Articles tagged "NYC"

Either way, the subway is flooded and a lot of people are thirsty (and can't flush the toilet).

Divya's apartment is an incredible voyage into the absurd where chicks have two heads and baby deers never wake up.

You might have seen the re-emergence of NYC Department of Education’s rubber rooms recently. The reassignment program — in which teachers are sent to indeterminate light-work/no-work purgatory in some empty room — long thought revoked by Bloomberg an…

In the lobby, a family of New Yorkers was worrying, praying, reading, and waiting too. The reprieve they sought was quick, temporary, but essential. They needed a charge.

this is amazing: it’s a time lapse video of the storm hitting Manhattan. Waters surge, rain pounds, the power goes out.

After miles of subway tunnels flooded during the storm, many expected the rats to appear on the city’s streets.

Plenty of people have used Craigslist to hunt down and entrust perfectly amicable roommates (check), to sell cars that were worth less than the work they needed (check), to buy $2 seats to Mets games (check, Shea days), and to trade a bunch of other

Friday morning, at about 9 A.M., a hostile ex-employee (or so "it's been tweeted":https://twitter.com/NYScanner/status/238996649362456576 by police scanner eavesdroppers) started shooting at random, with at least 10 people injured (it's unclear how m…

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When urban planners were trying to turn New York's Roosevelt Island from a haven for the disabled and the mentally ill into a liveable city, they got "utopian":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosevelt_Island#Architecture. Lying beneath their plans was

With Disrupt, Creative Week, Internet Week, "PSFK":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/4/16/the-idea-con-i-went-to-a-400-mental-day-spa-for-techno-intellectuals, the numerous art and music festivals that have run through town recently, and that great Go…

When it opened 129 years ago today, the Brooklyn Bridge was the answer to a geographical problem that should be familiar to any youngster living in New York today: the affordable housing was in Brooklyn, but the jobs were in Manhattan. And the answer…

A beautiful evening at the ball park to fight the web.

The "response":http://www.motherboard.tv/2011/11/18/who-smashed-the-laptops-from-occupy-wall-street-inside-the-nypd-s-lost-and-found by mayors and police forces to the Occupy movement has underlined the strength of the demonstration, but now there's

h5. _Tony Ard, president of the Gracie Point Community Council, a group trying to keep trash out of the Upper East Side._ In New York, as everywhere else, one neighborhood's trash is often another neighborhood's terror. And that other neighborhood…

_Mutant Cow Milk Mustaches I can handle, Not being able to watch Church of Fudge the next time I'm in Knoxville, I cannot._ h3. ONE: Help count vacant buildings and lots in NYC to help the homeless ("Picture The Homeless":http://picturethehomeless…

It was a half-serious (and likely half-sober) conversation between curator Peter Swimm and chiptune artist Josh Davis in 2006 that spawned "Pulsewave":http://pulsewave.org, New York City's monthly concert series for the microprocessor-based electroni…

For better or worse, videogame music is "on the up-and-up":http://motherboard.tv/2011/2/17/gaga-the-grammys-videogame-music-s-ongoing-identity-crisis right now. And for skeptics like myself who grew up with game soundtracks, that's a very strange and…

At around nearly the same time every year, rumors start to crop up that Chinatown Fair, the last beloved vestige of New York City's video arcade golden age, will soon be facing its final days. It happened again last week when tweets and blog posts re…