AT&T Street Charge to Open 8 New Solar-Powered Phone Charging Stations Today
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View ArticleThe Taco Truck Serves Up Tasty Organic Mexican Goodness On-the-Go
The Taco Truck chain was born in Hoboken, NJ and combines delectable organic Mexican food with environmentally-friendly design. Their tasty tortas and tacos can be enjoyed from one of their mobile...
View ArticleNYPD Releases Perfluorocarbon Gas into NYC Subway System to Better Understand...
Image ©Nouhailler This morning, the NYPD began the first day of the Subway-Surface Air Flow Exchange program, an urban airflow study conducted with the Brookhaven National Laboratory, and funded by...
View ArticleBreadbox Cafe Boasts a Facade of 1,600 Rolling Pins in Long Island City,...
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View ArticleNew Domino Sugar Site Urban Farm and Mountain Bike Course Opens Today in...
The temporary park space that Two Trees Management announced back in March for a vacant lot near their Domino Sugar Refinery housing complex site opened to the public today. The previously empty land...
View ArticleSlightly Disturbing 3D-Printed Faces Are Constructed Using DNA from Found...
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View Article“Magic Carpet” Exhibit Hangs 36 Shipping Containers Over Guests’ Heads at...
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View ArticleSee Photos of NYC’s New Flood-Proof, Prefab Beach Buildings in the Rockaways
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View ArticleNYC to Test Out Prefabricated Post-Disaster Housing Prototype in Brooklyn
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View ArticleFour Finalists Selected in FAR ROC Competition to Design Storm-Resistant...
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View ArticleRAPID RE(F)USE: Could New York City Be Rebuilt from Its Own Trash?
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View ArticleGreen-Roofed Ample Hills Kiosk Scoops Up Local Ice Cream at Brooklyn Bridge Park
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View ArticleToday Will Be the Last Day NYPD and Brookhaven Labs Release Perfluorocarbon...
Image ©Nouhailler Earlier this month, Inhabitat reported that Brookhaven National Laboratory and the NYPD would be releasing trace amounts of perfluorocarbon gas into the subway system as part of the...
View ArticleUnique “Marche” Concept Reimagines Abandoned Post Offices as Local Supermarkets
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View ArticleWould You Live in a Wooden Box in NYC for $1,367 a Month?
New York City is notorious for its exorbitant cost of living, but could it be so bad that rent for a literal wooden box goes for over a grand per month? Although now defunct, this listing on Airbnb...
View ArticleNYC Officials Ask EDC to Help Push Lowline Underground Park Project Ahead
The Lowline, an initiative to create an underground park for the Lower East Side, has been progressing slowly but surely over the past few years, and now local officials have also joined in to push...
View ArticleNYC’s Colorful “Recycle Everything” Ad Campaign Encourages New Yorkers to...
Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s office is launching a colorful new ad campaign to encourage New Yorkers to recycle. Called “Recycle Everything,” the series of eye-catching adverts will also promote the...
View ArticleShark Fin Sales to Be Banned in New York Starting in 2014
There’s little debate that cutting the fins off of living sharks and selling them as food is cruel and inhumane, but the state of New York is finally acknowledging its disapproval of the practice by...
View ArticleNew York’s “Greenest” Tower (1 Bryant Park) Isn’t So Green After All
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View ArticleMayor Bloomberg Announces RFP for New Seaport City Neighborhood That Would...
Could a new neighborhood be coming to NYC? Seaport City, an idea for a man-made parcel of land on the east side of Manhattan that would also double as a storm surge protector, was first introduced to...
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