"hmm" gallery tour so good via mbs

"astor place site bag" says allen

here is the oft-anecdotalized track where Arthur Russell met Vin Diesel. Reminds me of a story people always tell about The Rock and Criterion

"Hiram Monserrate is serving the public again -- one slice at a time.  The shamed former state senator is getting rid of his aggression these days by pounding the dough at a pizza shop in Queens." via will

ny senator proposes law against call girl business cards because kids are using them as trading cards in school

re: MTA minute to win it posters feat. Guy Fieri: "For several years the material used for subway platform posters has increasingly been a self adhesive vinyl. These posters are much easier to install than the traditional paper posers which needed to be pasted on to the poster frame with thick liquid paste. Their nonporous plastic-like surface can also be cleaned with solvents, something that the paper posters could not stand up to. This easy clean poster material makes possible ever evolving layers of verbal and graphic dialog, and our friend representing the New York Lottery really gets the conversation started." via kathryn

First NYU Abu Dhabi, now this.  Could think of many other more deserving producers, but then again, maybe Swizz Beatz is the rap equivalent of NYU:<br />
 “What made me different, I was doing designs in people’s haircuts,” he says. “Then I started giving an incentive—you buy a design, you get a mix tape. I was charging $30, more than anybody.”

lecture: algorithms in use, real world consequences, ways around algorithms

tasteful data-driven information about a new york thing

networked space politics

rebranding alcohol as drugs, from ryan daniels

professional cleaners has always been a favorite VIA BENNETT

missed this one

COME SEE THIS SHREDFEST BEING PUT ON BY RICK AND BENNETT

for some future time

"the dig cunt" one of my favorite gelitin pieces

FLOATING ADS VISIT HERE via bennett

THE SOFT PACK ADDRESSES HOW MANNA HAS A SHITTY VIBE (via alisa)

via alex markman

via migurski

oracle / keeper / deli

BosWash extends from extreme southern Maine and New Hampshire – Boston's suburbs – south to Northern Virginia, Washington D.C.'s suburbs. It has a population of 55 million, or 18 percent of the population of the United States (living on only 2% of the nation's land) and about 0.8 percent of the world population.

"Bill Brand's Masstransiscopewas installed in the abandoned Myrtle Avenue subway station in Brooklyn, New York in September 1980. It has been seen by millions of commuters for over twenty-five years. The 228 hand-painted panels are viewed through a series of vertical slits set into a specially constructed housing. The piece works on the principle of the Zoetrope, a 19th century optical toy."

proposed brooklyn=>queens=>bronx subway line with accompanying speculative ridership data

good interview with the ziz

DAN SMITH HAS A WEBSITE (from mike riley)

"The taxicab metric is also known as rectilinear distance, L1 distance or L1 norm (see Lp space), city block distance, Manhattan distance, or Manhattan length, with corresponding variations in the name of the geometry.[1] The last name alludes to the grid layout of most streets on the island of Manhattan, which causes the shortest path a car could take between two points in the city to have length equal to the points' distance in taxicab geometry."

estimated commute time; appearance reminds me of topo maps (4D as terrain?????)

"Youths Stealing Subway Tokens By Sucking on Turnstile Slots"

“Gore” refers to a small triangular park. It is another piece of public park nomenclature that derives from apparel; such small parks are also called “vest pocket parks.” In the garment world, a gore is a triangular piece of material inserted into clothing (it can also apply to sails, or anything else made of fabric), to widen or change its shape. “Gore” has its origins in the Old English word “gara” meaning “corner.”

drawing of Google Maps downtown Manhattan if Robert Moses' Lower Manhattan Expressway had been given the go

I love the production (I was too young for david copperfield)

geography of the meltdown

''Once in a while, I'll look through them [the cd's] to see if I can find something for my dressing room,'' Cox says, ''but there are never any good ones.'' With one notable exception, of course: the official Friends soundtrack. ''Could Monica listen to that?'' ponders Perry. (via jmb; see also: seinfeld 3d model)

NOAA rep NYC weather questions part 2

NOAA rep answers NYC weather questions part 1

some great terms and concepts covered: "traveling conversations", girl watchers, traffic-blocking greeting techniques, etc etc

mapping the Citibank tower in Long Island City as an incidental sundial

story of how the kim's video collection made it to salemi, italy (via birds666)

"fenugreek" is source of maple syrup smell

I am trying to create homepages for every bodega in New York City

the cloisters' garden has a blog

I have an obsession with this enormous grocery store

nearby farmer's markets

There was a Ray's avalanche of the '80s.

extolling the virtues of a discrete lunch

always seeing this outside of buildings and construction sites

This link is the reason why I started using del.icio.us. Until now, I was unable to recall where or how I might find this video. Also: I have tried several times, unsuccessfully, to recreate the emcee's knitted mask from memory.

NYC place passed by a while back, I kind of wish it kept the URL as its name

from alisa

from sophia

so good

via jenn su

lots of events through mid october

about those flowers appearing on nyc taxi cabs

the washington square park midget

RE:dude who is always hanging around Union Square. I want to see this for the man from Washington Square Park

mike mcgill's site. great name for a website

of the century

short preview video I edited for the Film-Makers' Coop 2007 benefit, featuring Phillilp Glass / Jonas Mekas / more

buddy Jenn Su is in gothamist for Solar One

for all those folks who made the Ed Ruscha's "Every Building on the Sunset Strip" connection... plus it might be live video at some point??