On a 2009 summer day, Becky Cooper, then a junior at Harvard, walked with a friend the length of Broadway in Manhattan, from Marble Hill in the Bronx (which is actually a part of Manhattan; seriously, ...

We once covered the amazing book Mapping Manhattan in which Becky Cooper collected people’s memory maps of Manhattan as she walked the length of Broadway. We also showed you the artist Olek, who ...

Cartographic excellence can sometimes come second to visual storytelling. “Maps and memories are bound together; a little as songs and love affairs are,” writes Adam Gopnik in the preface to ...

Earlier this week, Ephemeral New York posted an image of the first known map of Manhattan, the 1660 Castello Plan. It shows a charming little settlement with canals along Broad Street and a real ...

As we all know, real estate prices just keep on rising in Manhattan. And to whom are developers turning to find the prime location for their next high rise condos? Gas stations. Historically, gas ...

Krissy Oechslin, 48, moved to New York City from Charlotte, North Carolina, in February 2024. She always wanted to walk every block of a city, but Charlotte wasn't pedestrian-friendly enough. It took ...

While much of the media and public’s attention is focussed on New York’s mayoral and City Council races, lesser known elections are also slated to take place this fall. On primary day, September 12, ...

Manhattan was once a bucolic island of rolling hills, swamps, beavers and bears. Today, the city is an almost-completely-flat grid. This was no organic evolution: in the early 19th century, a radical ...

If you want a map, chances are you'll find what you're looking for at the Hagstrom store at 51 West 43rd Street in midtown Manhattan. But in a sign of the times, the store is closing its doors on ...