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'Soul Train' fans pay tribute to Don Cornelius @ Times Square NYC.

New York City's subway system didn't always have a Massimo Vignelli-designed map (published by the MTA between 1974 and 1979), and the ones that came before it were surprisingly just as gorgeous (well, if you avoid the late '60s). You can revisit a massive collection of subway system maps right here—and click through for some of our favorites, dating back to the beginning, 1904. (h/t to Brooklyn Based, for Tweeting this 1955 map)

'Steel Mill Worker', Pittsburgh 1955 Otra de las fotos de la exposición de W. Eugene Smith (Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona: W. Eugene Smith Archive / Gift of the artist © The Heirs of W. Eugene Smith, courtesy Black Star, Inc., New York)

As a first-generation migrant in the United States, the demographics of the Occupy Wall Street Protest intrigues me just enough to notice that there are no conspicuous migrant populations protesting. Where in the so-called masses representing the 99% of America are the East-Asians and South-Asians from Asia? The West-African women from Africa or the Eastern-European men from Europe? This to me is a primary indicator of how heterogeneous the Occupy Wall Street campaign is in a locale as glaringly diverse as New York City in a nation built at the hands of migrant labour.

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architectural ideas that never took hold or were never completed in New York City.

Pigeon Footprint Found in Snow, 2008 Found on Minetta Lane, New York City

Birds Eye View Map Of New York

Does representation ever become the reality?

Both iPads offer an immersive reading experience. I found myself jumping back and forth between my book and the Web, looking up old facts and pictures of New York City. I also found myself being sucked into the wormhole of the Internet and a few games of Angry Birds rather than reading my book.

At The New York Times, our software engineers, journalists, product managers and designers are constantly striving to create new and innovative ways to present news and information and interact with our readers. Yet it's often difficult to try out new inventions on the world's largest newspaper Web site. That's why we created beta620, a new home for experimental projects from Times developers — and a place for anyone to suggest and collaborate on new ideas and new products.

Last summer, Sacha Goldberger decided he would take on a very interesting project. He assembled a team who helped him create an outdoor studio at Bois de Boulogne, a park located near Paris that's 2 1/2 times the size of New York's Central Park. He stopped joggers, asking them for a favor - would they sprint for him and then pose right after for his camera? Many obliged. Out of breath, these joggers showed an overwhelming amount of fatigue on their faces.

To be in Silicon Valley is to be completely immersed in technology. The building, the pushing, the hacking, the designing, the iterating, the testing, the acquisitions, the funding — it is everywhere and wholly inescapable. Here is a culture and place that emerged seemingly from nothing, and yet over the last 50 years it has developed a mythology deep and inspiring and all its own.