alt Hacker NewsI’ve long thought about trying to map of how the locations of music and maybe theater events listed in the magazine have changed over time.
There are performances of some kind in pretty much every corner of NYC but it’s interesting to see which neighborhoods have had events deemed relevant to The New Yorker readership in different eras.
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in addition to making a map, it would also be a fascinating timeline: you could show venues (as they appear/disappear through time) and artists, and filter/search those
imagine seeing listings for John Coltrane or Miles Davis or Benny Goodman...
let me know if I can help - it's a beautiful & great project idea!
That's a very neat idea! If you ever have the time to do it you should try it out, in fact you've gave me an idea of trying to do the same for my city, Bucharest, just need to find some relevant data-sources.
It also speaks to what we lose when we lose magazine listings of events (New Yorker effectively gutted this section within the past decade), movie showtime listings via newspaper, etc
We have a very strong archive going back a century until about 2015, but now wading through linkrot circa 2017 is miserable