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"The biggest football event of the year is coming to NYC next year, so the Metropolitan Transit Authority thought it would be beneficial to release a regional transit map that covers all the rail lines between New York and New Jersey. The MTA calls this the "first mass transit Super Bowl," because it is truly a comprehensive map."

"Il y a de cela quelques mois on vous avait parlé du LiteFeet ce mouvement de danse venu des souterrains de New York. Récemment, la police de la ville a interdit la pratique de la danse dans les métros. Le réalisateur Scott Carthy a donc décidé de filmer une dernière virée du WAFFLE crew dans les couloirs du métro de New York en juillet dernier. Baroud d'honneur. "

New York City Department of Transportation August 2010

"How do we provide inner-city youth with valuable experiences that nurture individual creativity and resourcefulness, develop life skills, and enable them to expand their horizons through travel and service? Skateboarding, in the truest sense, provides kids with freedom-the freedom to take control of their lives, their bodies, the world around them, and their futures. Since 2007, the Harold Hunter Foundation, a nonprofit, grassroots, skateboard community-based organization, has provided a network of support, resources, and advocacy for New York City's skateboarders. We provide school and community-based programs that are specifically and creatively tailored to meet the needs of-and act as a positive catalyst in the difficult lives of-low-income skateboarding youth. "

"Visitors could sign out a special edition bike with the option to purchase it The enormous usage success of NYC's Citibike program has spawned a lot of other cities to create their own network. For the first time, a bicycle manufacturer has gotten inspired by the idea and created a popup bike share system of their own. Biomega brought 100 special Design Miami/ editions of their new NYC two speed bike and provided visitors to the show with complimentary loans to ride them around South Beach. Biomega supplied locks so riders could make a stops where they wished."

"The city's subway is by far the most inaccessible in the nation. That has a big economic impact on the whole city, according to a new report."

"Each week, cyclists participate in clandestine competitions, called alleycats. Cities are their territory, the streets are their playground. In New York, Berlin or for the Cycle Messenger World Championships in Paris, we met world champions, recognized winners and experienced witnesses. Watch this film on the messenger culture, their history, their competitions and their claim for liberty."

"The Efficient Passenger Project is on a mission to put up signs throughout the subway system guiding commuters to the best spot to board a train in order to make the quickest exit or transfer. The anonymous participants have been placing "Efficient Passenger Project" stickers on and around the turnstiles in select subway stations, signaling the presence of a plaque on the platform that tells you exactly where to stand to make your commute most efficient."

"Les plans de métro peuvent-ils refléter l'identité d'une ville ? C'est en tout cas le postulat du studio d'art graphique Zero Per Zero, installé en Corée du Sud. New York, Séoul, Tokyo , Osaka, Hokkaido, Londres, Amsterdam, Barcelone et Paris sont déjà passés à la moulinette créative des graphistes, qui estiment qu'un plan devrait non seulement aider les voyageurs à se déplacer, mais aussi leur transmettre les charmes de la ville où ils se trouvent. "

"A vehicle security checkpoint on Wall Street. After 9/11, the bronze bollards were installed on a turntable to create an attractive checkpoint. When they stopped working, white striped truck barriers, fences, and concrete barriers were added."

"New York is a large city that sees a large number of bike collisions. Thanks to MIT's pioneering "You Are Here" team, we now can visualize where these wrecks have occurred, and deduce problem areas that feature an unusual amount of two-wheeled carnage.  The team took collision data provided by the NYPD and geolocated it with Google Maps API to make a series of interactive maps, using orange dots to show where collisions have happened and red lines to denote roads with large clusters of wrecks. The time frame is August 2011 to February 2014, a sufficient enough period to establish a historical web of skidding tires and bodies hitting metal that stretches all across the five boroughs. The MIT guys say they created these "in the hope that those streets might be made safer for riders." (Note that they include only crashes involving physical harm, and that not everyone reports their scrape-ups to the police.) The maps have a couple minor issues, like a tiny scattering of ghost dots in the middle of nowhere. But all in all, they're an informative peek at a world-class city's cycling-based pain and suffering, caused by distracted or impaired driving, errors in judgment, and just plain bad luck. There are also a few neat bells and whistles: graphs ranking the roadways by number of accidents, for example, and a "Street View" option revealing the landscape around each wreck site."

"he streets of New York just got a lot brighter. Uprooted Flower Truck is a fully mobile florist on wheels, and they're setting up shop to offer flowers to their clients wherever they may be. Armed with a bright and playful truck design, this mobile business is an awesome alternative to your local florist."

"Riders can hail a yellow cab without surge pricing if a New York City universal taxi app gets approved"

"D'où l'idée d'un promoteur immobilier, inspiré par les Alpes françaises, d'installer un téléphérique entre Brooklyn et Manhattan, solution idéale selon lui face à la surpopulation dans le métro aux heures de pointe. Chaque jour, des dizaines de milliers de personnes traversent de Brooklyn à Manhattan pour aller travailler, s'entassant dans le métro et sur les ferries de l'East River, ou avançant, pare-choc contre pare-choc sur les ponts qui relient Brooklyn à l'île la plus célèbre du monde."