Rahman Khandker | NYC Fruit Vendor
The New YorkerRahman Khandkerha has been on his corner (Church and Chambers Streets, in Tribeca) for more than a decade. Exactly how many fruit carts span the New York City’s streets is an enigma—official records don’t differentiate between types of the five thousand and forty licensed food vendors—…
Radio | It’s All About Timing
99% InvisibleInside the machinery of public radio the clock rules all.Each show has a ‘clock’, a set template, from which the show almost never varies. Every show that broadcasts—or aspires to broadcast—in the public radio system has a clock. This is the All Things Considered broadcast clock, which …
GLOBAL COOLING | Arctic Ice Cap Grows by 60%
Daily Mail Almost a million more square miles of ocean covered with ice than in 2012A chilly Arctic summer has left nearly a million more square miles of ocean covered with ice than at the same time last year – an increase of 60 per cent.The rebound from 2012’s record low comes six years after the …
Micke | The Magnetist
Micke’s life revolves around cassette tapes. Most of his time is spent on varius tape-related projects; he blogs about them, he makes music with them and he’s got a monthly tape club in his hometown Stockholm.Video: Erik Sandberg …
Yolanda Cuomo | Let’s Make A Book
The New Yorker Yolanda Cuomo, a New York-based artist and graphic designer, learned that she had to vacate her Chelsea studio of twenty-five years. The studio, in an old carriage house in Manhattan, has been the site of artistic collaboration for decades.The space was decorated floor to ceiling wit…
NYC Department of Records
The New Yorker The entire history of New York City’s government—from handwritten court records of the first colonial Dutch settlers to the printed agendas of Bloomberg’s latest health initiatives—is filed, digitized, and preserved by the Department of Records.In the basement of the Surrogate’s Cour…
Community Laundry
WiredHello connects people who are looking to do laundry with people who actually have a washing machine. In theory, customers would roll their basket over to the home with a washer and either drop off their laundry or do it themselves.Think of it as a personalized laundromat, where instead of sitti…
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