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thenoobyorker:

Some real time footage from NYC and definitely not the 2004 film The Day After Tomorrow.

Yeah, we just totally watched this.

(Reblogged from thenoobyorker)
nprfreshair: If you’re in N.Y.C. and have a free hour this weekend, head to the Lower East Side for “Imagining the Lowline,” a visionary exhibit in an abandoned warehouse on Essex and Broome. The exhibit is really just an amuse-bouche, a showcase for the real thing: it’s there to help you imagine what it might be like to step into the world’s first underground park. Meghan O’Rourke visits “Imagining the Lowline,” and explores the plan behind the underground park: http://nyr.kr/QFqDE8 Image courtesy of RAAD. I am sick and have tons of homework, but I might have to go check this out…

nprfreshair:

If you’re in N.Y.C. and have a free hour this weekend, head to the Lower East Side for “Imagining the Lowline,” a visionary exhibit in an abandoned warehouse on Essex and Broome. The exhibit is really just an amuse-bouche, a showcase for the real thing: it’s there to help you imagine what it might be like to step into the world’s first underground park.

Meghan O’Rourke visits “Imagining the Lowline,” and explores the plan behind the underground park: http://nyr.kr/QFqDE8

Image courtesy of RAAD.

I am sick and have tons of homework, but I might have to go check this out…

(Reblogged from nprfreshair)
meganwest: thegeneralcafe: Megan and I love apples and butter and sugar so much that we basically wrote the same essay for the September Review. I picked hers and doodled some apples instead. After you’ve finished with this issue, head out to your local farmers market, and find an apple with a funny name that you’ve never tasted before. It’s still hot as fuck in LA. Writing this made me miss fall in NY, so now I’m thinking about going out for a long weekend in October.  Yes, please! And let’s get drinks and food and sit outside. (Elisabeth no doubt agrees with all these things.) View high resolution

meganwest:

thegeneralcafe:

Megan and I love apples and butter and sugar so much that we basically wrote the same essay for the September Review. I picked hers and doodled some apples instead.

After you’ve finished with this issue, head out to your local farmers market, and find an apple with a funny name that you’ve never tasted before.

It’s still hot as fuck in LA. Writing this made me miss fall in NY, so now I’m thinking about going out for a long weekend in October. 

Yes, please! And let’s get drinks and food and sit outside. (Elisabeth no doubt agrees with all these things.)

(Reblogged from meganwest)
Home from Burning Man. Actually, we got home late Tuesday night, and M’s friend picked us up at the airport, but we then got in a car accident on the way home, so M and I didn’t get home for another 6 hours since we went to the ER. We’re banged up, but seem to be relatively ok. Definitely lucked out as it could have been much worse… the guy who blew his red light t-boned the one seat in the car with no passenger. And of course, my sleep schedule is now fucked, and my head and neck and shoulder hurt. Time to take some more advil, grab another ice pack from the freezer, and maybe watch the new Doctor Who… View high resolution

Home from Burning Man. Actually, we got home late Tuesday night, and M’s friend picked us up at the airport, but we then got in a car accident on the way home, so M and I didn’t get home for another 6 hours since we went to the ER. We’re banged up, but seem to be relatively ok.

Definitely lucked out as it could have been much worse… the guy who blew his red light t-boned the one seat in the car with no passenger.

And of course, my sleep schedule is now fucked, and my head and neck and shoulder hurt. Time to take some more advil, grab another ice pack from the freezer, and maybe watch the new Doctor Who…

parks

climateadaptation:

Beautiful restoration occurring along the Bronx River by non-profits, young people, landscape architects, and city planners.

“I come here all the time,” he said. “It’s incredible, no?”

Yes, it is.

For years one of the most blighted, abused waterways in the country, the southern end of the Bronx River has been slowly coming back and with it the shoreline that meanders through the South Bronx. Next year, barring further delays, what looks to be an innovative work of green architecture, by the Brooklyn firm Kiss & Cathcart, is slated to open in Starlight Park, a green stretch upriver from Hunts Point Riverside. This summer at the mouth of the river another street-end pocket park, Hunts Point Landing, is opening between a Sanitation Department depot and a food processing plant.

The New York waterfront is changing perhaps more than any other part of the city. For centuries the interests of big money and industry shaped it. These days, notwithstanding dogged efforts by the Economic Development Corporation to kindle business along the waterfronts of Sunset Park in Brooklyn and on Staten Island, the city’s old industrial waterfront is in many places giving way to parks and luxury apartment towers where money still talks, like along the Hudson.

But compared with headline-making projects in Manhattan and Brooklyn, the unexpected renaissance under way along the south end of the Bronx River flies largely below the radar. Park by park a patchwork of green spaces has been taking shape, the consequence of decades of grinding, grass-roots, community-driven efforts. For the environmentalists, educators, politicians, architects and landscape designers involved, the idea has not just been to revitalize a befouled waterway and create new public spaces. It has been to invest Bronx residents, for generations alienated from the water, in the beauty and upkeep of their local river.

Watch the inspiring or have a read at the NYTimes: River of Hope in the Bronx

(Reblogged from climateadaptation)
futurejournalismproject: Stormy New York City Via Inga Sarda-Sorensen. View high resolution

futurejournalismproject:

Stormy New York City

Via Inga Sarda-Sorensen.

(Reblogged from futurejournalismproject)
brooklynmutt: “[C]heck out what’s coming toward ‪NYC‬ from ‪Queens‬. I’m flying on Delta. Photo taken at 10,000 feet.” - @DhaniJones View high resolution

brooklynmutt:

“[C]heck out what’s coming toward ‪NYC‬ from ‪Queens‬. I’m flying on Delta. Photo taken at 10,000 feet.” - 

(Reblogged from brooklynmutt)
This was 4:30pm or so, about a block from Union Square. View high resolution

This was 4:30pm or so, about a block from Union Square.

npr: Do you think 300-sq feet would be enough for you? — tanya b. wnyc: New York City apartments may get even smaller. Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Monday launched a competition for developers to design a building with micro-units of no more than 300-square feet in Manhattan for the city’s expanding small-household population. More on WNYC News Blog | Brian Lehrer Asks: What’s the Smallest Apartment You’ve Ever Had? Yes, it would be, if it was well designed. Design is especially critical when talking about tiny spaces.

npr:

Do you think 300-sq feet would be enough for you? — tanya b.

wnyc:

New York City apartments may get even smaller. Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Monday launched a competition for developers to design a building with micro-units of no more than 300-square feet in Manhattan for the city’s expanding small-household population.

More on WNYC News Blog | Brian Lehrer Asks: What’s the Smallest Apartment You’ve Ever Had?

Yes, it would be, if it was well designed. Design is especially critical when talking about tiny spaces.

(Reblogged from npr)

I Used to Love Her, But I Had to Flee Her: On Leaving New York

spytap:

whiskeyandgoatsmilk:

Things I wished I had written. Bless your heart its too relate-able.

Via: balltillifall

This is a fantastic read for anyone who lives in either New York or LA (the second half of the article) and especially for anyone who spends any amount of time shuffling between the two.

This has not been my experience, but it’s an interesting read and I can relate to one or two parts of it.

(Source: Gawker)

(Reblogged from spytap)