City Council vs. Roll-down Gates
Long used as a deterrent for theives, and incidentally as a canvas for vandals and artists, New York City’s storefront roll-down gates are iconic. It’s the graffiti that pushed a city council to ban all use of the gates by 2026, to be replaced with the barred kind.
Manhattan Bridge in Motion
This time-lapse video of the Manhattan bridge shows how much it moves from train and car traffic:
Forgotten Subway Tunnels
Photo by Logan Hicks
Amazing subterranean discovery by artist Logan Hicks — an abandoned and relatively unknown train tunnel somewhere under New York City. There’s many documented tunnels throughout New York City, but the large size of this one (5 tracks and 4 platforms) and the fact that it’s relatively unknown (there’s almost no graffiti anywhere) make this a great find.
—Logan Hicks
Space Buster
I was riding my bike through Brooklyn last weekend, and saw this huge bubble wedged under the BQE with rows of seats and a projection screen inside. I searched a bit online and found out that it was the Space Buster acting as a venue for a community workshop. The mobile event space, designed by Berlin architecture collective Raumlabor, is making its way around New York City.
For the next month, Brooklyn’s Atlantic & Pacific Ave. subway station will double as an annex gallery for artwork from the Museum of Modern Art.
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