a Google Maps view of NYC, centered on Central Park Google Maps has started displaying subway stops (with the names of the lines that serve each each stop) in New York City. Clearly this is a work in progress (full building outlines are available only in some parts of Manhattan and Brooklyn, and some subway stops currently list only one of the multiple trains that serve the stop). Still, this is excellent news not only for natives but also for tourists (whose only subway-map reference may be the significantly, sometimes radically "not to scale" version put out by the MTA).
posted by allterrainbrain
on Feb 9, 2007 -
46 comments
Like old cheese and vomit, mixed with dog food ... Halitosis and aged cabbage ... Rank Swiss cheese ... Sour milk ... Pee in the air every day ... Like an open corpse ... Like a musty homeless person decomposing in musky homeless person urine ... Caramel with a slight undertone of mildly rank underarm ... Rodenticide. It's Gawker's
New York City Subway Smell Map.
posted by Urban Hermit
on Sep 26, 2006 -
17 comments
A Disgusting Practice Vanishes With the Token "Officially, the crime is classified as theft of Transit Authority property. But among transit police officers it is more accurately and less delicately known as
token sucking. Unfortunately for everyone involved, it is exactly what it sounds like." (Originally from NYT. More
here.)
posted by Artifice_Eternity
on Apr 28, 2003 -
18 comments
Style Wars the 1983 graffiti, breakdancing and
hip hop culture proto-documentary 20 years later comes out from obscure, grainy, 5th hand bootlegs and into the
21st Century. This funky white boy is excited. (Be sure you check out some of the
other links from the NPR site!)
posted by Pollomacho
on Apr 25, 2003 -
9 comments
