On our bike ride to work (20 minutes), we pass under, alongside and near a highway (the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway) that basically cuts three successive neighborhoods off from the city, not to mention burying their immediate surroundings in noise, shadows and imposing concrete superstructures. Not a day goes by that we don’t wish that bulky aberration [...]

Some time ago we featured a listicle of outstanding nature web cams, but of course – as reality TV teaches us – the most entertaining thing to watch tends to involve humans. Accordingly, mental_floss’s listicle of the Top 11 Live Web Cams features a balanced mix of animal and human subjects. Our favorites, because they’re [...]

Goldfish-brained as we are, if a non-fiction book doesn’t have some kind of catchy, er, catch, the odds that we’ll wade through its cumbersome statistics tend to be slim. That’s why Time’s recent listicle of the Top 10 Literary Stunts found all our summer reading for us (thanks Time!), with its New Journalism-y personal narratives [...]

As you may have heard (especially if you live/work in New York City), there was some recent drama over the official re-naming of the patriotism-friendly Freedom Tower as the corporate-cold 1 World Trade Center. In response, the New York Times blog City Room launched an open invitation to designers for a sexy 1 World Trade [...]

As you may or may not know, record snowfall has hit the Midwest and East Coast of the U.S. over the last two days. Here in New York schools even got a rare snow day, and we’re told children are out in the streets celebrating with snowball fights, igloos, snow angels and the like. Meanwhile, [...]

The other day we were biking down a windy street and saw the prettiest thing: a swirling, spinning cluster of little off-white petals dancing in the street and up into the sky. Then we realized that it’s winter and there shouldn’t be any petals around. They were styrofoam packing chips, and we suddenly felt very [...]

Last year, an ambitious plan to redesign the Tappan Zee Bridge just North of New York City got us all excited. After all, bridge construction in this city is basically a once-in-a-century sort of thing, and we had bold hopes for a nifty new bridge design because, let’s face it, nice solid 19th century structures [...]

It’s our second weekly round-up of cool videos from all over the Interweb. Again, we came across way too many short films, ads, music videos and animations to do them all justice, so have instead chosen only the most timely and tasty to be featured in Listicles’ Thursday’s 3 Cool Videos. Enjoy!
Yankee Gal (by Antoine [...]

With so many public transportation networks on the edge of bankruptcy or about to enact astronomical fare hikes (or both), the effects of cost-cutting measures are becoming increasingly hard to conceal. The proof is in the pictures compiled by Gothamist of New York City Transit’s Top 10 Typos. The one at right really helped brighten [...]

By the time you read this post, New York Governor David Patterson will have announced his pick to replace Hillary Clinton as New York Senator. The winner, after Caroline Kennedy dropped out, is Kirsten Gillibrand (pictured at right), an upstate Democratic Representative. Though we see Patterson’s fixation on finding a female replacement for Clinton in [...]