Snow, West 22nd Street, 1958
From The New York School: Photographs, 1936-1963
Thanks to liquidnight
New York City’s Lost Subways: A Ghost System Beneath the Streets
The New York City subway system has 842 miles of track, but WNYC reveals “there’s even more to it than riders see: dozens of tunnels and platforms that were either abandoned or were built but never used.” This ghost system beneath the streets “reveals how the city’s transit ambitions have been both realized and thwarted.”
New York City’s Lost Subways: A Ghost System Beneath the Streets
The New York City subway system has 842 miles of track, but WNYC reveals “there’s even more to it than riders see: dozens of tunnels and platforms that were either abandoned or were built but never used.” This ghost system beneath the streets “reveals how the city’s transit ambitions have been both realized and thwarted.”
New York City’s Lost Subways: A Ghost System Beneath the Street
The New York City subway system has 842 miles of track, but WNYC reveals “there’s even more to it than riders see: dozens of tunnels and platforms that were either abandoned or were built but never used.” This ghost system beneath the streets “reveals how the city’s transit ambitions have been both realized and thwarted.”
New York City’s Lost Subways: A Ghost System Beneath the Streets
The New York City subway system has 842 miles of track, but WNYC reveals “there’s even more to it than riders see: dozens of tunnels and platforms that were either abandoned or were built but never used.” This ghost system beneath the streets “reveals how the city’s transit ambitions have been both realized and thwarted.”
OWS Invests In Unmanned Surveillance Drone Dubbed The ‘Occucopter’
For years we’ve seen images of the military’s unmanned aerial vehicles aiding soldiers in combat zones, and their evolution from surveillance tools to the heavily weaponized Predator drones. Now, the Guardian reports, Occupy Wall Street livestreamer Tim Pool hopes to use that technology as an additional set of eyes on the police department.
Tim Pool, an Occupy Wall Street protester, has acquired a Parrot AR drone he amusingly calls the “occucopter”. It is a lightweight four-rotor helicopter that you can buy cheaply on Amazon and control with your iPhone. It has an onboard camera so that you can view everything on your phone that it points at. Pool has modified the software to stream live video to the internet so that we can watch the action as it unfolds. [more]
(images courtesy of Time/iPhoneZA/GeekAlerts)
Wow, Occupy just stepped up its game. Be sure to read Manic, Chill’s full piece.
Eagle-eyed Marina Galperina over at Animal offers up a gallery of “Brooklyn’s road and subway signs freshly hacked by TrustoCorp.” She writes, “Apparently, it’s sky-rat hunting season, as per the sign: “Due to the recession, pigeons in this area have been re-zoned for consumption.”
(via Trustocorp — ANIMAL)
Greenwich Village, Circa 1960 — ANIMAL
Thanks to Animal and Gothamist for this gem. The beginning seems to be a covert sales pitch for cotton corduroy (“the fabric of ‘Now Generation’”) masquerading as a love poem to the Village and it’s a little jumpy toward the end, but the visuals are fantastic.
Old New York. You can hardly find it in NYC today, but it’s on full display here. Don’t miss it!
