An interesting article just came to my attention from the Early Sports and Pop Culture History Blog in which the origins of the phrase "New York Minute" are analyzed and found to have not…
Do you know which architects are developing the biggest projects in the City? Real estate website and magazine The Real Deal recently crunched the numbers and came up with the top five…
An interesting article just came to my attention from the Early Sports and Pop Culture History Blog in which the origins of the phrase "New York Minute" are analyzed and found to have not…
The video delves into the saga of One Seaport, a 670-foot condominium tower at 161 Maiden Lane in Manhattan's Financial District that has remained abandoned for seven years due to a…
Back in February, we shared this incredible scale model of Manhattan that used discarded electronics, chips, and hot glue. Zayd Menk, the artist who created the piece, recently put out this…
Kellogg's just opened its first permanent Cereal Café just off of Times Square on Broadway and 49th. The menu has unique cereal dishes created by Milk Bar's Christina Tosi such as the "Corny…
One of our favorite local photographers Jimmy Kastner (previously) has snapped some glorious photos of our City in the past, and this new one is no exception. The skyline photographer…
New York based photographer Craig Ward was riding the subway last year when he recalled the old urban myth of how touching the pole was like "shaking hands with 100 people all at once."…
One of the most high-profile threats of recent years was the 2014 outbreak of the virulent Ebola virus in West Africa. The only New York case was that of Dr. Craig Spencer, who had recently…
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. Brooklyn Based ⇒ The Brooklyn Bazaar…