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Department of Finance - Property Benefits
look up property address by block/lot # (damn obfuscated RE broker listings!)
nyc  realestate  block  lot  blocklot 
january 2011 by sstrudeau
Freemans Sporting Club
recommended barber -- tomorrow's shave & a haircut?
nyc  barber  walkin 
february 2010 by sstrudeau
NYC Rent Guidelines Board
Landlord has to provide hot water to at minimum 110 degrees from every faucet.
nyc  law  heat  hotwater  landlord  tenant  rental  code 
january 2010 by sstrudeau
Gridskipper: Harlem's Food For the Soul
been to about half of these places. need to try more. though really, don't need more than Amy Ruth's
harlem  soulfood  nyc  food  soul 
november 2008 by sstrudeau
Cross Country - WSJ.com
on rent control. this is one area where I have a lot of sympathy for the libertarians...
rent  control  stabilization  policy  newyork  nyc  realestate 
september 2008 by sstrudeau
NY Times Flushing food map
Map of various Flushing restaurants. Nice list.
nyc  food  restaurant  list  map  queens  flushing  chinese  restaurants 
august 2008 by sstrudeau
Great Used Bikes
Pennsylvania guy -- buy your bike online, get it delivered for free to your door on Sunday -- have him pick it up for winter storage every year
bikes  bicycle  cheap  nyc  used 
july 2008 by sstrudeau
The Ground Floor: NYC to Build Dynamic Tower
"The building will be the world's first factory-built skyscraper. Each floor contains completely prefabricated living or working space that connects to a central column. The complete independence of each floor enables the structure to take an infinite num
nyc  building  architecture  skyskcraper  modular  factory 
june 2008 by sstrudeau
About Notches
"free, open, universal platform for reviews" -- NYC based startup, open ASP platform for "reviews" of all kinds
platform  reviews  startup  nyc  siliconalley  web 
june 2008 by sstrudeau
Ride the City: safe bike routes made easy
Google Map directions for NYC bicyclists (with optional "safety" weighting to help you find bike lanes and greenways)
nyc  bicycle  map  route  directions  maps 
june 2008 by sstrudeau
Dreams and Desperation on Forsyth Street - NYTimes.com
Interesting story centering on the chinatown bus stop, but is a great profile of the neighborhood and immigrant experience
chinatown  nyc  bus  stop  transit  story 
june 2008 by sstrudeau
el Centro ~ educar para liberar
cheap Spanish language classes in NYC for a good cause; recommended by AH
via:amanda_bee  spanish  english  learning  education  nyc  class  cheap 
may 2008 by sstrudeau
New York's Best Dining Experiences | Ed Levine's New York Eats
for when you have too much money to burn - list of spendy top restaurants in NYC
restaurant  restaurants  list  nyc  newyork  food  $$$$$ 
april 2008 by sstrudeau
Subway Crush
Brilliant. It's like Craigslist "Missed Connections" but organized by subway line. Like the design!
nyc  transit  subway  crush 
april 2008 by sstrudeau
Activists protest at judges' parking lot
Judges afraid to park in parking structure; insist on parking in the public plaza.
parking  brooklyn  nyc  park  lazy  transportationalternatives 
march 2008 by sstrudeau
The Organic Gardener
Apparently this guy knows a lot about green roofs
brooklyn  nyc  greenroof 
march 2008 by sstrudeau
Brownstoner: Time to Get Your 160 Schermerhorn Lottery Ticket
If you know anyone single who makes under $30k, not a bad deal...
brooklyn  housing  affordable  studio  nyc 
march 2008 by sstrudeau
SMSCab - A brooklyn-based, text-based car service
A car service where you order your car via SMS instead of calling the dispatecher. Located on Myrtle with only 30 cars to start.
sms  cab  taxi  car  carservice  brooklyn  nyc 
january 2008 by sstrudeau
Edible Brooklyn Winter 2008 - Brooklyn Cocktail
Edible Brooklyn on the Brooklyn Cocktail includes recipes. Apparently, the original requires an ingredient now only available in Italy (Amer Picon) -- though a good Italian amaro (e.g., Amaro Nonino) is a good substitute according to Chestnut's chef David
cocktail  brooklyn  recipe  pdf  article  edible  nyc 
january 2008 by sstrudeau
Needed: Visual NYC building atlas
Jake's tweet: This could be a sweet project. "Skyline atlas." Sort of a specialized Google "street view" e.g. from the bkln waterfront with mouse-over overlays to ID visible manhattan buildings. Extra credit for an iPhone interface with geo-location enab
visualization  buildings  tweet  nyc  jakedobkin  atlas  skyline  idea 
january 2008 by sstrudeau
GoMobo: Order Food Online or with your Mobile Phone - Skip the Line!
Order takeout by sms. I've been waiting for someone to do this. Now they just need to work in paying by mobile ...
sms  text  mobile  food  takeout  restaurant  startup  nyc 
january 2008 by sstrudeau
Parking fines a big cost for delivery firms - U.S. business- msnbc.com
"UPS, FedEx and other commercial delivery companies pay a steep price for doing business in New York City, getting an average of 7,000 parking tickets every day and paying more than $102 million in fines in the city’s latest budget year."
nyc  urban  delivery  transportation  transit  ups  usps  fedex  parking  ticket 
december 2007 by sstrudeau
Brownstoner: Dumbo’s Growing Pains
“The worst thing you can do in New York is fall in love with a neighborhood,”
quote  dumbo  nyc  neighborhood 
december 2007 by sstrudeau
Curbed: LIC's Flux Factory to Fall for Commuter Tunnel
Flux gets the boot from their LIC space to make room for LIRR expansion to Grand Central
fluxfactory  flux  lic  queens  nyc  realestate  lirr  eastsideaccess  relocation  artist  loft  displacement  gentrification 
december 2007 by sstrudeau
Seafarers & International House
If you can get over the heavy christianness of it sounds like a reasonably priced lodging option for nyc visits
nyc  cheap  lodging  hotel  christian 
december 2007 by sstrudeau
Halt the Hike
I'm not opposed to a transit fare hike assuming its used effectively to improve the system. I think it's bullshit that the proposed hike only affects regular users and not occasional users.
activism  nyc  transit  fare  anti  hike 
december 2007 by sstrudeau
Gothamist: Though Base Fare Will Remain $2, Unlimited Subway & Bus Fares Likely to Rise
85% of MTA riders buy unlimited cards; pols are touting their "halt the fare hike" solution that keeps base fare at $2 and increases unlimited fare instead -- So, raising the fare on most riders is halting the fare hike? Yay politics.
mta  transit  fare  nyc  ny  doublespeak 
november 2007 by sstrudeau
Gotham Gazette - The Wonkster » Blog Archive » City Raises State’s ‘Green Ranking’
"the city makes up about half of the state’s population and workforce, as well 60 percent of its private sector wages, it only consumes a third of the state’s total electricity and only about 20 percent of its gasoline."
ecology  green  city  nyc  energy 
october 2007 by sstrudeau
Unthirsty - Find Your Happy Hour
Find happy hours by location and specials
drink  location  happyhour  cheap  booze  bars  city  nyc  list  review 
october 2007 by sstrudeau
Finding Funny Online: Olde English « NewTeeVee
'“That was our breakout hit,” said Olde English player Adam Conover.' Are we going to start seeing small groups of short video producers start acting like bands?
culture  video  online  web  troupe  band  oldeenglish  nyc  newyork 
october 2007 by sstrudeau
Curbed: The Catch: Tight Squeeze on Mott Street
affordable housing just blocks from the office;
nyc  housing  nolita  soho  insane 
october 2007 by sstrudeau
Return of the rentier city - Paul Krugman - Op-Ed Columnist - New York Times Blog
Krugman posts about how cities like London and New York are becoming "rentier" cities -- places where the rich live off of income generated elsewhere
krugman  urban  economics  politics  neofeudalism  cities  newyork  nyc 
october 2007 by sstrudeau
Gothamist: Map of the Day: Time Travel on a Subway Map
Time-delayed rendering of subway map, in order lines were built. I want this but with lines that were built and destroyed or changed, with speed/step controls and annotations. Flash app, here we come!
idea  map  time  transit  mta  nyc  history  cool 
september 2007 by sstrudeau
New York Hack: Strike!
NY Hack's take on the taxi strike. A very good overview of the anti- arguments. Too bad it had little practical impact. Too bad cabbies have such little power.
labor  nyc  taxi  strike  op-ed 
september 2007 by sstrudeau
Taste of The New York Subway
"This directory shows all restaurants within 200 meters of a subway station, ordered by distance"
nyc  food  restaurant  list  subway 
august 2007 by sstrudeau
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