Exploring the City’s Changes in Cardboard
With virtual reality, an interactive art installation helps viewers understand the effects of gentrification
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Radio Free Brooklyn Partners with New Record Store
As more media consumption moves onto the Internet, one Internet radio station has decided to plant its feet in the physical world.
Trying to Make Parking in the City Less of a Pain
It’s hard to find a place to leave your car. This app will let you borrow someone else’s.
What’s Innovation to Some Means Gentrification to Others
Anti-gentrification group protests a gathering of start-ups and developers in Brooklyn
Banking Not a Top Priority in Many Underserved NYC Communities
About 360,000 residents in the city don’t have bank accounts. The city and many local banks are trying to change that.
Problem Solving With Soft Robots
A Brooklyn-based consultancy is applying soft robotic technology to practical and commercial problems.
Revealing America’s Queer History, One State at a Time
In 1895, in the frontier town of La Grange, Texas, a doctor named John Carhart published a novel called Norma Trist. Its heroine, Norma Trist, was one of the first openly gay characters in American fiction. Now, pages from the book are part of a new art installation, which opened on September 10, at the […]
Dangerous Street Angers Brooklyn Residents
A left turn from the Manhattan Bridge into Brooklyn has caused an uproar among residents of Bridge Plaza
Rebelling Against Prohibition From Day One: A Whiskey Lover Shares His Story
A Kentucky native brings his love for whiskey to New York.
Common Core Exams Drive Demand for Tutors
Enrollment at after school programs and online practice tests are on the rise in New York
Peter Liang’s Reduced Sentence Divides the Community
A judge’s ruling pits Asians against Blacks
Young Stand-up Comedians Stand Up for Hillary
At a late-night Bushwick event called Chillary NYC, they whacked the Bernie Bros
A Very Old Skull Heads Home
The U.S. is returning a 70-million-year-old dinosaur head, along with other fossils, to Mongolia
App Goes the Pizza in Sunset Park
“Holy Moses it’s cold out there!” said John Miniaci, the owner of Johnny’s Pizzeria, rubbing his hands and hurrying back into his warm shop as the sun set on Sunset Park and 15-mile winds raced down 5th Avenue. On the sidewalk outside of Johnny’s on this frigid Wednesday was a film crew, four puppies, a […]
A School Divided: PS 193’s Dangerous War
What happens when members of a school community give in to mistrust?