This gives a whole new meaning to "in the heights."
Columbia University Medical Center has just announced that Diller Scofidio + Renfro will be designing a new 14-story medical building on Haven Avenue between 171st and 172nd streets that will be home to high-tech class facilities for all four CUMC colleges as well as the biomedical program within Columbia University's college of art and science.
Reblogged from National Post | News:
Thousands of yogis and yoga enthusiasts gathered on Times Square on Wednesday to take part in a mass yoga class to mark the summer solstice during the event which features four free mass yoga session at the heart of Manhattan.
The very hip artist's collective Still House has joined with the very powerful art collector and adviser Mark Fletcher to present a group show in Manhattan opening next week that marks Still House's first "New York City group exhibition since 2010."
by Evan Bindelglass
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - A nearly five-minute-long video featuring stunning time-lapse photography of Manhattan has been making its way around the Internet.
The video, called "The Manhattan Project," (not to be confused with the project that created the atomic bomb) was created by photographer Cameron Michael.
One of the cool things about this video is that the camera moves each time a new photograph is taken.
Freelance designer Luke Clark Tyler keeps all his worldly possessions in the same amount of space that McMansion-dwellers allot for clothes and shoes. His Manhattan apartment is the size of a walk-in closet -- 78 square feet, just enough space to park a Mini Cooper.
The sunset tonight will be perfectly aligned with the street grid of Manhattan--meaning that, as it goes down, the sun will be fully visible on both sides of each one of the island's cross streets (as the sun is with the stones of Stonehenge on the summer solstice). The other such day this year is July 12--but why wait so long?
The maker of Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge, Baz Luhrmann, is currently directing The Great Gatsby, based on F. Scott Fitzgerald‘s classic book of the same name. The film is set to be released to cinemas on December 25, 2012, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Tobey Maguire. This undoubtedly looks promising!
He's not taking off the hoodie, and he's not going to NYC. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that Facebook will IPO on Friday with CEO Mark Zuckerberg ringing the NASDAQ bell remotely from his company's new Menlo Park headquarters. This follows the trend of companies like Zynga who also rung the IPO bell from home base rather than New York.
A Colt 38 with an integrated camera that automatically takes a picture when you pull the trigger. On the left: six pictures taken by the camera. New York, 1938.
Proposal to drain New York’s East River to join Manhattan with Long Island and, on the other side, plug up the Hudson river to connect Manhattan with New Jersey.
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