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The Revolution Will Be Recodified

An audience member at the "Revolution Recodified" conference chants while holding the Cuban flag, demonstrating his support for blogger and guest speaker Yoani Sanchez. Credit: Francia Sandoval

Even in today’s era of online discussion, face-to-face communication still holds merit. And for three days last month, people from across the country gathered in person at the New…

Design Contest in Honor of Factory Fire

Not far from Washington Square Park, two plaques along New York University’s brownstone building describe the tragic Triangle Waist Factory fire, which happened 102 years ago. Now, those…

Rating Free Wi-Fi Hotspots

Credit: Madeline Frechette.

Finding free Wi-Fi in this city can be as exciting as delving into a new restaurant or a quaint boutique. Whether you use hotspots to study or to…

Queens of the World

Recently developed housing complexes in Long Island City on the East River waterfront (Ivy Meissner)

Borough Growth Not Gentrification as Usual.

Pirates of Silicon Alley

Dates on Wheels: the mobile office of Date My School. “We wanted to get the ugliest color possible, so people would notice us,” said Balazs Alexa, co-founder of Date My School (Niko Nelson)

Start-ups Give New York New Tech Title. The neighborhood is just east of the Hudson, right below Hell’s Kitchen, the only place in Manhattan where people remember the…

Reeling Them In

Sardines displayed just after dawn for merchants to peruse and purchase at the Fulton Fish Market in the Bronx (Ivy Meissner)

Restoring New York’s Bond to the Sea. It is three in the morning. You are in the Bronx, and it hits you: the smell of the sea, diesel…