notes.husk.org. scribblings by Paul Mison.

IRT Construction, Bowling Green, New York City, 1905, by Granville W Pullis. Another cyanotype from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

NYTimes.com: A Digital Manhattan in ‘The Avengers’ (via mappeal):

We also had a team doing something called LIDAR, which is being able to create geometry of the city by scanning it,” Mr. White said. “We take those spheres of photographs and we project them onto the geometry.

Everyone likes LIDAR and 3D flat-textured 3D renderings, right?

Housing in towers, a 1964 proposal by Buckminster Fuller and Shoji Sadao for Harlem in upper Manhattan.

(I’ve seen the proposal for a dome over Manhattan, but these cooling-tower like structures are new to me.)

“Map of City of New York, Showing the Distribution of the Principal Nationalities by Sanitary Districts” (1895). Each pattern reflects a different ethnicity. (from, via)

I’m a sucker for the “looking up” genre, and this one’s particularly nice because of the nested shadows and reflections. Photograph by Jeffrey Meyers.

Hoboken railroads and New York’s skyline, by Berenice Abbot. From Thinking Berenice Abbott, July 17 1898 (via)

Lower Manhattan Expressway 384u (by Pruitt-Igoe Film, via Adam Greenfield)

The Manhattan Airport Foundation suggest putting an airport on Central Park. It’s an amazingly pretty and professional site, for what must surely be a prank.

(It’s probably a bit worrying that my first technical objection is that airport runways are better aligned east-west than north-south, isn’t it?)

nevver:

Manhattanhenge II

One year, I will make it to NYC for this.

USS Macon over New York City