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 ⇒ Celebrate New Year's Eve With Free Rides and Ice Skating on Coney Island
• Bedford + Bowery ⇒ Off of Tompkins Square Park, a Site of Women’s Tragedy and Agency
• Bklyner ⇒ 10 Best Places for Holiday Shopping in Williamsburg, Greenpoint and Bed-Stuy
• Brownstoner ⇒ Royal Palms Shuffleboard Club Says It's Staying Put Despite Development
• Chelsea Now ⇒ High Line Hates Artists, but Court Rules for Us
• Curbed NY ⇒ NYC's 10 Biggest Preservation Battles of 2017
• Daytonian in Manhattan ⇒ McKim, Mead & White's 1893 Cable Building - Broadway and Houston Street
• Guest of a Guest ⇒ An Ode to Veselka, Iconic East Village Eatery
• The Real Deal New York ⇒ Here’s How the NYC Multifamily Market Fared in October
• Thrillist ⇒ How Dingy Chinese Restaurants Became Home to New York's Most Exclusive Parties
• Untapped Cities ⇒ The Immigrant Journey Documented by 40 Photographers in Midtown Exhibit
• West Side Rag ⇒ Photo of the Day: The Sad Empty Shell of West Side Market

Protected bike lanes are one of the best ways to protect bikers from cars in New York City. In this short video from the New York City Department of Transportation, see all the locations across the City that they installed 25 miles of new protected lanes this year.

In 2017, NYC DOT installed 27 projects adding 25 lane miles of protected bicycle lane miles to NYC's bike lane network.

Check out this year's Holiday Light Show on the Empire State Building from above in this short video from the building.

Our 2017 holiday music-to-light show features our lights dancing and dazzling to Gwen Stefani’s “You Make It Feel Like Christmas”!