Peopling of NYC - place http://macaulay.cuny.edu/seminars/brooks10/taxonomy/term/1/0 en Introduction to our class website http://macaulay.cuny.edu/seminars/brooks10/node/202 <p>With Ke's permission, I cut and pasted part of the analytical paper she wrote (about the Wong and Orelick articles) and added some detail of my own to create an introduction to our website for outsiders trying to understand the way we've connected these two neighborhoods and the Q Train. Please feel free to make suggestions, changes, etc.: </p> <div class="og_rss_groups"></div><p><a href="http://macaulay.cuny.edu/seminars/brooks10/node/202" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://macaulay.cuny.edu/seminars/brooks10/node/202#comments Chinatown community friction identity place Q train stop Sun, 18 Apr 2010 15:19:23 +0000 Professor Brooks 202 at http://macaulay.cuny.edu/seminars/brooks10 Map resource (kind of neat) http://macaulay.cuny.edu/seminars/brooks10/node/39 <p>&nbsp;A new resource mentioned in this morning's <em>New York Times</em> allows you to look at a map of NYC from above with a satellite view. Of course, that's simply Google Earth, but there's a little bar in the interface that you can move to see the same view in 2006...and in 1924. It's kind of neat to be able to do what's essentially a Google Earth satellite view for 1924, and also very useful to historians. Here's the link:</p> <p><a href="http://gis.nyc.gov/doitt/nycitymap/">http://gis.nyc.gov/doitt/nycitymap/</a></p> <div class="og_rss_groups"></div><p><a href="http://macaulay.cuny.edu/seminars/brooks10/node/39" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://macaulay.cuny.edu/seminars/brooks10/node/39#comments community housing place Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:53:26 +0000 Professor Brooks 39 at http://macaulay.cuny.edu/seminars/brooks10