Recently dug up in the Museum of the City of New York archives by Ephemeral New York, this great vintage photograph from 1943 shows a bunch of New Yorker lounging on a Tudor City rooftop in Midtown Manhattan, soaking up the sun.
From the very top of One World Trade Center, One World Observatory can see just about everything in New York City. While up on the 102nd floor, you can rent an iPad which has a special app on it containing augmented reality bits of information over the skyline you are seeing, plus these short, informative videos telling you what you are looking at. The One World Explorer app videos are now online, and in this one, learn the history of the Flatiron Building in just 31-seconds.
Over the past year, there has been much talk about adding a congestion pricing plan in Manhattan to help reduce traffic. It would charge drivers who drive through Manhattan during peak hours, providing an incentive to find alternate routes or times for transit, as well as providing a little bit of extra revenue to the City. The proposals usually meet a lot of resistance, but something needs to be done to reduce the current, unsustainable traffic levels. Watch this short video from StreetFilms to see a prime example of the problems a congestion pricing plan seeks to solve.
