New York

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NSKYC The average color of the New York City sky

NSKYC The average color of the New York City sky, updated every 5 minutes. A collection of color cubes generated from various web cams in New York city. View the interactive [...]

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What Should I Do at CMJ Music Marathon?

What Should I Do at CMJ? Another year, another 1,200 bands looking for a breakthrough at the CMJ Music Marathon, which opens in New York for the 30th time on [...]

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102 Minutes That Changed America

102 Minutes That Changed America On September 11th, 102 minutes changed the world as the World Trade Center was hit with hijacked passenger planes. Watch unfiltered videos of that day [...]

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New York as Terror Target

New York as Terror Target The failed car bomb in Times Square is just the latest sign of terrorists’ interest in New York City. Look back over events since the [...]

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Redistricting, New York Style

Redistricting, New York Style Mapmaking in New York can be a dark art form designed to make certain that incumbents in the majority party are safe from electoral competition (a [...]

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Two-Wheeled Tribes

Two-Wheeled Tribes Cyclists in New York are hardly a monolithic subculture — more like a collection of finely divided sub-subcultures with their own uniform, lingo and attitude toward the bicycle’s [...]

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Tracking Taxi Flow Across the City

Tracking Taxi Flow Across the City Information from millions of taxi trips provides a telling record of the city’s vital signs. The map shows the average number of pickups for [...]

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N.Y. Coffee Bars

N.Y. Coffee Bars Here are the places in New York serving the best coffee. Included are 10 outstanding coffee bars that not only produce extraordinary coffee at the highest standards, [...]

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Courtside at the U.S. Open

Courtside at the U.S. Open A 360-degree panoramic view from Arthur Ashe Stadium on opening night of the 2009 U.S. Open. View the project

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Scents and the City

Scents and the City New York secretes its fullest range of smells in the summer; disgusting or enticing, delicate or overpowering, they are liberated by the heat. So one sweltering [...]

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NYT: Peel Sessions Under the B.Q.E.

NYT: Peel Sessions Under the B.Q.E. For two years cyclists have gathered under the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway for weekly “peel sessions,” pushing the limits of the evolving sport of fixed-gear freestyle. [...]

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Citi Field: A Brooklyn Accent in Queens

Citi Field: A Brooklyn Accent in Queens With a facade reminiscent of Ebbets Field and a rotunda named for Jackie Robinson, Citi Field is opening with a nod to the [...]

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The 2008 Marathon From Street Level

The 2008 Marathon From Street Level A panoramic view of the the 2008 New York City Marathon course at 60th Street and First Avenue as the elite women runners, led [...]

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A Fatal Police Shooting in Queens

A Fatal Police Shooting in Queens In the early morning hours of Nov. 25, 2006, Sean Bell, a 23-year-old New York City man due to be married later that day, [...]

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A Literary Map of Manhattan

A Literary Map of Manhattan Here’s where imaginary New Yorkers lived, worked, played, drank, walked and looked at ducks. View the interactive map

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