Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Friday that “there is little doubt” that someone in New York City will soon become infected with the rapidly-spreading Coronavirus. “It’s not a question of if, it’s a question of when,” de Blasio told reporters at Emergency Management headquarters in Brooklyn. “We have to act on the assumption that … The post De Blasio: Coronavirus in NYC is ‘Not a question of if, but when’ appeared first on Brooklyn Eagle.
Love thy neighbor — then buy their apartment
It can take years — sometimes decades — but New Yorkers looking to trade up can sometimes do just that by buying the apartment next door. Combined units represent only a fraction of the market, around 2 percent to 5 percent of sales in the city, according to Miller Samuel Real Estate. But with a dose of luck, they do happen regularly, as the New York Times reported. “I’ve heard of lots of people who …
Cool Map Thing: Beautiful Mapped Data Reveals Trends Across New York City
This map portrays the locations of independent coffee shops throughout Brooklyn, via You Are Here. The exceptional breadth of datasets and the advent of digital maps go hand-in-hand like, well, site-specific data and maps; people love to see information visualized. That’s what the crew behind MIT Media Lab’s You Are Here project is banking on. You Are Here was conceived by Sep Kamvar who, according to Marketplace Tech, realized that the cities we inhabit differ in subtle ways often due to deliberate decisions, and its these decisions that give shape and a certain character to the city. The visualizations take traditional maps to the next level: they don’t just tell onlookers how to get around, but reveal where things are happening…