Brooklyn is my home. I live in a former rubber stamp building that’s nestled between several of my favorite neighborhoods: Boerum Hill, Downtown Brooklyn, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens and Brooklyn Heights. Seven major subway lines are just a few short …
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Henry’s Concepts
Love this little project that weaves childhood imagination with adult creativity. Apparently, the story goes that one day Henry (the kid) posed and then asked the nanny to do something similar (so he could take a photo of her). The …
Hip-hop isn’t just music. It’s community.
Jay Shell’s “Rap Quotes” project is great on so many levels. It’s an art installation popping up over an entire city, a quest to install rap lyrics across each neighborhood of the Big Apple. Basically, Jay attaches official-looking signs as an …
Remember the stars?
Sometimes, walking around, surrounded by the city spectacle, I forget what a full night sky looks like. It takes a keen mind and a diligent eye to remember they’re up there. That, or frequenting somewhere much less light polluted. I guess …
Skyscrapers take amusement park rides to the next level
Ever wondered what it’d be like to soar through the air on carnival swings around the Empire State Building? Me neither, but after discovering this video, I’m totally game! Fernando Livschitz of Black Sheep Films created a big city wonderland …
Brooklyncisco? San Franklin? San Brookcisco? Brookfranklynisco?
I’m loving this map put together by designer Steph Goralnick! She used New York City street maps like puzzle pieces to create a fictional land that happens to look kind of like San Francisco. What street maps would you shuffle …