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Craft Fair Vendors: On the Road for the Holiday Season
This year’s One of a Kind Show in New York City showcased the work of more than 200 vendors of handmade goods—and while there are certainly hundreds of crafters in the tri-state area, these folks came from far and wide.
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Posted in Multimedia Deadline, Multimedia Web Tool, Uncategorized
Tagged crafts, holidays, map, retail, sale
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Immigrants Assimilate with a New York Accent (Hold the Cawfee)
Jeffrey Davis uses stage and linguistics training to help people who are self-conscious about their accents play the part of native speakers, and he’s found that the downturn in the economy has driven more and more people to want to brush up on their nasals and fricatives. Continue reading
Posted in Audio
Tagged accent, assimilation, business, economy, immigration
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New York’s Annoying Fundraisers Annoy, Raise Funds
Hypothesis confirmed! Street fundraisers are, in fact, annoying New York. But before you get all “d’uh” — data collected over the past two weeks also suggest that peskiness has little to do with their success or lack thereof. Continue reading
Posted in Survey Analysis
Tagged analysis, annoyance, charts, fundraising, graphs, on the street, results, survey
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Survey: NYC Street Fundraisers (and the People Who Hate/Love/Feel Ambivalent About Them)
Help me find out who is giving to those beclipboarded street fundraisers, which of them, and why. This quick survey should only take two minutes of your time. Continue reading
Posted in Survey
Tagged causes, charity, clipboards, fundraising, money, on the street, sidewalk, survey
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A Cab-tive Audience
But given the high level of ambivalence about taxi TV, the loss of the “off” button, even for the precious few seconds until someone comes on to shill for NBC, is a subtle but significant insult to one of the last bastions of quiet privacy in New York City. What kind of programming would make you happy to watch the taxi TV? Continue reading
Posted in Ask a Question
Tagged cabs, loss of autonomy, pests, taxi, taxi tv, TLC, transportation
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Hear This: Experience New York at the Volume *You* Prefer
As of May 2010, more people—2,098,288, to be exact—had called 311 to complain about noise than about anything else. But, as nice as it is to have a good whine, the peskiest sounds in the city do have solutions. Continue reading