Last month, NYC’s last remaining payphone (of 30,000) was removed from the corner of Seventh Avenue and West 50th Street, near Times Square. That phone has been acquired by the Museum of the City of New York, where it’s on display as part of the Analog City NYC B.C. (Before Computers), which explores technology in the city from the 1870s to the 1970s. “These phones were …
NYC-centric vintage dealer Fantasy Explosion teamed up with Bloomingdales on a capsule collection of retro-tinged baseball caps that celebrate the city. The New York Cursive Embroidered Snapback has been crafted from a cotton/polyester blend and features an adjustable closure. Available in black or white, it’s one of five caps in the collection.
Before commercial harvesting, oyster reefs used to compose more than 220,000 acres of New York’s coastline, acting as a natural flood-mitigation system in addition to increasing marine biodiversity. With these reefs’ destruction, New York is dangerously vulnerable to natural disasters—a threat that (as Hurricane Ida recently showed) is only growing. To protect the city, Billion Oyster Project founded by Urban Assembly New York Harbor School, …
