{"id":1819660,"date":"2023-11-02T09:04:29","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T13:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1819660"},"modified":"2023-11-02T09:04:29","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T13:04:29","slug":"a-map-of-new-york-city-neighbourhoods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/11\/a-map-of-new-york-city-neighbourhoods\/","title":{"rendered":"A Map of New York City Neighbourhoods"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in December 2022, the New York Times<\/em> asked readers to map their neighbourhoods<\/a>. They got 37,000 responses; combined with feedback from council members, community boards and another survey, the result is a detailed interactive map of New York City neighbourhoods<\/a> as seen by New Yorkers that the Times<\/em> is keeping behind its paywall. The accompanying article<\/a> talking about how the map came to be and what it reveals, is a bit more accessible (see also archive link<\/a>). [LanguageHat<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in December 2022, the New York Times asked readers to map their neighbourhoods. They got 37,000 responses; combined with feedback from council members, community boards and another survey, the result is a detailed interactive… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[363],"tags":[54,194,140],"class_list":["post-1819660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-human-geography","tag-cities","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-times","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1786083,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/08\/googles-invented-neighbourhoods\/","url_meta":{"origin":1819660,"position":0},"title":"Google’s Invented Neighbourhoods","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"7 August 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"Google is assigning names to neighbourhoods that, the\u00a0New York Times reports, have little basis in reality\u2014but once on Google Maps, those names swiftly come into a popular usage they never had before. 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