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Apparently in 1911 Dr. T. Kennard Thomson proposed to expand New York into its adjacent waters for a grand total of 50 square miles.

From Big Think:

By Dr Thomson's estimates, enlarging New York according to his plans would cost more than digging the Panama Canal - but the returns would quickly repay the debt incurred and make New York the richest city in the world. He then goes on to describe how he would reclaim all that land. The plan's larger outlines: move the East River east, and build coffer dams from the Battery at Manhattan's southern tip to within a mile of Staten Island, on the other side of the Upper Bay, and the area in between them filled up with sand. This would enlarge Manhattan to an island several times its present size.

Here is one of his proposed expansion maps:

via thisisnthappiness

From Mail Online:

Almost a million images of New York and its municipal operations have been made public for the first time on the internet.

The city's Department of Records officially announced the debut of the photo database.

Culled from the Municipal Archives collection of more than 2.2 million images going back to the mid-1800s, the 870,000 photographs feature all manner of city oversight -- from stately ports and bridges to grisly gangland killings.

I miss you, New York.

After 12 great years living in New York City I'm moving out. Tomorrow morning I, my wife, and my dog get on a plane and head to our new home in Los Angeles.

Thank you, New York.

Thank you for giving me my Dad, who was born in Brooklyn and raised in Middle Village, Queens.

Thank for letting him discover my amazing mother, and marrying her.

Thank you for letting me cross your George Washington Bridge growing up to see my Nana in Queens.

Thank you for reminding me, on those trips to Nana's, to spot the Keith Haring mural on the handball court on the side of the Cross Bronx Expressway and telling my parents from the back seat of my dad's Chevette, "Crack Is Wack!".

Thank you for my job at Dan Miller Design, where I met the woman who'd become my wife, Gina.

Thank you for Uncle Otto who rented me his 2-bedroom, rent-controlled apartment on 7th Street between 1st Avenue and Avenue A from 2000 until 2005 for $800/month.

Thank you for making me street smart.

Thank you for letting my brother Mark take over said apartment in 2005 when I got married to Gina and moved out.

Thank you for showing me how one man's trash truly is another man's treasure.

Thank you for teaching me how to drive like Han Solo through traffic (sideways).

Thank you for our shitty, cold winters and subsequent amazing springs when the whole city comes alive.

Thank you for making me nostalgic for Nana's house, when I smell the 'city air' in the spring. I'll aways love the smell of New York air. Always.

Thank you for runs around the Reservoir in Central Park.

Thank you for getting me drunk a lot.

Thank you for your awesome restaurants.

Thank you for your art.

Thank you for your attitude.

Thanks for all the amazing friends I've met here.

These thank-you's could go on for days, but I'll stop it here.

Thanks for everything, New York. You're always going to be 'The City'.

* The title of this post taken from one of my favorite songs by Lou Reed

I lived at 100 East 7th Street in the East Village in NYC from 2000 until 2005 in my uncle-in-law's rent-controlled apartment (I'll make you cry a little - it was a 2 bedroom unit I paid $600 a month for).

It wasn't until I got married and moved and my brother took over the apartment did I ever see who lived behind the door of 102 East 7th Street (and what was in there).

His name is Anthony Pisano, and he's a wonderful old man:

Further validating the fact that the East Village is still the best neighborhood in New York.

via Dangerous Minds (thanks bro).

via Michael Surtees

Found this chair all by its lonesome underneath the Manhattan Bridge a few weeks back. Shot this on an old Minolta Autocord I picked up on eBay. Analog is dead. Long live analog.

Wow, you can actually own photographs taken by Stanley Kubrick (via Daring Fireball).

Fine, they might not be gelatin silver prints, but they're museum-quality and limited edition.

A new feature at Scouting NY, called 'New York, You've Changed':

"New York, You've Changed" is a new Scouting NY site feature in which the New York depicted in movies is compared with the city of today. This is not the usual list of shooting locations and addresses to visit next time you tour the city. Instead, this is a full shot-by-shot dissection to see what New York once was and what it has become, for better or worse. I've tried to recreate the angles and framing as best as possible, and have presented the shots (more or less) in the order they appear in the film.

Awesomeness.

via Michael Surtees

Ev Grieve (via @michaelsurtees)

Bill Cunningham New York, a film by Richard Press:

The "Bill" in question is 80+ New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham. For decades, this Schwinn-riding cultural anthropologist has been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and high society charity soirées for the Times Style section in his columns "On the Street" and "Evening Hours." Documenting uptown fixtures (Wintour, Tom Wolfe, Brooke Astor, David Rockefeller--who all appear in the film out of their love for Bill), downtown eccentrics and everyone in between, Cunningham's enormous body of work is more reliable than any catwalk as an expression of time, place and individual flair. In turn, Bill Cunningham New York is a delicate, funny and often poignant portrait of a dedicated artist whose only wealth is his own humanity and unassuming grace.

I love documentaries, I love photography, I love New York, and this looks great.