Featured Urban Website: Manhattan Sideways is Documenting Every Numbered Side-Street
Our new favorite online urban eye candy, Manhattan Sideways, makes us reconsider the less documented parts of the grid system.
New City Proposals by Bloomberg Aim to Makes Stairs Hip and Healthy in NYC
This open, sculptural, naturally-lit staircase at Poets House in Battery Park City is exactly the type that Mayor Bloomberg hopes
PopSpotsNYC: Tracking Down Where Classic Album Covers Were Photographed in NYC
Bob Egan was completely dressed in black when we met him on 50th Street on a 97-degree day. If he
Documenting Retro Signs in LA’s San Fernando Valley
Pay attention, vintage typography enthusiasts: the old signs of California’s San Fernando Valley are now being showcased on Instagram.
Living Activism at the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space in NYC’s East Village
Thirty minutes from Wall Street is something of an anomaly, or a miracle: a small storefront with tiles spelling “HISTORY
Your Weekend Untapped: Best Events for NYC Pride 2013
On Wednesday, a huge crowd gathered on Christopher Street, outside the Stonewall Inn, to celebrate the Supreme Court’s rulings
Daily What?! There's a Quaker Cemetery in Prospect Park with 2000 Gravestones
In Prospect Park, off of Center Drive, there are two thousand gravestones and buried bodies older than the park itself.
Ten Proposals for Brooklyn Bridge Park's Empire Stores, 7 Historic Waterfront Warehouses
The plans for Brooklyn today leave no space undeveloped. Luckily, the borough often does redevelopment correctly – with proper homage to
A Tourist's View of London in 1926 – in Full Color [VIDEO]
Around the time that technicolor features were first introduced to theaters, British film pioneer Clause Friese-Greene was experimenting with video
The Untapped Guide to Hell's Kitchen
Hell’s Kitchen has come a long way from the gang rule it was once under. Today its real estate
The Dunbar Hotel, A Legendary Jazz Spot in LA is Transformed into a Senior Citizens' Center
An unlikely group – Los Angeles’ senior citizens – are indirectly saving a building that was once the heart of the black
Daily What?! A Mosque in an Old Movie Theater in Sunset Park
We’re used to the once-sacred becoming commercialized (Christmas in America, anyone?), but occasionally, roles are reversed. The commercial has