Five of the Smallest Rental Apartments in America

Gawker.com highlights Five of the Smallest Rental Apartments in America. The smallest apartment on the list is a 100 square feet unit located on New York’s Upper West Side. The apartment has no windows (only a sky light) and the foot of the bed cozies up to the shower stall. The cost of rent is $1000 per month.

Churchill has spacious short-term corporate housing available in New York City and other cities Nationwide. Please contact us at 866-255-0593 or NewYork@FurnishedHousing.com for more information.

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Google Maps for Android now offers 3D buildings in 16 new cities

BGR.com is reporting that Google Maps for Android now offers 3D buildings in London, Paris, 16 other cities.

“Google announced on Tuesday that it has added support for 3D buildings in 13 additional cities on Google Maps, including London, Paris, Barcelona, Stockholm, Singapore, Lisbon, Boulder, and 11 cities in South Africa. Until Tuesday, the feature was available in just a handful of other metropolitan areas, including New York, Milan, and Zurich. To activate 3D buildings in one of the aforementioned locations, simply zoom in close to the city and the application will then show a 3D renders of the city landscape. A software update is not required if you already have the latest version of Google Maps installed on a device running Android 2.0 or newer.”

Google currently has 3D maps of the following cities in the United States:

Boston, MA
New Orleans, LA
New York, NY
Chicago, IL
San Francisco, CA

Churchill has short-term apartment rentals nationwide. Please call us at 866-255-0593 for more info.

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Free things to do this summer in 10 world-class cities

Matadornetwork.com has compiled a list of Free things to do this summer in 10 world-class cities. The 3 US cities listed include New York, San Francisco, Miami. The events are listed below.

New York

Celebrate Brooklyn!OK. Technically it’s not free. It’s $3 (although, if you don’t believe in karma or supporting the arts, you could just walk right in). Held in Prospect Park, several times a week they have world-renowned artists and also movies.

The New York Philharmonic is putting on a free concert to commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11 on Saturday, September 10 at Avery Fisher Hall.

Free yoga and tai chi classes in Bryant Park every Tuesday and Thursday all throughout summer.

San Francisco

Film Night in the Park. Free movies in various parks around San Francisco through September.

Jewels in the Square has live music, dance, and movies. Wednesdays at 12:30 and 6, and Sundays at 2 in Union Square Park.

If you’re looking to learn some dance, Dancing Under the Stars is for you. Held every Friday until August 26 from 8:30 – 10pm at Jack London Square.

Miami

The 2nd annual FAME (Fashion, Art, Music, and Entertainment) event goes down August 5 from 7pm to 1am at Doral Park. Local talent is on showcase here, so go support them.

>How fun would this be. The 3rd annual Great Grove Bed Race is happening Labor Day weekend on September 4. Between 11am and 5pm, watch as participants roll beds down the streets in Coconut Grove.

Churchill has short-term rental apartments throughout Florida. Please contact us at 866-255-0593 or email Florida@furnishedhousing.com for more information.

Toothpick Sculpture of San Francisco

Scott Weaver, a San Francisco based artist has created an abstract toothpick sculpture of San Francisco called “Rolling through the bay“. Weaver spent approximately 3,000 hours over the course of 3 years and 100,000 of toothpicks to create the sculpture. It also features four ping pong ball paths that roll through different landmarks of San Francisco.

Churchill has short-term apartment rentals nationwide. Please call us at 866-255-0593 for more info.

Courtesy of rollingthroughthebay.com

Eight World Cities and How Much They Cost to Live In

Matadornetwork.com has an interesting article about Eight World Cities and How Much They Cost to Live In. The article features cities like San Francisco, USA; Salta, Argentina; Vancouver, Canada; Cairo, Egypt; La Linea de la Concepcion, Spain; Chiang Mai, Thailand; Ulsan, South Korea; and Melbourne, Australia. A major takeaway is that San Francisco, Vancouver and Melbourne have some of the highest rent in the world while the cost is similar around the world except for Cairo, where the price is significantly less.

Churchill has short-term apartment rentals nationwide. Please call us at 866-255-0593 for more info.

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America’s Worst Commutes

AOL has published a list of  America’s Worst Commutes based on GPS and smartphone tracking data from a company called INRIX. The list contains 20 of the worst commutes. The top 5 worst commutes are:

5. Bruckner/Cross Bronx Expressways (I-95 southbound) in New York
4. I-95 southbound in Washington DC
3. California Delta Highway/Calif. Highway 4 westbound in San Francisco
2. Lunalilo Freeway/I-1 eastbound in Honolulu
1. Riverside Freeway/Calif. Highway 91 eastbound in Los Angeles

Churchill has short-term apartment rentals nationwide. Please call us at 866-255-0593 for more info.

The 10 Most Flirtatious Cities in America

Theatlantic.com published the list of 10 Most Flirtatious Cities in America as measured online. The list was based on the findings at Badoo, a multi-lingual social networking site with more than 100 million registered users in 180 countries around the world. To determine which cities across the country were hotbeds of Internet activity, Badoo looked at 12 million flirtatious contacts — defined by the researchers as chats initiated with strangers – made during a one-month period.

The 10 most flirtatious cities in America are:
1. Miami
2. Boston
3. San Francisco
4. Tampa (Tied)
4. New York (Tied)
6. Orlando
7. Los Angeles
8. Houston
9. Chicago
10. Phoenix

Churchill has short-term corporate housing available in these flirtatious cities and Nationwide. Please contact us at 866-255-0593 or National@FurnishedHousing.com for more information.

Courtesy of theatlantic.com

What Happens if You Combine a Hundred Tourist Photos?

Gawker.com has highlighted Swiss artist Corinne Vionnet who creates art from overlaying hundreds of snapshots of tourist locations found on the Internet. The result is famed landmarks appear to float gently in a dream-like haze of blue sky, and photographs start to look like oil paintings. Below are some of our favorites:

Courtesy of corinnevionnet.com

Courtesy of corinnevionnet.com

Churchill has short-term temporary housing available Nationwide. Please contact us at 866-255-0593 or National@FurnishedHousing.com for more information.

 

New York’s 82 Most Notable Burgers

Grub Street has put together The Burger Registry, highlighting the best burgers in major cities like New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Boston. The New York Burger Registry features 82 of the best burger joints in the 5 boroughs. Some of our favorite New York burgers are from 5 Napkin Burger, Balthazar, Fanelli’s, and Shake Shack.

Churchill has short-term corporate housing available in New York City andNationwide. Please contact us at 866-255-0593 orNewYork@FurnishedHousing.com for more information.

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The Coolest Bike Food Carts Around the Globe

Planetgreen.com has a sideshow of The Coolest Bike Food Carts Around the Globe. Highlights include the Hopworks Bike, a complete wooden bar with sound system built for Hopworks Urban Brewing in Portland, Magic Curry Man‘s tofu cart operating out of the Bay Area and the Bike Basket Pie bike in San Francisco.

Churchill has short-term corporate housing available Nationwide. Please contact us at 866-255-0593 or National@FurnishedHousing.com for more information.

Courtesy of bikebasketpies.com