The NY Times has a pretty interesting interactive map of homicides in NYC dating from 2003 to the present based on data provided by the police department.
Take a look at it here.
Archive for the ‘urban’ Category
New York City Homicides Map
Thursday, June 18th, 2009Alice Tully Hall
Monday, February 23rd, 2009
I made it tonight for the opening night at Alice Tully Hall for an incredible performance: Diaspora Sefardi, From Medieval Spain to Eastern Mediterranean. an exceptional concert of revived medieval songs and ballads in what I imagine can be considered old Castilian.
The show itself was just the excuse to make it to the building of course, and right from the approach, the building is truly fantastic: the huge lobby, with a gigantic glass paned curtain wall on one side and the warm wood behind the bar give it the right contrast between scale and warmth. The super long bar of course works wonderfully in crowded evenings like tonight. Heading towards the auditorium itself, the ceiling height is much lower and the scale becomes much more intimate. You walk below the ‘watch-me-im-uber-rich’ balcony then turn right and down towards the auditorium. Upon walking into the orchestra level there is a shift which is pretty surprising: the height from the floor to the balconies is quite low but it soon opens up. The scale of the space is just perfect and the wood/resin paneling looks incredible. It is quite remarkable how close everything looks to the original images. Truly a fantastic building, and can’t wait to go there in the summer.
A couple more images after the jump.
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I LEGO N.Y.
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
Alice Tully Hall
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
Banksy @ Canal St.
Monday, October 27th, 2008
Goth-cycle
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Unless you’re part of some sort of urban-cyclying-gothic sect or really ARDENTLY have a problem with pigeons nesting on your wheel cover, is there any need for these?
One day on 27th Street
Monday, July 28th, 2008
About 20 minutes after hearing a muffled ‘boom’ while at work, subsequently looking at each other not knowing what it was we just heard, all the lights flickering at the studio and then stepping out for a coffee, this is what 27th St. looked like.
According to one of the firefighters, it was an electrical fire.
To me, it sounded more like a power generator blew up, then the fire followed.
Update: ConEd trucks are all over it now. So yep, must’ve been electrical…
P.F.1
Sunday, July 6th, 2008
Today was the first of MoMA’s P.S.1 warm-up sessions for the summer. Work A.C’s winning entry, P.F.1 has, in a way, restored my faith in the competition. After a few years of The installation is in my view, one of the smartest and best ever to be assembled in the museum’s garden. Not only is it very current as an idea (urban farms), it is simple, utilizes common materials in a different way, it is cheaply made and absolutely cool. It was definitely refreshing to see.
More images after the jump below.
Waterfalls
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Sunday afternoon, after The Flood, we took the water taxi from the South Street Seaport to check out all of Olafur Eliasson’s Waterfalls.
First of all, DON’T take the water taxi to view them… Everything makes it sound like the main purpose of their waterfalls tour is, well, the waterfalls…but this is just the same touristy water taxi that goes to Ellis Island, Statue of Liberty, etc. and then breezes through the falls. I guess I should have known better.
Now that that is out of the way, on to the waterfalls. The waterfalls were, uhmm, niehh… I’m not sure I’ll be able to pinpoint exactly what it is, but there might be a few issues that make it all unimpressive and just uninteresting.
On Beijing
Thursday, June 26th, 2008Paul Goldberger from The New Yorker has a new article in the latest issue about Beijing and its incredible rate of change…
“Chinese people don’t like anything old—they want everything new. If someone came from the moon, they would think this is a newer country than America.” She paused. “Maybe that is what Mao wanted,” she said.
Read the article here.