[HN Gopher] A midcentury map of New York, packed with weird loca...
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A midcentury map of New York, packed with weird local lore (2019)
Author : samclemens
Score : 51 points
Date : 2023-06-01 05:04 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.atlasobscura.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.atlasobscura.com)
| dustincoates wrote:
| Map of Lower Manhattan, to be precise.
| TMWNN wrote:
| >And as much as l would like to attend, l haven't been above
| 72nd Street in over a decade.
|
| -Jack Donaghy, _30 Rock_ <http://www.30rockquotes.net/seasons/s
| eason_1/30rockquotes_cl...>
| JKCalhoun wrote:
| This map makes me a little sad at all the things we seem to have
| lost.
|
| Contrariwise, the limited palette of 6-color art is fascinating
| to pore over -- see where the artist used color rather than line,
| absence of color in other places to suggest highlights...
| ghaff wrote:
| Perhaps more so than most places, Manhattan's a real mix of
| iconic things that have seemingly been there forever and a ton
| of ongoing change--including the massive transformation of
| whole neighborhoods on the time scales represented by this map.
| buro9 wrote:
| Reminds me of https://hoodmaps.com/lisbon-neighborhood-map
|
| Which I discovered a few days ago whilst trying to find a
| Barcelona crime map of reasonably high resolution due to feeling
| bruised and tender for tackling a pickpocket to the ground the
| night before in El Born.
|
| The bruises will fade, those maps have been bookmarked.
| thread_id wrote:
| Find #31 "Radio Row". this is where you could buy vacuum tubes
| and anything electronic from a local concentration of shops that
| carried all that. It was taken over by eminent domain to make way
| for building the World Trade Center.
| pavlov wrote:
| Colson Whitehead's novel "Harlem Shuffle" takes place partially
| on Radio Row pre-WTC.
| JKCalhoun wrote:
| Reminding me of Woody Allen's "Radio Days".
| LeanderK wrote:
| how could eminent domain have been used to make place for the
| world trade center? Wasn't it just offices?
| lonelygirl15a wrote:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelo_v._City_of_New_London
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| "[The Court held, 5-4, that the use of eminent domain to
| transfer land from one private owner to another private owner
| to further economic development does not violate the Takings
| Clause of the Fifth Amendment."
| nobody9999 wrote:
| >"[The Court held, 5-4, that the use of eminent domain to
| transfer land from one private owner to another private
| owner to further economic development does not violate the
| Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment."
|
| That case is from 2005. IIRC (and I did see it under
| construction) the WTC was built in the late 1960s/early
| 1970s, so I'm not sure how relevant that case might be.
|
| Were there any lawsuits regarding eminent domain over the
| building of the WTC prior to its construction? I have no
| idea, but the 2005 case wouldn't even be relevant to the
| rebuild after 9/11.
| twic wrote:
| 282 - Copacabana: Girls
|
| 284 - The Barbizon: young Ladies
|
| A witty juxtaposition of two quite different establishments:
|
| http://brieaustin.com/copacabana-the-great-american-superclu...
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| https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a3...
| [deleted]
| DoreenMichele wrote:
| Makes me think of maps of Disneyland.
|
| Also makes me think of my fantasies years ago of making a
| Disneyland-esque map for resources for homeless folks. And I no
| longer want to do that as I believe it essentially grows the
| problem.
|
| I just want more affordable housing, better public transit and
| more walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods. You know: Less
| homelessness.
|
| Not holding my breath, mind you. I do live in "the third world
| country of America." But it's what I choose to put my very
| limited time and effort into.
| b59831 wrote:
| > Third world country of America
|
| This is silly. You expect anyone to take you seriously?
| jsocuwl wrote:
| I don't count the number of anecdotal instances of thinking
| "wow US is really like a third world country" -from your
| northern neighbor
| koolba wrote:
| If you're on mobile and want to save a copy of this map to get
| around town, here's a direct link to the image so you can save it
| locally:
| https://assets.atlasobscura.com/article_images/full/64564/im...
| (on mobile the site does some things with zoom and scroll that
| makes it a pain).
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