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.

• 6sqft ⇒ The 10 Most Charming Spots in the Greenwich Village Historic District
• Bowery Boogie ⇒ City Honors Sun Yat-Sen With Permanent Monument and Columbus Park Plaza Renaming
• Brooklyn Paper ⇒ Five Things to Do in Brooklyn, Feb. 8–14
• Bushwick Daily ⇒ Skela’s New Single “Linda” Feels Like a Love Letter to Bushwick
• Curbed NY ⇒ A New NYC Museum Celebrates Man’s Best Friend
• Daytonian in Manhattan ⇒ The Arthur J. Peabody House - 15 West 10th Street
• EV Grieve ⇒ A Visit to Dumpling Man on St. Mark's Place
• Forgotten NY ⇒ Lost Subway Station Names of Astoria
• Free Williamsburg ⇒ Top 5 Shows of the Weekend
• New York Times ⇒ She Could Get Millions to Turn This Factory Into Condos. She’s Not Selling.
• StreetEasy ⇒ Key to Gramercy Park: How to Get Into NYC's Famed Private Green Space
• Streetsblog New York City ⇒ Cop Tackles Cyclist in Midtown — And It’s All Caught on Camera!
• The Infatuation ⇒ Tacos El Bronco
• The Real Deal New York ⇒ Sales Volume in Northern Manhattan Hit 7-Year Low in 2018
• Untapped Cities ⇒ Visit the Hidden Slave Galleries of St. Augustine’s Church in NYC’s Lower East Side
• West Side Rag ⇒ Citi Bike Installs Largest Station in the City on the Edge of UWS

Brooklyn-based Colossal Media is the best in the game when it comes to large-scale, hand-painted murals for hire. Their murals can be seen all over New York City, and is one of the more pleasant advertising forms we have. In this recent episode of the "In Our Backyard" series from ABC 7, hear from the co-founder and the sign painters, and watch how it all comes together to create something beautiful.

Colossal Media artists hang off the sides of buildings to hand paint massive billboards.

YouTuber and aerial videography enthusiast Drone Fanatic recently uploaded this great bird's-eye view of the Manhattan and Brooklyn skylines, as seen from above in Williamsburg. Check it out!