Despite last weekend’s shooting surge in New York, the city is still experiencing a 23% drop in gun victims over this time last year.

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Artist decorates New York City intersections with signs documenting rappers’ quotes about those intersections.

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Two filmmakers document the lives of New York’s “canners,” the people who collect bottles and cans for their redemption value.

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NYC exterminators know where the rats moved after Sandy: out of the subways and into apartment walls.

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Big pictures of New York City’s Grand Central Terminal, the country’s most beautiful train station.

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Clocks in Grand Central are deliberately one minute late, resulting in the fewest slips, trips, and falls of any station in the country.

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Photos of Manhattan’s Lower East Side from both 1980 and 2010. 

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WNYC continues its profiles of children killed in 2012 by gunfire in New York City.

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