Yet Another Pretty Map

Rikers and Roosevelt Islands are beyond the pale

I am re-posting this with additional thoughts, updates.

Hey! Look at the pretty colors... At TripTropNYC, you enter your street address and the site grades the average time of travel according to a rainbow spectrum. That gives you a decent average, I suppose, with all trains and buses running normally (and these days, none of the MTA is running anything close to normal).

Then TripTropNYC also lets you compare time of travel between two addresses, by subway. Again, sort of useful, I guess. Most New Yorkers who have used the subway system regularly would be able to guesstimate times fairly accurately anyway. But the colors are pretty! As the site's creator amusingly puts it: "It's also a nice way to tell your friend to stop inviting you to the purple part of the Bronx."

I was further entertained to find that the creator, Jonathan Soma, also created a Singles Map some time ago. This issue — presumed ratios of males to females in various parts of the U.S. — has arisen as a matter for discussion between myself an a straight, single female friend, who chooses not to return to New York because she says there could be (hyperbole alert) as many as 86,000 single women per 3.4 single men in New York City, and given that 2.7 of the 3.4 are gay, then she will remain single for at least 234 years. So, behold the (admittedly heteronormative) interactive Singles Map!