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This is a video of people skateboarding New York's infrastructure.
Have you ever wanted to build a city? Now you can with Plan It Green, city planning game that puts an emphasis on the importance of environmentally friendly cities. You can PLAY IT HERE.
Parkour is a sport that involves running, jumping, flipping, and vaulting over various objects. This video shows professional athletes using New York's infrastructure in creative and unusual ways.
The Highline in New York City is a old rail line that used to bring in goods into the city. As the track quickly became irrelevant due to trucking becoming more prevalent the Highline became abandoned for many years. Recently it underwent renovations that turned this old rusty railway track into a beautiful contemporary park for all of New York to enjoy.
New York city can be a dangerous and difficult place for homeless people to live. Some have found that it is much easier to live under the city, in tunnels that the city forgot about decades ago.
This article is about how New York gets its water supply and the billion dollar facility that keeps New York’s water clean and potable.
What are those tubes called at drive through banks? They are called pneumatic tubes, and they were originally invented and tested in New York. The pneumatic tube had a promising future until investors and citizens alike had to face the reality that it was not a sustainable form of transportation.