Urban Scratchoff
This site gives you a clever way to explore historical aerial imagery of New York City. You can click and
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Old bird’s-eye-view maps of the Manhattan
The heart of the New York metropolitan area, Manhattan traces its roots to a trading post established by settlers from the Dutch Republic in 1624; the trading post was called New Amsterdam. Historically, Manhattan has been bought by Dutch settlers from Lenape Native Americans for 60 guilders (~$1059 in contemporary terms). The area and its neighborhoods came under the English administration in 1664 and were renamed New York.
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Another way of looking at London
The whole area (including Greater London itself) contains 18.9 million people – more than a third of the population of
Read more: Another way of looking at LondonOn & Off the street grid: relative distributions of road orientations
Seth Kadish compares the street grids of two dozen urban centers across the United States and Europe. The tallest bar
Read more: On & Off the street grid: relative distributions of road orientationsSubway stops and median rents NYC, 2016
One-bedroom prices with Year-over-Year changes shown. Relates posts: – Map of Manhattan by Joan Vinckeboons (1639) – A map of
Read more: Subway stops and median rents NYC, 2016Google.it autocomplete for Italy: “Why is country…?”
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What the Dutch ask about Europe and surroundings, according to Google.nl Related posts: – Google.de Autocomplete for Germany: “Why is
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Spies in the skies
America is being watched from above. Government surveillance planes routinely circle over most major cities. New York City Surveillance flight
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