See a Map Made Entirely from Trash at BRIC’s Mapping Brooklyn Exhibit
Jennifer Maravillas spent three years of working on a map made of collected trash from Brooklyn, now on display at BRIC Arts Center in Mapping Brooklyn.
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Fun Maps: Someone Knitted a 14 Foot Map of Manhattan
In Santa Wolanczyk’s piece, Knitted Manhattan, she has knitted a 14 foot map of Manhattan, distorting the NYC borough to mirror the process of memory.
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Fun Maps: NYC Community Air Survey Indicates We Have Clean Air But Moving to Staten Island Could Be Good Idea
NYC Community Air Survey, part of PlaNYC, reports an overall drop in pollutants, with the cleanest air in 50 years. Still, moving to Staten Island could be a good idea.
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Fun Maps: Where Do Drones Fly in New York?
Check out these maps included in the COA applications of organizations that want to fly drones over New York.
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Fun Maps: Do Richer Neighborhoods in NYC Have Better Playgrounds?
This map by Tobias Salinger, “Rich Playground/Poor Playground: How Neighborhood Disparities are Reflected in NYC Parks”, plots the quality of NYC playgrounds
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Fun Maps: NYC Subway Stations That Have Wi-Fi and Cell Service
Map from WNYC shows the subway stations in NYC that have wireless and/or wifi. Commenters take the opportunity to bash the MTA.
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Fun Maps: This is the Oldest Map of NYC in the NYPL Digital Map Gallery
The oldest map in the New York Public Library’s Digital Gallery is a Dutch map of New York City from the 17th century called The Manatus map, Castello Copy.
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Fun Maps: Mmmm…New York and Other City Income Donuts
Bill Rankin tests the “donut” hypothesis, that a city will create concentric rings of wealth and poverty by mapping 25 metropolitan cities in the United States.
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Closing of Torah Animal World Museum in Brooklyn Which Displays Every Animal from the Bible
Amazingly, there are 3 locations for the Torah Animal World museum, which is a taxidermy museum claiming to display every animal mentioned in the Hebrew Bible
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Fun Maps: 71 Square Miles is a 10×10 Map of Brooklyn Made Entirely of Garbage
Jennifer Maravillas, an artist-cartographer is making a 10×10 foot map of Brooklyn entirely out of garbage she finds while walking the streets.
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Fun Maps: New York City Super Mario Style
Yes, this is an accurate, detailed map of New York City’s MTA system completely redone in the style of Super Mario Cart.
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Fun Maps: Plotting Out All the Manhattan Addresses of Law and Order Season 1
Why not plot out all of the addresses mentioned in Law and Order? This map by Dorothy Gambrell lets you pretend just a little more that the show is real
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