New York may be a tried-and-true blue state, and New York City may be viewed by some less as our country’s great melting pot and more as the American Liberal-Pinko Gomorrah, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have our fair share of Republicans (nor does it mean we can’t color them pink). Read More
Remember when Sex and the City bus tours became a thing? Well, the forthcoming moment in time when—yet again—an HBO show about four (Caucasian) women of New York City inspires bus tours to the real destinations these fictional constructs hang out at may soon be upon us.
In other words, gird your locales. Read More
The MTA has been pushing a slew of changes lately: cell phone service has become available in Midtown and Chelsea stations, $15,000 in prizes for an app competition and even those fancy underground time tables for the 456 and 123 lines. Though there has been some data restrictions, the MTA published its first ever late night subway map today: Read More
From day-glow posters to silk dresses, New Yorkers have been simultaneously celebrating and mourning Massimo Vignelli’s iconic subway map, which reigned over those ever-so-gritty stations (ah, nostalgia) from 1972 to 1979, before the M.T.A. switched to the the geographically boring maps we have today. Now, Mr. Vignelli’s maps are back, and they are more useful than ever. Read More
Did you know that New York City had 87,273 abortions in 2009? That’s like 1 percent of the city’s population. Thanks to the anti-abortion group the Chiascuro Foundation (motto “fight for the protection of all human life from conception to natural death”), we now even know which are the naughtiest neighborhoods through a helpful interactive map. Read More
New York and OkCupid have teamed up to create a Valentine’s Day heat map of horny NYers.
The data dynamos from OkCupid looked at how likely users from each zip code were to respond to online flirtations, as well as how they answered questions like, “If it were up to you, how often Read More
Ask any debauched soul trolling the Meatpacking District on a Friday night, any divorcée attending another fascinating talk at the 92nd Street Y, any Yankees shortstop, and all will tell you the same thing: Manhattan can be a lonely place.
Thanks to the latest batch of Census data and the fine folks at the Citizens Housing Read More
