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.

• Atlas Obscura ⇒ Photographing the New York City Subway Cars That Retired as Artificial Reefs
• Brooklyn Paper ⇒ Egg Blitz: Kids Battle for Candy Dominance During Prospect Park Egg Hunt
• Bushwick Daily ⇒ No Bread, No Problem: A Guide to Passover in Bushwick
• Curbed NY ⇒ Isamu Noguchi’s NYC Museum Will Get a Major Expansion
• Daytonian in Manhattan ⇒ The Wilmerding House - 18 East 77th Street
• EV Grieve ⇒ Renovated Small Dog Run Reopens in Tompkins Square Park
• Eater ⇒ What Happens When It Turns Out a Restaurant Is Too Damn Loud?
• Free Williamsburg ⇒ MTA Releases New Subway Map to Detail the L Train's 'Partial Shutdown' Plan
• Gothamist ⇒ Video: New Yorkers Experience Just Another Totally Normal Day on the Subway...
• New York YIMBY ⇒ Permits Filed for 18-Story Hotel at 145 Bowery on the Lower East Side
• QNS.com ⇒ Final Building in Flushing Mixed-Use Development Tops Out, Sales Set to Begin in Spring
• Streetsblog New York City ⇒ Streetfilms Wayback Machine: When Union Square Sucked (Before DOT Fixed It!)
• The Zumper Blog ⇒ 7 New Restaurants in NYC You Must Try This Spring
• Thrillist ⇒ The Best Head Shops and Smoke Shops in NYC

Created by Mauricio Giraldo, software engineer at the New York Public Library's Data Labs, this great interactive map allows you to see what businesses existed on each lower Manhattan and North Brooklyn block between 1887 and 1889. The map uses public data from the library’s extensive collection of vintage New York City maps a.k.a The Map Warper Project which has listed thousands of historical places in its records.

Explore the full map to see what existed on your block in 1857

OddFellows is a small ice cream shop on Kent St. in Williamsburg that serves up some of New York City's best homemade ice cream. In this video from Big Review TV, watch as host Rana explores the shop to see what it's all about.

High quality and fresh homemade ice cream with a changing mix of flavors is offered at Odd Fellows Ice Cream Co.