The 50 Best Blocks in Brooklyn | Features. ALL THE BUILDINGS IN NEW YORK. All the Buildings in New York, Illustrated. By Maria Popova What deli signage typography has to do with the connectedness of the universe. A couple of years ago, illustrator Jason Polan set out to draw every single person in New York City. Now, Australian illustrator and creative nomad James Gulliver Hancock is drawing all the buildings in New York.
He started the blog when he first moved to Brooklyn, as a way of getting to know his surroundings and recording his relationship with his new home. I’ve started to see all the buildings intersect, all the areas locking together. With his playful style and mix of drawing tools and techniques, from Sharpie-on-notebook to digital illustration to screenprints, Hancock offers a refreshing lens on the world’s most overexposed city, filling it with the kind of childlike wonder so easy to lose amidst New York’s chronic hurry. In this talk from Harvest HQ’s excellent HOBBY series, Hancock pulls the curtain on his creative process via Quipsologies Share on Tumblr.
A Year in New York, just wonderful. Mapping New York's Hidden Gems: How Crowdsourcing Is Taking The City Back. This article titled “Mapping New York’s hidden gems: how crowdsourcing is taking the city back” was written by Simon Rogers, for guardian.co.uk on Wednesday 9th November 2011 14.00 UTC Cities are more than concrete and traffic; look a little harder and you can find places to sit, and breathe and escape the world. But sometimes, you have to look really hard.
And that’s what The New York World has been doing for the past two weeks, partnering with WNYC’s Brian Lehrer show to ask New Yorkers to help find the city’s “privately owned public spaces” – those small patches of indoor and outdoor real estate that property owners have committed to making available for public use. The world has heard of Zuccotti Park, thanks partly to the Occupy protests.
Developers were given valuable exemptions to the city’s zoning rules in exchange for building and maintaining public areas. They’ve received over 150 submitted comments and 132 unique sites have been visited. Humans of New York. Never Miss A Food Truck in New York Again. Now you can track the whereabouts of food trucks including Kimchi Taco, Richshaw Dumpling and Big Red all on one map.
Tweat.it is a free app for the iPhone that will locate the food truck in real time as soon as the vendor tweets their location. Currently, it includes all five boroughs and Governors Island only includes a map of Manhattan in New York, USA. Tweat.it was founded in 2010 by Joel Potischman and Jess Eddy and was originally a website platform. Developer David Cascino recently built the iPhone app for Tweat.it making it more mobile and convenient. Tweat.it. NY3.0 | Architecture. New York City’s Definitive Indie Rock Food Map.