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The Drinkers Guide to New York

cedar — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 08:10:34 -0800

If you're celebrating St. Patrick's Day or March Madness in New York, the State Liquor Authority can help plan your festivities with this handy guide to every establishment in the state of New York licensed to sell alcohol.

"... LAMP, the NYS Liquor Authority Mapping Project... is a web-based Geographic Information System (GIS) allowing users to search, visualize and analyze licensing data with respect to other relevant geographic data."

You can use layers to filter the data by type of license, proximity to schools and churches along with pulling up the licensee data and violation history. You can use the measuring tool to plan routes and satellite imagery to scope out parking.

The durable Mike Malloy

reenum — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:46:27 -0800

In 1933, Anthony Marino, Joe Murphy, Frank Pasqua and Dan Kriesberg decided to make money by taking out life insurance on drunks and then letting the victims drink themselves to death. Then they encountered Mike Malloy...

Time In A Bottle

reenum — Wed, 25 May 2011 18:11:00 -0800

Before his death, Mickey Mantle spoke to Sports Illustrated about the effect that alcoholism had on his life and career. Here is a single page version of the article.

Can we get drunk?

thanatogenous — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 18:46:29 -0800

Idiotarod. The Iditarod is the famous long-distance race in which yelping dogs tow a sled across Alaska. Our Idiotarod is pretty much the same thing, except that instead of dogs, it's people, instead of sleds, it's shopping carts, and instead of Alaska it's New York City.

MetaFilter posts tagged with alcohol and NewYork

The Drinkers Guide to New York

The durable Mike Malloy

Time In A Bottle

*Can we get drunk?*

Can we get drunk?