New York’s Most Hated Highway is Falling Apart
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Frank
- December 28, 2022
- architecture
- B1M
- BQE
- brooklyn
- brooklyn heights
- brooklyn promenade
- brooklyn-queens expressway
- building
- Cars
- Construction
- engineering
- expressway
- fail
- Fred Mills
- freight
- highway
- Infrastructure
- interstate
- manhattan
- New York
- New York City
- queens
- roadway
- robert moses
- The B1M
- TheB1M
- Traffic
- triple cantilever
- US infrastructure
- USA
The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway is crumbling and has been for a while. As a kid, whenever I would jump around in my chair or bounce around in the car, my dad would say it looked like I was driving down the BQE. So, the BQE has never been great in my lifetime and always made me […]
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The Tunnel That’s Failing New York City
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Frank
- November 26, 2021
- Amtrak
- architecture
- B1M
- building
- Construction
- east side access
- engineering
- Fred Mills
- gateway program
- grand central terminal
- hudson river
- hudson tunnel
- hudson tunnel project
- Infrastructure
- New Jersey
- New York City
- northeast corridor
- NYC
- PATh
- Rail
- subway
- The B1M
- TheB1M
- trains
- tunnel boring
- tunnel construction
- underwater tunnel
- US infrastructure
This might be New York’s most important tunnel, but it’s crumbling!
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The Loophole Behind NYC’s Skinny Skyscrapers
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Frank
- November 21, 2021
- 432 park
- 432 park avenue
- architecture
- building
- Central Park
- central park tower
- Cheddar
- cheddar explains
- cities skylines
- city planning
- Construction
- Design
- Development
- empire state building
- explainer
- Infrastructure
- manhattan
- megatall skyscraper
- New York
- New York City
- nordstrom tower
- NYC
- skinny skyscraper
- skyline
- skyscraper
- skyscrapers
- supertall skyscrapers
- towers
- Urban Planning
I grew up in NYC and even I am puzzled at how these skinny residential luxury towers get past the zoning laws. Apparently, there’s a loophole that makes it all possible.
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How 9/11 Changed Skyscraper Design
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Frank
- September 9, 2021
- 9/11
- 9/11 anniversary 2020
- 9/11/01
- architecture
- Cheddar
- cheddar explains
- cities
- cities skylines
- city
- Construction
- Design
- Development
- engineering
- explainer
- freedom tower
- manhattan
- New York
- New York City
- north tower
- NYC
- one world trade center
- september 11
- skylines
- skyscraper
- skyscrapers
- south tower
- terrorism
- terrorist
- twin towers
- twin towers in movies
- Urban Planning
- world trade center
- world trade center collapse
- world trade center construction
- WTC
As we approach the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, I thank God every single day that I survived. Sometimes, being late for work can save your life. To say that the attacks changed our lives would be an epic understatement. But I do often wonder how the attacks changed the design of skyscrapers. Apparently, […]
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Intelligence Without Brains?
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Frank
- December 9, 2020
- 2019
- best science talks
- beyond the neuronal model of intelligence
- Collective intelligence
- Consciousness
- Environmental effects on collaboration
- Ethics with plants and animals
- exploration of plants
- Festival
- Intelligence Without Brains
- Leafcutter ant
- Mark Moffett
- Monica Gagliano
- Naomi Leonard
- Natalie Angier
- New York City
- Plant bio-acoustics
- Plant learning
- Plant memory
- science
- Simon Garnier
- Slime mold intelligence
- Thomas Horton
- world
How much brain do you need to be intelligence? What is intelligence, anyways? It’s a question that comes up a lot in AI research. Bees and ants perform marvels as colonies, though each individual insect has barely any brain. Plants—with no brain at all—exhibit behaviors that, by any definition, count as intelligent. Brace yourself for […]
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