Tag: Times Square and 42nd Street (Manhattan, NY)

How New York City Became a Free-for-All of Unlicensed Weed

Shops selling weed have proliferated since the state legalized cannabis last year, thriving in confusion over their legality and a lack of enforcement.

November 23, 2022
Gauging Our Return to Office and the Subways, One Tip at a Time

It has been over a year since buskers, and their music, returned underground, and their slightly fuller tip jars and instrument cases suggest things may be looking up.

November 19, 2022
Where Could a Casino Be Built in New York City? What We Know

Three gambling licenses for downstate New York are up for grabs. Here’s what has been proposed so far, where the casinos might be located and who gets to decide.

October 21, 2022
Times Square May Get One of the Few Spectacles It Lacks: A Casino

The battle to win a New York City casino license has heated up in Manhattan, with real estate and gambling giants offering competing proposals for Times Square and Hudson Yards.

October 19, 2022
This Surveillance Artist Knows How You Got That Perfect Instagram Photo

A tech-savvy artist unearthed video footage of people working hard to capture the perfect shot for Instagram. It is a lesson in the artifice of social media and the ubiquity of surveillance.

September 24, 2022