Earlier this year, Sen. Eric Adams started a "Stop the Sag" campaign, putting up billboards across Brooklyn encouraging teens to stop looking like fools with their pants on the ground. It was an unconventionally proactive advertising campaign, whose impact was hard to judge. But the sagging epidemic caught the attention of at least one Harlem inventor, who created a device to help regulate sag with mathematical precision. more ›

One positive addition to Coney Island recently took place, as Councilman Domenic M. Recchia Jr. dedicated the corner of Stillwell and Mermaid Avenues to Granville T. Woods Way. Woods not only invented some of the technology that keeps the subways running, but he also helped bring us the roller coaster -- an invention he debuted at Coney Island in the summer of 1909. A little bit more about the man:

In 1887, he patented the Synchronous Multiplex Railway Telegraph, which allowed communications between train stations from moving trains. Granville T. Woods' invention made it possible for trains to communicate with the station and with other trains so they knew exactly where they were at all times. more ›