iOS · SwiftUI
Above 14th Street
A curated guide to local spots north of 14th. Check in where you actually stand, earn XP, get roasted for tourist traps.
N 40.79° N · Manhattan
Kishan
Batra
Full-time analyst. Grad student working where climate meets AI policy. Weekend app-maker. This site is all three.
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▲ Street level · Union Square
Start at the greenmarket
I passed this market almost every day on my way to class at Baruch. It's still my favorite proof of a simple idea: the most sustainable city is one where you can walk to what you need — local growers, small businesses, streets built for people. That idea is what I study now, and what I build for.
Then take the stairs.
6 −45 ft · Uptown platform
What I'm working on
AI · Automation
Compliance, automated
My day job is compliance at a major streaming platform. A lot of it is building automations that handle the repetitive parts, so human attention goes where judgment is actually needed.
Research
Climate & Society
Neighborhood-scale economies as climate infrastructure. Walkable is low-carbon.
6 23 St · Lexington Av
Baruch College
Political science, with minors in business and information technology, a block off the 23 St platform. Internships along the way — a fintech startup, the Mayor's Office — taught me how the city actually runs, and how much room there is to make it run better.
D 47–50 Sts · Rockefeller Ctr
NBCUniversal
Compliance analyst on Peacock's streaming technology team. The short version: I work on what keeps a large platform trustworthy — who has access to what, and how to make those processes smarter through automation.
The summer before, I was one stop south at Paramount, on the cloud infrastructure team.
1 116 St · Broadway
Columbia
M.A. in Climate and Society at the Climate School, finishing August 2026. It's the greenmarket question at a wider scale: how communities stay livable, and who decides. Coursework runs from machine learning to data justice — the same questions I run into at work, from a different angle.
Ninety-three blocks north of where I started. Next stop: compliance, trust & safety, and AI governance work at a company that takes it seriously.
A Between stations
Notes
The best compliance work is invisible
Designing an app that punishes you for going to the wrong place
Twelve blocks, one afternoon: a walking method
W Last stop · everyone off
Say something
Tips on a spot, a job, or an argument about the best bagel above 96th — all welcome.
Manhattan schist · 450 million years old · still load-bearing
Colors borrowed from the MTA. Nothing official about it.