MoMA Selling Iwan Baan’s Haunting Half-Dark NYC Photo for Hurricane Sandy Relief

MoMA Selling Iwan Baan’s Haunting Half-Dark NYC Photo for Hurricane Sandy Relief

If you were one of the many New Yorkers touched by Iwan Baan’s haunting, half-dark image of post-Sandy Manhattan, the Museum of Modern Art is now offering you a chance to own a copy of your very own. The emotion-stirring image first graced the cover of New

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Floor of MoMA to Be Dusted in Real Yellow Pollen

Floor of MoMA to Be Dusted in Real Yellow Pollen

In just a few weeks, the Museum of Modern Art’s Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium will look something like the inside of a honey bee’s dream. Conceptualized by artist Wolfgang Laib, Pollen from Hazelnut will dust the floor of the space with a coating

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Miniature NYC Landmarks Made of Plants Pop Up at the NYBG Holiday Train Show

Miniature NYC Landmarks Made of Plants Pop Up at the NYBG Holiday Train Show

Images © Ralph Mendoza

Each year the New York Botanical Garden's Holiday Train Show delights children of all ages, and this year’s exhibition has even more miniature trains and landmark replicas then ever before. The intricate organic models designed by Paul Busse and Applied Imagination transform materials like twigs, leaves, bark and other plants into New York’s most iconic buildings and sites. Flip through our gallery to see some of our favorite pint-sized attractions like Yankee Stadium and the Brooklyn Bridge.

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Skylights Dumbo is a Pavilion That Channels Light Pollution into a Star Map of New York

Skylights Dumbo is a Pavilion That Channels Light Pollution into a Star Map of New York

Visitors to Brooklyn’s Dumbo Arts Festival back in October experienced a sculptural installation that brought the night sky a little closer. Called Skylights Dumbo, the site-specific pavilion harnessed ambient light to cast constellations inside of it. Reusing the illumination coming from Brooklyn Bridge Park at night, the wooden sculpture created a star map of New York on the dome's ceiling.

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Top 6 Inhabitat NYC Stories of 2012 – Vote for Your Favorite!

Top 6 Inhabitat NYC Stories of 2012 – Vote for Your Favorite!

As we get ready to ring in 2013, we took a look back at our most popular NYC stories from the past 12 months. We saw everything from the good (phone booths repurposed into miniature libraries) to the bad (Hurricane Sandy crippling our city) to the just plain

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2013 New Year’s Eve Ball Will Illuminate Times Square with 32,256 LED Lights

2013 New Year’s Eve Ball Will Illuminate Times Square with 32,256 LED Lights

Contrary to all the 12-21-12 hullabaloo, it looks as though the world will still be here for 2013, and New York is planning to welcome the new year with a dazzling LED display. Tonight's Times Square New Year's Eve celebration will once again showcase the world-famous ball-drop, and the 2013 ball will be illuminated with 32,256 energy-efficient Philips LED lights. Just like with the Empire State Building's new LED system, the New Year's Eve ball will be capable of shining in millions of vibrant colors for a spectacular kaleidoscope effect atop One Times Square.

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Discarded Christmas Trees Hung Under BQE as Life-Size Pine Air Fresheners

Discarded Christmas Trees Hung Under BQE as Life-Size Pine Air Fresheners

Now that Christmas is over, the streets of New York are littered with sad, dried out Christmas trees. Wanting to do an installation with dead evergreens for some time, artist Michael Neff took inspiration from the stacks of trees on the streets of North Brooklyn and created a swaying, pine-scented public installation under the BQE at the highly trafficked intersection of Metropolitan Avenue and North 6th Street.

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10 Awesome Gifts That Aid Hurricane Sandy Relief

10 Awesome Gifts That Aid Hurricane Sandy Relief

This holiday season, why not give back to the city you love by buying gifts that help aid those affected by Hurricane Sandy? A bevy of retailers and designers are offering New York-centric goodies that directly support victims of the superstorm that ripped through the boroughs just over a month ago. Not only do these awesome wares help make a positive impact on the lives of fellow New Yorkers, they're also unique things that your friends and family will love.

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UM Project Uses Hurricane Sandy Debris to Make Beautiful Lamps

UM Project Uses Hurricane Sandy Debris to Make Beautiful Lamps

UM Project’s Après Collection was designed as part of Reclaim NYC, an initiative to create furniture and other artwork out of Hurricane Sandy debris. The collection of three lamps and three vessels was made from salvaged parts, recycled and remnant materials, and donated supplies from New York area businesses that were hit hard by the storm. The work will be part of the Reclaim NYC fundraiser auction to raise money for those affected by the storm, which will be held at Ligne Roset’s SoHo showroom tonight from 7-9 p.m. So if you're still looking for some holiday gifts please stop by!

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PHOTOS: The Event of a Thread Invites New Yorkers to Play on 42 Dangling Swings

PHOTOS: The Event of a Thread Invites New Yorkers to Play on 42 Dangling Swings

Swings have taken over the historic Park Avenue Armory! A new installation by artist Ann Hamilton has transformed the cavernous space into a beautiful interactive piece called “The Event of a Thread” where visitors are invited to play on forty-two dangling swings throughout the space which manipulate an enormous hanging piece of fabric. The effect is a majestic ripple that flows through the curtain like a wave.

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PHOTOS: Woman Bakes Entire Block of Brooklyn Brownstone Homes Out of Gingerbread

PHOTOS: Woman Bakes Entire Block of Brooklyn Brownstone Homes Out of Gingerbread

NYC may have run out of brownstone but that doesn't mean we can't substitute it with something more abundant and certainly more delicious - gingerbread! Meticulously crafted to have all the charm of the real thing, "Gingerbread Brooklyn" is an entire block of edible brownstone and other kinds of homes baked up by chef Renee Baumann and friends to be auctioned off to benefit City Harvest. We recently had the pleasure of visiting this miniature architectural wonder at 61 Local and were enchanted by its details - from sugar-glass windows that really light up to tiny fire escapes made of spicy cookie. Click through our gallery to see them all for yourself.

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Have You Seen This Gingerbread Version of the Infamous 57th St. Dangling Hurri-Crane?

Have You Seen This Gingerbread Version of the Infamous 57th St. Dangling Hurri-Crane?

Rather than going with the more traditional gingerbread house, Norma, the bakery at Le Parker Meridien hotel, decided to create a spectacle specific to NYC for City Harvest’s Gingerbread Extravaganza. The pastry chefs looked to their immediate memories and decided to pay tribute to the infamous giant construction crane that dangled precariously over 57th St. during Hurricane Sandy. Complete with a street scene of concerned gingerbread men and women, the candy Hurri-Crane could nab the winning vote in this year's contest.

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PHOTOS: 6 Wonders of the World Made of Gingerbread Showcased at Le Parker Meridien

PHOTOS: 6 Wonders of the World Made of Gingerbread Showcased at Le Parker Meridien

City Harvest’s 2012 Gingerbread Extravaganza has transformed the beautiful entryway of iconic midtown hotel Le Parker Meridien into the most delicious lobby in town. This year’s theme is Landmarks of the World, and local bakers have cooked up a gingerbread whirlwind of global landmarks. From a gingerbread Lincoln Memorial to a gingerbread Great Sphinx, visitors can vote on their favorite designs for a chance to win a vacation at the Parker Palm Springs in California.

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Design and Print Your Own 3D Holiday Gifts at the 3DEA Pop Up Shop in NYC

Design and Print Your Own 3D Holiday Gifts at the 3DEA Pop Up Shop in NYC

If making your own holiday presents seems more daunting then darling, you probably haven’t stopped by Openhouse’s new 3DEA Shop! Launched in collaboration with Shapeways, UP! and Ultimaker, the holiday shop is a 3D-printing dream where customers can design and print gifts right on-site. With a slew of 3D printers and computers at the ready, visitors can print everything from jewelry to chairs right before their very eyes!

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Gabriel Orozco Transforms Coastal Trash into a Colorful Art Installation at the Guggenheim

Gabriel Orozco Transforms Coastal Trash into a Colorful Art Installation at the Guggenheim

Gabriel Orozco’s new installation at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum shows visitors how the chaos of garbage can be tamed into something quite beautiful. Asterisms is a sculptural and photographic installation of found objects that the artist collected from a coastal biosphere and a playing field. After photographing each object, Orozco arranged the trash into a colorful and organized installation.

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Global Rainbow Laser Light Show Lights Up NYC Sky for Hurricane Sandy Victims

Global Rainbow Laser Light Show Lights Up NYC Sky for Hurricane Sandy Victims

If you were looking up at the NYC night sky on Tuesday, you might have seen a rainbow. Called Global Rainbow, After the Storm, the huge laser light show stretched over the city skyline as a shining symbol of hope and a call to support to the victims of Hurricane

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Empire State Building Lights Up the Night with a Psychedelic LED Light Show Set to Alicia Keys

Empire State Building Lights Up the Night with a Psychedelic LED Light Show Set to Alicia Keys

When the Empire State Building got an LED makeover a few months ago, we were excited for its increased energy efficiency, but we had no idea what creative possibilities the new bulbs could bring! Last night, New Yorkers (and some Jersey-ites) were treated

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Barbara Keal’s Cruelty-Free Faux Animal Art is a Thought-Provoking Spectacle at Anthropologie

Barbara Keal’s Cruelty-Free Faux Animal Art is a Thought-Provoking Spectacle at Anthropologie

Rockefeller Center’s Anthropologie may be a retail outpost, but it's also a place to find imaginative eco-friendly and recycled art. Recently, the popular store became home to a new exhibition by husband and wife team Barbara and Richard Keal. The modest space was transformed into an urban cabin escape filled with salvaged wood furniture by Richard and adorned by Barbara’s thought-provoking, cruelty-free hats that look like animal skins but aren't.

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Gingerbread Brooklyn: Entire Block of Tasty Edible Brownstones Will be Auctioned Off for Charity

Gingerbread Brooklyn: Entire Block of Tasty Edible Brownstones Will be Auctioned Off for Charity

Last year, baker Renee Baumann’s epic gingerbread brownstone paid delicious homage to Brooklyn’s most recognizable homes. This year, the designer and chef is aiming even higher with a plan to create an entire block of yummy edible brownstones for charity!

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MakerBot NYC Unveils 3D Photo Booth That Can Print Sculptures of Your Face

MakerBot NYC Unveils 3D Photo Booth That Can Print Sculptures of Your Face

Novelty photo booths can be found at many establishments in New York, but there's only one in the entire city that can 3D print your face. NoHo’s new MakerBot Store opened quietly earlier this fall, but the 3D-printing retailer recently made a big announcement about its revolutionary 3D portrait booth! Visitors can now step into the booth and get a 3D replica of their own faces made right in the store using the ShapeShot MakerBot machine.

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This Year’s Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree is Locally-Sourced from New Jersey and Lit with LED Lights

This Year’s Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree is Locally-Sourced from New Jersey and Lit with LED Lights

The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree lighting is a holiday spectacle viewed around the world and this year's event will be greener than ever. Not only is the beautiful 2012 tree locally-sourced from New Jersey, it will also be illuminated by 30,000 glittering, solar-powered LED lights.

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Pillowy Cloud Made of 53,780 Plastic Bottles Chosen as 2013 FIGMENT Festival Pavilion

Pillowy Cloud Made of 53,780 Plastic Bottles Chosen as 2013 FIGMENT Festival Pavilion

The next FIGMENT Festival on Governors Island may not be until 2013, but plans for the weekend-long celebration of participatory art are already underway. Each year, the festival calls on designers and architects to design a pavilion for the island out of recycled materials, and it looks like they now have a winner! After several months of deliberation, Jason Klimoski and Lesley Chang’s “Head in the Clouds” pavilion made of salvaged plastic bottles and jugs was chosen to be realized for next year’s fest.

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Make a Teeny Tiny Edible Sushi High Line for Thanksgiving

Make a Teeny Tiny Edible Sushi High Line for Thanksgiving

Cornucopias are cool, but if you really want to blow your Thanksgiving guests away this year, let them feast their eyes on an incredible edible High Line park-themed centerpiece. If you love the High Line (and what New Yorker doesn't?), you can craft your very own miniature version of the celebrated elevated park using recycled sushi boxes, chopsticks and some of your favorite T-day foods like stuffing and mashed potatoes. Hit the jump to check out our DIY tutorial and more pics of this awesome example of foodscape architecture!

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Buy a FEED “Sandy Relief” Hoodie, Provide 25 Meals for New Yorkers in Need

Buy a FEED “Sandy Relief” Hoodie, Provide 25 Meals for New Yorkers in Need

The Hurricane Sandy relief effort is far from over, and FEED Projects is doing its part to chip in with its new “FEED NYC for Sandy Relief” collection of hoodies and tote bags, which benefit New Yorkers who are still struggling to find their footing

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PHOTOS: Don’t Miss Your Last Chance to See the Pop-Up Peace and Quiet Pavilion in Times Square

PHOTOS: Don’t Miss Your Last Chance to See the Pop-Up Peace and Quiet Pavilion in Times Square

Have you ever wanted to talk to a veteran or thank them, but felt funny just walking up to them out of nowhere? Matter Practice has eliminated that apprehension with their unassuming Peace and Quiet pavilion in Times Square. The curious pop-up shed invites civilians to take a load off and engage in story telling by recent and past veterans - all in the middle of bustling Times Square. The pavilion offers a place of respite, while giving regular folks a chance to understand what it's like to experience war on the front lines.

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