Best of January 2012

Brooklyn Billboard Topples Onto Expressway

author: Peter : Brooklyn, NY Saturday, January 14th, 2012

Hi-Rise Drama

author: Elicar : Sunday, January 1st, 2012

Bekonscot, England's Toy-Size Town

author: Franny Wentzel : Bekonscot, UK Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012

Gray's Papaya

author: Peter : New York, NY Wednesday, January 18th, 2012

The Coquettish Murals of Tehran

author: Reza : Tehran, Iran Wednesday, January 4th, 2012

Last Days of 2011

author: Michelle : Toronto, ON Sunday, January 1st, 2012

Big Apple Meat Market

author: Peter : New York, NY Tuesday, January 17th, 2012

Yo Rusk!

author: Peter : New York, NY Thursday, January 26th, 2012

Just RYC

author: Peter : New York, NY Monday, January 16th, 2012

IPhone BART Pics

author: joey : Oakland, CA Sunday, January 22nd, 2012

Skating Trail in Colonel Samuel Smith Park

author: Michelle : Toronto, ON Thursday, January 5th, 2012

Katsu Extinguisher

author: Peter : New York, NY Tuesday, January 24th, 2012

Fresh! Espo Flavor

author: Peter : New York, NY Sunday, January 15th, 2012

Bike Pirates in Queen West

author: Michelle : Toronto, ON Tuesday, January 31st, 2012

Jam, Hert, Atak

author: Peter : New York, NY Friday, January 27th, 2012

A Stroll in the National Garden of Tehran

author: Reza : Tehran, Iran Friday, January 20th, 2012

One Way

author: Peter : Brooklyn, NY Tuesday, January 24th, 2012

January at the Beach

author: Michelle : Toronto, ON Sunday, January 8th, 2012

Bikes at Night

author: Michelle : Toronto, ON Sunday, January 15th, 2012

Olympiazentrum Unfallhilfswagen

author: Peter : Munich, Germany Monday, January 30th, 2012

Star Metal

author: Peter : New York, NY Monday, January 23rd, 2012

Tilden Christmas

author: Peter : Queens, NY Saturday, January 28th, 2012

Citylife Brugge

author: Anderz : Brugge, Belgium Sunday, January 29th, 2012

Thai Style

author: frakt : Bangkok Tuesday, January 31st, 2012

Make Love Not Stores

author: Anderz : Brussels, Belgium Sunday, January 29th, 2012

Toynbee Idea in Movie 2001: Resurrect Dead on Planet Jupiter

author: Peter : New York, NY

We've seen Toynbee tiles on Citynoise before, but I recently spotted two more that I had never seen before yesterday in the West Village. These copycat tiles, made by "House of Hades", are located in the intersection in front of Manhattan's International Film Center theater, most likely to commemorate the documentary film about the tiles entitled "Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles" - www.resurrectdead.com House of Hades One man versus American media in society 2011 It's been fun! Toynbee Idea in movie 2001 Resurrect dead on Planet Jupiter You must make + glue tiles!!...

Brooklyn Billboard Topples Onto Expressway

author: Peter : Brooklyn, NY

An illegally placed New York Lottery billboard brought bad luck to drivers and a building in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Friday when it collapsed in high winds — partly blocking the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, knocking a hole in a body shop, severing a gas line and damaging a car, but injuring no one. cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/ . . . d-topples-onto-expressway

Hi-Rise Drama

author: Elicar :

I was walking west on College just before 3:00PM when all of a sudden, police cars were coming from everywhere, blocking the College/Bay intersection. A crowd gathered and everyone seemed to be looking up. Seeing a Citynoise opportunity, I hang around. The cops cordoned off the east side of Bay south of College and directed the onlookers, me included to the other side of Bay. It was only then when I saw what was going on. It was this man! Sweetie, what can be so bad? I actually felt bad for the guy! But he left the window, so I knew he was...

Bekonscot, England's Toy-Size Town

author: Franny Wentzel : Bekonscot, UK

Bekonscot is the oldest miniature park in the world. It was begun in the 1920s as a backyard projects and - as this May 1937 National Geographic article shows - took off from there...

Gray's Papaya

author: Peter : New York, NY

Gray's Papaya has become a bit of a New York City institution since it began in 1973. Though I'm not a big hotdog eater myself, this place serves hundreds if not thousands of standard NYC-style hotdogs a day, along with their namesake papaya drinks and fruit daiquiris. Though I haven't patronized Gray's Papaya since the mid-1990s, its nice to see that it's still there, doing the same thing its been doing all...