How deaf-blind audience members are experiencing the revival of “Spring Awakening.” [WSJ] An engineer told the MTA that there’s a “moderate risk” of […]

IDNYC cardholders will get additional perks this year, like annual memberships for the Guggenheim, MoMA, and the Metropolitan Opera. [amNY] Getting to know NYC’s Christmas tree vendors. [Thrillist] How the “New Yawk” accent is playing into the presidential race. [Daily Intelligencer] This fake hand will let you take sneaky naps at work. [Design You Trust] The ghosts of […]

Local architect and photographer Joseph Lee Sweeney created “The Doors of Brooklyn” in 2004. To mark the one-year anniversary of his passing, you can buy a crowd-sourced version of the poster with 31 doors from Instagram. [Brownstoner] Fly around the world in a Millennium Falcon, Darth Vader’s Tie Fighter, or Luke’s X Wing with Star […]

Inside the Christmas wonderland that is Rolf’s German Restaurant, where they spend $60,000 a year on holiday decorations. [Business Insider] The most nauseating Brooklyn-branded products on Etsy. [DNAinfo] This balloon furniture won’t pop when you sit on it. [Mental Floss] FAO Schwarz, Market Diner, Trash Bar, Tribeca Cinemas–these are just some of the NYC spots that […]

Go backstage with the Rockettes. [Racked] The newly released LEGO skyline collection includes the Flatiron Building, Chrysler Building, Empire State Building, One World Trade Center and the Statue of Liberty. [Gothamist] A hidden bolt in Central Park dates back to the early 19th century when John Randel Jr. was plotting the NYC street grid. [Business Insider] Don’t […]

The Whitney Museum invites guests to take selfies. [NYP] “A bunch of Tisch grads are trying to make it in the big, bad world of acting in New York City. How are they not all famous actors yet? It’s been like two years.” A satirical roundup of web series. [New Yorker] The founder of SantaCon said the […]

A new food delivery app will donate a portion of proceeds to City Harvest through the month of December with the goal of feeding 100,000 hungry city children. [NYDN] Here’s a guide to experiencing NYC’s largest holiday light display in Dyker Heights. [Gothamist] How Brooklyn’s Ample Hills Creamery landed Disney’s limited edition “Star Wars” ice cream. […]

A new rooftop exhaust system hints that 190 Bowery may be getting a restaurant and/or nightlife tenant. [Bowery Boogie] People living in zip codes with the highest median incomes (Tribeca, Upper East Side) have the highest loan balances. [Curbed] Know of a spot to buy a Christmas tree? Add it to this interactive map! [DNAinfo] […]

After moving from its namesake home to East Third Street last year following a rent hike, the beloved St. Mark’s Bookshop is once again struggling to make ends meet. [EV Grieve] Times Square tops the list of most Instagrammed places in the world. It’s followed by the Eiffel Tower, London’s Tower Bridge, Moscow’s Red Square, and […]

You can now pay to “park” your dog thanks to these sidewalk dog kennels popping up in Brooklyn. [NYP] Meet the fleet of historic ships docked in Brooklyn. [CityLab] The FDR Drive’s first repaving in 50 years is complete. [NYT] Pringles (yes, the potato chips) have released a trio of candle scents — Pigs in Blankets, […]

New Jersey wants to put the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island on their new quarter, to be issued in 2017. [Gothamist] $5 thongs and revitalizing juices are just a couple of the items available at a new “walk of shame” kiosk in the Union Square subway station. [DNAinfo] Can you identify these cities by […]

Celebrate the Festival of Lights with an after-hours tour of the Eldridge Street Synagogue where you’ll learn about architecture and hidden history and enjoy a wine reception. [Untapped] Someone left free, homemade scarves in Tompkins Square Park. [EV Grieve] Chain restaurants must start adding sodium warning labels to their menus beginning tomorrow. [DNAinfo] Ride a 1930s […]

Here’s what 200 calories of your favorite Thanksgiving foods looks like. [Business Insider] Though Macy’s is emerging from a four-year, $400 million renovation, shoppers can still ride the store’s historic wooden escalators. [NYT] Nine things you didn’t know about Frank Gehry. [Fast Co. Design] The strange history of New York’s Thanksgiving ragamuffins. [Ephemeral NY] You can […]

The New York Compost Box Project takes newspaper boxes around the city and transforms them into compost drop-off sites. [Inhabitat] Located in Borough Park, Masbia is the only Kosher soup kitchen in the city. [Tablet] These candles melt away like glaciers to symbolize climate change. [CityLab] For New Yorkers who don’t want to speak to anyone, […]

Governor Cuomo vetoed a bill that would’ve given New Yorkers two free MetroCard transfers. He says it would have cost the city an extra $40 million a year. [Gothamist] Coney Island’s Wonder Wheel will be open on New Year’s Day for the first time. [amNY] Join photographers James and Karla Murray, who document the disappearing […]

She lives in NYC; he lives in Seoul. So they created an Instagram project called Half&Half that juxtaposes pictures of them in both cities. [Mashable] Tattly, “the masters of temporary tattoos,” have opened a brick and mortar tattoo parlor in Boerum Hill. [Design Milk] Five places to download free, ethnically diverse render people. [ArchDaily] Here’s a […]

A newly released archival video shows the East Village in the summer of 1968. [EV Grieve] A new poll shows that half of NYC residents say they’re “struggling economically, making ends meet just barely, if at all.” [NYT] During the month of September, there were almost 50,000 subway delays on weekdays, 3,000 of which were due to sick […]

Read these one-star Amazon reviews of famous architecture texts. [Archinect] Forget those beefy firemen, cab drivers are the new monthly pinups. Proceeds from the 2016 NYC Taxi Drivers Calendar go to University Settlement. [CityLab] In other cabbie news, here’s some insight into who taxi drivers are talking to on the phone. [Vice] Those self-balancing scooters you keep […]

Shake Shack is opening a standalone outpost on Austin Street in Forest Hills. It will be the fourth in Queens, after those at JFK and Citi Field and another under-construction store in Elmhurst. [Eater] Watch this “hypnotic video” of the New York Botanical Garden’s Holiday Train Show from the train’s point of view. [Gothamist] All the way […]

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill added this giant, curving glass door to the 51st Street 6 train subway station. [Contemporist] This app will match any color you see in nature with a nail polish. [Mashable] Lonely? A weird machine will give you a hug when no one else will. [NY Mag] A proposed $12 million renovation of […]

A Target will open in Tribeca in October 2016. It’ll be located on Greenwich and Murray Streets and be a bit smaller than traditional stores. [NYP] Ever wonder why certain subway stations don’t have countdown clocks? Thank that antiquated switchboard technology. [The Atlantic] The city’s considering landmarking President Chester A. Arthur’s former home in Murray […]

A slew of signs tagged #Slopelandia are popping up in Park Slope storefronts. Some make fun of local cliches (i.e. Kale Kidz) while others go for the shock factor (an ad for a Donald Trump office). [DNAinfo] 200 trees might get personal email addresses “as a mechanism for deepening public engagement with the trees.” [Gothamist] Richard Haas’ famous […]

It’s no secret that the city is food-hall obsessed, so here they all are mapped. [Gothamist] Upper East Siders get the most massages in Manhattan. [DNAinfo] The 100 books every New Yorker should read. [BK Mag] A living replica of Vincent van Gogh’s ear (titled Sugababe) is coming to NYC. [ArtNet] If you’ve always dreamed of having […]

Gerard Koeppel, author of “City on a Grid: How New York Became New York,” is giving a lecture and book signing tonight at the Museum of the City of New York. [MCNY] The man who owns the world’s only real jetpack just flew it around the Statue of Liberty and made a video of it. […]

Libraries in New York and Seattle are battling for the title of fastest book sorter. [NYT] A man fishing in the Gowanus Canal claims he caught a three-eyed catfish and plans to eat it. [Gothamist] Calling all hipsters: here’s a device called the Stache Shield that will keep your beard clean of latte foam and hotdog […]