Manhattan Movie Locations

Here's one for the film nerds: an illustrated map of Manhattan, depicting movie filming locations! Here is the Flickr version, detailing them.

(via Gawker)

Racial Segregation in New York City

Each dot represents twenty-five people: Red- White, Blue-Black, Green- Asian and Orange is Hispanic. There's a pretty strong White population throughout Manhattan and on the west side of Prospect Park in Brooklyn. Asians and Hispanics have lower Manhattan and most of Queens, and Black have northern Manhattan and the eastern parts of Brooklyn. The four-ethnicity blanket still casts an umbrella over several cultures, but there aren't enough colors to demonstrate! Read more here.

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Travel in Your Sheets

Explore terrain- without leaving your bed. More on Toronto based Atelier 688 here.

By Day, By Night: Manhattan's Population

As explained by Frumination:

-- from 8:00AM to 8:59 AM on an average Fall day in 2007 the NYC Subway carried 388,802 passengers into the CBD on 370 trains over 22 tracks. In other words, a train carrying 1,050 people crossed into the CBD every 6 seconds.


via Gizmodo (you can also enlarge the map here).