Topic: New York City
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Urban Wonk
Resilience Is About Relationships, Not Just Infrastructure
As cities prepare for climate change in earnest, the importance of community connections cannot be overstated.
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Urban Wonk
America's Most Cutthroat Christmas Tree Market
A bitter feud between two men has sent the price of trees in New York City sky-high.
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Even the World's Top Experts Aren't Sure What New York Should Do to Prevent Another Sandy
A star-studded panel discussion highlights just how much uncertainty faces the storm-damaged city.
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Life and Death on the Tracks in New York: Would You Be a Hero?
The thing is, we can all imagine a tragedy like the one in New York this week happening to us.
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Explore a Japanese City Built From 100 Gingerbread Houses
Take a tour through savory alleys and delicious plazas from a gingerbread man's perspective.
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Forecasting Flu Outbreaks on a City-By-City Basis
Researchers looking into New York City's flu rates think they may be able to predict local pandemics seven weeks before they happen.
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Stat of the Day: No One Was Slashed, Stabbed or Shot in New York City Yesterday
Has this happened before? Ever?
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Videos
Visualizing a City's Prodigious Carbon Emissions
This simulation shows one-ton blobs of carbon dioxide rising from the street in giant blue spheres.
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Photos
Newly Un-Flooded New York Subway Still Looking Pretty Horrible
Pumping out the tunnels under New York has revealed a gnarly landscape of storm damage.
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Maps
Superstorm Sandy Seen In a Beautiful Map of Pure Wind
Follow Sandy's track across the East Coast with this mesmerizing, real-time map of wind speeds. (Yes, that's the eye below Philadelphia.)
