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Enlarge (credit: Google Fiber) AT&T and Comcast have convinced a federal judge to nullify an ordinance that was designed to bring more broadband competition to Nashville, Tennessee. The Nashville Metro Council last year passed a “One Touch Make Ready” rule that gives Google Fiber or other new ISPs faster access to utility poles. The ordinance […]
Netflix “One of Us” is a Netflix documentary that gives a rare look inside New York City’s insular Hasidic community. Directors Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady spent three years making it. Two of the three people they spotlight in the movie said they suffered sexual or physical abuse before leaving the community. Since the movie […]
2017 is a particularly bad year for the New York City subway. A few highlights: A train got stuck underground without air-conditioning in the summer for nearly an hour; a track fire bogged down multiple lines and sent nine people to the hospital; and after a train derailed for the second time in 2017, NY Governor Andrew Cuomo declared […]
Sioux Falls Startup Weekend (SFSW) brought over 40 participants out to the Zeal Center for Entrepreneurship to take part in a 54-hour business building competition. But SFSW is more than just a fun weekend for aspiring business owners to test the entrepreneurial waters. It’s also a chance for the local startup community to demonstrate how it’s coming together […]
Enlarge (credit: National Weather Service) Over the last few decades, a warming Atlantic Ocean has produced a number of very powerful hurricanes, some of which retained strength much further north than usual. Fortunately for the US, however, few of them made landfall on the continental US, leading to talk of a “hurricane hiatus” that came […]
Edward Grazda lived in a cheap loft on Bleecker Street when he began a career as a photographer. It was a different New York then, when rent was only $ 250 a month and the city streets were more of a communal space for characters from all walks of life. “It’s a different world now […]
New York State Office of the Attorney General Evgeny “Gene” Freidman is commonly referred to as New York City’s Taxi King — notably by the New York attorney general’s office and the law firms that have filed suit against him. At one point Freidman owned more than 800 taxi medallions, the metal plates on the […]
Mexico City’s earthquake protections worked beautifully last night. When will the rest of the country have them, too? https://media.wired.com/photos/59b2dbbbcbec2c7bcafc8a8b/master/pass/MexicoEarthquake-HP_17251591529860.jpg Feed: All Latest
There’s something inherently transporting about swing dancing, which manages to feel both quaint and modernly accessible no matter the port or town. But pair a date night with a stage already steeped in a twisting and ornate history, and the time-traveling effect becomes complete. That’s the magical feeling of the Wabasha Street Caves, an eclectic […]
Today, New York’s Film Forum begins a fabulous new retrospective series, “Ford to City: Drop Dead – New York in the 70s,” which draws its title from the notorious New York Daily News headline paraphrasing of President Gerald Ford’s response to the city’s 1975 request for federal funding assistance. The headline was a simplification of […]
