This post appeared in a previous blog and is here for posterity’s sake.
Panoramic Map of New York uploaded by Eightface
Check out this cool World’s Fair NYC Panoramic map which Dave Kellam found.
Two points:
- Look over to where the Lower East Side is, see anything funny?
- Look to where Greenpoint, Brooklyn is; see anything wrong, or mislabeled?
I love old maps! (via curbed)
Well, the LES used to be a ghetto, before it became New Jersey, so I don’t know if the label is really that far off.
I have to agree with Arno about the LES label–most of Manhattan used to be ghettoes of some sort, especially if you hew close to the original definition of a ghetto as a closed, ethnic enclave. Satmar Williamsburg and Chinatown are technically ghettoes. The definition you seem to be applying is much more contemporary and colloquial…
Well, I’m not applying any sort of label – whomever made this map 70+ years ago did. I just thought it was funny that that part of town was labled “Ghetto.”