The NY Sun takes a look at the city's skybridges, and their place in our future. While some cities offer the plenty of the structures to their residents (Minneapolis, we're looking at you), they are often only found in parts of the country with extreme hot or cold temperatures. Do our humid summers and frigid winters warrant more indoor walkways? Apparently we're getting less! A few existing skybridges are now in danger of being torn......

This verges on Curbed territory, but Gothamist was very intrigued by a NY Times Real Estate mini-feature about an apartment for sale. Rather, apartments for sale - two apartments in two buildings, connected by a 40-foot traverse on the Upper East Side (you can find the listing on Fenwick-Keats if you do a search - sale, Upper East Side, 1 bedroom, between $500,000-999,000). We had recently admired the much-photographed traverse on Staple Street in TriBeCa......

Depending on how you look at it, the Republican National Convention could be a good thing, because it has helped get the Post Office cleared out, what with the building of the footbridge over Eight Avenue. The footbridge allows journalists to access the Convention floor at Madison Square Garden from the media's rooms at the Farley Post Office, and Republican National Convention folks are crowing that the convention is what helped jumpstart the Post Office......

Knowing that Gothamist likes all things New York, Urban Mapping sent us the Dynamap, a map geared towards tourists that layers three kinds of maps (street map, subway map, and neighborhood map) into one. The Urban Mapping technology compounds images that are then calibrated to a "specially designed polymer lens substrate" or imagine a sophisticated hologram. You tilt the map to see neighborhoods, then tilt it a little differently to see the streets. Tilt......