This Reverse Transit Map Shows You Where in NYC You Can Go in a Certain Amount of Time

Distance you can travel from Herald Square in 15 minutes. TravelTime (screenshot)
Distance you can travel from Herald Square in 15 minutes. TravelTime (screenshot)
Photo: TravelTime

TravelTime is an interesting new webapp and developer platform that allows you to see how far you can travel from any point, in a certain period of time, using various transit options such as public transportation, biking, walking and/or driving.

A search tool for anyone wanting to find locations by travel time, rather than distance. It can filter points of interest by travel time and show more than one travel shape at a time. It was originally made to showcase TravelTime Platform, but the tool is free for anyone to use.

Check out the interactive map and enter your address to play around with the data.

Vintage Photograph Shows a Busy Central Park Lake in the Summer of 1942

Central Park Lake, 1942
Central Park Lake, 1942
Photo: OldSchoolCool

Snapped by photojournalist Marjory Collins in September of 1942, this great vintage photograph shows a busy Central Park lake filled with rowboats. Also captured in the foreground of the shot is a couple watching the activity on the lake from the "Rock With a View". Here is a Google StreetView of approximately the same vantage point today: