When it opened in 1913, Staten Island's Seaview Hospital was celebrated as the "largest and finest hospital ever built" for tuberculosis patients, and by a city official as "vast, ingenious,…
A recently crowdfunded research project on Experiment.com seeks to use new methods of environmental DNA (eDNA) sampling to gain a comprehensive understanding of all organisms living in the…
SmokyMountains.com recently created this great interactive 2021 Fall Foliage Map using an algorithm that computed several million data points from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric…
SmokyMountains.com recently created this great interactive 2023 Fall Foliage Map using an algorithm that computed several million data points from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric…
CoreData.nyc is an interactive data hub from NYU's Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy for all things affordable housing in New York City. Using analysis of recent census data,…
Suspended NYC is an interesting site featuring a series of videos from Brooklyn filmmaker Solomon Billinkoff that show New York City neighborhoods in super slow motion. Suspended NYC is my…
I Hate Being Single is a comedic web-series about being in your twenties, broke and living in Williamsburg. The series is written by Upright Citizens Brigade alum and Broad City season 1…
The Lively Morgue is a daily photo blog from the New York Times in which an original photo from the newspaper's archives is reposted along with tidbits of information gleaned from the…
Entertainment magazine and website Vanity Fair recently put together this great video highlighting all of the times New York City was featured in Marvel superhero movies. In many ways, the…
A recent article on Slate, written by Barnard College Assistant Professor of History Andrew Lipman, titled A Hard Bargain tells the story of the how "the Munsee Indians sold Staten Island…
