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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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Thanks Monocle for this behind-the-scenes look at the Istanbul Design Biennial -- aka the reason I was lucky enough to drink my weight in Turkish coffee two weeks ago. (See if you can spot Mapping Manhattan at around the 4-minute mark!) Istanbul Maps are coming in -- will post here very soon! And for any of you passing through Istanbul in the next few weeks, the Mapping Manhattan pieces will be on display through December 14th!

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Happy 1st Birthday, little book. Thank you all for such an incredible year!

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So SO thrilled to announce that Mapping Manhattan framed prints are now available through Uncommon Goods. Yahoo! (Looking for one that isn't available yet? Drop me a line and I'll see what I can do: [email protected]) 

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A bit of a departure from the maps I normally post on here, but too interesting a map and too happy a story not to post:

            My friend dropped their iPhone in a taxi on Sat night and we tracked it on the find a phone app.  20 hours after losing it, the taxi driver found it, with 3% bat left, called my friend and returned it! Below is the tracked version!

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A murder mystery feels appropriate for this frigid day. Mapmaker: Sandy Morganstein. 

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The Style Line featured Mapping Manhattan this month! Best part? Backstories behind some of the awesome maps in the book, including ones by graphic novelist Liana Finck and I-will-walk-every-street-in-NYC Matt Green. Second best part? The map behind me calls Russia "The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics". Read more: http://thestyleline.com/mapping-manhattan/

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Mapping Manhattan is in today’s issue of the New York Times Book Review!!!! Feels like making it to Broadway. 

“Maps,” Cooper says in this book the size of a large billfold, “are more about their makers than the places they describe.” That is certainly the case with the people whose memories and desires, hopes and despairs, are captured here against an outline of the island where New York began.

Read more:  http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/08/books/review/alexandros-washburns-nature-of-urban-design-and-more.html?smid=tw-share