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today's top stories from our friends at pitchfork

Finding a free condom in New York City is now as simple as checking your smartphone.

New York wants to launch the nation's largest bike-share without spending a dime of city money. They say new tech tools will let them earn money.

The Craigslist founder has a new mission: to "connect and protect organizations that are doing good stuff."

Governor David Patterson just put the brakes on hydraulic fracturing, that scary way of getting natural gas that's gotten popular in upstate New York.

Josh Owens, also known as Mindrelic, created this wonderfully dramatic timelapse video of his favorite corners of New York City.

A scratch-and-sniff children's book tours the scents of New York City. Find out which smells made the cut.

Times Square, Central Park, and other public places in New York are now smoke free. Is it fair?

How did Toronto become a model for multiculturalism and diversity?

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns talks to GOOD about his best drinking story, his new documentary Prohibition, and American drinking culture.

Contrary to Mayor Bloomberg's new video, new crime statistics say New York City is getting worse for homosexuals, not better.
For the past four years, the New Amsterdam Market, a gathering of local food vendors, has resided in a parking lot next to the South Street...
After major closet clean-out sessions, I usually haul my sartorial castaways to a local Housing Works thrift store where the sale of my donated...

OurGoods is a new barter network for New York creative types that helps users trade the skills or stuff they have for the ones they seek.

New Yorker Denise Vega opened her home to the activists who projected OWS images onto the Verizon building last Thursday.

This is the perfect opportunity to prove that cause marketing is not a fad but a sustainable way of doing business.
From The New York Times today, illustrator Christoph Niemann builds bits of New York out of LEGOs. Some favorites below. Full set here..

Pneumonia vaccines rolls out today across Sub-Saharan Africa, expected to save lives of children under the age of five.
Kottke just linked to some black-and-white nostalgia: century-old images of New York. They're so tactile, so soft. And they evoke this mechanistic...
"The collapse of daily print journalism will mean many things. For those of us old enough to still care about going out on a Sunday morning for...
How four Italian cities bucked the traditional urban growth model and started an international trend called Cittaslow. In the 1990s, as...

