A completely brand new section as of December 2005. Some archived material will shift in here shortly, to be followed be some great map links. These should get you started:
Greg Brail’s transit map - Easy subway, walking directions
HopStop - Point-to-point transit directions
MTA - Official bus and subway maps
Trips123 - Tri-state transit maps
Google Maps Mania - Unofficial map mashup guide
More NY: Summer Streets, bike map, coins rolled
Summer Streets map (in pdf)
Park/Lafayette to close for Summer Streets in August (NYC.gov)
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Department of Transportation (DOT) Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan today announced Summer Streets, a new City program that will temporarily open a 6.9 mile car-free route from the Brooklyn Bridge to 72nd Street. Featuring connections to Central Park and other open spaces, Summer Streets will give New Yorkers unprecedented access to the streets for exercise and exploration from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. on three consecutive Saturdays in August, the 9th, 16th and 23rd.
American Numismatic Society's stealth move to Canal and Varick (New York Times)
Yes, the New York Police Department provided an escort, but during more than eight hours on Saturday, one of the great hoards of coins and currency on the planet, worth hundreds of millions of dollars, was utterly unalarmed as it was bumped through potholes, squeezed by double-parked cars and slowed by tunnel-bound traffic during the trip to its fortresslike new vault a mile to the north.
A new bike map for New York (Post)
Ridethecity.com gives turn-by-turn directions, steering cyclists clear of danger by favoring streets with bike lanes and routes that take advantage of parks and greenways.
Dead whale reported near Verrazano Bridge (Sun)
"It may have drifted, it may have sank, we don't know," a Coast Guard official said. A spokeswoman for the National Marine Fisheries Service, Connie Barclay, said the animal was likely to be a humpback whale, sei whale, or fin whale, as those species commonly feed in New York waters during the summer.
AirTran to end service to NYC's "fourth airport" on Sept. 3 (Gothamist)
Stewart International Airport in Orange County, NY is losing one of its two major carriers--AirTran. The airline cited rising fuel costs, which are affecting all carriers negatively, as the reason for its ending of routes from Stewart. AirTran carried 315,000 passengers over the last year to Florida destinations and its Atlanta hub
United add iPod/iPhone connectivity for international flights (Gizmodo)
A new deal makes United the first U.S. carrier to offer iPod and iPhone connectivity to its in-flight entertainment system.
June 16, 2008 7:43 PM Comments (0)
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Sharpton: Protest to 'close this city down' Wednesday
To protest the acquittal of the three officers who shot Sean Bell as he was leaving his bachelor party in 2006, Rev. Al Sharpton has vowed to "close this city down" starting Wednesday at 3 p.m. with a series of civil disobedience actions.
 Sharpton has called for protesters to gather in at least six locations to pray (and presumably stop all traffic in the area.) NewYorkology created a map for the announced locations:
125th Street and Third Avenue
60th Street and Third Avenue
34th Street and Park Avenue
Varick and Houston streets, near the entrance to the Holland Tunnel
One Police Plaza, near the base of the Brooklyn Bridge
House of the Lord Church, 415 Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn
In rendering the verdict April 25, the judge said the witnesses were unreliable and "at times, the testimony just didn't make sense."
While the judge said the actions of the three indicted NYPD officers did not rise to the level of criminal, "questions of carelessness and incompetence must be left to other forums," he said.
The police officers could still face federal charges over their actions, and after that determination, the NYPD will be allowed to determine its discipline for the trio. The stated aim of the upcoming protest is to persuade federal officials to "enforce laws to make police brutality illegal and prosecute officers that violate such laws.
Of special note to travelers to NYC, one of those 50 bullets fired by police was so off course that it sailed into a nearby AirTrain station. On the video, you can see suitcase-toting travelers ducking for cover.
May 5, 2008 7:49 AM Comments (0)
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NY Historical Society brings epidemic to life in 'Cholera'
NewYorkology contributor Christina Ziegler-McPherson is a public historian in one of New York's "sixth boroughs" -- Hoboken, New Jersey. A specialist in American immigration and social welfare policy, she regularly crosses the river to partake of New York's many historical sites, institutions, and events. She's the author of the upcoming book "Americanization in the States: Immigrant Social Welfare Policy, Citizenship, and National Identity in the United States, 1908-1929."
The New York Historical Society’s new exhibit, “Plague in Gotham!: Cholera in Nineteenth-Century New York� is a good example of how small can be beautiful. Packed compactly into two-thirds of a long wall in the Society’s Henry Luce III Center for the Study of American Culture, “Plague in Gotham!� tells the story of the first cholera epidemic in New York City in 1832.
With just a few strategically selected items – a map, city health broadsides, homeopathetic remedies, gruesome portraits of victims and other artifacts – the exhibit details how New Yorkers confronted a terrifying disease that killed 3,515 people (out of a total population of 250,000) in the summer of 1832.
Cholera, a gastrointestinal bacterial disease spread by contaminated water and food, causes severe diarrhea; death can occur within a few hours if dehydration is not properly treated. But the cause of cholera was unknown in the early 19th century, and theories ranged from “miasmas� (noxious fumes created by rotting organic matter) to immorality and alcohol consumption.
Poor New Yorkers lived in overcrowded, unsanitary conditions, and so died of a wide variety of contagious and water-borne diseases at a much higher rate than wealthier residents. This higher death rate on the part of African-Americans and Irish immigrants in the 1832 epidemic led to theories emphasizing individual morality and behavior.
The Society has also developed a cholera blog, which includes an audio clip from historian Kenneth Jackson and a Google map of 19th Century cholera hotspots in NYC.
The “Plague in Gotham!� exhibit is part of New York’s first annual World Science Festival, which runs May 28 through June 1.
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April 24, 2008 12:48 PM Comments (0)
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Broadway news: a Pulitzer, a map, Leguizamo, Lortels
Tracy Letts on Monday was awarded the Pulitzer prize for drama for "August: Osage County." The play is currently on Broadway at the Imperial Theatre through April 20. It will reopen April 29th in Broadway's Music Box Theatre.
John Leguizamo will star in a revival of David Mamet's "American Buffalo" on Broadway this fall, Variety reports.
 Cool new mapping site Broadway2Day lets you pick a date and map all the Broadway and Off-Broadway shows performing that day. (Found via GoogleMapsMania.)
A Washington Heights walking tour from Lin-Manuel Miranda of Broadway's "In the Heights."
"Young Frankenstein" "quietly discontinued its obscene premium ticket pricing."
"Billy Elliott: The Musical" has (re) launched its website in anticipation of its Broadway debut come September. For auditions, see BeBilly.com.
Buzz on other upcoming Broadway shows:
"Spider-Man" (NY Post)
"Brigadoon" (Variety)
"[title of show]" (Steve on Broadway)
"Glory Days" (Modern Fabulosity)
"Fences" without Oprah (NY Post)
"Oh, Kay" (Playbill)
A few Broadway possibilities:
Katie Holmes in "All My Sons" (Variety)
Tina Brown's "The Diana Chronicles" (NY Post)
"Mask" (Steve on Broadway)
Steve Carell Broadway project (Broadway Undercover)
Anna Nicole Smith - the opera (Playbill)
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April 8, 2008 9:22 AM Comments (0)
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Early-spring get-out-of-town linkathon-a-palooza
 MadMaps has published a series of daytripper and weekend getaway maps, including two focusing on the area around New York. They're maybe best suited for the times when you're too fed up to do the research ahead of time, and just want to hit the road and drive. However, the itineraries are maybe too generic from some travelers and could be frustrating when they list a town's high points, but offer no directions or addresses.
For cheap out-of-town travel, keep tabs on BoltBus and MegaBus, which are rapidly adding service to NYC with fares from $1 (if you book in advance.)
And in the cheap-airfare department, Skybus is now flying to three destinations (Portsmouth, Columbus, and Greensboro) from the rapidly expanding Stewart Airport in the Hudson Valley. (Update: Skybus just went out of business.)
Metro-North's new partnership with Enterprise lets you take the train out of Manhattan and then pick up your rental car at 23 stations, including Beacon, Middletown, Port Chester and Goldens Bridge.
For organized trips out of the city, the Adventure Society has a serious calendar of offerings ranging from hiking and horseback riding to Indy race car driving and Adirondack white-water rafting.
NYC Audubon spring field trips include a wildflower hike at Pyramid Mountain and to the Raptor Trust bird rehabilitation center.
Metro-North's one-day getaways include packages to Cold Springs, the Mohegan Sun Casino, and the Bruce Museum of Arts and Science in Greenwich.
Not only is there a Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Center in Jamestown NY, but the town is hosting Luci-Desi Days from May 23 through May 25.
Singer Castle on Dark Island opens for the season on May 17.
Stone Barns Farm Market opens for the season on May 2.
The Long Island Lighthouse Challenge -- scheduled for May 17 and 18 -- opens the doors to the lighthouses on Fire Island, Eatons Neck, Huntingdon Harbor, Cedar Island, Horton Point, Montauk Point, Orient Point, and the Long Beach Bar.
New York state finally has launched its Empire State Brewery Trails.
Get free Hudson Valley wine trail maps (in PDF format)
Wino TV is the new online video series from Applewood Winery.
Grand Cru has a full list of spring wine classes in Long Island wine country.
Olana, (pictured,) the Hudson hilltop home of Frederic Church, on May 10 opens the wagon house.
April 16 is Pirates Day at the Mystic Seaport in Connecticut.
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April 3, 2008 11:13 AM Comments (0)
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I. P. Freely wallet-sized map to NYC - for $2.50
 There's a new New York City Public Toilet Map that lists 250 places to go in Manhattan.
It folds up to a handy wallet size.
You can order one by mail for $2 (plus 50 cents shipping.)
The map, by artist Tommy Mintz, got its start in the Jewish Museum's "Off the Wall: Artists at Work" project, which runs through March 27.
For non-bathroom credit-card sized maps of NYC, try Opus, Anton Miles or the Transit Museum.
Related: NYRestroom.com
Bathroom Diaries - Manhattan and Brooklyn
Grub Street's guide to best restaurant restrooms in NYC
Earlier: Noir thriller will be staged in Central Park restrooms
Charmin's free restrooms returning to Times Square
Landmarked Bryant Park restroom gets $200,000 fix
World’s best hi-tech toilet: Maximus Salon in SoHo
Hudson Hotel's room with a naughty view
March 25, 2008 11:28 AM Comments (0)
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Free maps from the Brooklyn Historical Society
 Free maps - you know you love them.
The Brooklyn Historical Society has two free walking-tour maps on their website -- covering Brooklyn Heights and Park Slope.
The Brooklyn Heights walk takes in architectural and literary spots including Grace Church and Truman Capote's Willow Street home, (pictured.) The Park Slope guide covers ground including Grand Army Plaza and the Romanesque Revival home of the inventor of Chiclets gum.
Both free guides are in pdf format.
The Brooklyn Historical Society also sells historical guides to several neighborhoods in the borough. They're small paperback deals chock full of pictures and interesting history.
Picture credit: Amy Langfield/NewYorkology.
Update: After this item was published, we learned that the maps are indeed the work of NewYorkology contributor Francis Morrone. He's responsible for the text and mapping of the two guides for BHS.
Earlier: The very short list of New York's map shop resources
New Jewish heritage map: finding Sarah Jessica, NYU
Big 'Mappetite' food map of Manhattan
Tiny, subtle subway maps for your pocket or wallet
February 16, 2008 12:26 PM Comments (0)
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The very short list of New York's map shop resources
 If you hit up the elegantly renovated map division in the New York Public Library, you'll find a pair of handouts about where to buy maps in the New York metro area. Unfortunately the list is shorter than you might think.
The NYPL handouts are divided into antiquarian and current maps. For the current maps, they plug Barnes & Noble, as well as the Hagstrom Map and Travel Center, whose sole remaining Manhattan location is about a block from the library at 57 W. 43rd Street, map.
The other options are more specialized:
New York City Department of Planning, map sales shop
22 Reade Street, 1st floor
New York Nautical Instrument Service Corp.
158 Duane Street
NY Convention Bureau Inc.
810 7th Avenue
Times Square BID Visitors' Center
1560 Broadway.
Elsewhere on the Internet you may find reference to the Manhattan Map Co. on 28th Street, which NewYorkology stopped by recently to verify. It's now a condominium.
Here are a few other map resources to peruse:
Hand-drawn, downloadable map of Old Croton Aqueduct State Historic Park
Opus Publishing is now making its own credit-card-size maps of New York
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January 18, 2008 4:26 PM Comments (0)
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Book shop sales, signings, expansions and more
 A couple of intriguing book-sale things from the in box:
Partners & Crime mystery book shop's Bleak Midwinter Sale starts today, ends Thursday:
Fill a whole shopping bag with all sorts of first edition/hardcover treats for a mere $25! Find out-of-print titles from some of our favorite authors, terrific copies of newer titles, and the obscure and mysterious books which somehow spontaneously appear in the Silence-of-the-Lambs hallway in the dark reaches of our scary basement. Or take a chance on someone you've never read!
* Single books may be purchased for $3, but we're hoping you fill a bag
* Books are mostly first editions, some are signed, and many titles are the same ones you'll find on our new paperback shelves for 2-3 times the price! ... And from the library at the International Center for Photography on January 26 and 27:We kick off the new year with the Third Annual Benefit Book Sale with all proceeds benefitting the Library. Choose from an extraordinary selection of donated books, periodicals, duplicate materials, and items beyond the Library's scope.
FreeNYC also points out that this weekend is Tashen's bi-annual warehouse book sale.
A few other book fiend resources:
Independent book shop Book Court is expanding
PowerHouse Arena, which is as much a gallery as art bookshop, is going 24/7 (also according to FreeNYC,) as of January 16 with Windows on Main: The powerHouse boilerRoom
Book Culture has a new blog
As does the NY Center for Independent Publishing, formerly known as the Small Press Center
Date for the 2008 Brooklyn Book Festival: September 14
Dates for 2008 NY Antiquarian Book Fair at Park Ave. Armory: April 4-6
Melville House is planning a move to Dumbo
See CodexMap, a Google Maps book mashup
Strand's 80th anniversary tote bag was designed by Art Spiegelman ($9.95)
Still John's great list of author book signings in NYC
Upcoming celebrity book signings
Image source: The annual off-limits "stacks" at the NYPL during the 2006 holiday tour. The 2007 tour prohibited photography.
Earlier: Enabling the book junkie: a 'Literary New York' map
January 15, 2008 2:44 PM Comments (0)
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New Jewish heritage map: finding Sarah Jessica, NYU
"Jewish New York: A History & Heritage Map" made its debut Monday, plotting out the locations for everything from Temple Emanu-El and the Yiddish Theater Walk of Fame to NYU ("home of 6,500 Jewish undergraduates") and locations associated with Sarah Jessica Parker, the Marx Brothers, Simon & Garfunkel and Dr. Ruth Westheimer.
Brooklyn represents with the likes of Woody Allen (1144 E. 15th Street,) Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, (1584 E. 9th Street,) and the boardwalk between Coney Island and Brighton Beach.
"Ashkenazi or Sephardic, Reform or Conservative, Orthodox or Chassidic, New York City has the largest Jewish population in the world outside of Israel and the largest Jewish population in the city is right here in Brooklyn," Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz said at the ceremony celebrating the map's release.
The map is on sale for $6.95 at the Brooklyn Tourism and Visitors Center at Borough Hall, through the New York Board of Rabbis, and eventually, online at www.jhhnymap.org. The pocket-sized map came together with the help of the New York Board of Rabbis, Jewish New York History & Heritage Project and grants from the City of New York.
Related: Jewish Tours of New York and Hassidic walking tours
Photo credit: Kathryn Kirk, Brooklyn Borough President's Office. Picture provided to NewYorkology by Brooklyn Borough President's Office.
Earlier: Jewish Museum now free on Saturdays
Jewish Children's Museum opens in Brooklyn
November 27, 2007 1:16 PM Comments (0)
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