New York
Sunday Evening Map: Neighborhoods of Brooklyn
I was reading the Wikipedia entry on Stuyvesant Heights, Brooklyn, when I came across the section describing the meandering border. I decided to quickly throw it into Google Maps to see what it would look like…. and then just kept going. Like with all maps of neighborhoods this map generalizes the borders to some extent and excludes some micro-hoods to keep things simple. There is always some overlap and argument but I decided just to use the most widely held definitions of the borders. I really made this because all online mapping services don’t really do a good job of defining neighborhoods (Google, what the hell is “Adelphi”? No one in Brooklyn calls it that.) Download this and use it whenever anyone asks where a particular ‘hood is.
Miru Kim at TED
Miru Kim is a New York based artist who is famous for doing urban exploration in the nude (which she explains in this TED video). I remember the first time I saw her work was right after I explored the former Revere Sugar Factory in Red Hook, Brooklyn. I saw the nude pics [...]
Market Hotel Pics
Went to the ToddP line up last night of Soft Circle, Teengirl Fantasy, These Are Powers, and Telepathe. I wasn’t a big fan of TAP until I saw them. They have a real primal beat to them that can only be experienced live. Telepathe I have seen once before and they sound [...]
21st Century City: A New Geography
There is a great article in the March 2009 edition of The Atlantic by Richard Florida entitled “How the Crash Will Reshape America“. The article looks at how certain cities, notably New York, Charlotte, Detroit, and Las Vegas, have been shaped by the development patterns of the last 50 years and where the cities [...]
