• The Hip Hop Hall of Fame Museum, the city’s first institution focused on the music genre, is headed for Midtown and Harlem in 2017. [Daily News]
• Track Santa, visit the North Pole, and find the best neighborhood light displays with these holiday-themed apps. [NY1]
• An historic automat façade was revealed on 104th Street and Broadway. [West Side Rag]
• Remembering Gimbels Department Store. [Daytonian in Manhattan]
• If everyone in Manhattan drove instead of taking public transportation, the city would need 48 new bridges each with eight lanes of traffic. [Vox]
• The top 10 NYC street art graffiti pieces of 2014. [Untapped]

Images: Hip Hop Hall of Fame Museum rendering via Terrance Healy & Associates and Zubatkin & Associates (L); The 48 new bridges Manhattan would need if everyone drove via Matt Taylor

• MoMA gets the first 4D-printed dress, which automatically changes shape. [Dezeen]
• More people in cities today live in poverty than in 1970. [Next City]
• Ever take a ride on the number 11 train? There’s a quirky history behind this subway sign. [Forgotten NY]
• And here’s a list of 16 more things you probably didn’t know about the NYC subway. [Thrillist]
• Check out this round up of 16 (must be today’s lucky number!) old-school Lower East Side stores with staying power. [The Lo-Down]
• A new book, Training Days: The Subway Artists Then and Now, presents the first-person accounts of 12 infamous graffiti writers of the 1970s. [Fast Co. Design]

Images: 4D-printed dress via Nervous System (L); Number 12 train via Wiki Commons (R)

• Art Project Uses Graffiti to Spruce up Bronx neighborhood: The New York Daily news talks about how the Bronx Park East Community Association partnered with local artists to trade unsightly tagging for beautiful murals.
• Food Trucks Stuck in Park: Crain’s New York discusses how some of these New York staples are turning to brick and mortar.
• 220 West 41^st St Unveiled: New York YIMBY’s Nikolai Fedak gives us a sneak peak of the new hotel development on 41^st St.
• Worth the Splurge: Sometimes it’s worth it to pay for the good stuff. Apartment therapy tells us 5 things you should never skimp on.
• Williamsburg Edges Out Dumbo as Brooklyn’s Most Expensive: The Brownstoner announces this new development along with a few possible reasons why. Meanwhile Williamsburg residents don’t know whether to celebrate or curl up in the fetal position and cry.
• Scarface Home on the Market for $35 Million: Curbed gives you a piece of “Little Paradise” with pics of the inside of this $35 million mansion.
• Wet Hot (Tub) American Summer: UK’s popular Hot Tub Cinema held its first New York event in Williamsburg this past weekend. The Observer gives us an inside look.

Images: Scarface home (left), 41st St hotel (right)