In Episode 1, we're diving into the controversy surrounding Little Island, the newest addition to New York City's arsenal of public parks. With its futuristic design and lofty ambitions, as well as a slew of controversy, Little Island promised to be a monolith for the Chelsea neighborhood and revolutionize public space. But does it deliver?

In this lesson I want to show you how New York's transit connections shaped the contours of the city and created the Metropolis that we know today

Colorization artist Dave Hart recently took this great vintage photograph, showing a Jewish Market on the Lower East Side around 1895, and applied his magic to it, presenting a street scene that is close to what it would have actually looked like in that era had the camera been able to capture color. Check out the Shorpy page for more on the image.