For the second year in a row, Lonely Planet names Queens the country’s #1 travel destination. [NYT] 50 things you didn’t know about Le Corbusier. [ArchDaily] To compete with Uber, the taxi industry has launched its own app. Called Arro, it will allow users to hail and pay for yellow and green cabs right on their […]

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 […]

Be transported to a Spanish villa just by looking at this unique adobe-style house in Brooklyn Heights. [Gothamist] Mister Softee may serve up summer deliciousness, but don’t mess with him when it comes to his jingle. He’s suing a rival ice cream truck for allegedly stealing the signature tune. [NYDN] Ennead Architects and RAFT Landscape Architecture plan to build a Heroic […]

Sweltering in your apartment with no AC? Here’s ten hacks to stay cool. [AOL Real Estate] There’s a giant particle collider on Long Island. It recreates conditions present shortly after the Big Bang, making it the closet thing we have to a “time machine.” [Tech Insider] Decoding the secret language of a city’s street signs, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]