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 ⇒ John Jay's New Database Provides 35,000+ Records of Slavery in New York
• Bedford + Bowery ⇒ Pie an Artist in the Face and Then Eat the World’s Biggest Bagel and Lox
• Bowery Boogie ⇒ Sleepwalker Survives 8-Story Fall Out of LES Window
• Curbed NY ⇒ Tour a Brooklyn Recycling Facility, Where NYC’s Trash Gets a New Life
• Daytonian in Manhattan ⇒ The Marble-Fronted 1859 Poirer Building - 429 Broome Street
• Forgotten NY ⇒ M3 RAILCARS, Long Island Rail Road
• NY Patch ⇒ The Chair That Broke the Subway
• New York Times ⇒ The Elegant Relic of Restaurant Row
• Untapped Cities ⇒ Test Stone Pillars for Grand Central Terminal Are Restored in Van Cortlandt Park

In this immersive 360° video from video editor Bill Lyons for the Staten Island Advance, take a trip on the Staten Island Ferry through New York Harbor.

Take a 360 degree tour of the Staten Island Ferry boat Andrew J. Barberi. The Barberi and its sister boat Samuel I. Newhouse were built in 1981 and 1982, respectively. Each boat can carry up to 6,000 passengers as it make the 25 minute, 5.5 mile journey between Staten Island and Manhattan.

Created by video producers Diane Sooyeon Kang and Douglas Park, a new series titled documinterest. takes a deep dive exploration into restaurants and bars, as well as the working dynamic of its employees and owners. In this third episode from the series, learn all about the story behind 29B Teahouse, a modern tea-tasting room in Alphabet City.