Most of New York’s supertall buildings are currently under construction or in planning stages, but by 2030, they’ll tower over Manhattan like so many middle fingers to the millions of people who can’t afford to live in New York anymore. Architecture creative agency VisualHouse imagined what that skyline might look like in 15 years. Looking […]
Fanny Allié’s wooden sculpture in Queens is meant to be both a functional bench and a piece of art, aimed at raising awareness about homelessness. The public art installation, “A Bench for the Night,” resides in Long Island City as part of the Parks’ Art in the Parks program. The bench is also meant to […]
Chris Gethard is the funniest man in New York. This is of course debatable, since Louis C.K. also lives in New York, but your odds of going to UCB and seeing Louie on any given night are much lower than seeing Gethard. Chris Gethard is a street-level New York guy who built his career on […]
The MTA is investigating the vandals who stole at least 500 feet of copper cable from the A subway line tracks in Howard Beach, Queens, which resulted in massive delays and suspension of service on Wednesday. According to the MTA: The cable theft was discovered at 11:22 p.m. Tuesday night when a northbound A Subway […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Click the big play button above to hear the whole playlist or scroll down to see and hear individual tracks. Atlanta’s Awful Records crew has been compared to Odd Future circa 2010, with […]
The state’s former top homeland security advisor is now in charge of safeguarding weed. The New York Daily News reports that Michael Balboni, who served both Eliot Spitzer and David Paterson, has been “hired as a security consultant for pot grower Empire State Compassionate Care.” The organization hopes to be one of the five entities […]
Bernie, East Village. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Mural by Magda Love, the artist we profiled in this week’s Scratching the Surface feature. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Curbed has been documenting the year-long demolition of Roosevelt Island’s 900,000-square foot Goldwater Hospital, which recently wrapped up to make way for Cornell’s New York tech campus. On Tuesday, the site published a video chronicling the destruction of the 1939 building from start-to-finish. The first phase of construction is slated to finish in 2017, which […]
This video was filmed in the Herald Square subway station yesterday by Martin James and brought to our attention by Gothamist. It is approximately 900 million roaches crawling all over a piece of food and each other. It will make you do a little dance of revulsion as you watch it. Dinner A video posted […]
