Great Big Story
Harvesting Guitars From the Bones of New York City
Discover the artistry of Rick Kelly, a master guitar maker at Carmine Street Guitars, who breathes new life into music by crafting guitars from reclaimed lumber, including wood from old New York City buildings and 200-year-old trees....
TED Talks
Janette Sadik-Khan: New York's streets? Not so mean any more
In this funny and thought-provoking talk, Janette Sadik-Khan, transportation commissioner of New York City, shares projects that have reshaped street life in the 5 boroughs, including pedestrian zones in Times Square, high-performance...
TED Talks
Ben Wellington: How we found the worst place to park in New York City -- using big data
City agencies have access to a wealth of data and statistics reflecting every part of urban life. But as data analyst Ben Wellington suggests in this entertaining talk, sometimes they just don't know what to do with it. He shows how a...
National Geographic
Ants Help Clean New York City By Eating Your Food Scraps | One Strange Rock
Former astronaut Mike Massimino describes how ants help clean the streets of New York City by eating our discarded food scraps in this deleted scene from National Geographic's One Strange Rock. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe...
Weatherthings
Water Smart: The Sun, Water Cycle, & Climate - Quiz
The Sun, Water Cycle, & Climate shows us how the sun produces heat to drive the water cycle. It's made clear that the water cycle continues in the absence of sunlight or heat. We learn how the two components of climate- temperature and...
TED Talks
Eric Sanderson: New York -- before the City
400 years after Hudson found New York harbor, Eric Sanderson shares how he made a 3D map of Mannahatta's fascinating pre-city ecology of hills, rivers, wildlife -- accurate down to the block -- when Times Square was a wetland and you...
SciShow Kids
Meet the 5 Dwarf Planets!
Jessi introduces you to some of the most newly-named members of the solar system: the five dwarf planets!
TED Talks
Ben Katchor: Comics of bygone New York
In this captivating talk from the TED archive, cartoonist Ben Katchor reads from his comic strips. These perceptive, surreal stories find the profound hopes and foibles of history (and modern New York) preserved in objects like light...
The March of Time
Rockefeller Center mail
MOT 1937: ROCKEFELLER CENTER MAIL: (POV behind) Mail clerk man delivering mail to Rockefeller Foundation executive offices African-American receptionist. CU Letters envelopes being sorted addressed to John D. Rockefeller. New York City NYC
The March of Time
1939: ROCKEFELLER CENTER: HA WS Various New York City skyscrapers including RCA Building in Manhattan. WS Various people walking along 5th Avenue. VS Plaza, building, lettering 'Time & Life Building.' ('30 Rock', today GE Building)
MOT 1939: ROCKEFELLER CENTER: HA WS Various New York City skyscrapers including RCA Building in Manhattan. WS Various people walking along 5th Avenue. VS Plaza, building, lettering 'Time & Life Building.' ('30 Rock', today GE Building)
National Geographic
United by Ping Pong, These Players Find Community in a New York Park | Short Film Showcase
A powerful look at how outdoor ping pong tables, set up in the heart of New York City, are welcoming players from all walks of life. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe ➡ Get More Short Film Showcase:...
All Ears English
Bonus: Celebrities of New York City with Kate from City Talk
City Talk is an online ESL tutoring program that focuses on the needs of adult Taiwanese English learners.
Wonderscape
Eleanor Roosevelt: From Advocate to First Lady of New York
Discover how Eleanor Roosevelt transitioned from volunteering and advocacy work to becoming an influential figure in politics alongside her husband, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Learn about her efforts during World War I, her role in...
Tate
Ai Weiwei on New York City | TateShots
In this weeks Tate Shots, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei talks about the time he spent as a young man living in New York and the 10,000 photographs he took documenting his life and the city. The film was shot and edited by the director Alison...
Curated Video
No Major Cities: Why So Few Canadians Live In On The East Coast
Much like the United States, Canada's first European settlements began on its east coast. But where many of the US's first settlements would eventually emerge as major population centers such as Boston, New York City, and Philadelphia,...
Curated Video
The Founding Father and the Huppah
Returning to the Phillips’ family story, Rabbi Soloveichik recounts the occasion of the marriage of Jonas’ daughter Rachel and the founding father who attended her wedding.
TED Talks
Kate Orff: Reviving New York's rivers -- with oysters!
Architect Kate Orff sees the oyster as an agent of urban change. Bundled into beds and sunk into city rivers, oysters slurp up pollution and make legendarily dirty waters clean -- thus driving even more innovation in "oyster-tecture."...
Curated Video
Exploring New York's Rattiest Park with a Rodentologist
Since the first European colonists set foot in Manhattan in the 1600s, New York City has been losing the war on rats. A recent estimate put the number of rats at around 2 million, about a quarter of the city’s human population, and any...
Curated Video
Ever New...New York, 1962
A film about changes in New York City and the building of the Equitable Life Assurance Co building in 1962. To purchase a clean DVD or digital download of this film for personal home use or educational use contact us at...
The March of Time
People traffic city life
MOT 1939: NEW YORK CITY: HA Traffic on busy street. People crossing cobbled street traffic stopped BG. INT Crowded office many women working card boxes. INT Upscale department store.
The Guardian
Writing wrongs: the pioneering New York prison program transforming lives
In the Bronx, the Prison Writes program provides therapeutic writing workshops for people trying to get back on their feet after incarceration. Humberto, 16, is trying to get back into school after a period in Rikers Island prison....
ProTeachersVideo
Primary Writing Starters - 9/11 New York
This unique KS2 English lesson starter focuses on pupils' written and spoken responses to the events surrounding 9/11 in New York. Watch this unique KS2 pupil resource to prompt writing in response to current news events that are often...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Why should you read Edgar Allan Poe? - Scott Peeples
The prisoner strapped under a descending pendulum blade. A raven who refuses to leave the narrator's chamber. A beating heart buried under the floorboards. Poe's macabre and innovative stories of gothic horror have left a timeless mark...
Curated Video
34 NEW STATES: Why Every Major U.S. City Should Be Its Own State, But Never Will Be
Hawaii was the last state to be admitted to the Union, all the way back in 1959. But since then the country has grown by more than 150 million Americans, the vast majority of which have migrated to the major cities of the country....