Macy's Fourth of July Fireworks Photos; Federal Hall's 40-Foot Dutch Sculpture; Historic Fireboat Gets New Paint

There is a lot of stuff going on the City, and we can't write about it all. Here are some interesting things some of our friends have written up lately.

• Chelsea Now ⇒ Fireboat Gets Eye-Popping Paint Job; Return to Pier 66a Pending
• Curbed NY ⇒ South Bronx’s Transformative Development Boom, Mapped
• Daytonian in Manhattan ⇒ Resuscitated Relics -- Nos. 321 and 323 Canal Street
• Downtown Express ⇒ Razzle Dazzled! Historic Fireboat Gets Eye-Popping Paint Job in Public Art Project
• Gothamist ⇒ Photos: 75,000 Shells Explode Over East River for Macy's Fourth of July Fireworks
• Laughing Squid ⇒ Casey Neistat Surfs the Questionable Waters of New York City's East River to Celebrate the Fourth of July
• New York Times ⇒ An Unusual Jailbird Is Found at Rikers Island: A Snowy Owl
• Streetsblog New York City ⇒ Eyes on the Street: Say Hello to NYC’s First Bike Counter at the Base of the Manhattan Bridge
• The Bridge ⇒ In Booming Brooklyn, Who's Getting Left Behind? - the Bridge
• The New Yorker ⇒ Can Andy Byford Save the Subways?
• The Real Deal New York ⇒ LinkedIn Is Taking Even More Space at the Empire State Building
• Thrillist ⇒ Move Maps, Ban Backpacks, and Shut Up: How New Yorkers Would Fix the Subway
• Untapped Cities ⇒ 40-Foot Sculpture Inside Federal Hall Nods to NYC’s Dutch Colonial History