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A Brookings Institution study reveals that New York is a great place for walking, with 21 out of 21 walkable urban places. But Washington D.C. is the most walkable on a per capita basis while New York is ranked 10th, because New York is measured as the NYC metro area, including NJ, Pennsylvania and Connecticut. The study's author, Christopher B. Leinberger, admits there are issues with the methodology, namely that walkable places are weighted the...

It's still officially the winter, so there just ten weddings announced this weekend in the NY Times. Let's get to the good stuff:

- The only two other metropolitan areas (500,000 people or more) in the country where non-white races "exceed their share of the national population" are Houston and Honolulu