“From one urban explorer to another,” wrote author Becky Cooper in our copy of her new book, Mapping Manhattan: A Love (and Sometimes Hate) Story in Maps by 75 New Yorkers. The concept is simple, but ...

This as-told-to story is based on a conversation with Krissy Oechslin. The following has been edited for length and clarity. For years, I wanted to walk every block of a city. In 2012, I read a New ...

Geologic map and sections of Manhattan Island, State of New York (1898) (all images via New York Public Library Map Division) One of the more intriguing items is a geologic map of Manhattan from 1898, ...

There’s a dark, windowless room in the Manhattan Borough President’s office where centuries of New York City history live. That room is where Hector Rivera oversees hundreds of years’ worth of maps — ...

As you know we love maps so much, we have a column dedicated to it. And this one is particularly beautiful. Joey Cherdarchuk of Darkhorse Analytics uses Census and Bureau of Labour statistics to chart ...

Check out this really cool interactive map of Manhattan from The New York Times -- you click on a book, and a geographically specific quote from a fictional character appears. It's got a refreshing ...

This map shows the 'degree centrality' of the streets in Manhattan, New York. This reflects how many other streets are connected to each street, with blue representing simple streets with few ...

Manhattan was once a bucolic island of rolling hills, swamps, beavers and bears. Today, the city is an almost-completely-flat grid. This was no organic evolution: in the early 19th century, a radical ...