NYC in stop-motion animation
Warning -- This video is trippy. (Gothamist)

Too many New Yorkers think they're the next Top Chef
Applications to the Culinary Institute of America are up 50 percent over the last six years. (New York Post)

Banks afraid to set up shop in the Bronx?
You can walk for one mile and not find a single bank in certain sections of the Bronx. (NY Times)


People in the 19th century lost some weird stuff
Found: excerpts from the Lost and Found column of the April 12, 1867, edition of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Man offers $25 for clues to whereabouts of missing gray squirrel. Seriously. (The Virtual Dime Museum)






A Katz's corned beef sandwich packs 4,490 mg of sodium
That's nearly the equivalent of 10 McDonald's hamburgers. Click here to have the enjoyment of more of your favorite foods ruined. (NY Times)