Infographic of the Day: New York City's Unmapped Food Regions
New York's reputed to be the world's most intense cultural melting pot, but that can be hard to discern unless you're looking really closely--what's the difference between Hunanese and Cantonese, and what's the difference between Dominican and Puerto Rican?
That's what makes these maps created by Very Small Array fantastic. Using food as a guide, they managed to create what amounts to map of New York's dozens of cultural microregions. The maps were created simply by consulting the Village Voice's restaurant listings--whichever restaurant was most common in a zip code is what's listed on the map. Manhattan, above, isn't that interesting--it's can't beat the outer boroughs for diversity--but in Brooklyn and Queens, the results are superb:
Of course, if you're either a food nerd or some anthropological stickler, you might quibble with the results. But the data is real, and it speaks for itself.
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