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Fifty of the City’s Tastiest Soups -- New York Magazine
"Fifty of the city’s tastiest soups."
Missed Connections
Messages in bottles, smoke signals, letters written in the sand; the modern equivalents are the funny, sad, beautiful, hopeful, hopeless, poetic posts on Missed Connections websites. Every day hundreds of strangers reach out to other strangers on the strength of a glance, a smile or a blue hat. Their messages have the lifespan of a butterfly. I'm trying to pin a few of them down.
The New York Subway Project
A two-week journey to all 468 NYC subway stops
Documented in photographs, sketches, and words.
Mannahatta » Home
Ever wondered what New York like before it was a city? Welcome to Mannahatta, 1609.
Now, after nearly a decade of research, the Mannahatta Project at the Wildlife Conservation Society has un-covered the original ecology of Manhattan. That’s right, the center of one of the world’s largest and most built-up cities was once a natural landscape of hills, valleys, forests, fields, freshwater wetlands, salt marshes, beaches, springs, ponds and streams, supporting a rich and abundant community of wildlife and sustaining people for perhaps 5000 years before Europeans arrived on the scene in 1609. It turns out that the concrete jungle of New York City was once a vast deciduous forest, home to bears, wolves, songbirds, and salamanders, with clear, clean waters jumping with fish. In fact, with over 55 different ecological communities, Mannahatta’s biodiversity per acre rivaled that of national parks like Yellowstone, Yosemite and the Great Smoky Mountains!
Today Manhattan is still habitat, but now that habitat is mainly given over to people. Understanding the ecology of Mannahatta helps us bring into focus the ecology of Manhattan today and plan for the urban ecosystem of the future, while at the same time enabling us to reflect upon the value of the wild “Mannahattas” that still exist in the world.
A Note on Urbanisms - Triple Canopy
An introduction to two issues examining our current urban situation and what lies beyond it: the city’s past and its future; the suburban, the exurban, the frontier.
New York Worlds Fair
The Fair was located in Flushing Meadow Park in Queens, New York on the same site as the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair. The exhibit space was divided into five areas: Industrial, Transportation, International, Federal and States, and Lake Area.
The following old postcards, booklets and brochures of the New York World's Fair provide a great visual look back at 1964 - 1965.
INFRASTRUCTURIST
Contributors to the Infrastructurist will include politicians, academics, representatives of major industry and advocacy groups, and journalists.
The site is edited by Jebediah Reed, most recently a senior editor at Radar magazine where he focused on stories about politics and media. During his tenure the publication was nominated for a National Magazine Award in the General Excellence category. Jebediah has also written for Popular Science, Men’s Journal, Worth and Salon.
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