Economists Jason Barr, Fred Smith, and Sayali Kulkarni of Rutgers University recently crunched the numbers for a paper titled What’s Manhattan Worth? A Land Values Index from 1950 to 2013…
A tourist couple staying at the Astor on the Park hotel on the Upper West Side have had a pretty bad trip so far. Three hotel rooms, with various heater and power issues, then a night filled…
If your newborn is named Sophia or Ethan, their name is not as unique as you thought. The NYC Department of Health released data on the most popular names of 2014 (a year behind, but that's…
In Tax Bulletin ST-835, the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance discusses exactly if, when and how the sale of a sandwich is taxable. As such, they needed to clearly define…
Chocolatier and pastry chef Jacques Torres — a.k.a. Mr. Chocolate — is well known for his delicious chocolates, cookies, truffles, confections, ice cream, and chocolate Santas In this video…
Back in August we told you about this interesting sculpture coming to Central Park called Against the Run that features a functional clock presented in a very unique way. Against the Run,…
For a recent video interview with video producer Jessica Leibowitz, Curator of Photography Michael Lorenzini at the NYC Municipal Archives Building brings tons of previously unreleased…
A recent article on Quartz discusses the detailed and complicated history behind New York City's missing subway letters. At first glance, there is logic to New York City’s numbered subway…
Chef Roulette is a web series from BRIC that gives well-known New York City chefs surprise ingredients and haves them prepare a master dish using them all. Take one professional chef, five…
