Kaliski & Cabay Ghost Tile in NYC

Kaliski & Cabay ghost tile spotted in Greenwich Village at 88 University Place, now the home of Scarpina Bar & Grill. I rarely see tile signs with such irregular letters, almost as if someone worked on this without a plan at all.

Elsewhere

Northside’s CoSign Initiative Could Become a National Model after Landing New Grant: awesome, awesome news for CoSign [but next time, please ask for repro rights; WTF?].

Cincinnati’s Gorgeous Attempt to Woo Visitors, Circa 1933: some of the glass mosaic murals from the Cincinnati Union Terminal currently live at CVG and will hopefully find a new home soon.

Suburban Blight in Kansas City: just that, in words and pictures.

The New York City Filming Locations of The Warriors: only one of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen on the Internet.

City Walk: The Show Is Afoot!: a TV show about walking through cities like LA and NYC; sounds pretty cool.

Warby Parker Gets All Coney Island with New Collection of Specs: this video is a hypnotic bunch of hipster douchebaggery, set on the Coney Island boardwalk.

Animal Commuters: Strangest Creatures Found on Public Transit around the World: bizarre but kind of awesome.

Elsewhere

Cedric Michael Cox | Visual Artist: I just finished the new site for my OTR-based friend and studio neighbor; if you spot any egregious errors, please direct them to my attention.

Springtime Garden Wedding: some love for our personalized seed bomb favors.

Liberty St. “Road Diet” Advances, to Be Bid by Nov. 2014: a plan to eliminate the barrier between the Southern and Northern portions of Over-the-Rhine.

Aggregate Dialect Difference: the Cincinnati dialect is least like NYC, Newark, Jersey City, Boston, or Philly.

The Heidelberg Project: A Resilient Community Rebuilds, Again: the latest on Detroit’s Heidelberg Project after last month’s tragic fire.

Is the End Nearing for Odessa Café and Bar on Avenue A?: the end of an era for a neighborhood icon? Pretty soon I won’t even recognize my hometown.

Fake Shop Fronts Used to Make Towns Seem Neater for G8: in Northern Ireland, The Society of the Simulacrum has popped up.

Grand Central Terminal by Reed & Stem and Warren & Wetmore

Happy 100th birthday, Grand Central Terminal! Since 1913, this has been one of the most famous buildings in NYC and, according to Travel + Leisure, it is now “the world’s number six most visited tourist attraction,” attracting more than 20 million visitors each year.

Elsewhere

ArtWorks — Transforming Cincinnati: an awesome video about an awesome organization.

Not My Favorite Auto Show: at long last, Chris Glass has updated his photo blog, including a lovely shot of your favorite texting zombie.

A Little Friday Link Love: Gypsy Forest likes our 10 Seed Bombs with Slinger!

Millennium: The Central Park 5 and the Gilded City: a long-awaited must-read from LastoftheMohikanz.

40 Signs You Grew Up in Brooklyn: #14 is L’Amour, the rock capital of Brooklyn, natch.

Great Art in Ugly Rooms: Dan Flavin above a toilet! Jean-Michel Basquiat in a fast-food restaurant! Cindy Sherman in a laundromat! WTF?

The Smiths — A Tribute: “The Smiths’ discography, based on the Manchester tram map.” Love, love, love…

Elsewhere

$5M Gift to Fund Construction of Iconic Carousel at Smale Riverfront Park: downtown Cincinnati is getting its own Jane’s Carousel; pretty soon, I won’t even need to go back to Brooklyn to break out in artisanal hipster hives.

Theres a Question Mark Hanging Over the Apostrophes Future : on apostrophes in place names.

Historic Real Estate: The Charming Houses Seeking Relocation Edition: I’ll take the Art Nouveau charmer for $1, please.

Why Gentrification?: why indeed.

Nyorkers: a series of short documentaries on the lives of New Yorkers.

Politicians Furious over Bronx Bus Company’s ‘Ghetto’ Tour: WTF.

Bridge-and-Tunnel ‘Poser Hipsters’ Clog Williamsburg Bars, Locals Complain: flipsters, LOL!

City Dwellers by Mark Hadjipateras

City Dwellers (for Costas and Maro) by Mark Hadjipateras is a series of glass mosaics located in the 28th St. subway station in NYC. The cartoonish images reference the nearby Flatiron Building and Toy Center, as well as the flower, fur, and garment districts.

Elsewhere

Cincinnati Expands, Streamlines Mobile Food Vending Zone Program: more inexpensive food options are coming to the basin.

How to Resurrect an Urban School District: for all your breeders out there, an article about Cincinnati Public Schools.

Stories from the Pendleton Art Center: the fascinating history of the “World’s Largest Collection of Artists Under One Roof” that’s found right in Over-the-Rhine.

Brooklyn, the Remix: A Hip-Hop Tour: yes.

The Fight against Small Apartments: in Seattle, the micro apartment is considered the new SRO by NIMBYs.

Top Urbanists Agree: Casinos Ruin Cities: excellent analysis by The Urbanophile on a recent kind of urban blight.

Artists Announce They’ve Found All the Beauty They Can in Urban Decay: LOL, speaking of urban blight…

Tomorrow Land by Micah Ganske

Cheshire, OH by Micah Ganske

The painter and sculptor Micah Ganske was born in Honolulu and now lives in NYC, where he has been working on Tomorrow Land, a series of dystopian acrylic paintings of the shadows of “aspirational technology” on depressed or abandoned industrial locations.

Elsewhere

Cincinnati’s Radioactive Subway Tunnels: okay, they’re not radioactive, but do check them out.

Heidelberg Project House Burns, Arson Suspected in Fire of Detroit Art Installation of Tyree Guyton: tragic news about the Heidelberg Project in Detroit.

Fire at the Heidelberg Project Is a Snapshot of Presence: a lovely write-up about this sad turn of events.

The Golden Age of Gondolas Might Be Just Around the Corner: what the?

A 70-Year-Old Documentary About Cities Shows We Haven’t Come Very Far: wow.

How I Became a Hipster: Brooklyn-exploring link bait.

A ‘Whom Do You Hang With?’ Map of America: tracking the circulation of dollar bills.