Wait a minute... How do we know these guys aren't getting knocked by the folks driving the Google car?

I didnt know wall st fat cats got this far uptown.

thanks guys, now i can't see the corner store i've been looking for...

There was a most hilarious one that has since been taken down with the new imagery. The car was driving down a street on the UWS and there was a kid on the sidewalk riding a scooter. As the car moves, you can see the kid doing a faceplant right on the sidewalk.

Yep, they did.

I remember one from last year in Bed-Stuy with crime scene tape.

looks like they took it down.

Here is another "dead" fellow via Google Street View...:

Dead #1

I hope this is not becoming a trend...

Also, check out this poor lady:

Dead #2

She may be dead as well!

Stupid species anyway. I hope he didn't crush any kittens on his way down.

At least it wasn't the Google car doing the killing, like this poor deer.

quitter.

liberty city!

"Why didn't Google blur out that black dude's face?"

The blurring is done using facial recognition software. You'll occasionally see individuals, like the black guy in the photo, where because of lighting or contrast the software doesn't do much.

The pixelation, though, looks to have been added. As mentioned above it's not there on the next photo taken from up the block. Since the photo was pointed out some time ago on the gallery site linked to from Kiernan's page, Google was likely made aware of it for some time and apparently modified just the one shot that had been posted.

Street View shows some bugginess here -- if you click one step west it shows a different image of the same intersection instead of "moving" you down the block.

The viww one step west isn't really "bugginess," the process of shooting from a moving car means obviously that every shot in a given area can't be done at one time. As the vehicle moves, time is passing and things are happening around it.

That shot was taken by a vehicle travelling on Park at a different time from when the shots on 29th were taken. As the construction equipment makes clear, a different day entirely.

The viww one step west isn't really "bugginess," the process of shooting from a moving car means obviously that every shot in a given area can't be done at one time. As the vehicle moves, time is passing and things are happening around it.

That shot was taken by a vehicle travelling on Park at a different time from when the shots on 29th were taken. As the construction equipment makes clear, a different day entirely.

They've since pulled the images, but it was in fact messed up: Clicking forward (west) actually moved you backwards (east). IME, Google Street View is buggy and needs more resources than Google is willing to allocate because they rarely fix reported errors. For just two examples, go here and click forward or check here and notice that the entire block is wrong (the images are not of 56th Street).

The blurring is done using facial recognition software. You'll occasionally see individuals, like the black guy in the photo, where because of lighting or contrast the software doesn't do much.

This is supported by the fact that the white dude's bald spot appears to have been blurred :)

I think the face-blurring is automated. The face-detection must not work as well for black folks.

why should it be removed? People die everyday/ a planet of empty streets? Unreal.

Did you notice that if you pull this image up on Google Street View, and you click to one step east and then zoom a bit, you get a much better view of the man's face? Also, Street View shows some bugginess here -- if you click one step west it shows a different image of the same intersection instead of "moving" you down the block.

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I actually saw this once in Providence,R.I. A man had walked up to an intersection, put his suitcase down to wait for the light to change green, and then fell over dead as you please. Death is coming for all of us. No one here get's out alive.

PAR-TAY!!!!

Google Streetview or it didn't happen.