Map Your Memories

Maps are more about their makers than the places they describe. Map who you are. Map where you are. Fill the map with a story or paint your favorite cup of coffee. Map the invisible. Map the obvious. Map your memories. var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-9194686-1"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}

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Come doodle with me today! "Mapping Manhattan" at the Children's Museum of Manhattan from 2-4pm.

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Thanks for the love, Travel + Leisure! 

Mapping Manhattan

A collection of personalized maps by New Yorkers both anonymous and famous, Mapping Manhattan: A Love (and Sometimes Hate) Story in Maps by 75 New Yorkers compiles dozens of personal recollections about the Big Apple. Author Becky Cooper distributed blank maps to the contributors and asked people to annotate them with personal associations instead of major landmarks. The result is a touching compilation of illustrated maps that has been compared to Post Secret for its confessional quality.

read more here: http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/new-york-city-gifts-and-souvenirs

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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”

My favorite part about this map is the coffee ring stain. 

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Continuing in the Manhattan Marymount College series, this map of air quality. 

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A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of speaking to students at Marymount Manhattan College, and I’ll be posting my favorite maps of theirs over the next few weeks. This map is from a student in Professor Tahneer Oksman’s course, New York’s Literary Women.