An interesting/puzzling find: 671 parcels in NYC that according to public data... do not have owners!? Dan Lu (holistudio.github.io) came across this recently. The "Owner" field on NYC Planning's site is also missing.
Adrian Parsons
@adrianparsons.com
Software Engineer searching for next thing. Previously at Capsule8→Sophos, Etsy, and Meetup Mapping vacant lots at empty.nyc
NEW POST! 🏙️ The landscape of NYC changes so much that the New York City Office of Technology and Innovation updates a dataset of building footprint shapes weekly. I can’t believe this is the first NYC dataset I have written about. www.beautifulpublicdata.com/the-footprin...
By far the best placard I've seen in NYC. Potentially the only acceptable one. paging @placardabuse.bsky.social
Who do you think pays more in property tax, the owner of this recently sold five-story Bed-Stuy brownstone (top)? Or this tiny one-bedroom Bed-Stuy condo (bottom)?
You can always tell a Linux Man — neither seen nor heard (in the Zoom meeting)
Woah. I did not realize that we had autonomous drone ships that CAN CARRY PEOPLE www.reuters.com/world/middle...
What is the sea drone that rescued US helicopter crew?
The Saronic Corsair is part of the Pentagon's push to expand unmanned vehicles.
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Agreed, it was super cool. Here's @ecalifornica.bsky.social talking about ATProto and @outerweb.org
tyler@tylergaw.com · 2mo agoLast night's @atproto.nyc was really fun. Everyone is up to so many different things with ATProto, it's exciting. Funniest thing someone said the whole night: "Do you remember Google Wave?"
checked in at @atproto.nyc - June 2026 [dw0xxpuk] #atprotonyc
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)
empty.nyc The perfect complement to Potential.NYC @adrianparsons.com is the creator!
🗽 NYC Empty Lots
empty.nyc
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).
GitHub - adrianparsons/minimumviablepng
Contribute to adrianparsons/minimumviablepng development by creating an account on GitHub.
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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
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...
Vexillological symbol - Wikipedia
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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."
Release v3.21.0 · mapbox/mapbox-gl-js
Features and improvements ✨ Introduce the TileProvider API, a mechanism for extending GL JS with custom vector tile providers. Add first-class support for PMTiles via the new TileProvider API and ...
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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.
BahnBet — Bet on German Train Delays
Prediction markets on Deutsche Bahn departure delays
bahn.bet
Awesome coats of arms (of countries) that feature animals: The Anguilla dolphins are my favorite so far. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of...
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)
IMCDb.org: "Ronin, 1998": cars, bikes, trucks and other vehicles
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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
