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This Flirtatious NYC Airport Avatar Was Definitely Designed by a Dude [Video]





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How 3 simple buttons raised tipping by $144 million in NYC cabs
If you’ve ever been to the city of New York during the past five years, you’ll know that cab drivers don’t always give off a warm and cuddly feeling. This was especially true for short trips, where I’d whip out my debit card and ha...
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Ghostbusters Tour of the Day


The guys at Bleeding Cool recently relocated to New York, and among their first order of business was shooting this helpful Ghostbusters guide to NYC.
“I love this town!”
[bleedingcool]
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Check out the awesome work at this year’s Parsons Design + Tech Thesis Show in NYC
Having attended Parsons before leaving for TNW, I’ve gotten a chance to see first hand the kind of work that this top design school attracts. Unlike what you’d find at tech schools such as MIT, where groundbreaking technology emerges, Parsons ...
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Party Monster: Money, Success, Fame, Glamour [Video]





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Dark Days: In NYC, Abandoned Train Tunnels Are Home to a Community of Homeless Dwellers [Video]





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New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg speaks at the 2012 BigApps Awards
New York City’s yearly BigApps competition offers developers $50k in cash for the best new apps that utilize the city’s ambitious open data policy to help improve the lives of residents, visitors and businesses. Finishing up its third year, yo...
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DIY launches a community for creative kids who make things
For the most part, the Internet has been a place for teens and grown-ups to explore content and communicate. Other than playing games or watching funny YouTube videos, there really aren’t places for kids to hang out and participate in the way that ...
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Nice Call of the Day



In the wake of its taxi upgrade, NYC will upgrade 250 old phone booths across the city with 32-inch touchscreens that provide access to local neighborhood information — and the “smartscreens” will eventually be wired t...
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New NYC Taxi of the Day



The Nissan NV200 minivan has taken top honors in New York City’s competition to find a new taxi cab. The vehicle boasts odor-reducing and anti-microbial interior fabric; charging ports for passengers’ small electronics; a sl...
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This Asphalt-Spewing Truck Fixes Potholes in A New York Minute [Video]





Potholes are nobody's friend. They are especially unpopular with municipal road authorities, who must spend millions yearly in traffic-snarling road repairs. But a new automated pothole-patching machine co...
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White Roofs Cool the Heck out of NYC Apartments
  The last time I wrote on white roofs, the finding was that they could actually cause a net cooling. But the study didn’t take into account how much the cooling of the buildings reduced electricity demand. Looks like those electricity savings ...
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White House Will Simulate NYC Power Grid Attack to Teach the Senate a Lesson [Security]





The weather in New York City today was a pleasant 64 degrees but Gothamites had better hope it stays mild. The White House has announced that it will simulate an attack on the NYC power grid during the nex...
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Woman Gives Birth In the Back of a NYC Taxi [Video]





A woman gave birth in the back of a taxi last night in New York City. It's not the first time this has happened, but a videographer got the emergency service people from the moment they got the baby to th...
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New York City's Energy Consumption Mapped Out, Building-by-Building [Data]





Convinced you're more environmentally aware than your neighbors? Now you can find out: scientists have mapped the entire energy use of New York City, building by building. More »


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Watch These Fake Flying People Freak Out New York City [Video]





We don't usually geek out to manufactured viral marketing fluff, but trust us, this video is pretty good. The marketing team behind the movie Chronicle flew three human shaped RC planes around NYC to make...
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Trade Whatever You've Got for Whatever You Want with the Swap-O-Matic [Video]





Vending machines would be a lot more user friendly if they didn't always demand money. Maybe I don't have $1.25 for that can of soda. Maybe I've got a seventy-five cents and four cigarettes. That seems lik...
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The Ultimate Urban Winter Jacket [Video]





Usually, when winter is not being a cowardly little bitch, you need a warm jacket to keep from freezing to death. But if you live in a city, like more than half the world's population, you need something s...
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Watch What Happens When You Leave a Bicycle Outside for a Year [Video]





If you leave your bike on the streets of New York, it's eventually going to get stolen. Even if it's locked up. Even if it's a beater. Even if there aren't any tires. It. Will. Get. Stolen. This video sho...
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100 Years Later: The Evolution of the NYC Subway Map [Video]





If you've lived in the Big Apple for any amount of time, you've more than likely taken the Subway. You've also probably wasted plenty of time staring at the map. Our video editor Matt Toder threw together...
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PLAY STATION at Postmasters in NYC
(So here I am, another Grateful Grapefruit poster. I’m Peter and I hail originally from Burlington, Vermont, but I study New Media outside of NYC at SUNY Purchase. Expect posts from me regarding local NYC artists, happenings, and other things.)
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This Wonderful Time Lapse Walk Captures New York's Holiday Feeling Perfectly [Video]





Walking through the New York wonderland during the holidays could be a pretty magical experience. This video, made by Cris Magliozzi, captures that feeling perfectly. It's a very special time lapse, made ...
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Which of Your Gadgets Is Worth Fighting for? [Just Me?]





So some ass-hat has been on a mugging spree around Columbia University, holding up students for their iPhones—exclusively for their iPhones—and it got me thinking. I'd gladly hand over just abo...
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AT&T LTE NYC: This Month [At&t]





New York City has long been AT&T's 3G Waterloo, if Napoleon hadn't only lost the battle, but all of his weapons turned into sand and he fell into a ditch with his shoes tied together. But LTE is upon us! ...
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Here's What Last Night's Occupy Wall Street Raid Looked Like Through Cellphones [Video]






Early this morning, Mayor Bloomberg had the NYPD clear out Zuccotti Park—the site for the Occupy Wall Street encampment—on the grounds that the protestors were, umm, really gross and posed a h...
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How a Bland Polygon Sculpture Becomes Stunning, Psychedelic Art [Video]






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Maurizio Cattelan: All Things Hanging in Guggenheim

Maurizio Cattelan – one of the most influential art pranksters and agent provocateurs today - has turned the Guggenheim’s rotunda into a floating labyrinth with his hanging exhibition featuring effigies, surrogates and taxidermy animals. Nancy Spec...
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A Bite Of The Big Apple of the Day



A Bite Of The Big Apple of the Day: Andrew Clancy spent a year shooting random scenes around New York, the end result of which is this lovely five-minute compilation aptly entitled “A Year in New York.”
Music: “We Don’t Eat&rdqu...
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New Yorkers Are Posting Creepy Cell Phone Pics of Hot Guys on the Subway Online [Privacy]






If you live in a city, chances are you've had a few dozen subway crushes in your life. But you probably haven't snapped off stealthy cell phone pics of hunks on the train and uploaded them to a blog to be...
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There's a Secret Stash of Missiles Hidden In Manhattan [Weapons]






According to DNA Info's Murray Weiss, there's a stash of heat-seeking Stinger missiles hidden somewhere in Manhattan, ready to bring down any hijacked jet at a range of up to 15,700 feet (4.8 kilometers)....
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Watch Hundreds Of New Yorkers Battle Like Darth Maul [Video]






New York City's Washington Square Park was the host to a giant Lightsaber Battle. Almost a thousand people showed up to battle it out in epic Star Wars style. More »






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Does the NYPD Seriously Have Its Own Surface-to-Air Missiles? [Nypd]






New York City is serious about anti-terrorism efforts. It has to be. But did you know that the NYPD has its own anti-aircraft missiles? Commissioner Ray Kelly told 60 minutes last night that his counter-t...
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NYC Subways Getting Their Very Own 47-Inch Touchscreens [Touchscreens]






Because why not? Many a New Yorker has been caught unawares by service changes, delays, and other forms of public transit fuckery. With that in mind, NYC Transit and Cisco are installing 47-inch On the Go...
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Manhattan In White Marble [Design]






It's only fitting that New York City's oldest and most densely populated borough has been carved into stone. Titled Little Manhattan, the stone sculpture is the handiwork of Japanese artist and architect...
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NYC Will Have 10,000 Shared Bikes Rolling Around the Streets Next Summer [Video]






After much gnashing of teeth from city residents, NYC's transportation department has the go ahead to launch their planned bike sharing system, comprising 10,000 bikes and 600 stations that will cover mu...
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Luisa Opalesky

It seems like Luisa just started and she’s not really about to stop. Freshly graduated from Parsons the New School for Design, New York, she quickly gaining experience and filling a wonderful portfolio. Luisa Opalesky was born in Philadelphia and i...
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How NYC Is Protecting Itself from the Terror Threat This Weekend [Terrorism]






Federal officials are currently investigating a potential car bomb plot that Al Qaeda has planned for this weekend, the anniversary of 9/11. The car bomb plot is "credible" but not confirmed and is suppos...
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Subway Ad Placement FAIL

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Meet Up with Gizmodo Tomorrow Night in New York City [Meetup]






Tomorrow, September 9, Gizmodo's going to nerd up NYC, and we'd love for you to drop in and meet us and your fellow readers. We'll be at The Magician Bar in Manhattan, at 118 Rivington. We'll be chatting ...
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Old-Timey Subway Train Campaign of the Day



Old-Timey Subway Train Campaign of the Day: To promote the upcoming second season of its critically acclaimed period series Boardwalk Empire, HBO, with a little help from NYC’s MTA, will install a throwback subway train that will run through Sept...
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Seeing New York City During Hurricane Irene Was Like Seeing a Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland [Video]






Though New York City largely managed to avoid the wrath of Hurricane Irene, the windy bitch still managed to strip the soul of the city that never sleeps. Watch it. It was like a post-apocalyptic city ev...
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Scenes From Irene of the Day



Scenes From Irene of the Day: Irene NYC: Two filmmakers set scenes from Hurricane Irene’s impact on NYC to the tune of Debussy’s “Clair de lune.”
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Once-In-A-Lifetime Shot of the Day



Once-In-A-Lifetime Shot of the Day: The MTA shut down Grand Central Terminal today ahead of Hurricane Irene, allowing Metro-North Railroad Press Secretary Marjorie Andres to snap this rare photo of the world’s largest train station all-but-desert...
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Surreal Sight of the Day



Surreal Sight of the Day: Another rare sight thanks to Hurricane Irene: Times Square mostly abandoned on a Saturday night after Mayor Bloomberg tells New Yorkers to stay inside.
Live shot here.
[@bradwalsh.]
Earlier: Grand Central Terminal, deserted.

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NYC Orders First Mandatory Evacuation In History, 250,000 People Affected [Hurricane Irene]






We're all laughing nervously in the office but Irene is no joke. Obama already has said the hurricane will be of historic proportions, and the City of New York has ordered the first mandatory evacuation i...
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Hurricane Irene Is Shutting Down the Entire NYC Subway Tomorrow [Blip]






New York Governor Cuomo says the entire NYC subway system will be shuttered at noon tomorrow in preparation for Hurricane Irene's splish-splashy fists of Hades. God damn you, Irene. How are we supposed to...
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What If the Earthquake Had Hit Manhattan? [Earthquake]






Today's 5.9 magnitude earthquake was felt throughout the Mid-Atlantic, but its epicenter—a small town in Virginia—took the brunt of its wrath. What if it had started in NYC instead? We may fin...
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Time-Lapse Thing of the Day

Time-Lapse Thing of the Day: 7 years of worth construction (2004-2011) at the 9/11 Memorial site condensed to 90 seconds.
The National September 11 Memorial will open to the public on the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks. Its companion museum...
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