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t1_iy51qa6 wrote

Inwood in wood

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t1_iy6jxk3 wrote

Nearly cried when I saw the Inwood representation!

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t1_iy52cqi wrote

This is a neat little laser project but what’s up with the Lower East Side label? If you’re looking to sell these, I would suggest just shrinking the font. If not, to each their own.

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t1_iy6t2zx wrote

The type choices overall are kind of driving me nuts. :)

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t1_iy87dzm wrote

I do like the way "Washington Hts" and "Morningside Hts" are tilted to match the angle of north/Broadway.

I do NOT like the way the word "Heights" was needlessly abbreviated in both of those cases.

I also don't like the haphazard way labels are rotated both clockwise and counterclockwise, nor the way some are left-justified, others are right-justified, and others are centered.

I also don't like that Marble Hill and Roosevelt Island are missing. And I wish Hudson Square was pulled out of Soho.

Still, it includes Inwood, which is ... unusual. And appreciated.

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t1_iy8ghpk wrote

Totally. It’s design chaos with variable type size, weight, spacing, orientation, abbreviation, you name it. Central Park is also not a neighborhood… this piece would really have benefited from some negative space there.

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t1_iy550d7 wrote

This is just an ad. This guy posts these all the times. check his post history.

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t1_iy5h4l3 wrote

It’s inaccurate but cool

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t1_iy5ls83 wrote

What’s it missing ?

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t1_iy5mhwa wrote

Hamilton heights what the first thing I noticed that was missing. But Yorkville too.

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t1_iy5qsvb wrote

I bet you have to make a cutoff somewhere, there just wouldn't be enough room unless you really shrunk down the font size or increased the size of the map.

Here is prob the best map for the neighborhoods in nyc. https://www.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/data-maps/city-neighborhoods/dcp-city-of-neighborhoods-2022.pdf

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t1_iy5tv23 wrote

Morning side heights is sooooo small compared to Washington heights. I understand in the cause of smaller hoods that make up ues

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t1_iy67goq wrote

Still doesn't show borders though of the individual neighborhoods. It's crazy to me that the prime authority to establish those borders is hesitant to do so.

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t1_iy6qwrm wrote

Hamilton Heights like Manhattanville or Sugar Hill are not real neighborhoods. Nobody says I'm from Manhattanville lol. They say they're from Harlem.

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t1_iy72amv wrote

A lot. Lenox Hill, Yorkville. Manhattanville. Hudson Square. Many others.

Map is actually pretty shit if I’m being honest and seems like a shill post if anything. Not sure why this sub is jerking off over it.

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t1_iy5u0oo wrote

Is /r/mapsmissingmarblehill a thing yet?

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t1_iy5atwx wrote

Lawyer established side

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t1_iy9qf5w wrote

Stuy Town is a more legit abbreviation and OP didn’t feel that was necessary for an area less than half the size of the LES

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t1_iy5l9s6 wrote

Midtown isn’t a neighborhood

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t1_iy6hoc8 wrote

What do you call the area around like 50th and 6th?

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t1_iy6nvx3 wrote

I'd call it Rockefeller center but ok fine yeah midtown. but like most of what people call midtown isn't midtown. It's just they don't know the real neighborhood names.

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t1_iy6bmr6 wrote

Super correct, and Hell’s Kitchen is formally known as both Clinton and Midtown West. Hell’s Kitchen is an informal name.

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t1_iy6cdef wrote

Yes what happened to it being called Clinton

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t1_iy6cruc wrote

HK is the term I use with my NYC people, but I use Midtown West to non-NYC people because it geographically explains better where it is. But the most correct name is “Clinton” for sure.

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t1_iy6hwag wrote

Wasn't Clinton just a PR push by realtors because people didn't want to live in place called Hell's Kitchen? Literally every person from the city calls it HK.

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t1_iy71wnf wrote

Two Bridges is a neighborhood, but Hamilton Heights isn’t?

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t1_iy8jtos wrote

The fonts being all over the place in size and orientation is mildly infuriating. Basically you input a bunch of stuff into a computer and the machine did all of this?

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t1_iy59j4q wrote

Is Nolita really the nickname for north of little Italy? Genuinely asking

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t1_iy5bnm4 wrote

yep, pretty stupid. just like DUMBO is Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass

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t1_iy7vsjc wrote

Forgot Ktown - you do have little Italie so …

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t1_iy8fg35 wrote

Man, Central Park is a miracle. How they kept that much prime real estate out of the hands of developers is beyond me.

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t1_iy7jyt5 wrote

Manhattan has more girth than that.

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t1_iy8gixn wrote

You have to tilt the map on your wall in the proper northeasterly angle... it does not run straight on a north/south axis. In which case, the font should be angled.

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t1_iy8mzez wrote

That's really pretty cool. Coming from a family of men handy with wood and I had a wood burning (child burning too if not careful) kit as a kid. Long before lasers were a reality.

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t1_iyajs4m wrote

You’ve left out the West Soho Region of NY, WESOHORNY

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t1_iy6ca6g wrote

Do people in other cities hang maps of their city in the wall? This feels like such a tourist/reddit thing. Fucking corny.

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t1_iy8jghw wrote

This is dope dope. Abbreviate as you please even if it is driving us crazy

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t1_iy6bfdv wrote

Manhattanville is a distinct neighborhood between MoHi and Harlem.. has been since before the revolutionary war.

And Harlem is absolutely three neighborhoods: West, Central, and East Harlem. You can’t just glomb central and west Harlem together.. do you even live here??

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t1_iy7wu15 wrote

Ahahaha MoHi?! I can’t with these they’re getting ridiculous! Let’s just call Chelsea ‘Che’ now like Che Guevara.

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t1_iy63vvk wrote

Missed a "." After Washington Hts

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t1_iy6jqkb wrote

Love this ,very rarely is uptown included with in manhattan maps, a lot of them stop at Harlem …

Edit :gentrifiers and Mfers from Idaho and Wisconsin downvoting my comment is hilarious

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t1_iy72sxo wrote

Very cool! As someone who just moved here last year (visiting since young though), I need something like this so I know where things are.

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t1_iy636vn wrote

Absolutely sharp and gorgeous. Alternating the grain direction was key, plus using finer grain for the actual island. Well done in every way. (A Hood Maps would be a bit too busy...)

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t1_iy5m3ro wrote

This is the most accurate map of NYC I’ve seen in a long time- thanks for including uptown (Washington Heights AND Inwood)!

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t1_iy9ce5c wrote

I commented something similar and the transplants got mad because they don’t get it

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