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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).
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.

282 - Copacabana: Girls

284 - The Barbizon: young Ladies

A witty juxtaposition of two quite different establishments:

http://brieaustin.com/copacabana-the-great-american-superclu...

https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a3...

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.
Colson Whitehead’s novel “Harlem Shuffle” takes place partially on Radio Row pre-WTC.
Reminding me of Woody Allen's "Radio Days".
how could eminent domain have been used to make place for the world trade center? Wasn't it just offices?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelo_v._City_of_New_London

"[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."

>"[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.

Such takings of property under eminent domain had happened before; it was not a new idea in 2005.

This case was the result of a suit against such takings. The suit failed, and the takings continued.

>Such takings of property under eminent domain had happened before; it was not a new idea in 2005.

>This case was the result of a suit against such takings. The suit failed, and the takings continued.

You're absolutely correct.

GP wondered aloud if eminent domain was warranted for access to the WTC site and if that wasn't related to the 2005 case cited.

I merely pointed out that since WTC was constructed in the late 1960s/early 1970s that that case cited was irrelevant to that question, as it was built 50 years before that case (not to mention that any rebuilding after 9/11 was still before the cited case was decided).

That case wasn't relevant to the discussion at hand. Was it rightly decided? I don't have all the facts and IANAL, so I don't know.

I wouldn't want the state to take my property if I didn't want to sell, although as I understand it, in the 2005 case, the plaintiff was offered fair-market value for their property. Not saying that nullifies the plaintiff's complaint (being forced to sell when they don't wish to do so), nor do I necessarily (again, IANAL and don't know the facts of the case) agree with the court's ruling.

That said, the case cited was irrelevant to the question of whether or not eminent domain was used properly in obtaining access to the property used as the site for the WTC.

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.

> Third world country of America

This is silly. You expect anyone to take you seriously?

I don't count the number of anecdotal instances of thinking "wow US is really like a third world country" -from your northern neighbor
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...

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.
Map of Lower Manhattan, to be precise.
>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/season_1/30rockquotes_cl...>

Back then, that was pretty much all there was to the tourist-centric City. You may have had the Apollo in Harlem, about it. North of Central Park South would have been mostly residences.