What do you do if you see potholes or broken street lights in your neighborhood? You find out who is the civic authority concerned and then email them, or maybe visit their office. CitySourced aims to speed up this process by helping you report civic problems in your neighborhood through your cellphone quickly and easily [...]
Numbers don’t lie, but it can be very hard to figure out what they mean. Google Public Data Explorer seeks to clarify trends by letting you explore them in a variety of ways: graphs, maps and animations, to name a few. As the service’s name implies, all information used is freely available information compiled from [...]
With all the restaraunts in New York City it can be hard to keep up. If you suspect one of your friend’s favorite Chinese places has a little trouble staying within the city’s health codes, SporkNYC can tell you the past two years of health code violations of any New York City eatery. SporkNYC gets [...]
Find A Grave is a website where you can search and locate the final resting place of your relatives, ancestors, friends and well known individuals. The website has an extensive database with over 27 millions names. Some records even incude photos, biography and dates. You can search cemetery records by name, date of death or [...]