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…
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…
According to the MTA announcement, 1,443 tons of trash are removed from the tracks every year, but that hardly makes a dent in the piles of discarded wrappers, food containers and plastic…
We have posted video like this a few times before, but the slow motion capture of commuters on a subway platform is always a fascinating glimpse into the lives of random people, even if only…
The New York Wheel is a massive 630-foot tall ferris wheel currently being built in the St. George neighborhood of Staten Island. The attraction is not slated to open until early 2017, but…
Abandoned NYC this week posted a fascinating set of haunting and beautiful pictures of the abandoned Seaview Hospital in Staten Island's Greenbelt. Upon its 1913 completion, the hospital was…
AM New York reports: The subway system is nothing if not a dirty, smelly place. But it doesn't have to be so bad if the MTA stuck to its cleaning schedules, according to an audit from city…
Everybody hates trekking out to La Guardia or JFK. It takes forever, there are limited transportation methods you can use to get there, and it is just the wrong way to start or end a trip.…
Media distributed in a recent Manhattan Community Board 8 transportation committee meeting revealed the locations of the 39 forthcoming Citi Bike locations on the Upper East Side. It's a…
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…
![New York City's Dream Airport | A spread from the March 18, 1946 issue of Life Magazine for a "$3 billion project [that] would place a landing deck in midtown Manhattan," proposed by William Zeckendorf.
This is two images stitched together crudely. Originals found at <a href="http://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2010/02/rootop-airport-east-river-nyc.html" rel="nofollow">Ptak Science Books</a>.](https://cdn.viewing.nyc/nuy97k2auqy5y3m6nyk38bq32lvu)
