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NYC Panopticon Plans Take Shape | Danger Room
Operation Sentinel — "calls for photographing, and scanning the license plates of, cars and trucks at all bridges and tunnels and using sensors to detect the presence of radioactivity
BLDGBLOG: Deep in the basement of an ancient tenement on Second Avenue in the heart of midtown New York City, I was fishing
The lost rivers of Manhattan are real; hundreds of streams and whole wetlands were paved over and filled so that the roots of buildings could safely grow.
A Reporter at Large: The Snakehead: The New Yorker
Sister Ping was also an extraordinarily wealthy businesswoman who owned the restaurant and the shop, as well as the building that housed them. She was what the Chinese call a shetou, or “snakehead”
The New Blood in Chinatown - New York Times
Despite the Wu family's Cantonese origins, it was the pro-China Fujianese leaders who sat with the Mayor, a feat that crystallized the group's rise to power in a community where symbolism often speaks louder than words.
Chinatown's Fujianese Get a Statue - New York Times
''There's a stereotype that only Fujianese sell drugs, and we need to set an example,''
Honoring Lin Zexu: Politician, Activist, Man of Fuzhou
Politically, the statue of the mainland, anti-colonialist Lin Zexu challenges the pro-Taiwanese supporters who rally around the statue of Confucius.
Along the Dystopia Line 1: I am your density « Adam Greenfield’s Speedbird
LeGuin’s is a world in which the human response to hyperdensity is to get by and make do, rather than rely on heroic technological/infrastructural interventions to carry the load.
Their House to Yours, via the Trash - New York Times
book miners Tommy Books and Leprechaun
The World of Tomorrow - New York Times
NYC, 2018: Bodega museums, the Freshkills Historical Archive, killer pathogens and smart glass.
The Doomsman by Van Tassel Sutphen - Free eBook
The state of civilization in 2015 New York will closely resemble that of England in the early days of Saxon settlement -- primitive people will dwell sparsely in patriarchal stockades and will fight and hunt with bow and arrow.
From Database to Crime Scene: Network Is Potent Police Weapon - New York Times
the center also stitches together the names of people who have visited a convict, aliases, recordings of all 911 calls made over the last 10 years and lists of tattoos, scars and nicknames of known felons.
NYO - New York World - Bungalowing Iraq
“I feel personally connected in one way—I’m a mother, and every day in Iraq somebody is losing their child. My little girl will never go to Iraq. I’m sorry, she’ll go to Prada.” - Ed. this is precisely why I don't miss NYC.
Plan Will Allow 911 and 311 Lines to Accept Digital Images - New York Times
NYC's emergency flickr?
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