A roundup of fun maps on QueensNYC - voting, dating, dogs, and more

Over the months, we’ve featured a number of maps on QueensNYC – what can we say, we think maps are pretty interesting, especially the interactive ones. Here’s a roundup of maps that have caught our eye – we hope you enjoy them a second time around!

1940s New York: See what your neighborhood used to be like with this interactive map

Using this interactive map, republished by the CUNY Graduate Center from a 1943 “NYC Market Analysis” newspaper feature, we can see snapshots of what life used to be like back in the day. The roads looked a lot calmer, with only a few cars and no lane markings; vertical store signs were abundant on commercial streets, too. The original population statistics and real estate information are viewable on the website as well.

The visual vote in Queens – how the presidential election went down

Image source: NYT

We enjoyed looking at this cool map that the NY Times published illustrating the presidential vote results, precinct by precinct.

We think this hand drawn map of NYC is way cool

We were recently turned on to this very cool hand drawn map of NYC by artist Jenni Sparks. And one of the nice things about it is that it doesn’t just stick to Manhattan, but expands into Brooklyn and western Queens. It’s also interesting to note that she is based in the UK (she’s done a map of London, too), not the US.

Transit outage maps after Hurricane Sandy portrayed as dreamlike watercolors

Image source: OpenTripPlanner Analyst project

The Atlantic Cities published a short series of maps created by developers at OpenTripPlanner, an “open source platform for multimodal trip itinerary planning and network analysis.” These maps illustrate NYC transit access before and after Hurricane Sandy hit, and they look like beautiful watercolors, despite how frustrating that time was for so many. The contrasts are striking, too.

What’s the most common dog name in your neighborhood? Dogs of NYC knows

Image source: WNYC

We love this map called Dogs of NYC – it shows the most common names and breeds in any one zip code, and below the map are a number of Top 10 charts – top female names, top male names, and also top 10 names based on movies (Rocky, Gizmo) and drinks (Mocha, Cocoa), among others. This info was gathered from city dog license data.

Cool interactive map depicting what New Yorkers complain about

Image source: Visualizing

Here at QueensNYC we love maps and we came across this one via io9 called “What do New Yorkers complain about?” The data for the map was based on “two years of 311 calls” concerning litter, graffiti, and noise.

Dating – LIC is one of the best neighborhoods for finding single straight men, so says Trulia

Image source: Trulia via Atlantic Cities

Over on Atlantic Cities, they are running an article called The Neighborhoods With the Most Single Ladies (and Men), focusing on the straight singles/dating scene in various urban areas around the country. To get to their conclusions Trulia looked at the ratio of men living alone to women living alone; gays and lesbians were taken out of the equation; and those over 65 were, too (apparently “ differences in life expectancy skew the gender ratio in the later years”). Data was culled from the 2010 decennial Census; additional details on methodology is at the bottom of the Atlantic Cities article.