As I walked down W 35th Street in Manhattan, en route to the Jacob Javitz Center for this year’s International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF), I tried not to be resigned. I tried to not let the memory of past years cloud me.
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Few things are as indispensable to parents living in small spaces as playgrounds. They offer the chance for children to safely exhaust themselves in the outdoors, offsetting their homes’ dearth of indoor space. Late last year, Prospect Park, one of.
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To borrow the catchphrase of politician Jimmy McMillan, New York City’s rents are too damn high. As of last November, the median rent for Manhattan was $3100. Want to slum it in Brooklyn? That number drops to a measly $2800..
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A common charge against the “edited” way of living is that its philosophy is hard to apply to a family. The Wagner home, a 630 sq ft Brooklyn studio shared by a couple and their two small children, demonstrates a.
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Rather than wait around for micro-apartment developments to spring up in the US’s biggest city, the good folks over at Curbed did a round up of New York’s ten tiniest apartments currently up for sale. If you recall, the adAPT.
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If you use cloud storage like Dropbox or Google Drive, you know how convenient it is to access your files from any computer or device. But what about non-data stuff? What if there was a way we could magically store.
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Cities like New York and San Francisco are incomparable incubators for culture, facilitators of connection and global villages that hold the promise of sustainably supporting large populations. But these cities are also becoming prohibitively expensive for the very people who.
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Last week we gave a micro view of the embiggened American home. Today, thanks to Google and the US Geological Survey’s Landsat images, we see the macro view. The GIF’s below, made by Texas architect Samuel Aston Williams, show the Houston,.
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Everywhere we go, we are surrounded by countless, unused rooms–furnished, climate controlled, wifi enabled rooms. If you’ve ever wandered around a city–or any place away from home–you’ve probably wanted to duck into one of these rooms to work, take a.
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You might put this in the “who asked you” file, but we imagine some of the brouhaha that erupted over the recent release of the CitiBike bike share program might have been minimized had the bikes taken a cue from.
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