Author, historian and activist Rebecca Solnit authored an interesting book titled Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas that includes a stunning collection of unique and original New York City maps that speak more to locals than tourists.

Nonstop Metropolis, the culminating volume in a trilogy of atlases, conveys innumerable unbound experiences of New York City through twenty-six imaginative maps and informative essays. Bringing together the insights of dozens of experts—from linguists to music historians, ethnographers, urbanists, and environmental journalists—amplified by cartographers, artists, and photographers, it explores all five boroughs of New York City and parts of nearby New Jersey.

Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas is available for purchase on Amazon.

In 2017, detectives from the New York City Police Department’s Financial Crimes Task Force took down an international ATM skimming ring. The thieves had stolen money from hundreds of bank account holders across Brooklyn and Queens. The investigators put together a case with the Queens District Attorney's Office that ultimately sent the three thieves to jail.

This great vintage aerial photograph shows the Williamsburgh Savings Bank Building in 1929, the year it finished construction and opened to the public. Once the tallest building in Brooklyn, it held the title all the way until 2010, and it currently the 6th tallest at 514 feet. Here is a Google StreetView of the building from the same angle as it appears today, although at ground-level: