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 ⇒ Historic West Harlem Firehouse Theater Is for Sale for $13M as Part of Development Lot
• Bedford + Bowery ⇒ Williamsburg’s William Vale Hotel Gets a Rooftop Lounge, Turf Club
• Brokelyn ⇒ The 5 Plants That Will Thrive in Any Small, Low Light Apartment
• Bushwick Daily ⇒ Get Plant-Powered at a Vegan Food Fest Fundraiser in Bushwick This Weekend
• Central Park Conservancy Blog ⇒ Our New CEO and the Conservancy’s Next Era
• Curbed NY ⇒ SOM Will Design 40-Story Skyscraper in Greenpoint
• Daytonian in Manhattan ⇒ The 1883 Clark Building - 332 Canal Street
• Eater NY ⇒ The 5 Best Dishes at NYC’s Newest Food Hall
• Forgotten NY ⇒ "Arbitration ROCK," Ridgewood
• Gothamist ⇒ A Pair of Pizza Legends Fire Up Their Ovens in the East Village
• New York YIMBY ⇒ The Brooklyn Navy Yard's Dock 72 Nears Completion
• Stuff Nobody Cares About ⇒ The Empire State Building Opened on This Day - 1931
• The Real Deal New York ⇒ The Top 10 Biggest Real Estate Projects Coming to NYC
• Thrillist ⇒ The Absolute Best Rooftop Bars in NYC
• Untapped Cities ⇒ The Top 10 Secrets of Liberty State Park
• Vanishing New York ⇒ Eisenberg's Sandwich Shop

This incredible vintage photograph from around 1900 shows the intersection of Pell Street and Doyers Street in the heart of Chinatown. For contrast, here is a Google StreetView of how the same intersection looks today:

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 130-year-old Katz's Delicatessen in just 35-seconds.