06 May 2013
1660 New Amsterdam atop 2013 New York
The excellent historical blog Ephemeral New York has a post today about the 1660 Costello Plan, referred to by the New York Public Library as the "earliest known plan of New Amsterdam and the only one dating from the Dutch period."
To put the original Costello Plan into a present-day context, I've overlaid it on Google Earth and made these screenshots of lower Manhattan (click the images to see larger versions):
The website Curbed ran a follow-up post on the Costello Plan containing additional interesting details, including why a Dutch plan has an Italian name.
To put the original Costello Plan into a present-day context, I've overlaid it on Google Earth and made these screenshots of lower Manhattan (click the images to see larger versions):
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| North is up in this map. Look how much of present day New York would have been underwater back in 1660! Manhattan's west coast would have been present-day Greenwich Street, and the south and east cost is along present-day Pearl Street. |
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| In this map, North is to the upper-right. A couple of notable things: Aptly named Wall Street was a wall; Broad Street was a canal. Very cool that many streets of today still follow routes from this 1660's plan, including Broadway, Beaver Street, Exchange Place, William Street and Stone Street, just to name a few. |
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| And really zooming in, look at the quaint little dock on the waterfront near the present-day intersection of Moore Street and Pearl Street. Also, see the entrance to the canal that runs along present-day Broad Street. |
The website Curbed ran a follow-up post on the Costello Plan containing additional interesting details, including why a Dutch plan has an Italian name.
18 April 2013
Boston Marathon Bombing: Map showing the Location and Time-stamp of the Surveillance Video of the Suspects
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| See video here |
Now that the FBI has released details of the bombing suspects, I decided to create a map that shows the likely location and timing of the of the surveillance video of the suspects, in hopes that somebody who was nearby at the time may have noticed them.
If you have any information at all regarding the men shown in the attached photos and video, you should immediately submit them on https://bostonmarathontips.fbi.gov. As the FBI website states, no piece of information or detail is too small. You can also call 1-800-CALL-FBI (1-800-225-5324), prompt #3, with information.
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| Click above for a bigger view, or see the interactive map here. Source for locations of explosions is this New York Times page. |
09 April 2013
Great 5 1/3 mile NYC UWS run!
For those in the great city of New York City, specifically the Upper West Side of Manhattan, and into running (ok, I just limited my global audience for this post!), I have an inspirational -- or at least not monotonous -- 5 1/3 mile run for you!
Half of the run is in Central Park and the other half along the Hudson River Greenway. I'm showing 74th Street and 108th Sreet as the two places to cross back and forth between the park- and water-side legs, but you can adjust your numbered blocks up and down to suit your starting point and still keep the run about 5 miles
And the elevation profile of the route involves some decent hillwork (ok, by Manhattan standards anyway!). A 333 feet elevation gain all in little-ol' Manhattan! Oh yeah!
Enjoy!
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