Today, all over the city, ordinary parking spaces will be transformed into temporary public "parks." The Trust for Public Land has organized a nationwide Park(ing) Day, and there are a number of these Park(ing) projects all over the city - Open Plans has the details on the NYC locations. For instance, Colin Beaven, "No Impact Man," will be sponsoring a Park(ing) Lot at 7th Ave, between 24th and 26th Sts.; Times Up & Green......

Got some money to burn? Love really important maps? Especially happy if your money spent on said maps can go to a good cause like, say, The Trust For Public Land? Have we got an auction for you! Sigh, if only. But seriously, this map is pretty awesome: The "1865 Sanitary & Topological Map of the City and Island of New York was charted and drawn in intricate detail by Egbert Ludovicus Viele, the......

The NYPD's Mounted Unit will be homeless pretty soon, as the Hudson River Park Trust wants them to vacate their cushy digs. The NYPD had signed a three year lease for its temporary headquarters at Pier 63 (where they have an indoor riding track, enough room for unit training and exercises, plus the stables for the Midtown unit, according to the Post) but haven't been able to find suitable replacement space. The Trust is looking......

There's nothing like a classic con, and when you've got an 83 year-old mark and a con woman with a "darling little boy," it only gets better when it turns out that the mark is one of the New York Times Sulzbergers. Of course, the NY Post has the scoop: Jean Sulzberger was walking down Lexington Avenue when a woman with a small child approached her. Sulzberger described, "She said, "Oh, years ago, you gave......

Gothamist was heartened to read about the restoration of Bond Street's cobblestone New York Region > Restoring Elegance Underfoot on a Street Long Past Its Prime" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/16/nyregion/16bond.html">in the NY Times article this past weekend, because many a time have our shoes been the victim its surface (puddles, scuffed heels), not to mention our dignity as we've tripped (we're clumsy like that), thanks to the uneven, though quaint, stones. What's interesting is that the project is......

The Post says that New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. denies that his family made him ask Howell Raines and Gerald Boyd to resign. He had, famously, right after the Jayson Blair scandal emerged, said that he would not accept Raines' and Boyd's resignations. "Towards the end of last week, and even more towards the beginning of this week, it became clear to them, and in turn to me, that the best thing......