Tag: New York City
New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority has confirmed that it will not be raising fares and tolls more than 4% next year. Previously, the MTA planned to increase fares by 7.5% in 2015 and again in 2017, but has since decided against it. However, the cost of labor will increase by $260 million a year through 2018, as a […]
New York City Identity Cards (which will be available to all New York residents starting January 2015) may also come with some unexpected cultural benefits. The city is currently considering offering free memberships and discounted admission to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, Lincoln Center and other well-known institutions. How much would this cost to 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 […]
UPDATE: The strike has been called off after an agreement was made between the LIRR unions and the MTA. On Sunday at 12:01AM, LIRR workers have vowed to strike if the MTA management doesn’t offer them a contract, potentially affecting over 300,000 commuters and the local economy. The state comptroller estimates a loss of about […]
Last year, New York City began requiring that all long distance busses have a permit to operate in the city. On August 15th, the grace period to acquire those permits will be over, reports DNAinfo. Busses operating illegally, as many still do in Chinatown, will face fines between $500 to $2,500 for repeat offenses, according […]
Previously, we posted a map that plotted every taxi trip made around New York in 2013. Now, Chris Whong has given us a tiny crisp slice of that mass blur of data. NYC Taxis: A Day In The Life, is an interactive map of the trips taken in one day in 2013 by a single yellow […]
Ikea has just released data collected in their study “Life At Home.” The ubiquitous Swedish furniture company surveyed 1,000 people in eight major cities. Apparently, 17% of New Yorkers admit to working in the bathroom. This may seem ridiculous, but think about the last time you had people over and remembered that email you had to send. […]
Meryl Meisler was in the wrong place at the right time. While photographing the disco scene in 1970’s New York, she’d only heard of the chaos of the 77′ blackout in Bushwick, where the loss of power lead to rioting and looting. When she took a teaching job in the neighborhood, it exposed her to […]
The New York City Department of Records has just released 30,000 more photographs to their online archive, particularly touting 187 new images taken by the NYPD’s Alien Squad in the late 1930s and early 1940s. The purpose of the Alien Squad was to monitor “potentially subversive organizations throughout the five boroughs.” Among them is a set of photos from […]
Over the last few hundred years, New York City has designated 54 honorary Squares. LeRoy McCarthy is in a fight with Manhattan’s Community Board 3 to make Beastie Boys Square the 55th. While many have debated the validity of this proposed honor, maybe it’s time to examine the previously named public spaces. Squares named after […]
