Map of the Day: Property Shark w/Pictures!

This is pretty amazing: Property Shark has added pictures of every building in Manhattan to their maps page. Instructions via their press release:

To find photos using our map, go to our maps, click on Manhattan and then keep clicking. Each time you click, you'll zoom in. Then, when you get to the lowest zoom level and can't zoom any more, if you click on a building you'll bring up the photo of the building along with a description. Click around some more to see other buildings.

There have been other efforts to comprehensively map every building in the city. In 1939, the city's tax assessors did a complete set-- these can be purchased from the city or viewed on microfilm, but sadly are not yet available online. Frank Didik tried to assemble a similar archive in 2002, and most of those pictures are up on his site. Then there is Amazon's A9 maps, which includes street level pictures for major streets and avenues, but lacks images for most of the residential areas of Manhattan. And of course, nothing like this is available yet for the outer boroughs!

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By Jake Dobkin in Miscellaneous on January 7, 2006 10:02 AM

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prince

FROM THE ROYAL PALACE.

FROM ASHANTI VILLAGE.

KING AKIN SANKOH

PALACE.

Attn:

I am contacting with utmost respect and with the sincere hope that it will move you into action to help me with my request. I am Prince Joshua Sankoh my father was the king of ashanti village, my father king Sankoh is among the people that died in the plane crash which occured on 19th of oct 2005 I am under-going so many problems here from my uncle's side.

my uncle is now trying to claim his properties and drove me out of ashanti village, though the entire community had several meetings to talk to my uncle yet he refused to allow me use my late father's belongings.

He is not happy with me because I am going to be the next king in ashanti village and he's not just happy about it.

Before my father's death, he happened to deposit the sum of $7.5USDMillion in a Security Firm.as iam the only son of my father am the only person that knows about the money am 25 years of age and I really need your help to receive this money from me, at least I know you will be able to keep the money until when I will come down to your country to meet you so that we will use the money to invest. I will offer you 20% from the total amount.

All I need from you is your kind honest/interest to handle this transaction with me. I will love to invest the money into real estate in your country and you will act as my overseas agent. Please it is important you send me your telephone and fax numbers for a smooth communication.

Best regards,

Prince Joshua Sankoh

ROYAL PALACE:

FOR THE FAMILY

Ryan

Both my apartment building (in Brooklyn, with no picture) and my office building (adjacent to Rockefeller Center) showed inaccurate information--for my apartment building, it was an incorrect owner, which is understandable. But for my office building, which is a very large hard-to-miss structure, the address was completely wrong.

Sternel

I looked up my office and was shown a picture for a building on the next block, and given a number several digits off. That explains why it's free.

Kevin Walsh

Seems to work best with firefox. Safari, not so good.

www.forgotten-ny.com

me

it works for brooklyn, too -- it had all the info on my parents' house there. haven't checked queens or staten island.

A_B

Worked as advertised for me.

Fantastic resource. How is it free?

sheila

my building, which has an Ave. address, was shown with a St. address. and when plugging that street address into Windows Local Live, took me to another intersection.