The Insane and Inspiring Plan for Affordable Housing in Gotham

New York City real estate is too expensive to afford for most people who are not foreign billionaires. Mayor Bill De Blasio has vowed to build or preserve 200,000 new units of affordable housing in the next decade. Is that even possible? The experts say: Uhhh.....
The Mind-Boggling Industrial Future of the Arctic
The Arctic, located at the top your globes, is a very cold place covered in snow and ice. For now. But not for long. There are plenty of business people already making plans to industrialize the hell out of this frozen wasteland.
How to Develop Film with Coffee and Vitamin C
Remember film? That stuff your baby pictures were taken on? Developing it is something of a niche hobby these days, but if that's your bag, you'll like this strange (and relatively easy!) method. The main ingredients? Instant coffee and vitamins.
Brownstone Brooklynites Absolutely Terrified of Hip-Hop Music
As the huge (largest-ever in Brooklyn) and controversial Atlantic Yards development project, adjacent to some of Brooklyn's most bobo-filled enclaves, makes further progress, the level of hysteria rises and rises. The latest story has a group of Park Slope residents freaking out about a new bar opening in their…
The Lower East Side: Not What It Used To Be
The Lower East Side is changing! You blink once, and the neighborhood has gone from an immigrant-packed hovel of tenements to a rich jerk-packed hovel. Of condos! The National Trust for Historic Preservation has just named the entire freaking neighborhood one the nation's 11 most endangered places:
The Five Proposals For The West Side Rail Yards
Last night, representatives of the five design teams proposing plans for West Side Rail Yards development made their first public presentations. The order was randomly chosen, with each team allotted 20 minutes each. Inside Cooper Union's Great Hall, an old man stood directly behind me and began chewing on something…
Giant Bubblegum Tower Not Being Built On LES
Curbed came across some utterly ridiculous plans for a new tower planned to desecrate the Lower East Side. Dubbed the Delancey Tower, the building was designed by Harlem architects Peter L. Gluck and Partners and was to rise opposite the azure excrescence known as Blue. But the fact that the firm seemed to be using…
The Coney Island Redevelopment: Don't Forget About The Gay Fornicating Midgets
Coney Island's amusement park Astroland recently opened for its final season. Soon it goes the way of all things old tymey—trammeled 'neath the cloven hooves of developer Joe Sitt, who bought it up in November. But let others moan and groan (and yes, even petition) against the upcoming destruction and condofication of…
Chelsea Modern: Where The Rich, Old Cavort
The best part, by far, was the model of the 12-story 47-unit building, designed by Audrey Matlock, which LIT UP! Through the miniature glass fa ades, the lights reflected their gentle glow onto the well-cared for hides of the wealthy gathered like moths around it. Lady Cavendish, sweat seeping through her cake-makeup,…
