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Art of Deception: NYC Monument to Giant Octopus Attack Misdirects Tourists

Visitors to Battery Park in Manhattan will find memorials to fallen soldiers, sunken sailors and 400 passengers who perished when a Staten Island ferry was attacked by a giant ...

Reading Coaster: NYC Public Library Installs Tiny Book Delivery Trains

A crafty reading railroad, this conveyor system helps bring up books from a series of research stacks and storage spaces hidden beneath Bryant Park, making the volumes available via a system of ...

Vessel: Climb This Sculptural NYC Landmark to Look Out Onto Hudson Yards

Unlike most of New York City’s standout architecture, this sculptural, almost alien-looking structure set to rise above the new Hudson Yards development will be open for the public to explore. ...

World’s Biggest Indoor Vertical Farm Near NYC to Use 95% Less Water

AeroFarms is on track to produce 2 million pounds of food per year in its 70,000-square-foot facility in Newark, under construction less than an hour outside of Manhattan. Their efficient ...

Pier 55 Park: Undulating Landscape to Hover Over Hudson River in NYC

Following the success of the hovering High Line, an elevated park set on re-purposed rail tracks, New York City aims to pull off another park space in an unused space, this time at Pier 55 ...

1/4 World Trade Center: Tulsa’s Half-Sized, Untwinned Tower

The BOK Tower in Tulsa, Oklahoma, looks uncannily like the vanished Twin Towers of the New York City skyline and this is neither accidental nor coincidental. This skyscraper was constructed just ...

Horror at the Met: Psycho House Replica on Museum Rooftop

Set against the New York City skyline, the house from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho has never looked more out of place, elevated high above the treetops on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of ...

Nothing to Hide: Open Glass Islamic Culture Center for NYC

Designed to dispel fears surrounding Muslim culture, practices and traditions, a new wide-open skyscraper design for New York City invites people of all faiths to enter, through ...

Urban Microscape: Build Your Own Miniature Metropolis

Display your own little corner of your favorite city - or the entire metropolis of Manhattan - on your wall or table, scaled down to 1:5000 and simplified in white monochrome. ‘Microscapes’ ...

Mystery Oreo Vault in NYC Takes You on a Weird Tasty Trip

What’s behind the giant Oreo-shaped vault door mounted to a bright blue garage in midtown Manhattan? Curious passersby who decide to approach and find out for themselves will have the most ...

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