The Vendy Awards food festival is a food truck competition where the hottest street food vendors in the City are pitted head-to-head in a ticket-holder taste off to determine the best the…
When 2 hurricanes slammed the east shore of Staten Island 50 years back, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers came up with a plan to build a massive seawall and levee system that stretched four…
An interesting article just came to my attention from the Early Sports and Pop Culture History Blog in which the origins of the phrase "New York Minute" are analyzed and found to have not…
Peter Fleming is a local resident in the neighborhood of Forest Hills, Queens. He and his family love the Florida Keys, tiki bars and Jimmy Buffett, but getting down there isn't always so…
Over the weekend, the 13th Annual Big Apple Barbecue Block Party took over Madison Square Park and it's surrounding streets to serve up some of the best 'cue in the country. The block party…
DNAinfo recently published an interesting interactive map as part of an article on Presidential Visits to The Bronx throughout history. Barack Obama is only the latest president to visit the…
A new Kickstarter campaign from Yukie Ohno, the historian behind local historical blog The SoHo Memory Project, seeks to open a popup-historical learning experience to help preserve some of…
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 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…
