Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-14
Know Your Block: A Walking History Museum
A free NYC walking companion that maps 289 honorary street names and tells the stories behind them.
Why it surfacedKnow Your Block turns overlooked street signs into a physical collection: read each story anywhere, then stand within about 40 meters of the sign to stamp it as visited. Its Elizabeth Jennings example shows the app’s premise at human scale, connecting one quiet Lower Manhattan block to a landmark case in streetcar desegregation.
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The Largest Cat Has No Number
August 14’s newborn domains include an unnumbered giant among thirteen catalogued glossy cats, a shareable Visual Snow Syndrome simulator, two independent Colombian relief directories, and a snail farm with races, courtship, and its own Gazette.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-14 Domain Arrivals issue.