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Interactive Map Breaks Down Household Incomes Block By Block

There’s already a lot we know about incomes in our corner of Brooklyn: folks in Manhattan Beach tend to do pretty well, Sheepshead Bay is solidly middle-class, and Gerritsen is somewhere between the two. However, a new interactive map published on CartoDB [https://cartodb.com/], the online mapping tool,

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How Gross Is Your Subway Station? New Study Maps 67 Disease-Causing Strains Of Bacteria

Resist the urge to grab the railing – it’s not worth it.Now you don’t have to wonder what exactly you’re touching — or avoiding — on the subway because there’s a comprehensive map [http://graphics.wsj.com/patho-map/] of almost every type of species (of bacteria, food remnants

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NYPD Map Reveals Where Area Crimes Occur, But Not Much Else

The city has unveiled a new interactive crime map [http://maps.nyc.gov/crime/] that allows you to search and learn about basic data on felony crime incidents by location for the prior calendar year, current year, and by month within the current year. While providing more detail than the

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New Map Plots Construction Dates Of Brooklyn Buildings

If you’ve ever wanted to know the approximate age of all the buildings here in Brooklyn, Thomas Rhiel has a map for that. Posted Thursday on BKLYNR [http://bklynr.com/block-by-block-brooklyns-past-and-present/], the map plots the “320,000-odd buildings” in our borough according to the year they were constructed. It’

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Explore The Battle Of Brooklyn With The Old Stone House

Have you ever wanted to explore our neighborhood’s connection to the 1776 Battle of Brooklyn? In addition to a fascinating PDF guide [http://theoldstonehouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/walking-guide.pdf], the Old Stone House [http://theoldstonehouse.org] has an interactive map [http://theoldstonehouse.org/battle-of-brooklyn/map/] and audio

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How Long Is Your Commute?

Work commute. Two words that drive fear into those considering a move to Brooklyn. This week, WNYC created a map of average commute times [http://www.wnyc.org/articles/wnyc-news/2013/mar/05/mega-commuters-take-manhattan/] based on 2010 Census data. According to their research, those living in the 11215 zip code

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MTA Subway Map for November 5

The updated subway recovery map [http://alert.mta.info/sites/default/files/pdf/hurricane_recovery_map_bw_Nov5_0.pdf] for today has been released. The biggest difference between today and Friday for our area is that the F train is now running between Brooklyn and Manhattan. Score! Wishing all

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MAP: The More Things Change…

Bensonhurst ethnic map circa 1919 (From nytimes.com)An article in this morning’s New York Times sought to add some historical perspective to the NYPD’s controversial “mosque crawling” [http://www.ap.org/nypd/] demographics unit. The story included an unabashed ethnic profiling map of New York City from