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RC Flying People Over NYC

nynerd — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:20:06 +0000

Radio Controlled airplanes shaped like people were sent flying over New York City. Quite a spectacle.

Empire State Building Antenna Repairs

nynerd — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 20:48:16 +0000

Swimming Pool Floating In NYC River

nynerd — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 16:51:44 +0000

Dubbed +Pool, this Kickstarter project aims to build a floating swimming pool in a NYC river. The pool would use filtered river water. Check it out

Population of Manhattan Peaked in 1910

nynerd — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 14:36:20 +0000

Population of Manhattan by year, interestingly, population peaked in 1910

Year Inhabitants
1698 4,937

1703 4,375

1712 5,840

1723 7,248

1731 8,622

1737 10,664

1746 11,717

1749 13,294

1756 13,046

1771 21,863

1790 33,131

1800 60,489

1810 96,373

1820 123,706

1830 202,589

1840 312,710

1850 515,547

1860 813,669

1870 942,292

1880 1,164,673

1890 1,441,216

1900 1,850,093

1910 2,331,542

1920 2,284,103

1930 1,867,312

1940 1,889,924

1950 1,960,101

1960 1,698,281

1970 1,539,233

1980 1,428,285

1990 1,487,536

2000 1,537,195

2010 1,585,873

Trump Takes Palin For Worst Pizza In NY

nynerd — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 16:04:50 +0000

Trump you should be ashamed to call yourself a New Yorker.

Urban Exporation of New York City

nynerd — Mon, 16 May 2011 02:47:10 +0000

Steve Duncan shows us areas of the city that are off limits and very dangerous to access, but hold great historical interest. In this video he goes to the abandoned beautiful City Hall subway station, the first closed sewer in NYC, the Lincoln train tunnel where people still live despite the city and Amtrak’s best efforts to evict them, and then an amazing view as he climbs to the top of the Williamsburg Bridge.

NYC Subway Powered by Turnstiles

nynerd — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 22:45:18 +0000

New York City has implemented an innovative green solution to powering the subway. The turnstiles generate 13.6% of the power necessary to run the subways, amazing!

New York City Subway Circa 1986

nynerd — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:47:25 +0000

Vinegar Hill House – Brooklyn

nynerd — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 13:20:57 +0000

Munchies, the hit food show from Vice is back! Welcome to the Vinegar Hill House episode of season two of Munchies, featuring the gracious hospitality of Zeb Stuart from Hotel Delmano and the many kindnesses of our friends at Pies ‘n’ Thighs. Jean and Brian invited along VHH partner Sam Buffa, Andrew Field of Rockaway Taco, and Chris Parachini of Roberta’s, in Bushwick, and we carted them around town as they ate and drank through the night. In the end we were left with a drunken afterhours pizza cookoff back at VHH, with all the chefs pitching in to make a few dozen pizzas for a few dozen VHH friends and family. They drank all the beer but ordered more—it being Vinegar Hill, this was hand-delivered by a nice guy with a big shopping cart.

Watch the episode: Munchies – Vinegar Hill House – Munchies | VBS.TV

Vinegar Hill is a peacefully remote neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, just to the north of Dumbo, which is a mostly terrible area beneath the Manhattan Bridge with high-rises, a few projects, and some other things. Dumbo’s biggest virtue, actually, is that its streets lead straight to Vinegar Hill House, one of the finest restaurants in any NYC borough. Vice decided that featuring VHH’s chef-owner Jean Adamson and chef de cuisine Brian Leth would be an excellent way to begin this, the second season of Munchies. Thankfully they agreed.

New York City By RC Plane

nynerd — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 12:46:21 +0000

Radio controlled airplane with camera flies over Brooklyn, Verazano Bridge, Downtown Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty