In NYC, the median number of floors, in all boroughs except Manhattan: 2 The median zoning Floor-Area-Ratio in the city: 1.0 But buildings close to transit can be tall, right? No! 452K lots out of 890K are within 0.5 miles of mass transit. Median FAR for these lots: 2.1

Both of these banks across the street from each other in Fort Greene have a handful of parking spaces. It's a surprising use of space. I don't know how to find parking spaces like this in existing NYC data sets, but I'd like to map out this kind of surface parking. (430 Myrtle & 164 Clinton Ave)

Yeahhhh!

empty.nyc The perfect complement to Potential.NYC @adrianparsons.com is the creator!

I built a "minimum viable PNG" generator during my batch @recurse.com. Just pushed up my work: github.com/adrianparson... `pngcheck` says my little 1x1px image is valid (it's not, but close).

Spent a few hours at the Manhattan Criminal Court observing an attempted murder trial and some arraignments. It was incredibly fascinating and surprisingly dramatic. The courtrooms were basically empty. I'm surprised more people don't sit in on trials given the popularity of True Crime documentaries

Christo and Jeanne-Claude (2026)

Watching this adorable video of a sleeper bus trip through Japan I did not expect the creator to apologize for their "fat feet". www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1sx...

TIL about Vexillological symbols en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vexillo...

Mapbox GL JS v3.21.0 github.com/mapbox/mapbo... "Add first-class support for PMTiles via the new TileProvider API and an official plugin (``mapbox-gl-pmtiles-provider.js`) that loads on demand."

McMaster-Carr catalog in HAMLET (2000)

I always thought it would be fun to add gambling to @marcos.ac's metromadness.nyc concept. I am just tickled by bahn.bet, where users can bet (fake money) on German rail delays.

It’s time to reassess what Chicago does with its vacant land, especially when we are the middle of a housing crisis. @abundanthousingil.bsky.social #chicago #illinois #urbanism #vote #election

Awesome coats of arms (of countries) that feature animals: The Anguilla dolphins are my favorite so far. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of...

Wrote a new blog post with some data and lots of links.

I took to the web to find the model of car the protagonists drove in the 1998 movie RONIN. I did not expect to find a list of every. single. car. in the movie with associated screen captures. www.imcdb.org/m122690.html The Internet Movie Car Database is peak internet. (It was an Audi S8)

The US military conducted an operation on Jan 3 to capture President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela. Bellingcat geolocated videos of helicopters involved in the raid, piecing together potential movements of the assault force

I just learned about the Smith chart en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_c...

MILLENNIALS ASSEMBLE for the New Years anthem youtu.be/G1xs47bX928?...

Random, but kind of interesting that honda.com has an expired TLS cert

Overheard at NYC Systems Coffee Club this morning: “I’ve done… ‘crimes’ in Python”

. @aaronpierron.com just launched dontblunder.com, a super cool site for getting better at chess. You get a mid-game chess board, make a move, then get a score (as well as see the optimal move). HN thread: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4577...

Halloween is the absolute best holiday. First of all, it's not religious, so there's no obligation to travel to celebrate with family. Especially because it's not religious, it doesn't matter when it's celebrated. Halloween basically lasts for 10 days.

conversely, deploys are inherently good. deploying is greasing the wheels of your living breathing system. you want deploys to be as easy and natural as breathing

I read the first three words as “post-food critic” which got me thinking about the implications. Do they write about Soylent flavors?

A while back I had the idea to create a font of logos of the companies in the Fortune 500. I dug into it to see how hard it would be and... have a font with a single logo.

TIL the ampersand symbol evolved from the Latin word "et" (means "and"). You can still kind of see the "e" and "t" combined in it. Here's the modern symbol next to an older "et" ligature. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampersand

lol I love this. From the go docs: "If you must read the rest of this document to understand the behavior of your program, you are being too clever. Don't be clever." go.dev/ref/mem#:~:t....

Updated empty.nyc with data from all 5 boroughs.

I'm impressed with the maniacal obsession and commitment to the niche exhibited by @sportslogos.net www.sportslogos.net/teams/list_b...

posted a few new photos: adrian.photos

Sweet, there are LIDAR scans of NYC I accidentally hit the backtick key while playing around on roadview.planninglabs.nyc/view/-73.988... and BOOM, LIDAR. No idea what to do with this, but it's cool.

I kind of got obsessed with tracking down this cool logo I saw as a kid at the Deutsches Museum in Bonn, Germany. I remembered the two figures floating in front of a sea of buttons, switches, and other computer-y things.

I’m mapping out the empty lots of NYC using open data. Starting with Manhattan! emptylots.adrianparsons.com

Hell yeah en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...