This is great, one small amendment, the MTA kiosks in JFK do not sell multi day passes, at least as of 2014, the last time I traveled to NY without living here. A good hack: Go to little tiny convenience vender right next to the swarmed kiosks and buy a 7 day pass from him. He’ll also sell you the $1 AirTrain pass…

SMS messages, phone calls, plain http requests and any other unencrypted communications.

SMS messages and phone calls.

The lead animation is poorly chosen — that's not gentrification. It's literally an empty landscape filled in with new buildings. (The Mission Bay neighborhood.) That's just construction.