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Evolution Of The NYC Subway System (GIF)

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Maybe you’re from out of town and have never seen a map of the NYC subway system? Or maybe you’ve lived in New York City all of your life and never saw how the subway labyrinth actually evolved. Either way, this GIF courtesy of untapped cities lays it all out in the chronological order of […]

NYC’s North Brother Island: The Video

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Abandoned in the East River of NYC, North Brother Island is within a stones throw of Rikers Island and not very far from the runways of LaGuardia Airport! Once home to patients with communicable diseases and, at the end of its useful life a rehabilitation center for young drug addicts, North Brother Island was officially abandoned […]