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lionfloss · 1 year
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mapsontheweb · 5 months
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Where NYC neighborhoods start and end, according to NYC residents.
via u/TheKCAccident
Fully interactive version (may be paywalled, though) available here. 
To create this map, The New York Times surveyed more than 37,000 city residents as well as all 59 community boards and all 51 city council members. Solid colors indicate areas of unanimity, while more mixed colors show significant disagreement on whether a block belongs to one neighborhood or another.
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brainfreeze27 · 3 months
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cnu-newurbanism · 6 months
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Protect the porch
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The porch is more than just another single-family architectural feature, it's an important part of the culture of Black neighborhoods. Read more.
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newyorkthegoldenage · 7 months
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The construction of Lincoln Center required the obliteration of the neighborhood known as San Juan Hill. It was home to a large population of Blacks, Puerto Ricans, and Afro-Caribbeans when Harlem was still White. Also known as "the Jungles," it was the setting for West Side Story, which opened on Broadway in 1957. It also had a lot of middle-class White residents.
As that was happening, residents were fighting the proposal for an arts complex in the Lincoln Square part of the neighborhood. The poster above urged residents to attend a meeting to stop the project on August 28, 1957. Harris L. Present, a lawyer who had long advocated for the rights of minority groups in the city, led the fight. More than 400 residents showed up. Present urged them to march on City Hall on September 11, hoping to overwhelm the City Planning Commission with pickets and testimony.
Check back here on September 11, 2023, for the sequel. (Spoiler: Lincoln Center was built anyway.)
Photo: Lincoln Center/Gothamist
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7more · 12 days
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up all night // anthem part 3
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chaoticdesertdweller · 4 months
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intraosseous · 10 months
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all things bright and beautiful
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coulsonlives · 8 months
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Recently, I saw a post about how it's good to leave the house every once in a while and get fresh air, and it got me thinking. Because yup, fresh air is great, it can be shitty for mental health if you're cooped up a lot, if you don't change your scenery!
But: that last part made me think about my experience as a kid, and I'm sad about it. When I was a kid, I was in a suburban neighborhood. Technically, I could leave the house and go for walks and get fresh air anytime I wanted. But it was awful for me, and how my mind worked!
I couldn't possibly walk to anything, because the nearest amenity was a 7/11, and it was like an hour-long walk there and back. So the whole idea of walking felt meaningless, unsatisfying. And there were no sidewalks, so I stressed out abt having to use the same road that people drove their vehicles on (and in this day and age, nobody pays attention on the road, so yikes). There were no distinguishing 'landmarks' to help me keep track of where I was, not even any trees, just cookie cutter houses and lawns and very same-y roads, so I always got lost (yep lol, in my own neighborhood!). Maybe I was getting fresh air, but the process made me feel dumb and lonely and confused.
I was basically walking around, day in and day out, in some empty liminal space where all the houses looked the same, where I could walk for literal hours and never feel like I was going anywhere, like I was on a treadmill, and it kinda messed with me. We didn't even have a park nearby. It was literally just this. Day in and day out. Nothing ever changed. There were no events or anything, nothing to look forward to, past putting on some new music on headphones. I barely saw another person. When I did see someone, they were always in a car, trying to get out of the neighborhood to go somewhere that was actually interesting and not mind-numbingly empty!
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It was super shitty. Yep, it got me out of the house which was good, but it could've been so much better if there had just been. A freakin park, or a place to gather and actually see other people (these are called 'third places' and suburbs, like, never have them!). Even if I didn't need to talk to anyone, and I just wanted to people-watch, I would've loved something like that. Alas, there was no chance for spontaneous interactions, or for fun, interesting things to happen, which I think is super super underrated, and a big part of 'getting out of the house' as a complete package.
Gonna link to a Vox article, bc I thought it was really insightful:
How our housing choices make adult friendships more difficult - Vox
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futurebird · 5 months
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The NYT put up this overkill #map with all the neighborhoods. Parts of it are funny like these SIMPLE fools who think Marble Hill is “Riverdale” (just jump in the river.)
But, I also look at the parts of the city with no names. Dark water, dark islands. They are places too. They have names: Rikers, Bronx Kill, Helle Gate, N. Brother Island… places we ignore— water, the wilds, the prison boat.
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s1ndle · 2 years
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Okay so I was mentioned in a post reblogged by @simnostalgia with a user posting screenshots of a few sims from Pleasantview open in SimPE where their neighborhood ID is N014 instead of N001. I can’t find the original post and the reblog was accidentally deleted. 
But I have some context and information!
During the development of The Sims 2, the programmers and QA created a lot of scripts to automate testing of features to speed up the process and ensure that everything was in good shape before release. When The Sims Life Stories was being developed it was of course given access to these automated scripts, but they were included on the disc with the rest of the files needed for the game, seemingly by mistake. These scripts range in date from 2003 to 2005 and the ones that we have were used during the development of the base game, University, and Nightlife. It’s also worth noting that a number of these scripts were originally created purely for the base game and later updated to account for the Expansion Packs as well.
During development the developers created at least 14 different neighborhoods throughout the game’s development. Some of these were early incarnations of the neighborhoods that were included with the final release. While others were purely for testing purposes.
Now we have 11 folders in this directory here: “Electronic Arts\The Sims Life Stories\TSData\SimScript\Unit“
Each of those folders are “loadN###” and numbered 001 through 014 with N011, N012, and N013 being missing. In those folders are automated scripts used to load the neighborhoods, with the names of those respective neighborhoods printed inside the script file.
For context the scripts look like this:
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But using these folders, and these scripts, we can piece together a list of 11 of the 14 neighborhoods that existed on February 25th, 2004. And they are as follows:
N001 - Pleasantview* N002 - Strangetown N003 - Veronaville N004 - z_Sedona N005 - Veronaville N006 - z_Tuning N007 - z_Automation N008 - z_Riverside N009 - z_OEPlayground N010 - Strangetown N014 - Pleasantview*
(*Updated on 5/19/2004 after their initial creation)
Based off of those screenshots from the original post and the list we can infer that the final Pleasantview (N001) was originally the 14th neighborhood created during development before being moved to the first. And so it stands to reason that Veronaville and Strangetown were 5th and 10th respectively, with various test neighborhoods filling space between their creation.
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lionfloss · 1 year
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mapsontheweb · 1 year
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Map of Brooklyn and its neighborhoods
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hclib · 1 year
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Where Did the Kingfield Neighborhood Really Get Its Name?
In 1958 the city of Minneapolis developed a plan for 9 main “Communities” (the downtown area was originally excluded from the community plan). Ideal communities were to be composed of several “neighborhoods” and were to serve a variety of land uses—residential, commercial, industrial, recreational, and institutional. Today the city of Minneapolis has 83 residential neighborhoods—from Armatage to Windom Park. But where did these neighborhoods get their names? Many were named for schools and parks.
Kingfield Neighborhood is in the Southwest Community. It’s bound by 36th St. W on the north, 35W on the east, 46th St. W on the south, and Lyndale Ave. on the west. Recently, a patron inquired about the origin of the Kingfield neighborhood name. Majority of sources say the neighborhood was named after Colonel William S. King, including the Kingfield Neighborhood Association website and this recent article in the Southwest Connector. William S. King (1828-1900) was a congressman, journalist, and cattle breeder, who was involved with railroads, the city’s first streetcar rails, development of the Park Board, and more. King was a partial owner of the nearby Lyndale Farmstead—it would make sense that Kingfield Neighborhood was named after this King. But a little digging in Special Collections shows strong evidence that it’s a different King.
When the communities and neighborhoods were outlined in 1958, Kingfield neighborhood was originally named “Nicollet Field Neighborhood”, named after the park which occupies a large chunk of the neighborhood’s east side. In 1968, after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the park was renamed Martin Luther King Park, which was often referred to in newspapers as “King Field” (see below). While I haven’t uncovered any official city records approving the neighborhood’s name change, it seems pretty obvious that Kingfield neighborhood was in fact named after the newly renamed park, in honor of Dr. King, the civil rights leader, not William S. King.
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When and how it became one word, “Kingfield,” is another question. “Kingfield Neighborhood” as one word first appears in the newspaper in 1989. In 1991 it’s often hyphenated “King-Field Neighborhood”, and even today you see both King Field and Kingfield used.
Above is a 1961 map that outlines the Minneapolis communities and neighborhoods and shows Nicollet Field, next to a 1976 map, showing the change to King Field. Check out photos of the Kingfield neighborhood in the Hennepin County Library Digital Collections
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cnu-newurbanism · 4 months
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Great Idea 23: Public housing that engages the city
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Public housing in the form of complete or partial neighborhoods started with HOPE VI and became standard practice, impacting the lives of people in cities and towns across America. Read more.
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secondsofpleasure · 10 months
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lean / 5.2023
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