Jane Jacobs Google Doodle; WTC Transportation Hub Getting a Massive LED Billboard

By Dana Schulz

May 4, 2016

Jane Jacobs Google Doodle; WTC Transportation Hub Getting a Massive LED Billboard

Marking her 100th birthday, legendary preservationist Jane Jacobs gets the Google Doodle treatment. [Gothamist]
And here’s all the NYC apartments she lived in. [Untapped]
Obama is considering making Christopher Park, located right across from the Stonewall Inn, a national monument to the gay rights movement. [NYT]
There’s now a dedicated bathroom for dogs at JFK Airport. It has a red fire hydrant and a patch of artificial turf. [Travel + Leisure]
The main wall of the World Trade Center Transportation Hub‘s passageway will be covered with a 280-foot-long LED billboard. [NYT]

WTC Transportation Hub passageway © Axel Taferner

Get Inspired by NYC.

More: Uncategorized

6 injured after crane collapses in Hudson Yards

By Aaron Ginsburg

Four civilians and two firefighters sustained minor injuries on Wednesday morning when a construction crane on the border of Hudson Yards and Hell's Kitchen caught fire and partially collapsed onto Tenth Avenue. The fire occurred 45 stories above the construction site at 550 Tenth Avenue at roughly 7:25 a.m. when the engine compartment of the crane caught fire. The fire gradually weakened the crane's cable and sent 16 tons of concrete and the crane's boom plummeting to the ground, causing damage to 555 Tenth Avenue on its descent, according to the fire department.
See more here