1978: The NYC Parks/New York Times Photo Project
The Arsenal Gallery in Central Park is showing a fantastic series of images taken in the '70s by NYC press photographers who were left jobless during a newspaper strike in 1978. If you want to know why public space and parks are so important and vital to a city, here's your answer. Go and see this today!
The people who make NYC Parks basketball hoops by hand
Wow! This is really neat! I had no idea that those brown/orange basketball hoops that are in many NYC Parks are made by hand right here in NYC! John Fitzgerald and a small team of workers forges every hoop by hand and installs them or replaces them if they are broken.
The New York Times did a piece on John and his team back in 2010 which you should read along with watching the video above.