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 ⇒ Make Way for the Women’s March on NYC: Street Closings, Maps and More
• Bowery Boogie ⇒ ‘The Forward’ Ceases Print Publication After 121 Years
• Curbed NY ⇒ Willets Point Redevelopment Could Include Soccer Stadium, More Housing
• Daytonian in Manhattan ⇒ The 1895 Holmes-Bromley Candy Factory - 83 Warren Street
• Free Williamsburg ⇒ Top 5 Shows of the Weekend
• Greenpointers ⇒ Visioning Meeting for Bushwick Inlet Parks' Motiva Site 1/24
• Joe's NYC ⇒ The World Trade Center
• MTA ⇒ MTA Update for L Train Riders
• New York Times ⇒ A Subway to Staten Island? How a Transit Dream Died
• New York YIMBY ⇒ Cantilevers Begin to Conjoin for Domino Sugar Factory Redevelopment's 260 Kent Avenue, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
• The Lo-Down ⇒ Signs of Change in Seward Park
• The Real Deal New York ⇒ How It Can Go Wrong
• Thrillist ⇒ Everything You Must Do in NYC This Weekend
• Untapped Cities ⇒ NYC Vintage Photographs: Grand Central’s Transformation From Depot to Station to Terminal
• Wildlife Conservation Society ⇒ Animal Planet's THE ZOO Continues to Deliver an All-Access and Exclusive Look at the Bronx Zoo

Created sometime around 1925, this fascinating vintage film shows street and buildings around Midtown and Lower Manhattan, and the beach and boardwalk of Coney Island. Originally a silent video, appropriate audio was added in by Dutch historian, photographer, and videographer Michael Rogge. Check it out!

A Dutch couple took this 16mm film almost a century ago. […] How much has changed in the meantime ? In the 17th century New York = Nieuw Amsterdam, was a Dutch settlement. We still lament having given it up ! Note that at 2:47 a swastika is painted on a touring bus. The Rialto Sightseeing New York City used a right-facing swastika as their logo at the time. The sound was added by me.

This week on Sweet Digs, we step inside the home of Daily Sleeper co-founder, Asya Varetsa. Her home lies on the border of Ridgewood and Bushwick in Brooklyn, where she splits the rent of $2,700 monthly with her boyfriend. Watch this episode of Sweet Digs to tour her minimal space!