​Summer is great, isn't it? When the mercury rises, nothing beats pouring a cool glass of H20, watching the sprinklers overwater your lawn, or just taking a 3-hour shower. Unfortunately, this kind of behavior, combined with the heat itself, is doing a number on our nation's water piping. CNN reports on this growing problem, saying, "The EPA estimated that between 2007 and 2027, drinking water utilities will have to invest $334 billion on new infrastructure." You may want to rethink running your Slip 'n Slide all night.

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This may not be signage, technically, but it's so uniquely colored that we have to say something about it.

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Crack problem: Tenants next door to construction of Museum for African Art can feel their whole world falling apart.

When Charlie Rangel, Eliot Spitzer, David Paterson and other bigwigs broke ground on Fifth Avenue for the new Museum for African Art in September 2007, they didn't know that their shovels would cause such damage.

Tenants living next door, scared by a huge and ominous five-story-high crack in their apartment building, have filed suit in housing court, saying the museum construction poses a threat to their lives.

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​Tonight NYU, the Dread Pirate Roberts of Greenwich Village, will unveil its 25-year growth plans at an open house at the Kimmel Center, reports Crain's New York. The gist?

The school will be going underground, digging deeper at Washington Square Village, the residential complex at the southern end of La Guardia Place between Wooster and Greene, to create academic space below what's currently a parking lot. Which is kind of cool (imagine whole buildings and communities underground some hundred years from now) and kind of creeptacular -- half mad scientist's lair/half classroom for moles, or a daytime hangout for vampires.

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