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On Data and Cities: New York City, measuring-up

Copenhagen isn’t the only city in love with data, with New York becoming a city obsessed with innovation.
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jake schabas June 25, 2012
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The Tug Pegasus & Waterfront Museum Barge

It's a (tugboat), it's a barge, it's a museum, it's a home...it has...wifi?
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jake schabas May 9, 2012
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Building Transit Today: The #7 Line Extension

Never before seen photos in the #7 Line extension, a $2 billion project that is expected to be the busiest subway station in NYC by 2025.
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jake schabas October 5, 2011
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Building Transit Today: The Second Avenue Subway

Exclusive photos inside the 2nd avenue subway line construction, the first in a series on MTA's 3 megaprojects.
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jake schabas October 4, 2011
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Into the wild: Paddling Jamaica Bay, Queens

The Sebago Canoe Club is a 78-year-old boating club in Canarsie with guided tours of Jamaica Bay.
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jake schabas August 11, 2011
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The most powerful block in NYC that you’ve never heard of

It’s the most powerful address in New York City you’ve never heard of. One false move and the entire city stops dead in its tracks. Not the home of New York’s mayor, or 11 Wall Street where profit-driven twenty and thirty-somethings play games with the world’s economy...
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jake schabas August 8, 2011
ArchitectureArts & CultureNew York

Brazenhead Books: A Secret Speakeasy Bookstore on Manhattan’s Upper East Side

Untapped's Jake Schabas goes to Brazenhead, a secret bookstore on the Upper East Side not only to buy books but to check out their weekly gathering of wine and words.
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