After 18 months without a long-term living plan in New York, I’ve finally locked down a great new apartment in the DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass) neighborhood in Brooklyn. I think this warrants some Jay-Z:
In case you haven’t heard, New York has gotten a ton of snow this month- so much in fact that February 2009 is now the snowiest month in NYC history (breaking a 114 year old record). Well I came across this time-lapse video of the latest [...]
Zach van Schouwen has created a very cool video showing the entire history of one block in New York City. He started out researching a five-story tenement building at 218 Eldridge Street which his great-great grandfather lived.
“With some help from Christopher Gray’s guide to researching New [...]