On a 2009 summer day, Becky Cooper, then a junior at Harvard, walked with a friend the length of Broadway in Manhattan, from Marble Hill in the Bronx (which is actually a part of Manhattan; seriously, ...

We once covered the amazing book Mapping Manhattan in which Becky Cooper collected people’s memory maps of Manhattan as she walked the length of Broadway. We also showed you the artist Olek, who ...

Cartographic excellence can sometimes come second to visual storytelling. “Maps and memories are bound together; a little as songs and love affairs are,” writes Adam Gopnik in the preface to ...

Earlier this week, Ephemeral New York posted an image of the first known map of Manhattan, the 1660 Castello Plan. It shows a charming little settlement with canals along Broad Street and a real ...

As we all know, real estate prices just keep on rising in Manhattan. And to whom are developers turning to find the prime location for their next high rise condos? Gas stations. Historically, gas ...

If you solemnly swear that you are up to no good, and you happen to spend most of your time in Manhattan below the mid-90s, then you will appreciate this Raspberry Pi-based Manhattan Marauder’s Map.