New York City has had some pretty intense heat waves in recent years, and a common way for residents to beat the heat is to turn a neighborhood fire hydrant into a large sprinkler for the…
New York City real-estate search website RentHop recently analyzed their data, cross-referencing each subway station with the median rent of the area around it. Creating an interactive map…
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. Bedford + Bowery ⇒ This Man Will Iron…
Local historical blog Forgotten NY recently dug up this great vintage map from 1852 showing the rural town of Woodside in Queens County. The accompanying article talks about how it went from…
The Temple of Dendur is a stone temple built under the Roman Period in about 10 B.C. along the Nile in Egypt. Installed in the Sackler Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1978, the…
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 ⇒ Past Prisons: Inside the New…
The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation (GVSHP) recently created this great map collecting all of the historic locations of civil rights and social justice protests,…
18-year-old urban Explorer, photographer, and Instagrammer flashing.lights has been exploring the City for most of his life, always finding new vantage points to capture amazing photographs…
Sushi Nakazawa is a small sushi restaurant that has been open for almost two years in the West Village. Despite being a relative newcomer on the New-York-sushi-block, Sushi Nakazawa has the…
This vintage map from 1927 shows the comprehensive track plan of existing and proposed rapid transit lines in New York City. The map was created by the Independent Subway System (IND), one…
