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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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A stone's throw away from Manhattan, Bronx, and LaGuardia Airport sits North Brother Island, an one-time quarantine facility that housed infectious individuals like "Typhoid" Mary Mallon. The island has since been exiled from the surrounding metropolis and left to nature. More »
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Urban explorers from Undercity took their cameras down below and into NYC's century old sewer systems, abandoned subway stations, and inside the Lincoln Tunnel to see the remnants of the society of tunnel folk. Watch what they uncovered. More »
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In the early 1900s, Dr. T. Kenard Thomson proposed increasing NYC's property value by creating a land bridge between Manhattan and Brooklyn, building an island off the Jersey shore, and constructing a "New Manhattan" directly below the old one. More »
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In the 1920s, South Edgemere in Queens was a thriving summertime destination replete with bungalows and a boardwalk. Nowadays, these 20 or so unused blocks have been abandoned to seaside squatters and gangs of wild dogs. More »
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You asked for it, and now we're bringing our sonic screwdriver and some alien hordes to NYC for an io9 meetup. Charlie Jane and myself will be in New York next week, and that means all the io9 editors will be in the same city at once — so come get drunk with us and Meredith, talk shit about Batman, and plan for ways we can populate Mars. Bring robots if you have any. We're meeting next Wednesday, 5/28, at The Magician bar from 7-9 PM (that gives you at least one hour of happy hour). Free drinks to the first ten io9ers who show up. After that, you'll have to regale us with action figures or robots if you want free drinks. More »
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