So, I love maps. Which is weird, because I have an outlandishly difficult time reading them. A few years back, a friend and I took a road-trip and, as he was the driver, I was the navigator. We were headed to Virgina, but—thanks to my expert cartographic skills, we ended up in Maryland. Now, the upside was that we had some GREAT soft-shell crabs for dinner, but the downside was, like I said, we were in Maryland. Directions, they are my Kryptonite.
But maps—hey, I love ’em, especially the one I discovered yesterday over at Strange Maps. You can see a smaller version to the right (click the pix for the hi-rez), but it’s a simple breakdown of Manhattan ‘nabes and organized by associated song.
Way uptown, you’ve got Suzanne Vega crooning about Tom’s Dinner, while the Ramones lay claim to Midtown East (53rd & 3rd), Marianne Faithfull’s Times Square is, well, Times Square and the greatgreat Gogol Bordello represents Alphabet City with Avenue B .
It’s a a fun map to look, but honestly, what about Brooklyn (and listen Queens, Bronx, SI, I totally dig you and all, but I am a Brooklyn-Boy-to-the-Bone)? The map’s just a little too Manhattan-centric for my tastes and considering the great music scene stretching from Southpaw to the Brooklyn Bowl, the lack of a larger map is, I think, a deadly omission. Am I right? Or am I being as much a Brooklynist as the the author of the map was a Manhattanite?
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