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Another Way to Traverse New York City: Electric Scooter

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New York City’s Department of Transportation published a tender for “expressions of interest” for a pilot initiative which would bring electric scooters to the Big Apple. The initial plan is to introduce the scooters in all the boroughs except Manhattan in May 2021.

So far, big names in urban transportation have shown interest in the program. Bird, Lime, Voi, and Lyft have all taken steps to participate in the bidding process.

“We applaud the City and Commissioner Trottenberg for taking this crucial next step in making New York a global leader in environmental travel, micromobility, equitable transportation, and street safety.”

Maurice Henderson, Bird’s director of government partnerships
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Latte & Laundry

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Vacationing in New York City is always fun. But sometimes the real-life chores like laundry and groceries can confound even the most seasoned traveler.

The Celsious laundromat in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is changing all of that. Sisters Corinna and Theresa Williams opened the new laundromat-café combination, It is a warm, friendly, environmentally-aware space where New Yorkers and tourists can relax, enjoy a coffee, and grab some food.

The laundry is customer and community focused, with regular open-to-the-public events held in the bright, airy, well decorated venue. Upstairs, in the mezzanine, the Clean Café offers an enticing café menu. With an outdoor sitting area in the garden, customers can catch some quiet outdoor time while waiting for the rinse cycle to end. The food is prepared by a nutritionist- chef and the coffee is roasted by Caffe Vita, a roaster committed to working with farmers practicing sustainable agriculture. Celsious washers and dryers feature energy-efficient technology.

grab a latte while your laundry gets done
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Traveling in New York City Just Got Easier

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The subway has always been a preferred method for traversing New York City. And now making your way from one city attraction to another has gotten significantly easier.

Swipe or Tap

Plastic, rechargeable MetroCards replaced tokens over 20 years ago. Today, city subway and bus passengers can use an even more hi-tech contactless alternative: Omny (One Metro New York).

Riders can tap their way into a selection of subway stations and buses through contactless bankcards or payment platforms on mobile or wearable devices. The innovative system was unveiled in May 2019 in a number of stations on the 4,5, 6 lines between Grand Central-42 Street and Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center, as well as all Staten Island buses. By 2023, OMNY will be the only payment option in all New York City subways. Until then, most stations offer a variety of options.

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Take Heed: New York Fashion Week is Coming

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Plans are well underway for New York’s winter Fashion Week scheduled for February 6-13, 2020 in Spring Street Studios, a venue in lower Manhattan.

With its glamorous cast of models, exuberant palette of colors, and high-energy environment, Fashion Week is always an exciting time to be in New York. And there is good news for all the fashionistas and style trendsetters who haven’t been invited to the main event(s). Whether looking to experience the marvel of New York in the winter, or staying in the cozy comforts of home, New York Fashion Week is only as far as the nearest smartphone. Heed, an app offering real-time, closeup glimpses of the looks and designs on the runway this winter.

Once reserved for fashion insiders, big-name stars of Hollywood, and models, New York Fashion Week is now accessible to any Heed user. The app allows users to watch the models backstage and on the runway, buy certain pieces immediately after the show, chat with industry leaders and stylists, and get opinions from fashion mavens.

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Manhattan Model

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With an incredulous attention to detail, an amazing model of Manhattan’s skyline has been created using old computer chips, damaged mobile phones, defective batteries and other such discarded items.

The brain, creativity and implementation behind this is Zayd Menk who worked on the project for around 3 months.  through his art class project, the Zimbabwe born 17-year-old fashioned a .0635:100 scale model of Manhattan.

The project used the following:

  1. 263 hot glue sticks,
  2. 11 CPUs,
  3. 27 motherboards,
  4. 10 CRT monitor motherboards,
  5. 15 batteries,
  6. 13 floppy disk readers,
  7. 4 watches,
  8. 4 audio cards,
  9. 3 hard drives,
  10. 3 graphics cards,
  11. and 2 clocks to bring the city to life.

Menk explains the inspiration for the project as follows:

“Under my topic ‘Man-made’ I was already studying cities,” Menk tells My Modern Met. I was also studying electronic waste. I’ve always thought that the tiny components on a PCBs [printed circuit boards] look like small cities, so I think It was some sort of subconscious thing that just clicked in my head… I’m absolutely ecstatic that my artwork has gained some attention. Hopefully, it will inspire other artists to come up with some creative ideas.”

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Selfies: The new Foodies?

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Selfies seem to be the ‘in’ thing these days. Whereas it used to be that people would post pictures of the food items they were enjoying in various eateries to boast of their prosperity and joie-de-vivre, now it is selfies. But go one step ahead and you’ll get the selfie stick.

Selfie sticks are the latest craze in the city that never sleeps. And that was definitely no less the case a week-and-a-half ago as tourists and natives alike saw in the new year around Rockefeller Plaza and Times Square. One would have been well advised to watch their back (or front) for these digital sticks as getting poked was not such a strange possibility on December 31st in the heart of New York City.

The selfie stick – a kind of rod that can attach to a smartphone – is used to snap selfies without having to have someone’s arm lurking in the end result. Apparently they have been very popular in Dubai now for quite a while. But in New York – and the rest of the nation – it is a gimmick that is only just starting to gain popularity, even though phone-holding rods have been available in the country for the last four years. It was iStabilizer CEO Noah Rasheta who thought of the idea as he was frustrated on a trip to Asia that every picture had his arm in it. So he started working on a selfie stick, and thus the Monopod was born. Retailing for around $35, there have been approximately 40,000 of the device since 2012.