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We challenged readers to identify where this peace of art can be seen:
Did anyone guess it right? The fence is part of a larger mural at the Centro de La Paz (Center for Peace); motivating ghetto youth. 124th Street between Second and Third Avenues.
As featured in:
The New York Nobody Knows
Walking 6,000 Miles in the City
William B. HelmreichRead chapter 1: http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/s10060.pdf
Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound…
Where in NYC does Superman fly?
As featured in:
The New York Nobody Knows
Walking 6,000 Miles in the City
William B. HelmreichRead chapter 1: http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/s10060.pdf
These are the best-selling books for the past week.
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Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit by Charles W. Calomiris & Stephen H. Haber |
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The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility by Gregory Clark |
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Rare Birds of North America by Steve Howell, Ian Lewington, and Will Russell |
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The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger by Marc Levinson |
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Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age by W. Bernard Carlson |
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Beautiful Geometry by Eli Maor and Eugen Jost |
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The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality by Angus Deaton |
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The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking by Edward Burger and Michael Starbird |
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The Dollar Trap: How the U.S. Dollar Tightened Its Grip on Global Finance by Eswar S. Prasad |
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The Founder’s Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup by Noam Wasserman |
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