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bobbycaputo: NYC fourth grader sneaks camera into school, makes...

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:14:01 -0400

NYC fourth grader sneaks camera into school, makes documentary about gross cafeteria food

Here’s a clip from an upcoming documentary by a fourth grader who snuck a camera into school to document his horrible school lunches and the vast distance between the food that the school claims to serve and food he and his friends end up eating.

Zachary is a fourth grader at a large New York City public elementary school. Each day he reads the Department of Education lunch menu online to see what is being served. The menu describes delicious and nutritious cuisine that reads as if it came from the finest restaurants. However, when Zachary gets to school, he finds a very different reality. Armed with a concealed video camera and a healthy dose of rebellious courage, Zachary embarks on a six month covert mission to collect video footage of his lunch and expose the truth about the City’s school food service program.

NYPD wrongfully seize wrong SD card Photography is not a Crime...

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:41:01 -0400

NYPD wrongfully seize wrong SD card

Photography is not a Crime shares the story:

New York City police officers arrested a woman who was video recording them from a public sidewalk as they conducted some type of “vehicle safety checkpoint.”

The officers apparently stole a memory card from a camera, which turned out to be the wrong one, allowing us to view the video.

thelowline: “The Lowline is poised to become the New Yorkiest...

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:15:52 -0400

thelowline:

“The Lowline is poised to become the New Yorkiest thing to happen to New York City since the Double-Dutch tournament at the Apollo Theatre.”

Read up on this awesome article in the WSJ by Gabrielle Hamilton on the Lowline:

http://stream.wsj.com/story/latest-headlines/SS-2-63399/SS-2-236098/

laughingsquid: Improv Everywhere Turns a New York City Subway...

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:22:54 -0400

laughingsquid:

Improv Everywhere Turns a New York City Subway Car Into a Late Night Talk Show

untappedcities: Untapped Secrets of Central Park: Waterfalls,...

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:14:47 -0400

untappedcities:

Untapped Secrets of Central Park: Waterfalls, Caves and Prehistoric Rocks http://bit.ly/13BJ2Xw

inothernews: Via the New York Daily News, the arrest of a...

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:58:57 -0400

inothernews:

Via the New York Daily News, the arrest of a suspect in a fatal bias attack in Greenwich Village:

The homophobe accused of shooting a gay man to death in the West Village laughed in hideous glee as he confessed, a prosecutor told a judge said Sunday.

Elliot Morales (seen being arrested on Friday night) was hauled before a judge and charged with killing Mark Carson with a point-blank head shot from a .38-caliber revolver following a barrage of anti-gay taunts shortly before midnight on Friday.

Morales, 33, got only a few blocks away from where Carson fell on W. 8th St. near Sixth Ave. when police collared him. As he was being restrained on a sidewalk, he laughed and boasted: “I shot him in the face.”

Morales, who had been staying recently with friends in the Rockaways, was ordered held without bail. He was charged with second-degree murder as a hate crime and other counts.

“It’s clear that the victim here was killed only because and just because he was thought to be gay,” NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly said. The commissioner added that Carson in no way antagonized his killer.

(Photo: Alec Tabak for the NY Daily News)

thirteenny: momatalks: Wow! A unique take on the fast-moving...

Sat, 18 May 2013 13:24:41 -0400

thirteenny:

momatalks:

Wow! A unique take on the fast-moving NYC taxicab…

Whoa!

bobbycaputo: Street toy merchant,Union Square area, circa 1903...

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:53:45 -0400

bobbycaputo:

Street toy merchant,Union Square area, circa 1903 Photo from the Library of Congress.

Free Summer Concerts in NYC

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:00:30 -0400

nycgov:

Starting now through August, you can hear live music of all kinds across the City ranging from punk on Staten Island, rock on the Manhattan waterfront and world music at SummerStage. For a full list of concerts and festivals visit ow.ly/l8OaH.

nbcnews: NYC artist’s photos of unknowing subjects raise...

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:48:31 -0400

nbcnews:

NYC artist’s photos of unknowing subjects raise privacy concerns

(Photo: Bebeto Matthews / AP)

To the well-known photographer who shot them with a telephoto lens, the pictures of people going about their daily lives in the building across the street constitute art.

Read the complete story.

kathyboos: Are you ready? Camera: Canon PowerShot SX280HS A...

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:13:37 -0400

kathyboos:

Are you ready?

Camera: Canon PowerShot SX280HS

A week ago I was given a Canon SX280 HS for shooting my NYC experience. One of the many amazing features this camera has is a WiFi connection that allows me to post my images wherever I’am.

I’m completely drawn into it and enjoying my everyday images like never before. If you want to try it, me to take a picture of you or just have fun get out today and meet me at the Canon #PowerShotBeReady event at the South Street Seaport in New York City (2pm). Are you ready? #canon #camera #powershot #NYC #US

laughingsquid: ‘Candy Cab’ Passengers Offered Candy & A...

Thu, 16 May 2013 17:34:26 -0400

laughingsquid:

‘Candy Cab’ Passengers Offered Candy & A Party in a NYC Yellow Taxi

numbphoto: The #eastriver view of #nyc #skyline #igwednesday...

Thu, 16 May 2013 14:37:19 -0400

numbphoto:

The #eastriver view of #nyc #skyline #igwednesday #longislandcity

untappedcities: Top 5 Quirky Museums & Libraries in New...

Thu, 16 May 2013 11:06:20 -0400

untappedcities:

Top 5 Quirky Museums & Libraries in New York City http://bit.ly/11Hp6bc

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Thu, 16 May 2013 09:31:02 -0400

nycedc: Today Mayor Bloomberg and Speaker Quinn announced the...

Thu, 16 May 2013 09:15:38 -0400

nycedc:

Today Mayor Bloomberg and Speaker Quinn announced the launch of an expanded, free Red Hook Summer Ferry service starting Memorial Day Saturday and running weekends throughout the summer!

The expanded service will run from Pier 11 in Manhattan to a new stop at Van Brunt Street and then to IKEA, both in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Free transfers will be available between the Red Hook Ferry and the northbound East River Ferry, which reaches a ridership of two million later this week! Get more details on NYCEDC’s blog.

Said Mayor Bloomberg:

“Hurricane Sandy hit the Red Hook community hard, and that’s why we’re making it easier than ever for New Yorkers to get to small businesses in the area in order to help the community continue to recover.

By expanding the already successful free IKEA ferry to another stop in the heart of Red Hook, and by connecting it to the East River Ferry that is celebrating its two millionth ride this week, the free Red Hook summer ferry will help boost the local economy. I look forward to the Red Hook Ferry’s opening this Memorial Day and encourage all New Yorkers to try it.”

See you on the Red Hook ferry this summer!

Photo credit: Retrofresh! via Flickr

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Thu, 16 May 2013 09:08:55 -0400

To commemorate the last day of the Banana Stand being in New York, AD is hosting a Never Nude convention.

Wed, 15 May 2013 22:12:41 -0400

To commemorate the last day of the Banana Stand being in New York, AD is hosting a Never Nude convention.

micropolisnyc: Does the very geography of Manhattan make it...

Wed, 15 May 2013 20:39:00 -0400

micropolisnyc:

Does the very geography of Manhattan make it more inviting to immigrants and other newcomers?

The idea came up during a long walk I took down Broadway with Becky Cooper, the author of “Mapping Manhattan,” and Adam Gopnik of The New Yorker, who wrote the introduction.

“Mapping Manhattan” is a crowdsourcing project that uncovers the intense emotional associations New Yorkers have with the island. Becky wandered about the city, handing out blank maps to people on the street and asking them to scrawl away. She also roped in celebrity contributors, like Yoko Ono and Australian supermodel Nicole Trunfio.

Love came up, as did sex, hate, prostitution, death, and Patricia Marx’s lost gloves.

But on our walk, we kept returning to geography, and the street grid that defines Manhattan.

“The grid plan that makes New York so distinct is one that in a certain sense cancels personality,” said Gopnik. “Whereas Paris and London are both, in a certain sense, organic cities, they’ve grown up over a long period of time. The irrationality of their structure is a reflection of that long history, that’s why you need to take 2 years to learn how to become a taxi driver in London. New York has a super impersonal plan. But it takes on a private impress. That corner on the absolutely rectilinear grid, of 23rd and Broadway, becomes your corner.”

“I feel like the grid pattern actually invites personality,” said Cooper, “because of how non-specific it is. Because the second you come here you feel you own a part of it. There isn’t this barrier to entry, there isn’t this exclusivity of the person who’s grown up here.”

Listen to our full Micropolis conversation here.

And check out Becky Cooper’s “Mapping Manhattan” Tumblr.

Rich New Yorkers hire disabled "guides" to Disney World in order to skip lines (according to NY Post, anyway) - Boing Boing

Wed, 15 May 2013 18:23:08 -0400

Rich New Yorkers hire disabled "guides" to Disney World in order to skip lines (according to NY Post, anyway) - Boing Boing:

The (awful and not usually very trustworthy) New York Post reports that rich New Yorkers pay thousands of dollars to an Orlando area service that rents out disabled people to accompany them to Walt Disney World in order to jump the lines. The article says that there’s a word-of-mouth underground in New York’s priciest private schools, in which parents pass on the details of the service, which is allegedly called Dream Tours Florida:

Passing around the rogue guide service’s phone number recently became a shameless ritual among Manhattan’s private-school set during spring break. The service asks who referred you before they even take your call.

“It’s insider knowledge that very few have and share carefully,” said social anthropologist Dr. Wednesday Martin, who caught wind of the underground network while doing research for her upcoming book “Primates of Park Avenue.”

“Who wants a speed pass when you can use your black-market handicapped guide to circumvent the lines all together?” she said.

“So when you’re doing it, you’re affirming that you are one of the privileged insiders who has and shares this information.”