The Scimitar-Horned Oryx is a species of North African antelope that has been extinct in the wild for over a decades due to hunting and poaching for their horns. Only about 6,000 oryxes live…
Ticket agency Vivid Seats recently crunched the number in their ticket-sale data and produced this cool map showing where the most tickets have been purchased for the Mets and Yankees across…
Photographer and videographer Lowell Brown recently uploaded this great video from 2002 showing a continuous shot outside of a moving A train as the subway moves from station to station. In…
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 ⇒ 50 Years Ago, Donald Trumps…
Bodega Cats In Their Own Words is a great series produced by local public radio station WNYC that gives a biography of the City's bodaga cats via a voice-over from their owners. In this…
Communication-Based Train Control (CBTC) is a modern way for the MTA and subway central operators to know exactly where a train is at any given moment using radio signals, fiber optic lines…
This adorable newborn Bolivian Gray Titi Monkey recently born at the Bronx Zoo is probably the cutest thing you are going to see today. Check them out in this cute video from the Wildlife…
Real estate website Property Shark recently scoured their listing data to find building which Billionaires live in that also have "affordable" listings for studios and other small…
Bensonhurst NYPD precinct Brooklyn 62 made a major drug bust yesterday and confiscated over 200lbs of pot, then tweeted out a photo of the evidence. Ever wonder what 200 lbs of marijuana…
Ben Wellington of I Quant NY, a Visiting Assistant Professor at Pratt's School of Architecture, recently compiled data from the NYC Open Data Portal on the most common parking spots in New…
