RAP MAP.(The Talk of the Town)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 08-JAN-07

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From water pipes to porn shops, cartographers have charted almost every aspect of local urban life, giving rise to a sort of cottage industry: the New York City specialty map. The latest--and one you are not likely to see unless you run in criminal-justice circles--is a rendering of the city that breaks down, block by block, the home addresses of all New Yorkers incarcerated in a given year. This map won't get you from Century 21 to the Met. But it does reveal that more prison-bound Bronx residents lived in walkups than in any other type of building, that Staten Island is the most law-abiding borough, and that...

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