Play buttonCulture A Look Inside the 45,000-Piece Collection of Trashed Treasures Curated by Sanitation Worker Nelson Molina | Colossalthisiscolossal.com - Laura Staugaitis If, like me, you live in New York City, you’re confronted on the daily with mounds of trash on the sidewalk. While the appliances, antique furniture, …
Engagement Rings You Can Buy an Engagement Ring from a Vending Machine in NYCuntappedcities.com - Michelle Young Luxury vending machines are all the rage now, popping up with pristine lighting in the places you least expect them, like the New York City subway. …
New York City Three Scars Through Lower Manhattan Tell The Story Of The Birth Of Car Culture - Gothamistgothamist.com - Josh Fruhlinger Lower Manhattan, the oldest part of the borough, is full of ghosts, and those ghosts are visible on the map. When the city rolled out the plan for …
Play buttonCulture American Cities Then & Now: See How New York, Los Angeles & Detroit Look Today, Compared to the 1930s and 1940sopenculture.com - by Colin Marshall Palimpsest has become clichéd as a descriptor of cities, but only due to its truth. Repeatedly erasing and rewriting parts of cities over years, …
nineteen My Typical New York DayThe New Yorker - Eddie SmallI wake up every morning at 7:30 A.M. to my alarm, which is a mashup of “Theme from New York, New York,” “Empire State of Mind,” and the audiobook of “The Bonfire of the Vanities.” I spend a few minutes
Greenwich Village A walking tour of 1949 Greenwich VillageCurbed - James NeviusIn February 1949, the New York Times reported that 76-year-old author Henry Wysham Lanier had been working “sixteen to eighteen hours a day” since the previous September on a unique history of Greenwich
New York Public Library Watch The New York City Subway Chug Along Seven Months After It OpenedJalopnik - Aaron Gordon Labor Day, which is today, honors the men and women who toiled in obscurity but made our towns, cities, and the country as a whole a better place to …
New York City Weird Treasures Line The Bottom Of NYCs Murky WaterwaysPatch - Noah Manskar NEW YORK — Consider the giraffe whose corpse was reportedly found off the Brooklyn waterfront. Or the piano at the bottom of The Bronx River. Or the …
Trends These senior citizens are definitely cooler than youDAZED - Liz HewSpotted on the streets of Manhattan: Kangol bucket hats, New Balance sweatshirts, classic berets, vintage Louis Vuitton weekender bags, Burberry scarves, and sleek walking sticks. Founded by New York-based
Play buttonCulture Watch the Completely Unsafe, Vertigo-Inducing Footage of Workers Building New York’s Iconic Skyscrapersopenculture.com - by Ted Mills Would anyone in their right mind sign up for a job that had a high risk of mortality/disability? Or a job where red hot metal is being hurled …
Clowns Pennywise the Clown Creeps Through a Subway Car Filled With Unimpressed New York City Commuterslaughingsquid.com - Lori Dorn Commuters on a New York City L train were completely unfazed by a rather creepy Pennywise the Clown making his way through the car with a red balloon …
Culture Subway riders befriended a cute little bug on the trainMashable - Andy MoserBugs on the New York City subway system rarely get the star treatment, but one lucky insect got vaulted to fame on Thursday when passengers discovered it on their train. Instead of meeting an instantaneous,
New York City Take A Ride With The Subway's 'Happiest Conductor'gothamist.com Kenneth Burton makes passengers feel welcome aboard his "choo choo." (David "Dee" Delgado / Gothamist) “Let’s make some space, so the stroller can …
Play buttonArchives This footage of New York in 1993 will make you miss New York in 1993boingboing.net - Xeni Jardin Manhattan in the early nineties, captured on what must have at the time been an unusually high-def camera. The uploader of this incredible archival …
New York City People Are Celebrating The Work That Went Into This Woman's Subway Selfie Photo ShootHuffPost - Jenna Amatulli"She is my new queen,” wrote one person on Twitter about a New York City resident who took the selfie game to a new level over the weekend. You have never felt yourself like this woman having a whole photo
Good News Watch Two Total Strangers Face Off for the Most Epic Saxophone Battle On the NYC Subway (#TBT)goodnewsnetwork.org - McKinley Corbley This incredible musical face-off on the New York City subway may have taken place several years ago, but it has since gone down in internet history …
'INeedToLeaveNYC' shows how living in NYC can be a mess of contradictionsMashable - Sage Anderson"Happy hour" drinks that cost $25. Missing the C train by one second and having to wait 30 minutes until the next one. Your landlord texting you for weeks that someone is "definitely coming" to fix your
Offbeat News 'Gigantic' praying mantis terrorizes 6 trainNew York Post - By Jackie Salo The MTA had one more pest plaguing the subway system on Tuesday when a massive praying mantis joined commuters for a ride. City Councilman Keith …
Busking bard: Author sells custom poetry on the streets of Park Slopebrooklynpaper.com - By Colin Mixson A Kings County author is offering Park Slope residents custom-made poetry covering any topic and written right before their eyes in an act that …
Bronx woman turns Manhattan ATM space into dance floorNew York Post - By Hannah Frishberg Bronx native Veyonce Deleon, 18, was grabbing some cash after vogueing practice last week when she realized her bank made for a great stage. “I told …
Offbeat News How the Generational Need for Inexpensive Orderly Convenience Led to Manhattan's Iconic Gridlaughingsquid.com - Lori Dorn In a geometric episode of Vox Almanac Road Trip Edition, host Phil Edwards explains how the city of Manhattan wound up with its now-iconic grid, a …
New Yorkers Appear to Be Frozen in Place in Super Slow-Motion Footage Shot With a Galaxy S10laughingsquid.com - Lori Dorn Filmmaker Glen Vivaris captured the bustle of typical New York City streets in super slow motion with his Samsung Galaxy S10. The camera on this …
This New York City Seal Is Everyone's Favorite Neighbor | Live ScienceLive Science NEW YORK — "Oh my god!" a woman shouted. "It's a seal!" She was seated on a bench near me on June 8 by Muscota Marsh, at the northern end of …
The story behind one of NYC’s most mysterious buildings and its longtime ownerCurbed - Valeria RicciulliFor decades, the six-story building at 190 Bowery, locally known as The Bank, was a mystery to New Yorkers. The Renaissance Revival-style building, covered in graffiti and grime, was often mistaken as
The Hidden Histories of 15 Street Names in NYCuntappedcities.com - Ariella Rosen Lower Manhattan is deeply rooted in history. Not only is it present in the age of the buildings and the irregular shapes of the streets, but every …
A Look at New York's Iconic 1970s Street Styledepartures.com - Kendall Cornish From Robert de Niro to Diane von Furstenburg, these fashion icons show us how New York street style was done in the 1970s. New York City transformed …
Offbeat News Inside a Black Painted Renovated Firehouse in Brooklyn That Houses a Stumptown Coffee and Archery Rangelaughingsquid.com - Lori Dorn Wendy Goodman of the New York Magazine series Interior Lives visited with set designers Julian LaVerdiere and Erica Hohf at Empire Engine 19, their …
Commuter nearly pushed into subway tracks by water rushing into flooded stationMashable - Morgan SungNew York City really is going through it. An innocent commuter was nearly swept off a platform and into train tracks when he got caught in a rapidly flooding subway station. The heavy rain pouring down
Time-lapse Photography An Incredible Timelapse of the Lights Coming Back on After the Unexpected 2019 New York City Blackoutlaughingsquid.com - Lori Dorn When the lights unexpectedly went out on the West Side of Manhattan for several hours on Saturday, July 13, 2019, surprisingly, very little chaos …
