Google Maps has upped its considerable offering to include "Street View," which offers views of the certain locations at the street-level imagery. The areas where you can see images are noted by blue lines on the map (click the "Street View" button). Manhattan is pretty covered and downtown Brooklyn is covered, but the Bronx, Queens and State Island views are pretty much limited by major roads. Below is 1 Centre Street; you can't get an image of City Hall, because the blue line doesn't go into City Hall Park. Here's what Eastern Parkway at the Brooklyn Library looks like and this is the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. more ›

The Rangers need fixing and fast. Facing a team that hadn’t won all season on the road and needed to take two buses, a ferry and then walk part of the way to MSG, New York dropped a 4-2 contest to Florida Wednesday night. more ›

Ben Fry has developed this very nifty graphic showing the relationship between the payroll and team success throughout the Major Baseball league. Check out the graph at his site, which will show the changes throughout the season, but here's a quick explanation of that the lines mean:

A steep blue line means that the team is doing well for its money, which reflects well on the team's General Manager. A steep red line implies that the team is throwing away money. The thickness of the line is proportional to the team's salary relative to the others.

Down in our comment threads, a bunch of people have been discussing the way Google Maps stiches together satellite photos. Their process sometimes produces fairly trippy mistakes as photos taken at various times of day get merged. Travis Harris marked up this shot of the South Street Seaport: more ›