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A look at Paris' vintage public swimming pools, starting with Piscine Molitor made famous by Life of Pi, plus 8 other pools like Deligny, Tourelles and Hebert.
In Singapore, where street art is strictly monitored, The Substation arts center is a hotspot of graffiti in an otherwise sanitized city.
Our piece about our favorite non-fiction NYC books was such a hit, readers submitted their own favorites. Here are the books you told us were not to be missed.
Last week, a reader contacted us wondering what came first in NYC: Riverside Park or the railroad tracks?
In Red Hook, Brooklyn artist Greg Kloehn gives us a tour of the house he's built out of a dumpster, and a preview of his next projects.
There are remnants of the World Trade Center in a parking lot on Rockaway Beach. Two beams in the shape of a cross were donated to the Knights of Columbus in 2004.
Buried in the debate about the East Midtown Rezoning plan is a proposal to turn the underutilized Vanderbilt Avenue into an active pedestrian plaza.
Boro Taxis can be hailed on the street or using a smartphone in NYC. The taxis serve the outer boroughs where yellow taxis are not as frequent.
Civic Virtue, a controversial statue in NYC, has been moved around several times and denied conservation because politicians have found it sexist.
Toronto is seeing a shift. Young professionals and empty nesters are being drawn to downtown. Can it accommodate growth and stay human scaled?