MTA Releases MetroCard Calculator for Fare Hike; 190 Bowery Gets Retail Leasing Banners

March 20, 2015
  • To coincide with Sunday’s fare hike, the MTA has released an online MetroCard calculator. How nice of them! [NYDN]
  • Brooklyn’s debt is double the national average. [amNY]
  • The inevitable has finally happened — 190 Bowery, the former Germania Bank Building famous for its graffiti, now has retail leasing banners. [Bowery Boogie]
  • A new city program aims to help independent restaurants thrive. [BK Mag]
  • Five teens got busted after climbing Philip Johnson‘s New York State Pavilion with spray paint–not the first vandalism on the iconic World’s Fair structure. [NYDN]
  • It costs an average of $82 for a night out in NYC, less than in Chicago, Atlanta, and LA. [BI]
  • Futuristic starchitect Zaha Hadid collaborates on a pair of sculptural wooden vases. [Designboom]

Images: MetroCard (L); 190 Bowery (R)

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