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The New York City graticule is at latitude 40, longitude -73. It includes most of New York City (minus Staten Island, the west tip of Brooklyn, the West Village & Chelsea and downtown Manhattan) and a whole hell of a lot of Long Island. Sigh, if only our graticule were not mostly sea water... On the bright side, non-preppies can now visit the Greenwich, CT islands in this graticule via Metro North and ferry.
Today's Location:
[New York, NY]
There is a facebook group for New York, NY geohashers. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=19859510038
Notable Events
February 11, 2009: The north New Jersey geohash is in the parking lot for a Costco (Thanks, Google Street View!) just off the Gowanus Expressway in Brooklyn, NY. Street address is 976 3rd Ave, Brooklyn, NY. Take the D, M, N or R train to 36th Street.
Local Geohashers
- Oleo
- Barney
- Patrick
- Zach
- Dan
- Caroline hopes to geohash over the summer.
- Andrew hopes to geohash over the summer.
- Jessi
- Andrew L hopes to geohash over the summer.
- Joe will geohash when in town, but is at school for most of the summer.
- MattPeck
- Harris
- Marco will geohash on weekends and holidays, and probably during his vacation.
- Shannon
- HeadKase will be there if the MTA lets him.
- phil_s_stein Will try to be there, but can't swim - so maybe not.
- Ryelle is currently across the country, but will try to go between returning and going off to school.
- Rob G will be there when his gas tank permits it.
- Mike lives in Queens and might drive to some of these.
- Moare is going to Hofstra this fall and hopes to join in.
Issues
This seems to be one instance where the incredibly cool XKCD geohashing scheme fails. Many New Yorkers located in the city do not have cars due to the availability of public transportation and the lack of space to park said car. Because of this, people may instead choose to be lazy and not use the train to go out to Long Island. This could be solved by congregating at or near the closest train (LIRR, MTA, Metro North) station when hashes occur in generally unreachable locations.
