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Return of Roaring Kitty Sends Meme Stocks Into Chaos

GameStop, AMC, and Trump Media surged on Monday as a tweet from r/wallstreetbets' most popular Redditor signaled a return to meme stock mania.

Current Status of WallStreetBets’s GameStop Run: 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀

The current scoreboard on the Reddit meme stock war here. Reddit: 1, Hedge Fund Antagonists: 0. Citron Capital and Melvin Capital—the latter, the main loser in the massive inflation of GameStock prices, thanks to the subreddit WallStreetBets—have reportedly pulled out of their short positions in GameStock. Meaning that the hedge funds have accepted the losses…

Photo Essay: NYC’s Incredible Christmas Tree Seller Subculture

The Friday night after Thanksgiving is when all the little forests pop up around the city. Most Christmas tree outlets—bodegas, parks, supermarkets, and big-box stores—have a team that comes in to set up wooden display racks, while electricians wire up lights to a generator and a truck drops off Fraser Firs to sell the next…

How 70 Year Old Machines Make Chrome’s Tough, Cheap Sneakers

Cycling outfitter Chrome Industries makes solid gear that’s designed to last even the hardest rider for the long haul. To make its super tough new sneakers, it picked up 86 World War II boot making machines from Slovakia. The $85 Forged Rubber shoes they make will kick the crap out of your Chucks. The 70-year-old…

The Left Coast Lifter sits docked in Hudson Harbor after its trip through the Panama Canal, coming to New York from San Francisco. Nearly 30 stories tall and able to lift up to 1,900 tons, the Left Coast Lifter now waits for construction work on The New NY Bridge to begin. [Photo by Nicholas Stango]

At 351 Keap Street, in Brooklyn, a married couple built an entire apartment out of five shipping containers for $50,000. The home is built on a lot that’s only 20 feet wide and 40 feet deep, and you can watch a video about its construction here.

Tour the Hidden Art Gallery on the High Line’s Last Unfinished Stretch

It’s easy to forget that beyond the tourist- and greenery-covered High Line, there are still 300 yards of old, rusting train track. This last patch of decaying NYC railway will soon be turned into the final stretch of the super-successful park—but for now, they’re home to a little-known outdoor gallery. Right now, the trail is…

Brooks Cambium Review: Never Break In a Bike Saddle Again

Ask any cyclist: Racing saddles are uncomfortable. Especially for the first few months, when they feel like pieces of wood. But Brooks, the venerable British saddle maker, wants to change that with Cambium, a new saddle that arrives already broken in—without any of the normal torture. Your more sensitive parts (read: your crotch) will thank…

Tour a Secret Art Show Inside a Condemned NYC Apartment Building

Last week, as New York City suffered through blistering cold temperatures, 43 street artists were secretly painting three entire floors of a soon-to-be-demolished apartment building. We got to visit during an exclusive, two-hour show on Friday night. The show, called Surplus Candy, was the brainchild of street artist Hanksy. I spoke with Hanksy’s manager about…

A Tour of the Largest Commingled Recycling Plant in the U.S.

As of last month, New York City’s Sunset Park waterfront is home to the largest commingle recycling facility in the nation. After its inaugural run on opening day, the facility shut down for some final tweaks and testing before it opens full time. During this period of maintenance, Gizmodo visited the new facility for a…

Field Test: The Nikon Coolpix A Is a Perfect Photojournalism Compact

I’ve been using the Coolpix A on every assignment I’ve done for the past two weeks, like this one, and I think it’s the best pocket camera available for a professional photographer. https://gizmodo.com/photo-essay-nycs-incredible-christmas-tree-seller-subc-1477360202 To be fair, the Ricoh GR is still the best for what it costs at $680, but if you’re simply looking for…

Step Inside the U.S. Military’s Advanced Weapons R&D Mini-City

Picatinny Arsenal is considered its own municipality by the New Jersey State government—which makes sense, given its 6,500 acre property. The difference between it and a normal town is that, inside Picatinny, nearly 2,500 engineers and scientists work with advanced weapons systems, military-grade 3D printers, and enough ammunition for multiple branches of the U.S. military.…

Construction workers use custom-cut wood paneling as a mold for pouring concrete as they re-side an underpass of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.

Scratch Your Own Drawing Into This Giant Virtual Moon

Only 12 people have ever made a mark on the surface of the Moon, but a new project by Olafur Eliasson and Ai Weiwei is inviting everyone on the internet to make a mark on the big wheel of cheese—or its digital equivalent, at least. The project, called Moon, is an interactive website where anyone…

Inside the Hidden NYC Clocktower Gallery’s Grand Finale

Even though the Clocktower Gallery has been around since 1972, you might never have known it was even there. It resides in the top two floors of a government-owned building in Tribeca, which is just part of the odd story of how this alternative art space has operated through the years. Now it is hosting…

This Drive-In Theater Uses Junk Cars As Audience Seating

You might miss Empire Drive-In if you don’t know it’s there. This theater looks like the average junkyard, full of old cars and salvaged wood. Yet on nights and weekends, it transforms into a one-of-a-kind movie theater with a twist: The junked cars are the seats. On Saturday I payed a visit to the Empire…

This Aerial of New York Makes One WTC Look Like the Eye of Sauron

When James Kastner took off from Newark International Airport he had no idea he’d soon be taking such an incredible photo of One World Trade Center. On his way to Miami, Kastner noticed the perfect moment to capture a photo of the sun shining perfectly isolated on the tower. The image captures a beautiful two-toned…

Tour the Restoration of a Grand 138-Year-Old Brooklyn Bank

Odds are good that if you live in the area, you’ve walked by the the closed Williamsburgh Savings Bank and wondered what’s inside. Located just over the Williamsburg Bridge, at 175 Broadway, in Brooklyn, New York, the Beaux-Arts sty building hails from a time when banks were grand, church-like spaces. And now, after years of…

Here’s the Second Hidden Piece In Banksy’s “Secret” NYC Street Show

Banksy, the mysterious (er, kind of mysterious) British street artist who popularized stencils in the 2000s, is in New York this month to stage a 30-day exhibit that takes place entirely on the streets. His first piece, yesterday, has already been painted over. But we were able to locate today’s feature, which is hidden below…

Every Museum Should Have a Flying RC Sailboat as a Sign

The minimal facade of The New Museum has been host to some wild installations since it opened in 2007—ranging from a sign reading “HELL, YES!” to a giant long-stemmed rose. Today, workers finished installing the museum’s latest outdoor sculpture: A 30-foot-high remote controlled ship by artist Chris Burden. The sculpture—one of many similar ships Burden…