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gallery js This year OHNY opened up the doors to the gorgeous TWA building at JFK Airport, a mid-century time capsule that sits abandoned across from Terminal 5. Over there, you’re reminded of a time when air travel had a bit of dignity and elegance. You could sit down at a sleek bar and drink…
Anti-police brutality activists in New York City took a trip to a gentrified neighborhood on October 18 to catch white people freely committing the type of crimes that get black and brown people regularly harassed by cops. The group that organized the action, the Police Reform Organizing Project, or PROP, took to the streets of…
gallery js Next Tuesday evening at Cooper Union, some of the titans of New York City subway map design will convene alongside map aficionados to talk shop. The setting is auspicious, as back in 1978 Cooper Union hosted the Great Subway Map Debate, a showdown between backers of Massimo Vignelli’s sleek-but-disorienting subway diagram and supporters,…
SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) — Cat lovers and animal activists showed up at the Santa Clara County courthouse Monday for an accused cat killer’s hearing. San Jose resident Robert Farmer, 24, is charged with animal cruelty and other crimes related to stealing and hurting or killing cats. VIDEO: Man accused of kidnapping, killing cats in…
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Photo by Erin. The D.C. government is hardly the only entity taking advantage of the city’s hot housing market to turn a tidy profit. More than a quarter of all homes sold in 2015 passed hands in less than three years, according to data published by District, Measured. Problems with unscrupulous house flippers (and…
A federal appeals court has upheld the “core provisions” of New York’s SAFE Act and a Connecticut gun control law, both passed following the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut and challenged in court by gun-rights activists on constitutional grounds. A three-judge panel from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on…
Beautiful photos of the Mexican Temple of Santiago have been circulating online, showing the church reappear from the water like a lost ruin of Atlantis. The Grijalva river in Chiapas, Mexico has been suffering from a drought over the past year which has caused the water level in Nezahualcoyotl reservoir to decrease by 25 meters (82…
Photo Traditional neon signs in Hong Kong, like the one shown here, have been eclipsed by ones made with LEDs. Credit Lam Yik Fei for The New York Times HONG KONG — For nearly four decades, a giant neon cow suspended above a steakhouse in Hong Kong’s Western District was a neighborhood landmark. It was…