Posts Tagged ‘New York City’
February 11, 2022
A two minute time-lapse reconstruction of the 400 year evolution of the Lower Manhattan skyline. Video by Myles Zhang .
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October 20, 2021
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The most recognizable voice in the Big Apple, the one that tells you to “stand clear of the closing doors” in the subway, is that of Charlie Pellett . A New Yorker video.
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June 9, 2021
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The New York City subway system was saved by the Helvetica font, claims Christine Beldon on Cheddar.
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“How the NYC Subway Was Saved By a Typeface,” Christine Beldon and Lawrence Banton, Cheddar
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April 14, 2021
Graphic designer Savannah Walker has compiled an open-source archive of the markings and stickers that are helping New Yorkers maintain social distance in the city during the pandemic.
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Tags:6 feet apart , floors , graphic design , New York City , NYC , pandemic , pandemic communication , Savannah Walker , sidewalks , social distancing , stckers Posted in public health | 1 Comment »
July 30, 2020
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Even before the rich fled New York City during the pandemic, native New Yorker Mara Gay asked if the Big Apple has run out of big ideas. A New York Times video Op-Ed.
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July 6, 2020
“Treasures in the Trash,” a short film by Nicolas Heller featuring former sanitation worker Nelson Molina, who now maintains a New York City trash museum .
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January 2, 2020
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A century of Coney Island , as seen by The New Yorker .
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April 4, 2019
California food columnist Lucas Kwan Peterson explored Big Apple foodways in the April 1 edition of the Los Angeles Times :
“My first culinary encounter was with pizza, a mysterious kind of baked tlayuda, covered in macerated tomatoes and milk coagulation, and occasionally smothered with a type of thinly sliced lap cheong called pepperoni. The odd dish, sometimes referred to as a pie, washed ashore from Naples some years ago. While the taste takes some getting used to, pizza can be enchanting when done properly.”
— “For cramped New York, an expanding dining scene,” Lucas Kwan Peterson, Los Angeles Times
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March 25, 2019
Hudson Yards has opened, a new office, upscale condo and luxury shopping development built over an active trainyard on New York’s West Side. The city and state chipped in $6 billion for the project, but maybe that’s not as bad as it sounds.
What is bad, undeniably , is the 150-foot-high, 16 storey, copper-covered selfie magnet looming over Hudson Yards plaza called Vessel . The structure, consisting of 154 flights of stairs, may be a perfect metaphor for New York: you keep climbing but get nowhere.
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