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Beyond the Streets: Brooklyn Graffiti Exhibition Honors Early Law Breakers

In Brooklyn, the latest iteration of BEYOND THE STREETS lets visitors check out the work of more than 150 street artists from around the world. Curated by graffiti historian and “urban ...

Domino Effect: Sweet Playground At Old NYC Sugar Refinery

Sweetwater playground at the former Domino Sugar Refinery in Brooklyn, New York is a colorful children's fun park that's dandy as old-fashioned candy. A park with good taste? It's more ...

Crate Core: Shipping Container Tower Hidden Inside a Carriage House

When glimpsed from above, this stack of vivid orange shipping containers on a Brooklyn rooftop looks like an add-on structure, but it doesn’t end where the original house’s roof begins. It ...

NYC Skyway: From Brooklyn to Manhattan in 4 Minutes by Air

Building on the strategy of the Roosevelt Island Tramway (connecting to Manhattan over the East River), this proposal promises record commuting times, bypassing subways, streets and ferries to ...

Alley Stack: Brooklyn Home Made of 5 Shipping Containers

A tiny slice of real estate in Brooklyn is now an affordable, low-impact multi-level residence made of five stacked and renovated shipping containers. Williamsburg couple Michele Bertomen and ...

Urban Wraps: Neighborhood Scarfs Make Videos Wearable

Cut. Print it. That's a wrap. One section (or scene) at a time, these designers are turning areas of Brooklyn into fashionable products that abstract the motion and colors of a place, converting ...

Converted Clock Tower: Ultimate Urban Loft with a View

At the top of a former cardboard box factory built in 1915, within a clock tower overlooking Brooklyn and Manhattan, is one of New York City's most remarkable residences. The pinnacle of the ...

Banksy Tags Manhattan: Fresh New Graffiti Live from NYC

Making his way through the boroughs of New York, the infamous but mysterious interventionist Banksy is broadcasting new stencils, installations and mixed media work all month as a ...

LEGO Brooklyn: Artist Recreates Borough with Plastic Blocks

Familiar scenes from Brooklyn, from the local flower shop to the train station, are lovingly rendered in pixelated plastic by local resident and artist Jonathan Lopes. Lopes loves BK so much, he ...

Ghost Down: ‘The Hole’, Half-Sunken Neighborhood in NYC

Just miles from center of Manhattan is a neighborhood that's almost entirely abandoned, its streets flooding with three feet of water every time it rains, its houses soft with rot, its yards ...

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