Tag: Maps
While perusing Google Maps Street View for an unrelated purpose, we came across this little oddity: when looking at the building at 7427 5th Avenue in Bay Ridge while “standing” on 5th, you see the Chase bank that currently occupies the space. When moving your vantage point to Bay Ridge Parkway, however, you’re treated to […]
According to this very nifty map the Gothamist found, the zip code 11221 has experienced the biggest number of reported rat sightings in 2010 through 2012 — a whopping 965 number of reports, nearly ten times the number of reports on the Upper East Side. We’re guessing it’s not the regular rat-sized rats either. Most of us don’t bat […]
In an effort to understand when and where the “next Hurricane Sandy” will hit, the people at WNYC have created this nice-looking interactive map plotting Sandy’s flooding against “100-year flood zones,” areas which FEMA determined a 1% probability of flooding in a single year. As the map so handily illustrates, Sandy appears to be quite […]
