Morbid Anatomy is one of these rare finds: tucked away in a nondescript building in the gowanus, a small place with the owner-curator always at hand. open saturdays 2-6.
Tag: nyc
Bronx Outdoors
New York City was recognized as one of American Forests’ 10 Best Cities for Urban Forests. To those in disbelief, the urban jungle flaunts green space galore with all its grit and bricks. More impressively, the Bronx not only has among the greatest number of parks in all the 5 boroughs, but it is also home to some of the largest parklands within the city.
NYC has too many representatives
i’m with norman mailer but it turns out that
Bills from legislators from small or medium-sized cities were 2x as likely to pass as ones that originated in big cities like Chicago or New York. they found a precipitous drop in the number of bills a city’s delegation was able to pass as the number of representatives ballooned. keeping center-city legislators in line may be just as important as having allies in Albany or Springfield.
What is NYC?
by this definition, nyc (37600 km²) is nearly the same size as switzerland (41285 km²) but has 23M inhabitants vs 7M.
Greater New York had expanded to somewhere between 19-23M residents, depending on the definition.
Paulaner NYC
Traditional German beers brewed on premises, one of the first in the us. Just opened.
Bus bunching
MTA Bustime is progress (i wish all transit systems had this), but it just makes it painfully obvious how terribly run the MTA bus system is: busses always cluster together, instead of being properly spaced.
2015-05-21: It seems the reason (in NYC) is the inefficient boarding, which causes delays.
Click and hold a bar below to delay its respective bus. Note how even a short delay causes the buses to bunch together after a while. Hover over a stop to see its history. The area of the curve is cumulative wait time. Bunching makes the area
Santacon PSA
remember that president obama has issued shoot to kill orders for santacon for anyone caught outside in santa gear.
Flappers
Flapper dance, 2nd ave platform
Stop And Kiss Program
bloomberg was quoted:
this program keeps new yorkers safe. officers should be allowed to stop anyone, question them and leave them with a small and reasonable kiss on the mouth
Audacious goals
humans will land on mars before the second avenue subway arrives at 14th st.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 