Skinny Manhattan - Gawker Comments

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demetria23 — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:50:59 EDT

All Subway (and other) maps of the city are seriously scaled wrong. Manhattan is still skinnier than Kate Moss.

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Mr. Kim Gordons Panties — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:53:20 EDT

I suspected Manhattan had leprosy at one point.

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collegecallgirl — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:49:30 EDT

@donmiguel: The Epic of New York City by Robb Edward Ellis is also excellent.

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In Other News... — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:29:48 EDT

@HiredGoons: Least populous borough, most parkland in NYC... nah.

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TimeWarnerRhymeAnaheim — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:55:08 EDT

Well then it's a fact that the Meatpacking District isn't real, isn't it?!

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cassandra — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:03:11 EDT

Manhattan used to look a lot less like a penis.

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HiredGoons — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:02:37 EDT

@Hez: Staten Island.

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donmiguel — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:02:40 EDT

@Nick Denton: I'm sure you already know about the book Low Life, by Luc Sante. On the very small chance that you don't, it's an excellent time machine guide to New York - the one that used to be.

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Hez — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:49:48 EDT

So, if Manhattan is bulimic, which borough gets to be its toilet?

/The Canadian drops her comment slowly and backs out of the room with hands in the air.

Hez

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In Other News... — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:22:11 EDT

@Dickdogfood: That's simply awesome. I think we do a Gawker raid on their map room.

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In Other News... — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:18:35 EDT

Battery Park City is built on landfill excavated from the site of the former (and present) World Trade Center. In a bit of slimming, rock shoals were blasted at Hell's Gate - the juncture of the Harlem and East Rivers and Long Island Sound - to make the dangerous channel even less so for ships. Marble Hill, the northernmost part of Manhattan, is actually on the mainland U.S. - ensconced in the warm embrace of The Bronx, because a meandering part of the Harlem River was re-routed for a straighter channel. And some of that bedrock excavated for the New York City subways went to build the man-made U Thant island, south of Roosevelt (formerly Welfare) Island in the East River.

I love this shit.

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famousauthor — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:57:42 EDT

Now lets see a map of Idaho, and how it's changed since Ezra Pound left.

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MrInBetween — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:38:42 EDT

The paved-over version is always prettier.

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Dickdogfood — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:22:35 EDT

People seeking an even more thorough portrait of New York City before the Europeans came along may be interested in The Mannahatta Project:

[www.wcs.org]
[www.newyorker.com]

Dickdogfood

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fiveinchtaint — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:19:24 EDT

I think I've seen that thing on the right in a locker room on a strange old man.

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the supergoddess — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:17:26 EDT

@Richard: sorry! I couldn't resist! um? april fools?!

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Richard — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:13:40 EDT

@the supergoddess: None of that now!

Richard

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WaltzingMatilda...same McCain, less filling! — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:09:06 EDT

@Nick Denton: Or you could have Madonna. Mr. Denton's comment: preemptively disproving my poorly constructed theory.

WaltzingMatilda...same McCain, less filling!

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the supergoddess — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:07:47 EDT

@manhattan: fattie.

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WaltzingMatilda...same McCain, less filling! — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:07:42 EDT

She may have been skinny, but she was bumpy and wrinkly. You really have to pick your poison can't have your bitches both ways, y'know?

WaltzingMatilda...same McCain, less filling!

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Nick Denton — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:06:41 EDT

@the supergoddess: The old map looks as skinny and sinewy as Madonna's arm, before Vanity Fair's Photoshop. (Oops, and I called it pretty.)

Nick Denton

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Nick Denton — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:04:36 EDT

@donmiguel: Thanks. It's a personal obsession. I collect images and maps of New York as it once was, might one day be, or-even better-as it might have been. (Though I always have to watch out in sharing them lest Gawker become too NYC-centric.)

Nick Denton

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LolCait — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:04:10 EDT

At this rate, soon it's going to be too fat to live in itself.

LolCait

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the supergoddess — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:02:30 EDT

oh mr. denton! you sure had me going there... "maps used to be prettier" - HA! GOOD ONE! april fools on me! that old map looks like a diseased lung, where as the new one is all straight lines and bright colors and so organized (mr. denton, you know how I love to organize! yes, sir, the junior interns and I have been working all day on straightening up the herbs & essential oils closet, and oh! how it sparkles! I think you'll be pleased. the cauldron will be back from the polishers tomorrow, and I'll begin working on the may day potions anon.)

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SayHeyJay — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:57:12 EDT

Hey... wait... I can see my house from here!

SayHeyJay

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collegecallgirl — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:57:07 EDT

Who knew that East Harlem was previously Skull Island?

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donmiguel — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:56:40 EDT

Captain Denton - I really like your graphic approach to New York as a topographical entity, a cityscape - as a visual universe. From the night pictures to this -- it's a good way of dealing with the city.

donmiguel

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idratherbesailing — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:56:05 EDT

Haha, Murray Hill is full of trash.

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