Space Saving Furniture for NYC Apartments; Rockefeller Center Skating Rink Opens; Subway Booth Attendants May Soon Roam

Rockefeller Center Ice Rink
Rockefeller Center Ice Rink

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.

Derailed Episode 8: Late Night Talk Show Takes Place on New York City Subway

Derailed with Dean Dimitruk is a comedic Late Night Talk Show in which the short episodes are filmed almost entirely on the New York City Subway. Check out the funny eighth episode below, then subscribe to keep up with new ones as they are released.

Our favorite subway creature is BACK, after being run off the internet in the mysterious case of Episode 2. Watch as Dean's new friend Sky celebrates his birthday in style on the L train, and challenges Alligator Steve to a WALK OFF!

The 2017 Greenest Block in Brooklyn Award Goes to This Busy Block in Bed-Stuy

Each year, the office of Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams determines which of the thousands of blocks throughout Brooklyn is the "greenest". This year, the 23rd annual in the contest, the honor goes to a beautiful stretch of Stuyvesant Ave. between Bainbridge St. and Chauncey St. in Bed-Stuy.

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams joined with the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and National Grid to award the winners of the 2017 Greenest Block in Brooklyn contest. The Contest, presented and judged by the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG), held a press conference on the victorious residential block, Stuyvesant Avenue between Bainbridge and Chauncey Streets, in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood.