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The best subway map tattoos
There are people who like public transportation, and then there are people who want to rub public transportation all over their body parts — or at least get it permanently inked on them. Here are some of our favorite transit-map tattoos from the internet. Here’s a nice-looking Chicago El map, done large enough that you […]
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NYC learns to heart bicycles
Just over a year ago, New York's transportation commissioner was raked over the coals for her romance with bikes. Now, it seems the city has fallen for them too.
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Parks and recreation: The best American cities for green spaces
ParkScore measures and ranks the park systems of the country’s 40 largest cities. How does your hometown stack up?
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Stray dog follows bikes for 1,000 miles (and beats most of the cyclists)
This adorable terrier-looking pup was hanging around a group of cyclists when they took a break, so one of them gave her chicken. Well, you know what happens when you give a dog chicken: She never leaves your side again, even if you’re riding your bike from China to Tibet, covering nearly 40 miles a […]
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‘The Great Inversion’: Cities are the new suburbs, suburbs the new cities
Young and wealthy people are moving back to city centers, while immigrants and poor people increasingly flock to the ’burbs. Um, is this a good thing?
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Weird astronomical event in New York City tonight
If you’re in New York City at 8:19 p.m. today, get your ass to a major cross street (the best ones are 14th, 23rd, 34th, 42nd, and 57th) and you can see the street grid take on astronomical significance. Tonight is Manhattanhenge, where the setting sun lines up exactly with Manhattan’s east-west streets. It’ll be an […]
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Giant road lobsters attacking cyclists
We’re gonna need a bigger bike.
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In Baltimore, the gods will not save you — but the trees will
A new study finds that in the city that birthed The Wire, trees provide shelter from crime.
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You can identify poor neighborhoods from space
Tim De Chant at Per Square Mile has noted that rich urban areas have way, way more trees than poor areas in the same city. In fact, the difference is so stark that income inequality can be seen from space. The satellite images above are low-income West Oakland and high-income Piedmont, and I probably don’t […]
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Cape Cod woman finds bike she lost 40 years ago
Forty years ago, in 1970, little Lisa Brown was riding her totally rad banana-seat bike through the woods of Cape Cod. She approached the Herring River, but the only way to cross it was a rickety plank board bridge. When Brown started out on the bridge it was two feet wide, but halfway across it […]
