I am throwing down the gauntlet and declaring that Arepas Cafe in Astoria, Queens, makes my favorite arepas in New York City, a city full of legendarily delicious arepas. For those…
After a new Kosciuszko Bridge was built and opened directly beside the existing Kosciuszko Bridge earlier this year, the City decided to blow up the existing bridge with a planned…
From CBS News: People in the neighborhood said the Parks Department told them the old tree was rotted and hollow inside. But when they cut it down, it was not hollow at all. “You didn’t have…
Weaving the Courtyard is the winning project in the 17th edition of the Young Architects Program at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City. In this video from the museum, watch as winning architects…
Our friends over at Forgotten NY recently published this interesting pic of the 11-Train, a line which does not exist, but was once a proposed line number for the 7's express route. Notice…
Brooklyn cinematographer Tim Sessler owns and operates a great film company called Brooklyn Aerials. While they normally specialize in amazing aerial videos, the team captured this amazing…
Newtown Creek is an oft-forgotten waterway that splits Greenpoint and Long Island City, forming a natural divide between the northmost part of Brooklyn and westmost part of Queens. The creek…
JFK International Airport has an incredible $65 million pet terminal called The ARK. The ARK is considered to be the world’s first privately owned, 24-hour animal terminal and airport…
This Hidden City recently published this fantastic bit of New York History detailing how the corner of Irving Avenue and Moffat Street on the Bushwick-Ridgewood border became the City's most…
The team at PeopleForBikes have created this great interactive map called the Bike Network Analysis showing the places across the City that are the most and least stressful to ride in on a…
