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Conductor secretly reveals gruesome side of New York City Subway [New York...
New York City’s subway transports more than 1 billion passengers along 660 miles of track each year. Still, most of us know very little about the hundreds of blue-shirted men and women responsible for...
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Google Maps Adds Service Alerts for New York City Subways
Google announced on Tuesday it is rolling out planned service alerts for New York City’s subway system within Google Maps. To make it easier for New Yorkers to commute and keep them posted on...
View ArticleTurboVote, a Netflix for Voter Registration, Partners With Google
TurboVote, a New York City non-profit that’s trying to make voter registration as easy as ordering DVDs from Netflix, announced Monday that Google is making its service part of its politics and...
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The New York City Comptroller Built a Fiscal Transparency Website, and Now...
The source code of New York City’s Checkbook NYC platform is now available for other governments to download, modify and reuse, New York City Comptroller John Liu announced during Thursday’s Personal...
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New Yorkers Get a Quick Solar Charge While On the Go, Thanks to AT&T
Nothing ruins summer fun like your favorite gadget running out of battery juice, but if you happen to wander into a New York City park, AT&T wants to hook you up with some free, sun-powered...
View ArticleNYC Programmer Begins Coding Lessons With Homeless 'Genius'
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. In a New York City programmer’s version of this parable, fishing is coding Each day on his way to...
View ArticleDon't Visit NYC Without Checking Out These Vital Tips
Nathan Pyle wants to help you navigate New York City, on GIF at a time. The freelance artist behind a series of NYC etiquette GIFs that went viral in March has released a second set of helpful tips on...
View ArticleDidn't See That Coming of the Day: Banksy Throws a Blowout Sale in Central Park
Over this weekend, the world-famous street artist Banksy set up an unmarked stall near Central Park in New York City to sell his original artwork for bargain prices and this is what happened. Submitted...
View ArticleNYC’s Plan to Release All-ish of Their Data
On Monday, September 23rd, New York City released a plan to, as Government Technology put, open “all” its data. Pursuant to section two of Local Law 11 of 2012 (§23-506 of the Administrative Code of...
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Twitter Office Posts the Best Fire Safety Advice You'll See All Day
The category of “most hilarious fire safety sign” is rather limited, but we just found our No. 1 candidate on the list of options. Vivian Schiller started at Twitter as the company’s new head of news...
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Taxi Medallion Prices Plummet Under Pressure From Uber
HughPickens.com writes Most major American cities have long used a system to limit the number of operating taxicabs, typically a medallion system: Drivers must own or rent a medallion to operate a...
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Top 10 geotagged locations on Instagram in 2014
Instagram is growing worldwide, but the two biggest geotagging locations take place in Facebook’s home state of California. Three of the top 10 geotagged locations are in New York City, but several...
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