NYC’s Urban Textscape

All these transcribed words are a wealth of information: non-English text could indicate a cultural enclave, like this one in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. All these transcribed words are a wealth of information: non-English text could indicate a cultural enclave, like this one in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. We can pinpoint the phrases that comprise NYC vernacular. We can pinpoint the phrases that comprise NYC vernacular. Source: Google Street View, Jan 2018, 1173 2nd Avenue, Manhattan From everyday common words… From everyday common words… …to phrases that uniquely blanket the city. …to phrases that uniquely blanket the city. Source: Google Street View, Oct 2021, 2451 Victory Boulevard, Staten Island If you know, you know. If you know, you know. This is possible because media artist Yufeng Zhao fed millions of publicly-available panoramas from Google Street View into a computer program that transcribes text within the images (anyone can access these Street View images; you don’t even need a Googl

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