Don’t Eat At is an app for mobile phones that helps users check if they should eat at the restaurant they are planning to go to. The app currently works only in New York City, and uses the Health Department’s graded inspection scores as the benchmark for deciding if the restaurant is fit for the [...]
Traffic jams are time consuming and frustrating. In NYC more than half of the jams result from a lack of parking spots. A great solution to this is presented by Roadify. Roadify is a free web service that helps NYC residents find parking space. The spots are updated by the site’s own members. In exchange [...]
StreetEasy lets you search apartment sales and rentals in New York City and surrounding areas including Hamptons and North Jersey. Like many other apartment search engines it lets you search and filter results by price, apartment type, # of bedrooms, region and view results on a map. Moreover, it lets you search by additional criteria [...]
BestParking is a handy site that allows drivers to compare and find cheap parking in NYC, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Washington DC, and all major airports. It can show both short-term and long-term parking rates for more then 3,000 parking garages run by different parking operators. You can search for parking by [...]
RideTheCity lets you find the safest and shortest bike route between any two points in New York City. Unlike other mapping applications such as MapQuest or Google Maps, RideTheCity only includes the roads that are meant for biking and tries to find a route that maximizes the use of bike lanes and greenways. To find [...]
The “Restaurants” section of the New York Magazine has a comprehensive coverage of over 3600 restaurants and bars in New York city profiled on its website. Now you can view all these reviewed restaurants on Google Maps using NYCFoodMap. Using this NYC restaurants map application you can browse restaurants in different neighborhoods, filter them by [...]
TriptropNYC is useful tool for New York residents and visitors. It is a travel time map application which lets you find out how long it takes to get from one place to another in New York City. All you have to do is enter an address and click the ‘Map it’ button, TriptropNYC will then [...]
If you’re a frequent cab taker and live in NewYork then TaxiMe has something for you. It’s a Google Maps mashup that helps you calculate (estimate) how much your taxi cab fare will cost. Quick and convenient. At the moment TaxiMe’s taxi fare calculator works only for New York city. To estimate the fare for [...]
2itch.com is a super handy Google Maps mashup website where you can quickly lookup 24 hour open stores and businesses for major US cities. No registration needed. To locate all nearby 24 hour open stores, simply go to the website, enter your zip code and click “Go” button. Next you should be presented with an [...]