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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.

• Chelsea Now ⇒ Fireboat Gets Eye-Popping Paint Job; Return to Pier 66a Pending
• Curbed NY ⇒ South Bronx’s Transformative Development Boom, Mapped
• Daytonian in Manhattan ⇒ Resuscitated Relics -- Nos. 321 and 323 Canal Street
• Downtown Express ⇒ Razzle Dazzled! Historic Fireboat Gets Eye-Popping Paint Job in Public Art Project
• Gothamist ⇒ Photos: 75,000 Shells Explode Over East River for Macy's Fourth of July Fireworks
• Laughing Squid ⇒ Casey Neistat Surfs the Questionable Waters of New York City's East River to Celebrate the Fourth of July
• New York Times ⇒ An Unusual Jailbird Is Found at Rikers Island: A Snowy Owl
• Streetsblog New York City ⇒ Eyes on the Street: Say Hello to NYC’s First Bike Counter at the Base of the Manhattan Bridge
• The Bridge ⇒ In Booming Brooklyn, Who's Getting Left Behind? - the Bridge
• The New Yorker ⇒ Can Andy Byford Save the Subways?
• The Real Deal New York ⇒ LinkedIn Is Taking Even More Space at the Empire State Building
• Thrillist ⇒ Move Maps, Ban Backpacks, and Shut Up: How New Yorkers Would Fix the Subway
• Untapped Cities ⇒ 40-Foot Sculpture Inside Federal Hall Nods to NYC’s Dutch Colonial History

NYC Pads is a funny web series that is in the same vein as MTV's "Cribs" where a celebrity's home is toured during the show. The twist is that the people in the NYC Pads videos are normal New Yorkers with shitty apartments. In this episode from the series, watch as hosts Maddy and Caroline explore the Bed-Stuy home of comedian/actor/mover Napoleon Emill.

Maddy and Caroline venture deep into the heart of Bed-Stuy to visit Napoleon Emill and find out the secret of how he stays so chill. Is it by self-medication and being organically cool?