Manhattan’s western edge already boasts an impressive above-ground park with the High Line, but if billionaire Barry Diller gets his way, it may also hold an off-shore park that rises from the river. The New York Times reports that the media mogul has plans to convert Hudson River Park’s deteriorating Pier 54 into park Pier […]
A new exhibit is opening in New York City that focuses on nature’s wrath, reports Live Science. The high tech demonstration not only explains the science behind natural phenomena, but also allows attendees to play God: The interactive exhibit lets visitors build their own virtual volcano, create and measure tiny earthquakes, and see what the […]
After more than a decade, the new Fulton Street Transit Center opened Monday morning at 5AM with a celebratory unveiling. Up to 300,000 straphangers are expected to visit the state-of-the-art, $1.4 billion station everyday. After enduring setbacks from Hurricane Sandy and repairs to the tunnels damaged by 9/11, the 180,000-square-foot hub is now operational and is […]
Two years after Hurricane Sandy hit, there’s still work to be done on subway tunnels that were flooded. A Masshole shot himself by mistake, in the leg, at Port Authority. Kenyans run tings at the NYC marathon. There’s a weird cult in Murray Hill. The NYPD doesn’t look too happy about this Halloween costume. Giant […]
The Rockaway ferry — instituted in 2012 to cope with transit outages after Hurricane Sandy — has funding to continue running through this summer while the city seeks a permanent third-party operator. According to am New York, Mayor de Blasio’s executive budget contains $2 million to keep the service going. “Our local homeowners and businesses are […]
Despite impressive first-year numbers and a ridership that’s unafraid of a little cold weather, Citi Bike needs cash. According to the Wall Street Journal, the bikeshare program is losing money, and leaders at the organization are hoping to raise tens of millions of dollars to rescue it. Part of the problem is that long-term Citi Bike passes […]
Back in October, the New Jersey Star-Ledger endorsed Chris Christie for a second term as governor of that state, citing his “remarkable political talent” and “skill at playing Trenton’s inside game” while admitting it had “deep reservations” about him as a public official. It was a strange, bifurcated endorsement, and now, Tom Moran, the paper’s editor, sounds […]
Here’s a strange proposal for dealing with the looming threat of more devastating floods in Lower Manhattan: stuff a bunch of shipping containers full of garbage, then line the island with them. It comes from designers Ishaan Kumar, Arianna Armelli, and David Sepulveda, finalists in the ONE Prize competition, which seeks to highlight big ideas in […]
When Hurricane Sandy hit the city last year and officials were deciding who to evacuate, they didn’t have very many options, with only three flood zones: A (high risk), B (mid risk) and C (low risk). Now, in an effort to allow more nuanced plans and avoid over- or under-evacuation, the city has released a […]
According to new data issued by the Bloomberg administration Monday, many more people will be living in high flood-risk areas of New York City in the coming decades. Currently, 398,000 people live in NYC’s 100-year flood plain–the area of the city with a one percent chance of flooding in a given year. Bloomberg’s team expects […]
