In case you don't get the Puppy-Monkey-Baby reference, it comes from a truly horrific Superbowl commercial from the classy folks at Mountain Dew. Youtube comedian Alex Pepper recently…
The author behind the excellent blog Livin' The High Line recently came across some amazing vintage footage from the 1930s showing street locomotives and the Urban Cowboys of pre-High Line…
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…
An interesting listing for a mason jar full of Brooklyn air has recently appeared on eBay. You are bidding on a jar of air bottled at the source in McCarren Park, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New…
This 1933 map illustrated by cartoonist Simms Campbell shows the vibrant nightlife of a Jazz-age Harlem. IF NEW YORK is the city that never sleeps, then this map shows you where it used to…
Our friends over at Street Art News recently sat down with one of the City's most recognizable street artists, Nick Walker. SAN: So are you trying to spend more time in NYC now? Asides for…
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 ⇒ S.S. United States Likely…
A few weeks ago we told you about a special exhibition in Bushwick where artist Lisa Levy would sit naked on a toilet for 10 hours to protest *"bullshit in the art world." “Ego and pretense…
Times Square's Midnight Moment is an art initiative by Times Square Arts in which all of the billboards in Times Square synchronize to show an audio/visual art piece at exactly 11:57pm…
Buried below a bus depot along the East River in East Harlem lies a 17th century burial ground containing recently discovered remains of New Yorkers of African descent. More than 140 bones…
