Five boroughs
07/06/04
I decided to introduce a bit of randomness into my travels by randomly picking one street in each borough out of the index of my Hagstrom's and taking one photo on each street.
William Avenue, City Island, The Bronx
West 24th Street, Coney Island, Brooklyn
East 101st Street, Upper East Side, Manhattan
Troutman Street, Bushwick/"Ridgewood", Queens
Draper Place, New Springville, Staten Island
Staten Island was a bit of a fiasco: Hagstrom's showed Draper Place across the street from where it actually was, so I had to make a second trip all the way out there to find it. The computerized version of Hagstrom's is the worst monstrosity perpetrated on New York cartography since the 1972 Vignelli subway map.
The 666 Laundromat, for which this site is named, can be seen in a brief scene in HBO's new film Everyday People. In the scene, about 28 minutes in, two of the laundromat employees are eating lunch, sitting on red benches in front of the laundromat's red storefront.
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Posted by: brents at July 6, 2004 03:41 AM
great idea.
Posted by: tomas at July 6, 2004 04:06 AM
i really like the premise behind these pics. and i am really blown away by the concept of an old wooden house set on a massive green lawn in the bronx...
Posted by: anthony at July 6, 2004 11:11 AM
cool pics.
yeah, hagstrom really takes the cake for crappy maps. I have a brooklyn one and they have all kinds of irrelevant stuff in big ol type that doesn't leave room for important things like say the words 'Atlantic Avenue".
Posted by: kowgurl at July 6, 2004 12:23 PM
would assuming that these were not taken on the same day be correct?
Posted by: tien at July 6, 2004 12:48 PM
Quite.
Posted by: Mike at July 6, 2004 12:52 PM
Such love of the polis - aristocratic.
Posted by: Adam Khan at July 6, 2004 03:23 PM
This is a really neat concept. You should encourage more NY photobloggers to do the exact same thing and compare results.
Posted by: Andy at July 6, 2004 04:20 PM
It is a good idea but you are going to wear out your Metrocard.
Posted by: David at July 6, 2004 05:47 PM
This was all human-powered -- no Metrocard involved -- with the exception of the ferry.
Posted by: Mike at July 6, 2004 06:02 PM
How annoyed were you when you saw the Bronx street you picked was in City Island? What a schlep.
Please tell you did not call E. 101st Street the "Upper East Side" - what are you, a Real Estate Broker?
I will use my Dog-Eared Hagstrom's 2001 edition 5-borough Atlas until the day I die.
Posted by: Moe at July 7, 2004 12:18 AM
I really like the "Upper East Side" photo. While scrolling down the page it kind of looks like they are all wearing gas masks. Looking at it again it reminds me of ancient Egyptian statues that have been defaced...
Neat sculptural details above the bricked up windows too!
Posted by: McMonkey at July 7, 2004 09:56 AM
Don't "scare quote" Ridgewood! Ridgewood is real, and 11385 is it. I'm more worried about that extra 5 dangling off the end of their phone number...
Posted by: Aileen at July 7, 2004 10:32 AM
Great photos! Esp like "West 24th Street, Coney Island, Brooklyn"
Posted by: ian at July 7, 2004 07:15 PM
the coney island shot is just like how it gets! not overcooked, well spiced. bon appetite!.)
Posted by: thirtythree at July 8, 2004 07:10 PM
the West 24th Street photo is an incredible shot.
Posted by: fosl ego at July 12, 2004 03:04 PM
I only know New York City from television. I, too, was amazed by the house and lawn. Could you give a ballpark figure of the value of that house? I have heard astronomical monthly rents on apartments, so idle curiousity makes me wonder about real estate.
Posted by: Ginnie at July 21, 2004 09:11 AM
The mural's are by De La Vega. I have one of his t-shirts.