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 ⇒ Rafael Viñoly’s Octagonal-Cored Upper East Side Tower Gets New Rendering
• Brooklyn Magazine ⇒ City Point Brooklyn Shoots for the Stars on NBA All-Star Weekend
• Curbed NY ⇒ Old Meets New in a Transformed 190-Year-Old Tribeca Townhouse
• Daytonian in Manhattan ⇒ Pitiable Neglect - the West 96th Street Substation 11
• Explore Brooklyn ⇒ UrbanGlass Shares the Secrets of Glassblowing - Explore Brooklyn
• Free Williamsburg ⇒ We Want an East River Pontoon Bridge During the L Train Shutdown – Free Williamsburg
• Untapped Cities ⇒ 10 of NYC’s Most Famous Animals Throughout History
• Vanishing New York ⇒ Roland Antiques

Harry and Ida's in Alphabet City has quickly made a name for itself over the past few years as home to some of New York City's best meats, especially their pastrami sandwich. In this video from Eater, see how the pastrami is incredibly made in-house, and how chef/owner Will Horowitz uses a house-made fish sauce to help flavor the meat.

On the second episode of Prime Time, hosts Ben Turley and Brent Young head to Harry and Ida's, the survivalist food science lab masquerading as a sandwich shop where they learn how chef Will Horowitz is making pastrami from scratch.

Local historical website Stuff Nobody Cares About recently dug up this old vintage photograph from February 19th, 1938, showing a protest on Wall Street during the Great Depression era.

New York, NY – Members of trade and relief workers unions parading in the rain up Wall Street today in a mass demonstration against unemployment and alleged and inadequate Federal, State, and City relief allowances. The demonstration, in which some 7,000 took part chanting “we want work”, was staged under the auspices of the Trade Union Committee on Unemployment and WPA and the Workers Alliance. The marchers included members of unions affiliated with the C.I.O., the American Federation of Labor and independent unions.

Check out the accompanying article for more on the photo and history around it.