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Magic Manhattan Maps
This is technically called a "horizonless projection in Manhattan" but it's basically a crazy bendy map of everything from 34th street down. Cool. [Here&There. Click to enlarge]
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Comment by depardoo: This is pretty much how the City looks after two or three stiff drinks. 2 Responses | Other threads
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culture
Midtown NYC Is The Home of 'Buzz!'
If there's anyone who grasps the secrets of cultural "buzz," it's Spatial Information experts employed in academia. There's a new "Geography of Buzz" map that scientifically proves that "buzz" is centered...where events are held. More »
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Comment by Ethan Hein: One of their buzz dots is on Roosevelt Island. I lived there for many years and I love it and... 4 Responses | Other threads
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real america
North Finally Wins Civil War
Good news, Fake America—we've marginalized The South! The New York Times reports today that based on the totally conclusive 2008 election results, no longer will The South have any impact whatsoever on National Politics, and we can safely ignore them. Here, look at this map: it is the counties that voted more Republican in 2008 than in 2004, versus the counties that voted more for Barry Obama than John Kerry. As you can see, most of the country decided they liked Obama more than they liked Kerry, except for this mysterious belt in the old Confederacy that found something... unappealing about this Obama character. What's up with that? More »
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By PareeneComment by yourfriendandneighbor: East Texas figuratively sucks my noodle. 20 Responses | Other threads
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maps
The Neighborhoods Of Post-Recession New York
If NYC residents could hope for anything good to come out of this economic crisis, it would be this: the rollback of gentrification. The Observer is already writing trend stories on it, whether it happens or not! Are you worried about whether your current neighborhood will remain safe for yuppies once the economy tanks? Click through for our citywide, neighborhood-specific map showing the fate of post-recession NYC; you may not be pleased, hipsters:
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Comment by katastic: Whhooooooooo, Washington Heights! GO BACK FROM WHENCE YOU CAME, YOU PRICE-RAISING HIPSTER SCUM! 18 Responses | Other threads
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clips
Facebook adoption lags in Idaho, square states
Inside Facebook's Justin Smith used Google's Insights for Search tool to map Facebook's spread across the United States and the world. We converted a few of his slides into a time-lapse video, above, revealing how Facebook ping-ponged between the coasts before finally filling in most of the country's middle, except for a few farm states where teenagers are probably still asking "a/s/l" in AOL chatrooms or something.
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Comment by revmatty: Me too! Just so's you knows: those of us living in midwestern farm states don't have to go on line to... more » | Other threads
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video
The Imperial History of the Middle East in 90 Seconds
So, what the heck's been happening in the Middle East since the dawn of civilization five thousand years ago? Well, I don't have the time—or the knowledge—to explain it all, so watch this handy video illustrating who ruled what, and when, in just 90 war-filled seconds! More »
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Comment by dumanue: @Smitros: here is an idea, take all the cool, smart people from there to canada or australia, god knows they... more » | Other threads
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startups
Ten most densely populated technology startup regions
Google maps mashup site Startup Warrior bills itself as a tool entreprenuers can use to "find a startup job, explore your neighborhood, or decide where you should start your own company." But we feel the site is best used by wary VCs, hassled journos and cynical M&A types looking for regions to avoid. Be warned: Enter into any of the ten regions mapped below and suffer elevator pitches, pleading looks and limp handshakes at your own risk. Update: Apparently Startup Warrior didn't do much in the way of researching the actual addresses of these startups — many are listed by only by city and state, leading to clumps in central neighborhoods. More »
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Comment by ThatKid: That's not where Disqus is. Where are these addresses coming from? more » | Other threads
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the internets
Google Street View No Longer Fun
Google has announced plans to blur all the human faces in its "Street View" service, which allows you to take a virtual photographic tour of interesting places like Manhattan so that you never have to leave your dank apartment in real life. This is, in all likelihood, to prevent you from seeing any inadvertently captured interesting moments, like drug deals or people crashing their bikes. Google says ""The purpose of Street View isn't looking at people, it's looking at buildings and locations." Whatever. Somewhere on there is a picture of a Google programmer flagging down a hooker. Occam's Razor, people. [AFP]
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Comment by famousauthor: The number of viewers will immediately drop when they blur the faces. more » | Other threads
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belated discovery
Map Proves New York is Nexis of Neurosis
Just as we always suspected (we always suspect!), the nation's neurotics are concentrated on the East Coast. Richard Florida, Rise of the Creative Class author, and a team of psychologists compiled "hundreds of thousands of individual personality surveys" and found that "personality types are not spread evenly across the country. They cluster," he writes in the Boston Globe. They cluster, in fact, exactly to our preconceived regional stereotypes! After the jump, see where the other sorts of people live—the ones who are "agreeable," "open to experience," "extroverted," and "conscientious." You know, the people who think they're better than us, or whatever. More »
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By SheilaComment by backseat_driver10023: @Ciao_Bambina: Bulls-eye. Did NYC do it to us? Or we did it to NYC? more » | Other threads
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technology
The iPhone Map of the World
Did you know that there are people in certain parts of the world who have never even seen an iPhone? Fortune has helpfully mapped out the fetishized Apple product's availability. The countries where one can procure an iPhone (at least by this summer) are marked in red. (Sucks to be you, Russia!) Of course, the map does not include black-market iPhones. [Fortune]
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By SheilaComment by KatyaMoskva: I live in Moscow, and it seems like everyone here has an iPhone. Including the new president. I read that... more » | Other threads
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maps
Making New York's Subway Look Like London's
New York's subway map is a monstrosity, the worst of all possible graphical worlds, neither visually legible nor geographically accurate. For his 1972 map of the system, Massimo Vignelli at least made a clear choice: he sacrificed scale to space out the stations and the lines and present a diagram that commuters could at least read, something along the lines of London's famous tube map. Vignelli has been commissioned to update his long-lost design—for Men's Vogue, of all places, which displays the full map. (Writes Jonathan: "I'm going to print it out and then make a show of obsessively checking it on the train. People will think I'm a tourist. Then they will see it, and know I'm a time traveler.")
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By Nick DentonComment by WorthingtonThunderbird: Here's a look at the evolution of the NYC subway map, showing how it developed into Vignelli's map and why it... more » | Other threads
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Comment by meechybee: yes, it's a great neighborhood. i should know -- they forced all the small businesses out. more » | Other threads
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shut up, brooklyn
Gawker Stalker For The Ultra-Literary Set
Even if the Brooklyn Literary Scene is dead, or as Colson Whitehead put it, annoying and irrelevant, there still are a lot of writers kicking it in the borough of churches. In today's New York Observer, Fort Greene's own Doree Shafrir made an extensive list of the Brooklyn literarati, including neighborhood listings. Not to sound like an asshole, but even I didn't know about some of the writers and editors on the list. The Observer's non-college educated readership will be totally lost. More »
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By rebeccaComment by famousauthor: Why no Greenpoint? Don't famous bloggers live there? Or is it true, as Thomas Wolfe wrote, that only... more » | Other threads
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maps
New York Is Full Of Poors (Like You)
The United Way and the Community Service Society have just released a slew of demographic maps of New York City, which handily answer the question: Are The Poors in your hood? Pictured, the household income map (click to enlarge), which is perhaps most surprising for revealing that Williamsburg, despite its yuppie influx, is still broke, along with HOT HOT NEXT BIG THING neighborhoods like Bushwick, Bed-Stuy, et al. After the jump, neighborhood-specific maps of the city showing unemployment rates, immigrant populations, and "disconnected youth" who aren't working, in school, or concerned about you very much. More »
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Comment by demetria23: Sweet, I live in the only poor part of Lower Manhattan! more » | Other threads
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maps
Skinny Manhattan
Manhattan really let itself go. Here to the right is a topographic map of the upper part of the island, before the landfill that expanded its girth. (Also, why do modern maps have to be so ugly?) Click on the thumb to expand. More »
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By Nick DentonComment by demetria23: All Subway (and other) maps of the city are seriously scaled wrong. Manhattan is still skinnier than Kate Moss. more » | Other threads
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maps
The New York Media Drinking Map
Hey, remember that fun project I was doing about media haunts? Well, it's come to fruition. Click the image for a detailed map of where New York journalists drink. Now, finally, you too can drink where New York's journalists drink. Anything missing? Let us know. [Map via Gridskipper] -
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Killer Tornadoes Attack Only Clinton Country
Gawker video guru Richard Blakeley MASHED-UP two of the New York Times' interactive newsmaps: one showing the deadly path of Tuesday's tornadoes, the other showing which Democratic candidates won which states on Super Tuesday. The results: does God hate Hillary? (And note: Obama won Alabama, but Hillary won each county in that state with a recorded death from Tuesday's storms.) Click to enlarge map. [NYT, NYT]
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google
Google Suggests You Swim Across The Atlantic Ocean
You can't always rely on the advice of computers, especially when it comes to transoceanic driving directions. From Upgrade: Travel Better: [Consumerist]
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By Meg MarcoComment by RobertGoretsky: Now if only I could get it to add a waypoint through the Bermuda Triangle, we'd really be all set... Robert... more » | Other threads
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metro
New Map Shows You Just How Diverse New York Actually Is!
Thanks to the support of the good folks at the New York Times and the National Science Foundation, you can now enjoy Social Explorer's Race Map of New York City. Wondering how many Asians there were in Staten Island in 1940? The information is at your fingertips! There are plenty of other fun and functional uses for the site, and we want to congratulate the Times for its sponsorship: While they may be cutting back on the softball-related expenses, at least their reporters can now easily find out, you know, where all the black folks are at. More »
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By abalk2Comment by YourDoctrinaire: Where the 'ef is Hempstead. Shouldn't it be a big red splotch in Nassau County? more » | Other threads
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google
25 things to see at the Googleplex before you die
Google's sprawling, cheerfully dystopian campus at Mountain View may intimidate the first-time visitor. But there's no need to fear. The easy rule of thumb dictates that the most concentrated power centers gravitate toward the middle (where the engineers and their excellent cafeterias reside). But once you get past the first impressions, you'll need a little guidance. After the jump, enjoy our annotated map of 25 sights to take in across the entire Google campus before you die, and/or are killed by Google's very understanding but nevertheless lethal security forces. Dinosaurs! Pools! Massage parlors! Endless bowls of bisque! It's all here. More » -
holiday parties
Gawker's Holiday Party Guide: Clip and Save
We asked, and you answered. (We also got a little help from the the folks at the Observer). Here, in all its glory, is Gawker's Holiday Party Guide. (Click to enlarge). The full list of corresponding events is after the jump (including the location of the top secret Vogue party.) Print and use, and let us know if you get in to anything good.
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maps
Breaking: Rich People Live on Upper East Side
Now do you really need the location where Fabian Basabe keeps his unfortunate beard-bride prisoner? If so, peruse this map of Manhattan socialite homes. It's a toss-up between useless and inaccurate, but at least it doesn't track Mike Myers and his hockey stick. More »
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By Chris MohneyComment by Little Mintz Sunshine: Hey! I can't see my house from here! more » | Other threads
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metro
What's Gone Wrong in New York Today
In a short interval between panda strokes and greenmarket browsing, Gothamist launches their News Map, a Google Maps contraption that tracks raw data from emergency calls around New York. Only the most bare minimum of data, and some of the truncated call event descriptions (especially those in the "Unmapped Incidents" box) are kind of hilarious. "Shots Fired" and "Perp Search" are pretty self-explanatory, but how do the authorities handle an "Unusual Occurence" at Battery Place and West Street? Lots of outer-borough danger as well; Brooklyn sports a "Bias Attack" and "Trauma," among other unpleasantness. More »
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By Chris MohneyComment by Leon Freilich: What's in a name change? Bombay has experienced a dramatic spurt in economic growth since altering its name to Mumbai.... more » | Other threads
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meatpacking district
Rancid: The Ideal Meatpacking District
Over the course of our weeklong Meatpacking District cluster-klatch, we've outlined the problem, filled in the history, and outlined our case against quite a few of the worst local offenders. There's not much left of the old Meatpacking District, and what's left in its place today may not be that pretty to look at. Nevertheless, join us in contemplating the Meatpacking District that once was and could be again, merging our own hopes and dreams with demands sent in by readers. Fully annotated retro-futurist map after the jump.
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By Chris MohneyComment by Leon Freilich: STATUS OPTIONS Dad's giving retirement a trial To see if it's a joy unalloyed; If not, then after a... more » | Other threads
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meatpacking district
Meatpacking District: The New Flesh
You may recall that we kicked off our little foray into assassinating the Meatpacking District with a simple map of the area. One thing that always amazes us is how small the neighborhood is — just a handful of blocks really, but such concentrated evil. That said, and despite all rumors to the contrary, our mission here at Gawker is ultimately redemptive. Sure, we're trying to dissuade those people who still swarm the Meatpacking District from ever doing so again, and there's a certain appeal in the idea of quarantining it behind high walls and razor wire, cutting it adrift from Manhattan, paving it over with creosote, etc. But surely there are more constructive solutions. More »
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By Chris MohneyComment by Aatom: Bring back J's hangout. The last of the great tranny/cocaine/handjob dungeons. more » | Other threads
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meatpacking district
Hit Piece: Meatpacking District
No one in New York needs to be told to stay away from the Meatpacking District, that little slice o' damnation by the Hudson just below 14th Street. Why, then, does the place continue to pulse like Sodom, Gomorrah, and the Las Vegas Strip all rolled into a giant distasteful enchilada? The obvious answer — especially if you spend time there — is that the Meatpacking District is increasingly populated by tourists hailing not just from outside Manhattan, but outside New York, or even outside New Jersey. Of course, there's still plenty of local lookie-loos and eager guidos who call the Meatpacking District their second home most every weekend night. They don't even realize that most of their brethren have already moved eastward to befoul what's left of Rivington Street. Therefore, as a public service, we're passing along the only message worth hearing about the Meatpacking District: Stay away. Get out. Don't go. It's that simple. All this week, we'll beat this drum till it carries beyond Manhattan, to the ears that most need to hear the warning.
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By Chris MohneyComment by avid: I think we're starting to get an idea what this Gawker book is going to look like. more » | Other threads
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maps
LES: Ghetto Fabulous
Apparently produced for the 1939 World's Fair, this "panoramic" map of New York has a weird perspective, both visual and historical. Various neighborhoods, landmarks, and structures are noted (the McGraw-Hill building gets a shout-out). Its best feature, though, is the "Ghetto" label over the Lower East Side. So much changes over the decades, and so much stays the same. More »
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By Chris MohneyComment by Awesomist: Ahh the LES. If ever a section of the city was calling out for a bulldozer and Donald Trump, that's... more » | Other threads
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subway
New York City Subway Smell Map: Live, and In Your Face
We asked, and you answered. Presenting the New York City Subway Smell Map, created with the able assistance of Gawker readers universe-wide. We've separated hundreds of reader smell reports into ten distinct categories of aromas: food, feces, vomit, sewage, perfume, alcohol, you name it. Glide your mouse over any subway station on the map to see the station name, subway lines, and smell categories. Click, and the popup expands to reveal Zagat-style excerpts from actual reader reports. Careful study and rote memorization of the smell map will allow you to navigate the subway system without even opening your eyes. Of course, you'll have to train your nose to distinguish the local urine varietals at each station, but that's a small price to pay. Note also that the map remains open to future submissions for stations not yet covered or stations currently under-covered. All due props to consummate mapmaker Will James at onNYTurf for use of his elegant subway map. Enjoy this finely interactive and cartographic work of investigative service journalism.
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By Chris MohneyComment by Ryan: This is incredible. Where can I buy the fold-up, credit-card sized version? more » | Other threads
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google
Big dogs update: Everybody hates Microsoft
It's time again to check up on how the big dogs relate to each other. While blogger Om Malik chooses to say it with words, we chose fingerpaints. That was a disaster, so we made this graph. More »
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maps
Last Chance: Smell of the Subway
Burgeoning with life just like the blooming corpse flower, our map of New York subway aromas has almost enough data to finish up and present itself to your delighted senses. But we can always use more tips as we head to the home stretch. Send your final thoughts on specific subway smells in particular subway stations to subwaystink@gmail.com, identifying station, subway line, and smell. Meanwhile, the Washington Post goes on an olfactory tour of summertime Manhattan, bringing along French perfumist Laurice Rahme and retired NYC garbageman Andrew Macchio for color commentary. Rahme is objectionable enough, with her neighborhood-specific perfume line (e.g. "Eau de Noho"). The idea came to her after "the attacks of 9/11 befouled the air of downtown Manhattan." Macchio, on the other hand, is eminently quotable. A few choice examples after the jump. More »
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By Chris MohneyComment by ntr: what happened to the 51st 6? the smell is suddenly...floral? more » | Other threads
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maps
Smell Something? Say Something
You may remember our recent call for submissions to the nascent subway smell map, a document we're creating to catalog New York subway station aromas. Response has been tremendous — so much so that we've decided to open up the call beyond Manhattan to include the outer boroughs and solicit aroma info from the entire NYC MTA subway system. Many readers sent in non-Manhattan odors anyway, but there are still plenty of gaps. We're not going to try and classify every single station in the system (turns out it's goddamn huge, who knew), but we'll get as many nailed down as possible. To that end, after the jump is a long list of stations/lines still waiting for input; never mind if you see dupes or apparent errors, as this is just a quickie rundown. Take a look, and if you know of a particular ordure unique to any, drop us a line in the comments below or at subwaystink@gmail.com. Be sure to note the station name, and try to be as specific (and as "colorful") as possible when describing the smell(s).
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By Chris MohneyComment by Get The Butter: Being a student at Fordham, I can tell you that the Fordham Road subway stop reeks of mud. I don't... more » | Other threads
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Smell of the Subway
Yesterday's post on Curbed about the differing smells of New York subways vs. PATH tunnels (it's the brake pads, say the commenters) had us fondly remembering how certain MTA stations are known for particular aromas. Who can forget the rank urinary death-gauntlet in the transverse at 51st and Lexington? Or the infamous fish stink at Canal Street? Unfortunately, this level of detail has never been compiled in one place. Since we take our mission to serve the public very seriously, we've decided to construct an olfactory map of the Manhattan subway. And of course, we need your help. Certain stations already have obvious smell-tags, but we need more data. If you've identified a particular, persistent funk at any Manhattan subway station, submit it in the comments below or to subwaystink@gmail.com. Certain stations deserve special warnings for cyclical odors — some are particularly congenial for harboring vast clouds of B.O. during rush hour — so note that as well if appropriate.
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By Chris MohneyComment by outofthebullpen: #2 Flatbush Avenue (last stop) in front of the Rite Aid. The smell of sewage wafts up the stairs to... more » | Other threads
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stalker
Daily Gawker Stalker: Scarlett Didn't Pick Her Nose — It Was a Scratch
Sightings are sent in by our readers and then posted to theGawker Stalker Map, so all evil tourists will know precisely where to go for some picture-perfect starfucking. Send yours to tips@gawker.com. More »
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By JessicaComment by the earl grey: ANNA WINTOUR: mid-90s. madison ave about 66th/67th st. I see anna standing on the sidewalk, approx. where D. Cenci &... more » | Other threads
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maps
Valley maps for Web 2.0 and the ride home from Yahoo
Satellite images? So last year. Mashup maps are the hot item again. Here are three map-ups of the center of the universe. More » -
neighborhoods & landmarks
Microsoft, Moving at Internet Time
Lower Manhattan on Microsoft's Virtual Earth, which is "the best way to find what you're searching for." More »
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