Tag: Manhattan
That stream of drunken tweets you and your friends send at night may be good for something aside from eye-rolls and inside jokes. According to siblings Enrique and Vanessa Frías-Martínez, two Spanish computer science researchers, geolocalized tweets could be used to urban planning and land use. In a study published in Engineering Applications of Artificial […]
On Tuesday evening, New York City continued to show solidarity with Ferguson. Following the announcement that officer Darren Wilson would not be indicted for the fatal shooting of Mike Brown, protests have erupted around the nation. ANIMAL’s Bucky Turco has been live-tweeting from the scene in NYC, where protesters are marching through the streets. It […]
Last time Afroduck was in the news, he was making fun of a cop who tried to beat his record-setting 24-minute lap around the borough of Manhattan. That cop didn’t beat him, but it’s probably safe to say Afroduck (Adam Tang) isn’t laughing much today; he was just convicted of reckless driving and faces up […]
Afroduck, the maniac who set a record-breaking lap around Manhattan and was subsequently arrested by the NYPD, has uploaded a video of a plain-clothes cop trying to beat his time. And the winner is… Afroduck. For the record, the police officer never seems to exceed the speed limit and never runs a red light — […]
In the last 100 years, instances of people being packed into spaces like chickens awaiting slaughter have become dramatically less frequent. As the helpful chart above shows, the Lower East Side circa 1910 — New York’s most densely-populated area of all time — was occupied with 2400 people per 10,000 square meters. These days, the most densely populated residences […]
In post-recession Manhattan, the rich are making nearly as much as they did before the economic disaster, while the poor are make the same or even less. The Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, released today, reveals that the top 5% in Manhattan took in $854,394 in the final year of Bloomberg’s administration, 88 times the […]
A new apartment building on Broome and Crosby Streets in SoHo has added ten parking spots available to condo owners for $1 million each. The New York Times compared the price of the condos with that of the parking space to determine that the garage space costs considerably more per square foot than the apartment itself. The […]
Midtown is getting taller. A few buildings in particular will dramatically change the Manhattan skyline over the next few years, like the upcoming $1.4 billion, 90-story One57 skyscraper. There are plans for Extell’s Nordstrom Tower, which will be the world’s tallest place for people to live, reaching 1,775 feet. There are other buildings that will add to this evolving […]
This photograph of Manhattan was taken by the Expedition 39 crew’s remote sensing unit. In it, the tallest buildings in the Financial District and Midtown are casting noticeably long, dark shadows on the city. Referencing the Environmental Protection Agency’s report, NASA explains that concrete and asphalt absorb, store, and release heat, and how the “heat island effect” is reduced by the cooling effect of […]
Since 200 people were waiting in line before Manhattan’s first Dairy Queen even opened Thursday on West 14th Street, we’re getting a sense that this is a big deal for some people. For example, a 41-year-old Washington Heights resident who grew up in Minnesota was very excited about once again tasting that very specific, very consistent flavor of the […]
