Captured in 1901 by photographer William Henry Jackson, this great vintage photograph shows the Washington Bridge—not the George Washington Bridge that opened in 1931—and the "speedway" underneath as it spans the Harlem River between Washington Heights in Manhattan and Morris Heights in The Bronx. Here is a Google StreetView of the view today from approximately the same vantage point:

Check out the specimen page at the Library of Congress Digital Archives for more information on the vintage photograph.

Ethiopia, the birthplace of coffee, is still Africa's largest producing coffee producing country and home to some of the world's best specialty beans. This video features the seed to cup story, showing how coffee is produced in Ethiopia, the roasting process, to its consumption in Cafe Beit, a Brooklyn barista-owned coffee shop.

Researcher Ingrid Burrington is the author of an intesting book that decodes the cryptic physical infrastructure of the internet, traffic, and surveilance technology in New York City. This includes cables, relay boxes, wi-fi antennas and repeaters, and even the spray-painted symbols that ISP's like Time Warner Cable places on the street to identify what lies below. In this video from Vice's Motherboard series, learn some of the ways that large cities like ours are under constant surveillance.

Purchase "Networks of New York: An Illustrated Field Guide to Urban Internet Infrastructure" for just $13 on Amazon.