walkscore.com — great idea for a google maps mashup site. you type in your address, and it gives an overall ranking of your living quarters on a scale from 1 to 100, in terms of walking distance to types of businesses.
here’s my walk score:
var ws_address = “4410 Cayuga Ave, Bronx, NY 10471″;
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had dinner at salvatores of soho on friday night. the name’s a bit misleading — the restaurant isn’t in soho. it’s in riverdale. maybe salvatore is from soho, and he came to riverdale to open a restaurant. not sure.
anyway.
they have excellent basic red-sauce italian food. great pizza. a well-planned [...]
via gawker, i found out about this new site, everyblock.com, that aggregates information about your neighborhood from various sources.
right now, it’s only new york, chicago, and san francisco, but i could see this scaling up into national coverage.
there’s lots of great info about my neighborhood. i learned not to eat at tony and val’s [...]
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