Jake Berman
@lostsubways
Lawyer, historian, professor, mapmaker. Transport + housing nerd. Californian living in New York. Wrote and illustrated "The Lost Subways of North America". Order the book at:
my boring take is that we should go with stars and stripes as our jersey identity, but i'm not in charge
the serious soccer countries all have a good design identity. brazil = yellow. spain = red. argentina = blue and white. we need to get on this bandwagon.
one thing i really wish the US national soccer team had was a jersey identity. all of our jerseys look like they came out of nike's generic design shop, and there's no real unifying identity to them. we're just all over the place.
the japanese do a variant of this type of zoning that includes light industrial. urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japa...
who on earth at Nike approved this world cup ad??? "2026 is the anus of dreams"???
bad news for anyone trying to go anywhere near Madison Square Garden this afternoon/evening - it's all closed off for the President.
this is unquestionably correct. football stadiums don't have enough events - and there are very few musicians/rodeos/religious revivals/political rallies that can fill a 70,000-seat stadium. there are tons that can fill a 20,000 seat arena, though. (I put this point in my own book.)
of course, all of this pales in comparison to the sheer size of the old red car system. (this was the first map i designed for "the lost subways of north america.")
though if i'm honest, my personal favorite LA transit map is the one that shows the modern metro system relative to the freeways. you really get a sense of how enormous los angeles is, and how limited the metro is in comparison.
in honor of today's opening of the D Line extension phase 1, here's my updated map of the los angeles metro.
the bukharian jews of uzbekistan, who had been in the region for a couple thousand years, picked up morkovcha and made it a standard part of their culinary repertoire. (the screenshot is from a bukharian place in forest hills, queens.) 4/
in uzbekistan, there were no supplies of napa cabbage to make kimchi with, so they had to make do with carrots. 3/
in the 1930s, stalin deported the soviet union's ethnic korean minority from the soviet far east. the nkvd feared that that the koreans would side with imperial japan in the event of war. about 200,000 people were forced to leave for uzbekistan. 2/
today's cooking, a carrot salad called "morkovcha", has a fascinating history. the version i make is asian-jewish fusion cuisine - but not the way you'd think. 1/
You know how you make it economical to run frequent trains? You have one-man or two-man operation, instead of having a zillion conductors checking tickets.
And then there's this kind of sad-sack assumption that NJ Transit, Metro-North and the LIRR will keep using incredibly wasteful labor processes so it's not economical to run trains through.
Same way that they pretend Jamaica Station doesn't exist here. The entire Long Island Rail Road designed so that passengers have a straightforward transfer at Jamaica.
And same thing here - they set up a strawman by assuming that all trains will have to run the entire length of every line.
Like, saying that through trains need to stop at Penn Station for 7 minutes is completely insane. Dwell time at Kyoto Station (a through station) is 2 minutes, 6 seconds. I have no idea where they got these numbers from.
and it gives good clues for the state of agriculture and transport in the Northeast in the 1870s. there's pretty slim pickings in the winter. hope you like cabbages.
there's also some really cool stuff in here though, they have some awesome pickle recipes that i'm eager to try
the state of healthcare in 1871 makes me incredibly grateful for modern medicine. mrs. levy recommends using ginger tea spiked with quinine, alcohol and opium as cough syrup (laudanum is powdered opium, mixed with 50-proof alcohol)
i'm looking at a cookbook written by mrs. esther levy in 1871. it has general housekeeping advice in it. including what to do if a person catches fire.
Today's map: Phoenix's streetcar system, 1930. At the time, Phoenix had less than 50,000 people; residential air conditioning wasn't really a thing before World War II.
In Japan, you can drop your luggage at any convenience store and receive it the next day at your destination for $15 a bag the next day. This is black magic.