Awesome New York

Casey Neistat and Jesse Wellens of BGvsGF counted on the recent snowstorm to dump tons of powder on New York City so they could pull off this film. The whole thing is surreal. The behind-the-scenes is equally entertaining.

We think of New York City as being crowded with humans, but the city is teeming with critters too, and they’ve gotta eat. We’ve already seen a rat trying to take home a slice of pizza, and now we’ve got a squirrel who has a thing for Shake Shack.

BMX rider Nigel Sylvester takes us on a breakneck ride through New York City, offering an enveloping first-person perspective of the Big Apple. The audio mix is just as impressive as the visuals. And yes, that was Jackie Cruz from Orange Is the New Black. (Thanks, Flex!)

Inspired by architectural elements of New York City’s NoMad Hotel, these gorgeous bespoke playing cards from Theory11 have a distressed look, and intricate line-art jokers. Each box is gold embossed and has a State of New York seal.

For Improv Everywhere’s latest urban prank, they took advantage of the humid and oppressive Summer heat in a NYC subway station to turn it into a spa, complete with sauna and massage tables. We can imagine no place less relaxing.

(NSFW: Language) New York City is packed with dozens of neighborhoods, each with its own unique charm and character. Slacktory’s Nick Douglas takes us on a walking tour of areas even seasoned New Yorkers have never heard of.

We can barely catch two green lights in a row, but driver Tim Burke managed to take advantage of New York City’s timed traffic grid in the wee hours of the morning, and caught an astounding 55 lights in a row. Now try this at rush hour.

Another day, another snowstorm on the East Coast. Doing his best to make lemonade from New York City’s snow-covered lemons, Casey Neistat decided to bust out his snowboard and take it for a little ride through the slush.

While you could go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art or MoMA, if you’re looking for a NYC museum you can get through in minutes, not hours, check out Museum, a tiny Chinatown exhibit space featuring everyday curiosities.

(NSFW: Language) Ah, Gotham. If you can make it here, you’ll make it anywhere. Or get lambasted by a random stranger while practicing your musical instrument. This is why we love New York. (Thanks Disco Chicken!)

The New York Times introduces us to Brent Weingard, a professional window cleaner who’s been hanging precariously from the sides of buildings for more than 35 years. And yes, he does worry about dropping stuff on us.

Filmmaker Nicolas Doldinger captured this awesomely smooth fly-over footage around New York City using his GoPro Hero3 camera, attached to a Zenmuse H3-SD Gimbal mounted to a DJI Phantom quadcopter. We want more.

Improv Everywhere confuses and amuses New York Subway passengers once again, this time setting up a late night talk show on a random subway car. Though it might have been more entertaining without pants.

The final (and highest) piece on the One World Trade Center building was recently installed and recorded in this inspiring, yet vertiginous video shot with a GoPro camera. It’s nine minutes-long, but the views are amazing.

We like Samuel Orr’s four minute time-lapse because 1) the film was dynamically distilled from 100,000+ photos; and, frankly, 2) it’s fun to see 24 hours unfold in the greatest city in the world.

Belief’s clever skate deck is decorated to look like a New York subway car, and includes a marker and stickers you can use to tag it with your own custom graffiti – without fear of the MTA cops.

Casey Neistat shot this eye-opening video of the devastation by riding bikes around NYC right in the midst of last week’s monster storm. He had to edit it at a Starbucks due to the power outage.

As Red Bull promised, here is footage of David Coulthard driving through the 1.5mi Lincoln Tunnel from the New Jersey side to New York and back in an F1 car. It sounded like gigantic mosquitoes.

Every time we’ve been through NYC’s Lincoln Tunnel, it’s a parking lot, so we can only imagine that F1 driver David Coulthard sped through in the middle of the night when he hit it at 190mph.

New York’s 36 Street Subway Station is like any other big city underground stop – except for one thing – its staircase has one wonky step that’s tiny bit taller than the rest, making everyone trip on it.

A time-lapse look back at the last 7 years of construction of the new tower at One World Trade Center as it starts from nothing and just this week became the tallest building in New York.

(NSFW: Language) A scuffle breaks out between riders on the New York subway when a vigilante hero intervenes to break things up. Is it The Dark Knight? Nope, just some guy and his snack food.

In a quest for common decency, Casey Neistat conducts a social experiment by stealing bicycles in broad daylight in the middle of New York City in the hopes that somebody will give a damn.