The Big Map began in late 2003 as a blank slate to fill in. Over time, "big map" became an intransitive verb, as in "we'll go big map in Queens this weekend." Eventually it evolved into a transitive verb where anything and everything could be "big mapped". We big mapped 5th Avenue in Sunset Park, for example. We also big mapped discarded christmas trees. We've even big mapped the laundromat down the street.

Julian Dibbell wrote about the Big Map in the Village Voice -- "Shuttered: Who will remember all the crappy pizza joints fading into NYC history?" (August 31, 2005).

The Not For Tourists website featured the Big Map in a Radar listing (July 26, 2007)

Big Map Key

There is a main page for each borough that features a clickable map which in turn takes you to individual neighborhoods and/or geographic sections of each borough.

The Explore button is the shortcut to the entire list of individual pages for each borough.

The Feed button takes you to food and dining pages for each borough, including menus from places we've eaten at.

The Citywide button features pages and/or things that are not restricted to a particular borough.

Finally, the Get Out of Town button takes you to that which exists beyond the five boroughs.

How To Big Map YouTube Video

Big Map Blog

You can keep track of Big Map additions via the Big Map Blog! You can also subscribe to the feed . . .

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