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 ⇒ The Scrapped Plan to Build a 77th Street Bridge Over the East River to Queens
• Bedford + Bowery ⇒ The Early Word on Six NYC Films That Premiered at Sundance
• Brooklyn Based ⇒ A Run Through the Park
• Bushwick Daily ⇒ Bushwick Ladies, These Guys on Craigslist Really Missed You
• Curbed NY ⇒ One of the Upper West Side’s Historic Districts Gets a New Boutique Condo
• EV Grieve ⇒ A Familiar Voice Returning to Cooper Square
• Greenpointers ⇒ Watching Greenpoint: Local Street Style
• New York Times ⇒ The Elite Are Locked Out, While ‘21’ Dries Out
• NextCity ⇒ Documentary Project Will Literally Shed Light on the South Bronx
• The Real Deal New York ⇒ BK Navy Yard Set to Launch $2.5B Redevelopment Plan
• Thrillist ⇒ The 50 New York Foods You Need to Eat Before You Die
• Untapped Cities ⇒ 12 Time Capsules Discovered in NYC

Lower East Side based artist Olek is well known for her massive, over-sized yarn-bombing and crochet art. In this short profile video from our friends at Great Big Story, see how the artist is yarn-bombing world-wide to affect positive change.

Crochet is not generally viewed as a fine art, nor is it commonly used as a vehicle for social change. But New York-based artist Agata Oleksiak (aka Olek) is challenging those assumptions by elevating the craft and using it as a force for community building. With the streets as her canvas, Olek uses the help of local volunteers to crochet her large-scale crochet masterpieces. For her latest project, “Love Across the USA,” she will travel to every state in the United States to produce crocheted murals that celebrate prominent women in US history. With each unique installation, she’s developed an art form that truly belongs to everyone.

Real estate and rental search site Zumper recently analyzed their rental price data and found the ten most expensive neighborhoods to rent in New York City for February 2018. Based on the median rental price for a 1 bedroom apartment, Tribeca led the way with $4,350 per month, and Nomad taking second with $3,950. Vinegar Hill is on the rise, taking the #10 spot and keeping #4 Dumbo company as the only other Brooklyn neighborhood on the list.

New York City was the second most expensive rental market in the country last month with a median one-bedroom rent of $2,870. Though coming shy of first place San Francisco at $3,400, New York continues to command the highest priced neighborhoods in the country. In this edition of the Zumper New York Rent Report, we explore how rent prices changed across these neighborhoods and others around the city.

Check out the accompanying article for more insight into the data.