A recent article from data artist and software developer Eric Fischer of Mapbox pulls geo-location data from the images uploaded to Flickr, then maps them to create beautiful visualizations…
Our favorite Flatiron food festival Mad. Sq. Eats is back for spring with veteran and rookie vendors alike serving up delicious food from all culinary genres. Now in it's eighth year, 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…
A beautiful newborn gelada baboon baby just made it's public debut at the Bronx Zoo. The baboon is the first of it's species in the United States in over 13 years. The bouncing male primate…
The Regional Plan Association (RPA) is America’s oldest independent urban research and advocacy organization, proposing and advising City legislators for over 90 years regarding public works…
Organized by Jeremiah Moss and his #SaveNYC campaign (previously), the Second Ave. Small Biz Crawl is an effort to bring some business back to the struggling businesses surrounding the…
A recent posting by Tim Urban of Wait But Why titled 7.3 Billion People, One Building used some basic science to determine that yes, it would be possible to fit the entire Earth's population…
A recent WNYC piece entitled The Lament of the C Train Rider discussed the aging trains on the C-line, most of which date back to 1964. It's an interesting read on why the C-line is so…
Most people that have been in Union Square know the big neon sign of Coffee Shop, a longtime neighborhood diner. What you probably didn't know is tucked in the back of the restaurant is the…
As a follow-up to our previous post on Martin Luther King Jr. in New York City, here is a speech Dr. King gave at the Park Sheraton Hotel on September 12, 1962. The speech honors the…
