maps
We Are What We Eat?
Brian Moylan · 06/30/10 11:08AMThis Map Shows You How to Avoid Tourists In New York
Adrian Chen · 06/08/10 10:17PMSan Francisco Crime Map, Prostitution Edition
Jeff Neumann · 06/08/10 04:20AMNew York's New Subway Map: Now With 30% More Manhattan
Max Read · 05/28/10 01:18AMThe Easiest Places in New York to Get Cancer
Jeff Neumann · 05/11/10 05:28AMThe Great New York Oil Spill
Jeff Neumann · 05/10/10 04:37AM60th St. Bloomingdales Is Objectively The Best Place In Manhattan to Catch a Cab
Adrian Chen · 04/04/10 11:54PMSarah Palin's 2012 Map to Victory
Pareene · 02/10/10 11:09AMThis Map Will Save America
Pareene · 01/26/10 11:01AMPark Slope Is Full of Bragging College Grads
Richard Lawson · 01/18/10 04:34PMFat People Can't Get Jobs, and Unemployed People Can't Get Thin
John Cook · 12/08/09 12:14PMThe AP Layoffs, From Bismarck to Beijing
Hamilton Nolan · 11/19/09 12:10PMThe Recession Map of NoLIta: Updated
Brian Moylan · 10/22/09 01:54PMAl Franken's Stupid Political Junkie Trick
Gabriel Snyder · 09/08/09 10:40AMBoing Boing came across this recent video of Franken drawing all 48 states (of the continental U.S., geography nerds) from memory at the Minnesota State Fair, and ever the paranoid types, wondered if Franken is faking it: "it would be easy to create indented trace-lines by using a pen with no cartridge in advance." Doubtful given how long and how often Franken's been doing this trick.
Union Square: Then and Now
cityfile · 09/03/09 11:06AMThe landscape of the city changes with each passing day as retail outlets come and go and older buildings are torn down to make way for new developments. But if you want to see what NYC looked like way back in the day, the Mannahatta Project has an interactive map that allows you to zoom in on any section of Manhattan—such as Union Square, left—and then travel back in time to see what the same area looked like in 1609.
The White-Collar Criminal Tour
cityfile · 06/24/09 02:09PMYou won't be checking out the Blue Collar Comedy Tour this summer. Can we interest you in the White-Collar Criminal Tour instead? Click on the image above for the locations of a handful of white-collar crooks currently behind bars. Then all you have to do is use Google's driving directions to plot out your fun, summer road trip! (You'll have to check with each prison about visitation privileges, of course.) As you can see, it's an incomplete list. Email us at tips@cityfile.com and let us know who we're missing and we'll add them right away. [White-Collar Criminal Tour]
Magic Manhattan Maps
Hamilton Nolan · 05/05/09 03:59PMMidtown NYC Is The Home of 'Buzz!'
Hamilton Nolan · 04/07/09 11:34AMFiDi, Greenpoint Could Really Use a Sitcom
cityfile · 03/18/09 09:37AMThis map of where famous sitcoms were set—on TV, that is, not in real life—isn't the most precise thing in the world. (We're going to assume the placement of Sex and the City on the Upper East Side is because Charlotte's character lived there?) But if you're a TV location scout and you're looking to showcase an NYC neighborhood that has yet to be ruined by round-the-clock shoots and national TV exposure, it should be a good place to start. [Danmeth.com via Lisanti]