New York's Gentrification On Street View

Nearby Street View images captured on too almost route intersections oft incorporate images from 2 dissimilar fourth dimension periods. This gap inward fourth dimension is sometimes large plenty for whole novel buildings to live on constructed betwixt the times that the Google Street View auto drove by. Justin Blinder has been exploiting these temporal gaps inward Street View to explore the gentrification of New York.

In Vacated Justin used the NYC Department of City Planning PLUTO dataset to detect buildings that accept been built or altered since 2009. Vacated includes a Google Map of of novel developments inward Manhattan too Brooklyn. It likewise contains a divulge of captivating animated gifs created from 2 dissimilar Street Views of the same location. The gifs are a corking visualization of the developing flush of New York.