LIFE magazine photographer Andreas Feininger snapped this amazing aerial photograph of Midtown Manhattan in July of 1944. This shot amongst countless other, contributed to Feininger's…
Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the United States so we would not be doing our part in honoring one of our Nation's great heroes without showing you a bit of MLK in New York City.…
Bronx based musician (its) prints lists his genre on Facebook as ethereal subterranea, a rather confusing answer to the age-old question "what do you sound like?". It is tough to pinpoint…
Felice Cohen is a writer and professional organizer that lives in a tiny 90 square foot apartment in Manhattan's Upper West Side. The studio is about 12' x 7', has one window and no kitchen,…
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…
Couldn't get any tickets to that free Kanye West concert we mentioned last week? Don't worry because you can still watch the show, albeit from home. Tune into JAY Z’s Life+Times on this…
The Downtown Alliance, an organization striving to make Lower Manhattan a better place to live, work and play, recently unveiled a proposal to create a large new pedestrian plaza by…
The first annual Roc City Classic was held yesterday on a temporary stage built directly in front of the Flatiron Building in the pedestrian plaza adjacent to Madison Square Park. Over…
The Atlantic posted an article this morning entitled Skipping the 13th Floor about how we assign so much meaning to numbers that our superstition affects infrastructure design. Local housing…
In this video from Elite Daily, 26 year old Joe details how he is able to live on the streets of New York City. Originally from Boston, Joe was kicked out of his Mom's house for stashing…