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BroadwayHD: Subscription Site Lets You Binge Watch Broadway Shows Online

2021-04-13T16:00:00-04:00

BroadwayHD is an online video service that streams Broadway hits and classics on-demand, just as you would with Netflix or Hulu. You can pay to watch per show, or you can pay a $9/month rate for unlimited access to over 150 different shows in all genres.

BroadwayHD is an online streaming service on a mission to promote and preserve live theatre, extending the reach of Broadway and Broadway caliber shows to anyone, anywhere.

Check out BroadwayHD to subscribe or learn more.

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[BOOKS] "Networks of New York" Serves as Guide to Urban Internet Structure

2020-11-04T16:00:00-05:00

Author and researcher Ingrid Burrington has an interesting project which involves decoding the cryptic physical infrastructure of the internet in New York City. This includes cables, relay boxes, wi-fi antennas and repeaters, and even the spray-painted symbols that ISP's like Spectrum places on the street to identify what lies below.

Using New York as her point of reference and more than fifty color illustrations as her map, Burrington takes us on a tour of the urban network: She decodes spray-painted sidewalk markings, reveals the history behind cryptic manhole covers, shuffles us past subway cameras and giant carrier hotels, and peppers our journey with background stories about the NYPD's surveillance apparatus, twentieth-century telecommunication monopolies, high frequency trading on Wall Street, and the downtown building that houses the offices of both Google and the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force.

Purchase "Networks of New York: An Illustrated Field Guide to Urban Internet Infrastructure" for just $20 on Amazon

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[VIDEO] These Librarians at New York Public Library Are the Human Google

2019-12-10T12:00:00-05:00

The New York Public Library has an interesting service where you can call a librarian with any question and they will look up the answer for you. Through the phone number, 917-ASK-NYPL, an actual human librarian will attempt to answer your questions through NYPL's vast archives.

Our friends at Great Big Story recently went down to the library to see what it's all about.

At the New York Public Library, you can call a librarian who will answer any researchable question you might have. The help-line has been around for over 40 years, and to this day it receives more than 30,000 calls a year. Need to know the color of an arctic fox's eyes? Ever wonder if there are full moons every night in Acapulco? Well, if Google isn't your thing, these librarians have got your answer.

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Check Out Two Decades of Net Art Through the Whitney Museum's Artport Program

2018-09-26T15:30:00-04:00

Hear from curator Christiane Paul and artists Mendi and Keith Obadike, Andy Deck, and Katherine Moriwaki and Jonah Brucker-Cohen, about the history of net art at the Whitney Museum.

Check out the program page to see works online and learn more about Artport at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

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This Company Wants to Bring Free, Open, Community-Based Internet to NYC

2018-05-30T13:00:00-04:00

NYC Mesh is an interesting local company which provides an alternative to the big content-spying, rate-throttling, NSA-partnering mega-corp internet service providers that we are have been told we need to use. If you are near downtown Manhattan or Bushwick, you should seriously check out this video from the New York Daily News explaining more about how mesh networking works and how it can help you.

Internet deserts in New York City are getting connected. Access to the world wide web is coming in the form of a community-based, non-profit organization called, NYC Mesh.

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See How Solar-Powered WiFi Could Prepare New York City for the Next Superstorm Sandy

2018-03-07T11:30:00-05:00

Red Hook Wifi is an interesting project from the Red Hook Initiative that is placing rooftop mesh networking equipment throughout the Red Hook Houses to provide connectivity and access even in the event of major flooding from the next super storm. Learn more about the project and how it is helping the community in this video from Thirteen.

When Superstorm Sandy hit, residents of the Red Hook Houses, the largest public housing development in Brooklyn with over 7,000 residents, struggled without power and clean water for almost a month. Instead of waiting for help, residents and civic groups transformed themselves from storm victims to storm responders. Meet the local leaders that are taking emergency preparedness into their own hands by installing and expanding a free, solar-powered Wi-Fi network to make sure that communication is always possible when disaster strikes. With climate change, sea level rise, and another superstorm always threats, they’re making sure that Red Hook is hooked up.

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360° Video Shows the Physical Infrastructure of the Internet in New York City

2017-11-30T16:30:00-05:00

Author and researcher Ingrid Burrington has an interesting project which involves decoding the cryptic physical infrastructure of the internet in New York City.

This includes cables, relay boxes, wi-fi antennas and repeaters, and even the spray-painted symbols that ISP's like Time Warner Cable places on the street to identify what lies below. The project evolved into a website called Seeing Networks, and now into the #1 book on Amazon's Sociology of Urban Areas category.

Using New York as her point of reference and more than fifty color illustrations as her map, Burrington takes us on a tour of the urban network: She decodes spray-painted sidewalk markings, reveals the history behind cryptic manhole covers, shuffles us past subway cameras and giant carrier hotels, and peppers our journey with background stories about the NYPD's surveillance apparatus, twentieth-century telecommunication monopolies, high frequency trading on Wall Street, and the downtown building that houses the offices of both Google and the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force.

In this immersive 360° video from the New York Times, take a peek at some of the internet infrastructure hidden in plain sight. If you can't move the view around, you need to use the Google Chrome browser on desktop, or the YouTube App for iOS or Android to move around inside the video.

Purchase "Networks of New York: An Illustrated Field Guide to Urban Internet Infrastructure" for just $15 on Amazon

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BroadwayHD: A Subscription Site That Lets You Binge Watch Broadway Shows Online

2017-07-17T16:30:00-04:00

BroadwayHD is an online streaming service on a mission to promote and preserve live theatre, extending the reach of Broadway and Broadway caliber shows to anyone, anywhere.

Check out BroadwayHD to subscribe or learn more.

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Viewing NYC Observing Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality

2017-07-12T09:00:00-04:00

Currently led by Trump appointee Ajit Pai, the Federal Communications Commision (FCC) is considering changing the rules that currently protect internet communications in a non-discriminatory way, rules that are commonly known as "net neutrality."

Net neutrality is the principle that Internet providers like Comcast & Verizon should not control what we see and do online. In 2015, startups, Internet freedom groups, and 3.7 million commenters won strong net neutrality rules from the US Federal Communication Commission (FCC). The rules prohibit Internet providers from blocking, throttling, and paid prioritization—"fast lanes" for sites that pay, and slow lanes for everyone else.

Pai and the FCC want to destroy net neutrality and give the big cable companies full control over what we see and do online. If these companies get their way, it will allow widespread throttling, blocking, censorship, and extra fees to access certain parts of the internet.

Cable companies are famous for high prices and poor service. Several rank as the most hated companies in America. Now, they're lobbying the FCC and Congress to end net neutrality. Why? It's simple: if they win the power to slow sites down, they can bully any site into paying millions to escape the "slow lane." This would amount to a tax on every sector of the American economy. Every site would cost more, since they'd all have to pay big cable. Worse, it would extinguish the startups and independent voices who can't afford to pay. If we lose net neutrality, the Internet will never be the same.

To show what the internet may look like if this happens, thousands of large sites across the web, will be participating in a Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality. Most sites are posting scary pop-ups intended to alert you of the possibility of a slowed, or blocked site in the future. A few sites will be observing an Internet Blackout Day and will essentially be turned off completely. Viewing NYC will be doing both of these.

For today only (July 12th, 2017), all pages on Viewing NYC will present a popup explaining what Net Neutrality is and why it is important. If you haven't joined the Battle for the Net, please consider providing your email address to stay in the loop as to how you can help stop the large cable companies from destroying the web. We will also be observing the Internet Blackout Day, and will not be posting any articles for the day, aside from this one.

The protections provided by net neutrality are extremely important and critical to each and every person using the internet. We urge you to join the fight to save it.

Matt Coneybeare
— Founder, Publisher, and Editor-in-Chief

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[WATCH] These Librarians at New York Public Library Are the Human Google

2016-10-19T09:23:56-04:00

Our friends at Great Big Story recently went down to the library to see what it's all about.

At the New York Public Library, you can call a librarian who will answer any researchable question you might have. The help-line has been around for over 40 years, and to this day it receives more than 30,000 calls a year. Need to know the color of an arctic fox's eyes? Ever wonder if there are full moons every night in Acapulco? Well, if Google isn't your thing, these librarians have got your answer.

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