March 2012
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n 1: Slacker at Twenty →
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The Greatest Grid | Museum of the City of New York... →
It was a bold plan for the city’s growth—a tight, rectilinear network of streets overriding natural terrain and private property, extending far beyond the small early settlement at the foot of the island into its wilder open reaches. It seemed ruthless and unreal, visionary or hallucinatory. Farms, homes, hills, valleys, woods and streams had disappeared under a relentless geometric...
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Grand Concourse Neighborhood in the South Bronx... →
The signs of gentrification include such clichés as a yoga studio, arugula and organic spinach at the local Foodtown supermarket, a weekly farmers’ market in the warmer seasons and a new deli that sells croissants and banana-chip yogurt muffins.
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It's true: Cities are meaner - Dream City -... →
For more than 50 years, “urban psychologists” have been faking seizures, dropping cash and breaking into cars in broad daylight to see if strangers would intervene. They’ve discovered two things. One is that people in rural areas do indeed get involved more readily than urbanites. But they’ve also concluded that this has very little to do with morality.
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Crime reaches historic low, police say |... →
Crime in the area patrolled by Savannah-Chatham police is at its lowest point in recorded history, according to a news release from the department Wednesday.
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INTERVIEW: Robert Frank – “Highway ’61 Revisited”... →
MG: Do you see any parallels between the social scene at the time of Pull My Daisy and the downtown New York scene today?
RF: No. Unfortunately, I don’t see any. Because in New York, it becomes more difficult to operate, to be free, because of the tremendous amount of money that you need to exist in New York. And I think it’s not that open. People know too much now. You know, they really want...
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Whole Foods' Detroit Gamble - WSJ.com →
Detroit’s road to arugula also runs through plenty of resentment from local grocers, who see Whole Foods as unfair competition and a fancy national chain extracting special benefits from indulgent officials. “They’re getting tax breaks that we independents have never received,” says Norman Yaldoo, who runs University Foods nearby. “We should all be on a level...
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Crime-Reporting App Lets You Officially Rat Out... →
West Virginia has launched a smartphone app that’s one part clever crowdsourcing and community engagement and one part sinister report-on-your-neighbor Big Brotherism. The Suspicious Activity Reporting Application is exactly what it sounds like. See something that looks like a violation of the law, no matter how insignificant? Snap a pic, tag it with GPS, and anonymously report it to the state.
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John Brown Smokehouse — Marginal Revolution →
25-08 37th Avenue (Crescent Avenue), Long Island City, Queens; (718) 361-0085. Set in the middle of nowhere, these are the best burnt ends I’ve had, including Kansas City, and the best lamb sausage I’ve had, ever. The pastrami is the other winner. Quite possibly this is the best barbecue on the entire East Coast and it is one of the better barbecue experiences in the country. Here...
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