At the Museum of the City of New York last week I saw a picture of a ’sky garage’ in their transport exhibit. I’ve looked up the new apartment building that this garage is in.

200 Eleventh Avenue, complete with ‘en-suite sky garages’ ($2.5M – $14M!!)

Each apartment comes with a ‘garage’ space so that your car can travel in the elevator and be ‘parked’ outside your front door! Imagine that!! Watch the movie on the site, it shows you how it works.

What next?!

Cafes and espresso bars in New York (& other parts of the States we’ve been) all have these coffee stations:

They’re a bit Starbucksesque but very efficient. This one at Saturdays Surf is pretty trendy done in wood like their furniture and with their skateboards all parked up as the station is fairly close to the door.

Typically, coffee stations have:

• 3 jugs milk – full fat, half fat, skim
• Bottle with pouring nozzle – contains sugar syrup
• Honey – as an alternative source of sweet I guess
• Napkins
• Lids – for every size cup
• Cardboard cup holders – for when cup is too hot to hold (technically not necessary but are required for drinkers of black or ‘regular’ coffee (i.e. drip filter)), for every size cup
• Sugar sachets – usually white, brown & sweetener
• Stirring sticks
• Straws – for iced coffees