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June 9, 2010
In Search of Lonely Diners and Unbought Bloggers
City Room
by J. David Goodman and Andy Newman
For the opposite of geographic mystery and ambiguity, we turn to Eric Fischer’s Flickr heat map of photography in New York.
With an apparently simple rule to divide those who shoot a lot of pictures of New York from just-visiting interlopers, the map presents a fascinating portrait of the city, something akin to seeing the movement of cells under a microscope. And while it may be obvious that Midtown and Museum Mile are red hot — the location of tourist photos appear red, and those of locals, blue — with visitors, there are some surprises, such as the absence of tourists from Governors Island and Hudson River Park. Also strange: Lots of New Yorkers take pictures around Atlantic Yards.
NoLandGrab: Strangest of all? Atlantic Yards takes a lot of pictures of you.
Posted by eric at June 9, 2010 10:37 PM