Topic: NYC
Hunting for microbes in Central Park’s murkiest waters
Follow biologist Sally Warring into New York City's Central Park as she collects water samples from fountains and ponds to find instagrammable microbes. From her site PondLife.com: All free-living life forms are m...
The Dipped Painting Project by Oliver Jeffers
From children's book author and illustrator Oliver Jeffers, a project that explores memory and loss in a mix of art and experience: The Dipped Painting Project. In November of 2014 I began the first of a series of ...
Ashima Shiraishi, one of the best rock climbers in the world
A veteran rock climber at just 14 years old -- she started scaling boulders at the age of six -- New Yorker Ashima Shiraishi is considered to be one of the strongest and most talented climbers on the planet. The N...
Winter Snowstorm Jonas, a time lapse in Manhattan
From a window looking down upon the Upper East Side of Manhattan, watch snow accumulate in a time lapse made during winter storm Jonas, the city's first big snowstorm of 2016. Jonas dumped an impressive 26.8 in (6...
Subvisual Subway – The Art of New York City’s Bacterial World
Why do we wash our hands after we've been riding on public transportation? Is it true that "using the handrails on the subway is like shaking hands with 100 people"? New York City-based typographer and designer Craig ...
Meet the Titanosaur at AMNH
A mighty Titanosaur, the recently-discovered herbivore that measures 37.186 meters (122 feet) long, now stands on the fourth floor of New York City's American Museum of Natural History. Its discovery is so recent (201...
4K NYC Subway time lapse: Riding the Queens-bound 7 line
Experience the New York City subway -- specifically the Queens-bound 7 line -- from the train operator's vantage point at the front of the train in this NYC subway time lapse from Dj Hammers. The total real time ride ...
How do living things change their environments?
Think about your day, from when you wake up, to where you spend your day, to your bedtime routine at night. Crash Course Kids asks, "What pieces of it are a result of human intervention? Where did these pieces come fr...
Meet the Balloonatics – SciFri goes to Macy’s Parade Studio
How are Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloons designed, calculated, fabricated, tested, and retested before they show up on the streets of Manhattan on Thanksgiving morning? From Science Friday in 2011, visit the 'b...
STOMP makes basketball music with the Harlem Globetrotters
In celebration of the world famous Harlem Globetrotters' 90th year as an organization, Globetrotters William 'Bull' Bullard, Brawley 'Cheese' Chisholm, Tay 'Firefly' Fisher, and Chris 'Handles' Franklin teamed up with...
How the Perfect Italian Hero Comes to Life – From Butcher to Bun
How do you make an Italian Hero sandwich? Start with fresh meat... well, first you have to make the meat. Is that mortadella, pepperoni, and soppressata? Maybe some whipped lardo with roasted garlic, maybe some mozzar...
Rescuing Leftover Cuisine & working together to reduce food waste
Rescuing Leftover Cuisine co-founder Robert Lee is working with a team of volunteers to deliver excess restaurant food to food pantries and homeless shelters in New York City. This video from Mic explains RLC's missio...
How New York City’s subway technologies are being modernized
"People know that the system is old, but I don't think they realize just how old it is... in our system, it's not just the architecture that's 100 years old. It's a lot of the basic technology, as well. The infrastruc...
Colossus – A time lapse ink drawing of New York City’s skyline
London-based illustrator Patrick Vale builds New York City's impressive skyline in less than three minutes -- line by line, window by window -- in this lovely time lapse video that captures four weeks of his work. The...
Brown Ballerinas – Inside the Dance Theatre of Harlem
Mashable's "Brown ballerinas: Ballet's big diversity moment is approaching" gives this inside look at the Dance Theatre of Harlem, as well as the personal experiences of Jenelle Figgins and Chyrstyn Fentroy as dancers...
JR’s A Walker in New York City, an installation time lapse
French artist JR's photographic oversized street art often deals with human connections, preconceptions, prejudices, media portrayals, and other themes around community and identity. As part of the The New York Times'...
Ricky Syers and his handmade marionette of Doris Diether
Meet longtime Greenwich Village resident, painter, actress, and housing rights activist Doris Diether, and street performer, artist, and puppeteer Ricky Syers. Syers makes marionettes that are the spitting image of pe...
Icebreaker Boats: Breaking Ice on the Hudson River
The rivers surrounding New York City no longer freeze over completely --despite a lot of ice, water salinity and boat traffic keep the waterways open -- but farther north on the Hudson River, in this case near Germant...
