Pinboard: bookmarks for maciej tagged 'nyc'

a sad-sack journal of bedbug encounters in new york city. " I figure out that if I sleep wearing clothes head-to-toe (shirt tucked into my pants and socks pulled over my pant legs) and the A/C cranked to 73º, I don’t get bitten as much."

ha bedbug nyc trainwreck augh blog
november 2006 by maciej

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The New York City Marathon: Now It Can Be Told

my old marathon post

self-promotion blog ignore nyc marathon
october 2006 by maciej

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ShamelessRestaurants.com - Restaurant Industry Workers Stories - NYC

talking smack about restaurants from an insider perspective

restaurants nyc mubot
september 2006 by maciej

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The Gaijin Girl's Guide to Chinatown

asian restaurant recommendations in nyc

nyc eat foodblog mubot restaurant
september 2006 by maciej

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Walker New York : Eats: Restaurants Archives

food blog of an annoying new york bourgie

hate eat nyc blog
september 2006 by maciej

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superfuture - urban yuppie maps

interesting set of maps, the zoomed-out ones are particularly nice

map cartography design yuppie consumer tokyo nyc london paris shanghai sf
august 2006 by maciej

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Manhattan, New York Neighborhoods Map -- Arts & Sciences Libraries, UB Libraries

manhattan neighborhoods, better name

neighborhood map nyc
august 2006 by maciej

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Eater : The New York City Restaurant, Bar, and Nightlife Blog
mubot nyceatblog nyc eat
june 2006 by maciej

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cityrag: Eat This

another dining section from a gawkerlike site

nyceatblog mubot nyc
june 2006 by maciej

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A Full Belly

popular well-done nyc food blog

nyceatblog mubot +1 nyc eat review
june 2006 by maciej

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Diner’s Journal by Frank Bruni - Dining - New York Times Blog

intelligent-sounding restaurant site by former nyt food critic

nyt nyceatblog mubot nyc food review
june 2006 by maciej

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Culinary Historians of New York | For the study of Food and Culinary History

this looks like a neat collection of stuff

nyceatblog mubot history food nyc
june 2006 by maciej

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astorians - Index

online community for Astoria residents

astoria nyc eat mubot discuss
june 2006 by maciej

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Taste of The New York Subway

comprehensive directory of all nyc restaurants within 200 meters of a subway stop, ordered by line

subway nyc eat directory mubot self-promotion
june 2006 by maciej

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Taste of the F train

Links to Yahoo! pages of nearby restaurants for each stop on the F line

nyc mubot subway f_train eat directory self_promotion
june 2006 by maciej

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roving Manhattan maps

beautiful what-if maps showing Manhattan relocated to various other major cities

map art cool nyc geo
june 2006 by maciej

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Heat map of NYC restaurants

18K new york city restaurants plotted on a 45 kilometer grid. Note interesting cluster near verazzano narrows bridge

nyc eat map restaurants visualization mubot
june 2006 by maciej

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How New Yorkers Get To Work (Gotham Gazette. January, 2004)

article with many maps showing who commutes and how in nyc. Interesting in light of the later strike

map nyc subway geo commute
may 2006 by maciej

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nyc population density 1905/1940 overlaid on subway maps of the time

shows how subway lines affected where people chose to live

nyc subway map census history cool
may 2006 by maciej

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Maps of NYC racial distribution, 1900 - 2000

neato maps hampered by silly flash tricks

maps flash nyc race demographics census visualization geo
may 2006 by maciej

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pie in the sky: Wishing We Were Uighur

blog post on visiting a tasty-sounding Uighur restaurant in Brighton Beach

uighur food eat braijton_bich nyc explore restaurant blog
may 2006 by maciej

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New York City’s New Base Map

good overview of the impossible-to-obtain new nyc map

map nyc geo gis geodata want review
may 2006 by maciej

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New York City Geo Resources

The sometimes arbitrary unavailability of a lot of this data is extremely frustrating

nyc geo map data resource list
may 2006 by maciej

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Savory New York

new nyc restaurant review site

nyc eat reviews restsite
may 2006 by maciej

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A list of restaurants in New York City

exactly what it says

nyc reference data restaurant directory
may 2006 by maciej

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GIS Spatial Data in EDS

contains links to data files for new york

nyc gis geo map reference
may 2006 by maciej

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THE FIFTY-NINE-STORY CRISIS, The New Yorker, 5/29/95, pp 45-53

citicorp tower turns out to be prone to wind-induced collapse, story of the emergency repairs that fixed it

engineering risk nyc building new_yorker
april 2006 by maciej

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Interview with Rackstraw Downes - Brooklyn Rail

one of my painty heroes

interview rackstraw downes art painting nyc
march 2006 by maciej

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Eruv battles - Voices That Must Be Heard

strife over setting up a williamsburg eruv

jew brooklyn nyc
december 2005 by maciej

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Lapsed Modernist

lj with russiany bits and book stuff

blog nyc lj
november 2005 by maciej

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Saturday Drawing in Tribeca

$15 for a full day of hot naked action

todo nyc art
november 2005 by maciej

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Content Hassid

riposte blog to Hasid Rebel, funny half-yiddish half-coherent rap-style rant about how great the hasidic life is

williamsburg nyc jew rant wtf
october 2005 by maciej

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Hasidic Rebel

fascinating blog by a skeptically-minded Hasid from Williamsburg. Comment threads are exhausting but full of interest

nyc jew blog cult religion us discuss
october 2005 by maciej

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Gowanus Yacht Club

great cheapo burger bar near everyone's favorite canal

gowanus brooklyn nyc eat
september 2005 by maciej

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Cruising the Gowanus (NY Press)

article mirroring my own tour of the Gowanus with the urban divers

gowanus brooklyn nyc explore
september 2005 by maciej

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Gowanus Expressway (I-278)

history and planning alternatives, including tunnel

brooklyn gowanus nyc transport urban
september 2005 by maciej

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New York City Audubon Society - list of NYC birds

very comprehensive but for unfathomable reasons they don't have photos

bird nyc bio eco reference
september 2005 by maciej

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NYC Office of Emergency Management - Ready New York Household Preparedness Guide

this puts the ridiculous stuff at ready.gov to shame - non-hysterical, informative, detailed, and no stupid infographics

nyc design risk gov war_on_terrah
september 2005 by maciej

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List of historic earthquakes near NYC

some 5+ magnitude events in the late 18th century

nyc earthquake disaster geo reference
september 2005 by maciej

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NYC Hurricane Evacuation Application - Find Your Location

enter your address and this handy utility will tell you whether or not to panic (with map)

nyc geo hurricane cool gis disaster metro
september 2005 by maciej

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Google answers thread on consequences of a major NYC hurricane

lots of handy links to historical storm track data

nyc disaster hurricane reference
august 2005 by maciej

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CIDRAP >> Raw-milk cheese implicated in 35 TB cases

a bunch of people in new york got sick from eating unpasteurized mexican cheese. Olé!

nyc med disease cheese food
august 2005 by maciej

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Hebrew-speaking fish incident in New Square

This was big news at the time. "Zalmen then heard the fish making noises as if it was sobbing and then the fish said in Hebrew "tzrichim shmira, hasof bah" (we need protection, the end is arrving)."

brooklyn nyc fish ha jew grocklebar
august 2005 by maciej

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Mail-Jewish Volume 37 Number 26 (discussion on Brooklyn eruv)

second message provides some context on the dispute about whether or not to create an eruv in Williamsburg

brooklyn religion nyc jew
august 2005 by maciej

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Map of Manhattan Eruv

large region of Manhattan where some of the peskier Shabbas restrictions are suspended through a torturous legalistic move

nyc religion weird map jew
august 2005 by maciej

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HasidicNews.com - Hasidic community and culture FAQ

learn more about your local Hasidim, and why they consider you beneath contempt