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From Helicopter crashes into East River in New York City The helicopter is reportedly fully submerged in the river A woman has died and two others are seriously injured after a helicopter plunged into a river in New York City shortly after take-off, officials say. Witnesses described how the privately owned Bell 206 aircraft span [...]
For those unfamiliar with Manhattan geography, Manhattan is much longer on its roughly North-South axis than it is on its East-West axis, although the island is narrower at its southern edge. (And it turns out to be harder to quickly locate a map showing the entire island than one would think). The current (and possibly [...]
Uncommon Projects is yet another example of Brooklyn’s abundance of inventors, creators, makers, designers and engineers – and how the boundaries between all of the previous description have blurred or disappeared. They write code, build websites, and build machines. And here’s some of what they’ve done. Photo-taking bicycles for yahoo’s Purple Pedals Project; in turn, [...]
Jen Chung at Gothamist and Al Baker of the Times have good coverage of the new, much-increased Department of Homeland Security grant to provide security for New York City subways, including the 16 underwater tunnels that link the boroughs to each other, and to the mainland (the Bronx, of course, is actually on the mainland). [...]
Marlene Naanes, “Subway station safety in question after collapse,” A.M. New York, dated February 11th, 2008: After a subway platform edge in Brooklyn splintered beneath a 14-year-old boy’s feet, sending him onto the Q train tracks several feet below, the teen’s family Sunday called for transit officials to take quick action in making emergency station [...]
The Postal Service first used pneumatic tubes between New York and Brooklyn in 1897; the system expanded to connect individual post offices in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. Similar systems were used in Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago in the United States, and in Europe, Prague, London, Paris, and Russia. [photopress:Pneumatic_Tube_Canister___National_Postal_Museum_.jpg,thumb,alignright] At its peak, New York’s pneumatic [...]
This was on the City Skip Blog: City Skip is the name of a blog – and while it seems to be the nom de plume of one person, it’s also the name of a group of some sort. The sort of conspiracy in which people get to attached to old things just because they’re [...]
The Swiss Firm MW Line makes solar boats that are ferrying people around lakes and rivers in Switzerland, France, Italy, and the United Kingdom. The only backup power, apparently, is on-shore charging from the grid. They’re also the shipbuilder for the PlanetSolar project which plans to have a solar-only craft in the water ready for [...]