[VIDEO] Here's Why Summer Rayne Oakes Loves Her Brooklyn Houseplant Jungle

Brooklyn resident Summer Rayne Oakes has dedicated her life to health, nature and environment, so it should come as little surprise that her 1,200 foot Williamsburg apartment has nearly every inch filled with about 1,000 thriving plants. Learn more about her and her indoor jungle in this short video from The New Yorker.

The plant expert Summer Rayne Oakes cares for a vast collection of indoor foliage—more than a thousand plants, from pothos to succulents. She explains why so many millennials have developed houseplant fever.

This Cartoon Map From 1970 Shows We New Yorkers Have Been Egotists For a Long Time

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This amazing cartoon map pretty much sums up how most New Yorkers still see the City today, nearly five decades after it was originally drawn. Everything to the North of Westchester is Canada, everything South of Staten Island might as well be Florida. Anything West of the Hudson is corn up until San Francisco, and to the East, London is obviously the last stop on the L train.