World's Tiniest Library Pops Up In New York City

New York's Wonderful Map of Noise

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2013/04/yo-im-trying-sleep-here-new-yorks-wonderful-map-noise/5279/

Play Streets Program NYC

While awaiting the completion of New York City’s next batch of parks and playgrounds, the Departments of Health & Mental Hygiene, Transportation, and Parks have created Play Streets to help combat the childhood obesity epidemic in our cities. Play Streets allows communities to open up their streets to pedestrians for play on a recurrent basis. It is a quick and low-cost way to create active play space and is a health measure that directly targets our city’s most important at–risk population—children.



http://www.nycgovparks.org/programs/playstreets

Murder and Freezing Temps... a connection I've been curious of

NYC Has 9 Days Without Murder, Thanks To Freezing Temps

“Some have argued that there is something about cold that actually inhibits aggression — literally the effect that cold has on the brain,” said Ellen G. Cohn, a professor of criminal justice at Florida International University. She added, however, that she believed cold reduced violence primarily for a different reason: fewer people are likely to be on the streets, which, she said, means “victims and offenders are less likely to come into contact with each other."

http://gothamist.com/2013/01/26/nyc_has_9_days_without_murder_thank.php

http://www.businessinsider.com/mapping-dog-breeds-and-names-in-nyc-2013-1

Manhattan Demographic Changes- great resource

http://furmancenter.org/files/sotc/Manhattan_11.pdf

Brooklyn's Affordability Crisis Is No Accident

If desirable neighborhoods don't start shouldering more of the burden of increased urban demand, American cities will soon end up like their counterparts in Europe, where everyone except the rich and the tourists are shunted off to the suburbs.

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/technology/2013/01/brooklyns-affordabilty-crisis-no-accident/4401/