brooklyn
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Then and Now: 10 Times New York City Drastically Changed via Google Maps
New York City has always been a major hub for financial, commercial, and cultural development with its iconic skyscrapers and dense population. But over the past decade or so, we’ve been able to see the way the city has changed like never before — with Google Maps. Google Maps allows users to (depending on the…
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Garbage Barge’s Garbage Barges Back Down to Garbage Town
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Tuesday that one of the garbage barges helping clear the federal Superfund site in Brooklyn’s infamous Gowanus Canal of toxic waste has itself sunk.
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The Last O.G.
To get to Roland George’s shop in Brooklyn, you take the A or C trains out to the Shepherd Avenue station, deep into the part of the city where the tourists don’t visit. But all the world passes through New York, and all the legions of Saab devotees up and down the Eastern Seaboard pass…
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I Ate Wasps And Scorpions At New York’s First Bug Eating Festival
A single seared prawn sat atop a scoop of mashed avocado with a healthy scoop of salty black specks overflowing onto the plate beside it. If I didn’t already know what I had gotten myself into, I would have been certain the topping was caviar — each spot popped just like a sturgeon egg might…