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I was reading up on city parks yesterday and came across a BMW Guggenheim Lab Q&A with landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh, who designed Brooklyn Bridge Park in New York. Apparently, 13 years ago, when the park was just a proposal, it was fairly controversial, and not everyone was in support of the concept. But at the first meeting about the park, a woman about 80 years old got up, shuffled to the microphone and said something like this:
Food Trucks begat Diners; or, What’s old is new again
by Josh Clark | November 22, 2011
Sometimes things come so clearly full circle that it’s elegant. An excellent case in point and the only one I can think of right now is the current trend toward buying one’s gourmet hotdogs and tacos from food trucks. It’s worth pointing out that it’s a trend in outlying cities like Atlanta, St. Louis. and San Francisco, though it’s has been pretty much permanent and largely taken for granted that at any given moment on certain streets in New York, there will be a line of trucks capable of preparing and serving hot food like gyros and sausages in exchange for cash only.
I was in Manhattan recently and waiting for the train back to Brooklyn when Umi pointed out three girls about ten years old standing on the opposite platform also waiting for a train, entirely on their own. It’s so strange to see that, three girls moving around arguably one of the most dangerous cities in the U.S. without any adult. New York is something of a loner in this respect. Kids travel unaccompanied in small towns, sure, but not in larger cities.
World Trade Center Memorials, Permanent and Otherwise
by Josh Clark | August 19, 2011
I have been wading in the depressing world of Sept. 11 doing research in preparation for a podcast on the September 11 Memorial at the World Trade Center that we’re recording soon. I found rather quickly that to figure out the meaning behind the memorial, there’s really no getting around having to immerse oneself into the tragedy in order to understand the full scope of the memorial. So I spent a lot of time this week watching news coverage of the attacks as they took place and listened to newscasters like Peter Jennings and Charles Gibson try to wrap their heads around what was unfolding in Manhattan before the second plane hit.
You probably should plan a vacation around pie eating. I’ll help you out:
Go to San Francisco and eat at Chile Pies (and Ice Cream), where the pies have green chiles in them! Green chiles and apples, in a cheddar-cheese crust with a little red chile honey to drizzle on top. Yum. Or, go to New York and eat at Hill Country Kitchen, where the pies are like cocktails … Whiskey Buttermilk Pie, Salted Margarita Pie With Pretzel Crust, Marker’s Mark Bourbon Pecan Pie.
So Chuck and I just returned from spending the last few days in New York for Internet Week and we had what one might call an incredibly wondrously great time. If you want to find out more, there’s talk and other pics from people who were there on our Facebook page. And hopefully we’ll have some kind of travel log up in the blogs next week.
I’ve been working on an article on High Speed Rail (HSR) this week. In normal terms, High Speed Rail means 200 km/hr (130 miles per hour) and greater. But in researching it, I came across this idea, which allows trains to travel at 5,000 MPH in a vacuum tube floating deep in the Atlantic ocean. [...]
In a city like New York, the word “house” often translates into “apartment”. There really aren’t a lot of houses to be had on Manhattan. And because real estate prices are so high, the common man often settles for a small apartment. And then there is the tiny apartment. The New York Post ran this [...]
Microprocessor manufacturer Intel has been fielding legal complaints against it in Europe and Asia for a while now, but this morning New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo filed a lawsuit against the company for anti-competitive practices.
According to Ashlee Vance’s article in The New York Times, the state claims that Intel has been using its position in the microprocessor marketplace to strong-arm Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) out of the way, which violates both state and national law.
You’ve heard of guerrilla fighting tactics, but how much do you know about guerrilla gardening? Check out this HowStuffWorks podcast to learn more about this “revolutionary” gardening trend.
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