ESC From New York

Posted by Alex in Funny, Movies & SciFi on November 13, 2009 at 3:36 pm


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Neatorama designer Chris "Snake" Murphy came up with this excellent design "ESC from New York." Ah, this certainly brings back memories. From the Neatorama Shop: Link

 
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The 25 Best Costumes At The 2009 NYC Marathon

Posted by Miss Cellania in Pictures, Sports on November 3, 2009 at 12:59 pm

Meb Keflezighi won the New York City Marathon on Sunday. He is the first American to win the title since 1982! But around 42,000 runners took part in the marathon, some wearing elaborate costumes. Buzzfeed collected photographs of the most outrageous marathon costumes for your viewing pleasure. Link

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Turtle Sex Causes Massive Delay at JFK Airport

Posted by Jill Harness in Animal, Odd News, Travel & Places on July 12, 2009 at 2:51 pm

While the horseshoe crab orgy is just a fun and cute animal affair, the turtles from Jamaica Bay are a different story. A group of 78 swinging diamondback terrapins held up one of the most busy runways at JFK on Wednesday. It took authorities half an hour to get the turtles off the runway.

He said that the turtles were perhaps attracted to the sand along one side of the runway, which juts into the water. “They tend to look for sand while they are mating,” he said. “Presumably, all these turtles were feeling amorous.” It is unclear whether the turtles pair off, or if the numbers indicated it was a group activity, he said.

Some of the delays lasted up to an hour and a half -but hey, at least the turtles got their sexy on, which is a much better excuse for a delayed flight than most of the ones we hear.

Link Via Consumerist

 
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New York in Black and White

Posted by Miss Cellania in Pictures, Travel & Places on March 11, 2009 at 9:25 am


This extensive collection of photographs of New York City starts at around 120 years ago and includes aerial mapping shots, news photos, and work by many acclaimed photographers. This picture shows Times Square as it was in 1922. Link -via the Presurfer

 
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Photos Of Strangers

Posted by Queuebot in Arts & Crafts on February 28, 2009 at 12:57 am

Inspired by a similar idea in Atlanta early last year, a writer left two disposable cameras on park benches in Brooklyn and Manhattan. With just a note telling people to take any photo they like and her hope that someone wouldn’t run away with the cameras she left them for the day.

On returning she found the cameras exactly as she’s left them, with no exposures left. The developed photographs are an interesting slice of city life across one day.

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Skyscraper Farms for a Future Manhattan

Posted by Queuebot in Architecture, Arts & Crafts, Everything Else, Home & Garden, Science & Tech on February 17, 2009 at 10:44 am


As the world’s population continues to grow and cities become even more congested and resources dissipate, it might be time to  start looking at remedies for the future. Eric Vergne’s Dystopian Farm Project envisions a New York City comprised of skyscraper farms that harness the latest technology to create a self-sustaining food source for the entire city.

“Designed for the Hudson Yard area of Manhattan, Eric Vergne’s Dystopian Farm aims to provide New York with a sustainable food source while creating a dynamic social space that integrates producers with consumers. Based upon the ‘material logic of plant mechanics’, the biomorphic skyscraper is modeled after the plant cells of ferns and provides space for farms, residential areas, and markets. These organic structures will harness systems such as airoponic watering, nutrient technology and controlled lighting and CO2 levels to meet the food demands of future populations.”

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Rob Wants to Give You a High five.

Posted by Queuebot in Funny, Video Clips on February 11, 2009 at 11:54 am


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The latest from improv everywhere. Agent Lathan spent all morning during the rush standing next to a subway escalator giving out high fives, more than 2000 in total

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I Lego NY

Posted by Queuebot in Arts & Crafts, Lego on February 5, 2009 at 3:36 am

Christoph Niemann shows us how you only need a few LEGO pieces to make a whimsical yet brilliant homage to New York City:

During the cold and dark Berlin winter days, Christoph Niemann spends a lot of time with his boys in their room. And as he looks at the toys scattered on the floor, his mind inevitably wanders back to New York. I LEGO N.Y.

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ImprovEverywhere: 1200 pantless NYC subway riders

Posted by Adam Stanhope in Travel & Places, Video Clips on January 17, 2009 at 3:55 pm


Those wacky pranksters at ImprovEverywhere held their 8th annual “No Pants” subway ride last week with this year’s event allegedly drawing 1200 participants! It looks like most pranksters chose boxers over briefs – and who can blame them?

You can check out previous years’ pantless rides and other great pranks on ImprovEverywhere’s YouTube channel.

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The Couch Doctor

Posted by Alex in Home & Garden on November 28, 2008 at 3:40 pm

Meet Sal Giangrande, the self-styled "Couch Doctor" of New York. Sal has a pretty unique business niche: he saws and re-assembles couches for people who couldn’t fit their old couch into their new apartments but don’t want to give up either one:

‘I can’t watch," said Andrew Clarke, shutting his eyes.

"You shouldn’t," the doctor said calmly.

The doctor’s assistant pulled out an electric saw. He started slicing. The ground was already strewn with staples that had been yanked out. After one, two, three . . . seven incisions, Clarke’s $4,000, perfectly worn-in, brown leather couch lay in pieces with the 88-inch-long back surgically separated from the arms and bottom. Clarke’s cherished couch looked like a dissected moose.

"Gosh," he mumbled, his eyes wide, "whatever it takes."

Sal Giangrande calls himself the New York Couch Doctor, but in fact he’s New York’s Doctor Whatever It Takes for desperate people like Clarke, who couldn’t shimmy his old couch into his new apartment and wasn’t willing to give up either one.

The young real estate executive was moving from one apartment to another in the same brick building in the heart of west Greenwich Village. The new place was bigger and had a spectacular view of the Hudson River but was situated in the middle of a narrow hallway.

"The movers tried several times, several angles, but they couldn’t get the couch around the turn from the hallway into the new place," Clarke said. He was ready to dump it when his doorman told him about the Couch Doctor — aka Sal Giangrande.

Geraldine Baum of the Los Angeles Times has more on this fascinating story about New Yorkers and their sofabsessions: Link

(Photo: Carolyn Cole/LA Times)

 
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