Crowdsourcing New York City Building Names Database
Tektonomastics is the Building Names project. In particular, it “is a project to map and photograph the named buildings of New York City.” Building names reflect people’s names, place descriptors and sometimes just fun. “These eclectic names evoke a bygone era when owners, builders and designers named their buildings with personality (and humor). By taking photographs and mapping the locations of these buildings, we hope to create a map of this forgotten landscape and help these neglected building names live once more.”
The inventory stands now at 97. There’s also a Googlemap.
via @tinacary
by Adena Schutzberg on 07/08 at 05:00 AM |
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