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At the beginning of the 20th Century, the US decides to turn the tables on Mother England and turn its former motherland into a conquered territory. The American conquerors quickly get to work, importing architects and sculptors who make the city of London look just like New York. More »
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Going through old links this morning, I found a story originally published in New York Magazine back in 2009 about the waters of New York City-a maritime metropolis that, many forget, is also an archipelago. More »
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Ten years ago today, Chicago developer J. Paul Beitler — who once aspired to build the world's tallest building — told The Chicago Tribune that governments would cease to approve plans for skyscrapers, for fear that they would become "magnets for future terrorism." More »
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When hurricane Irene failed to flood Manhattan as predicted over the weekend, many called the evacuation an overreaction to media hype - one local told the New York Times he was "embarrassed." But scientists and civil engineers say the city's response made good sense. More »
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The Steampunk Victorian bar Way Station in Prospect Heights, NY has opened its doors to everyone who wants fancy cocktails, live jazz and blues music — and for those who want to brag that they've relieved themselves inside the TARDIS. More »
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In the euphonious data visualization "Conductor," Alexander Chen transforms the New York City subway system into a massive stringed instrument. More »
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Lost's mysterious cave, the heart of the island, was discovered just outside of Buffalo, New York. Get a better look at this totally natural phenomenon - just don't expect a better series ending to be hiding in there, somewhere. More »
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The Brooklyn Griffin is a recycled monster perched near the corner of Meserole and Waterbury Streets in Brooklyn, NY. The British design collective Giant Robots built the beast last month, but not before getting arrested in the name of art. More »
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At 11:30 AM yesterday, Darth Vader robbed a Chase bank in Setauket, NY. Brandishing a pistol and camouflage pants, Vader tussled with an incredulous customer and left with an unknown amount of cash. Hey, Death Stars don't grow on trees. More »
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This postcard from 1925 imagines future New York City, "The City of Skyscrapers." Utopian New York of the 1920s had a lot of levels, with a system of elevated trains, beautiful flying contraptions, and towering skyscrapers reaching toward the heavens. More »
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For much of the 20th century, New York's "Freedom Tunnel" was an unused rail tunnel that housed a homeless community and the occasional graffiti tagger. Trains run through the tunnel nowadays, but metro-spelunkers still venture down into this underground cathedral. More »
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On July 9, the second annual Game Play festival begins at Brooklyn's non-profit Brick Theater. For 2010, Game Play features Ovid by way of Grand Theft Auto, the theoretical physics of Game Boy, and hard dramatic readings of Donkey Kong. More »
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New York's Epic Win Burlesque once turned Barbara Gordon's crippling into a sexy striptease, but in their most recent show Ghostbusters!, they unleashed something far more offensive — Slimer's denuded rack. NSFW for pasties and puppet nudity. More »
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Eric Archer drove from New Jersey to Brooklyn and scored the trip using a photodiode-to-audio circuit. Using this technology, the headlights of cars become blaring horns and a flashing truck pounds out a Kraftwerkian beat. [MAKE] More »
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We love both H.P. Lovecraft and fun art openings. So when Dylan Thuras of Atlas Obscura told us he was curating a Cthulhu-centric art show in Brooklyn, we bellowed a hearty "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!" More »
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Last week Diana Eng unveiled her Fairytale Fashion collection at the Eyebeam Art and Technology Center in New York. Equal parts high-grade electronics and fabrics, Eng's collection is straight from a future where arc reactors are haute couture. More »
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Charlie Huston's new novel Sleepless is the most science-fictional thing he's ever written. And he partly credits the influence of moving from New York to Los Angeles, because L.A. is a more science-fictional city. Let the debate begin! More »
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Dubai isn't the only city to see extravagant architectural projects fall by the wayside. Many of New York's more ambitious concept buildings, including a Frank Gehry-designed museum and this sky-high series of individual townhouses, also failed to materialize this decade. More »
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Under Brooklyn's elevated JMZ subway sits a curious clothing label. On one hand, their apparel often appears in rap videos. On the other, they've released a t-shirt featuring He-Man in S&M gear. Welcome to the wonderfully warped world of Mishka. More »
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After the sea levels rise, airships, rowboats, and gondola lifts with replace New York's subways and taxi cabs. The Aqualta series imagines New York 40 years into the future, when the city's once-crowded streets have filled with quiet waters. More »
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Hitman director Xavier Gens is gearing up to take on the next end of the word feature called Fallout, where we see New York in ruins, and possibly subject to feral child gangs. More »
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What will the New Yorks, Londons, and Tokyos of tomorrow look like? Will they be technological Edens, grim dystopias, or entirely obliterated? We look at science fiction's take on the future of today's cities to gauge our urban future. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5361171&view=rss&microfeed=true The best part about living in a futuristic, metropolitan wonderland are the technologies that make urban living so much smoother. Here are some of our favorite little gadgets and what-nots that modern cities have to offer. More »
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London just wouldn't be the same without its werewolves, and the real charm behind New York lies with the giant alligators in the sewers. These t-shirts let you show off the monsters that really make your favorite city special. More »
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The Big Apple has just become even bigger for Apple users. Pastiche allows Mac users to recreate New York through keywords on NY-centric blog searches. The result is disorientatingly stunning. See it in action below. More »
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We've gone back and forth about where the real life Gotham City is - But as these photographs from visual directory Oobject show, no matter how much Chicago may stand in for Batman's hometown in movies, New York City has the architecture and the attitude to make it work. More images below the jump. More »
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If you've been wanting to see the John Woo produced cyborg war romance Appleseed: Ex Machina on the big screen, and you happen to live in New York, then this is your lucky day. We're giving away five pairs of tickets for a midnight screening of the movie at IFC Center in NYC for either Friday or Saturday night, take your pick. We've been vocal about our love for the movie, and although the movie will be out on DVD starting next Tuesday, it really takes a huge screen to appreciate the animation. Find out how you can take yourself and a friend (or just put your feet up) inside. More »
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Long before there was Armageddon or Deep Impact, or even the fear of our own falling spy satellites, there was Meteor. Sean Connery goes into full science mode as he tries to stop a huge meteor named Orpheus from crashing into the Earth. The good news: he's partially successful. The bad news: Oops, sorry about that Hong Kong and New York. The opening scene, where astronauts watch the cosmic ballet of a comet striking an asteroid just before it obliterates them and their ship, is worth the price of admission alone. More »
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A terrible tragedy has befallen an abandoned Elvis karaoke android in the streets of New York City. Jeff writes in to tell us about how he rescued this shattered, Westworld-looking bot from certain destruction in a trash bin. Now he's immortalizing it on film and hopes to get it working again. More »
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New York is famous as a breeding ground for monsters. With the metropolis about to get ripped to shreds on Friday in giant monster flick Cloverfield, NY's love affair with deadly, inhuman beasts is on our minds. HP Lovecraft wrote back in the 1920s that the Red Hook neighborhood was built over a vast, subterranean chamber where demons worshiped ancient monsters; and in 1933, the first King Kong movie gave the world an iconic view of a giant gorilla battling planes on top of the then-ultra-modern Empire State Building. But there are some other New York monsters you might have forgotten. We've got ten to remember. More »
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Michael Chabon reinvented the alternate-history genre with The Yiddish Policemen's Union, his novel about a world where Alaska became the Jewish homeland. So where are the great alternate histories of New York? The city's history is full of disasters and bizarre schemes that could have turned out very differently. Here are five timeline turning-points that might have erased New York as we know it forever. More »
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There's a right way and a wrong way to destroy New York, according to an expert quoted in the New York Times. The right way (like I Am Legend) is tasteful and pays homage to the city even as you crash it into rubble. The wrong way (like Cloverfield) is exploitative and brings up memories of 9/11. What on Earth is James Sanders smoking? More »
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Will the New York waterfront become a flooded nightmare or bland paradise? Two artists' renderings reveal all. The first is a collage by Japanese satirist Tsunehisa Kimura, the second a mockup for a projected waterfront park. More »
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