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Watch #NYC grow from 1609 to today with this animated video assembled from historic maps https://t.co/V3krdx1Qfs pic.twitter.com/i8VXXs4sDp

— 6sqft (@6sqft) May 13, 2019

"the map visually animates the development of this city’s infrastructure and street grid using geo-referenced road network data, historic maps, and geological surveys, highlighting the kind of organic growth spurts that drive development over time, providing an “abstract representation of urbanism.”"

#@6sqft #NYC #NYC history #Myles Zhang #maps

(via NYC's first subway line moved passengers just one block | 6sqft)

Source: http://twitter.com/6sqft/status/1098342944812294144

NYC’s first subway line was a pneumatic tube that moved passengers just one block https://t.co/8AP6NCghki pic.twitter.com/ae2Rd9ZSe6

— 6sqft (@6sqft) February 20, 2019

#@6sqft #nyc subway #pneumatic tube #nyc history

Source: http://twitter.com/6sqft/status/976971789086621697

The story behind "Scabby the Rat," NYC’s symbol of unionized labor https://t.co/7QLCWPsYJs pic.twitter.com/gPRtKGWCKT

— 6sqft (@6sqft) March 23, 2018

"Peggy and Mike O’Connor, who own Big Sky Balloons and Searchlights Inc., can be credited with designing the menacing looking rat. The Illinois-based company owners told Vice about the first time an organization called them seeking an inflatable rat. The idea first came from organizers Ken Lambert and Don Newton from District Council 1 of the International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers. “Mike and the organizers were going back and forth, saying, ‘We need it more snarly,’” Peggy said. “They wanted a mean, ghastly looking kind of rat.” Since then, the design of Scabby remains the same."

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(via 100 years ago, Hanukkah was a brand-new holiday to New York | 6sqft)

"Hanukkah, in effect, emerged to serve almost as a counter-balance to Christmas. To many immigrants and their children, the celebration became a way of asserting Jewish identity in America. And as more and more Jews found economic success in New York, buying presents for children became a way to validate the risk they took in emigrating. Ultimately the Americanized holiday was the effort of those “who felt the complexities of American Jewish life most acutely,” as the Atlantic put it.

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