Created by an anonymous artist back in 1970, this great illustrated vintage map shows New York City—well, mostly Manhattan—at the center of the world. The map is one of hundreds of unique digital specimens in the David Rumsey Map Collection.

Colored pictorial map of New York City with the buildings rendered as a bird’s-eye view in isometric perspective, presents detail view from New York City to the rest of the United States and the world showing New York as the center of the world, with a strip along Hudson River representing New Jersey, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Texas, Miami, and Washington, D.C. Flattened land masses labeled China, Japan and Russia, Ireland, England, France, Spain and Italy on left and right panels. Each buildings, restaurants, places of interest labeled. Shows Empire State building in top center and Statue of Liberty on lower cent of the map. Date estimated. No Publisher and cartographer.

Local dog groomer and superhero Mark Imhof has volunteered his services to Animal Care Centers of NYC over the past several years, giving hundreds of free haircuts, baths and grooming services to stray and rescued dogs looking for adoption. Often times, the dogs he grooms are immediately rescued. Meet Imhof and hear why he does it in this short profile video from Barcroft Animals.

A GENEROUS animal lover is helping find homes for New York’s stray dogs - by giving them a free bath and haircut. In 2016, almost 9000 homeless dogs were taken in by the Animal Care Centers of NYC. Over half of these were strays found on the streets, with no owners to care for them, feed or groom them. So, armed with his scissors and electric clippers, volunteer dog groomer Mark Imhof has been visiting the centres for two years to help the homeless animals desperately in need of a haircut. And kind-hearted Mark has now groomed over 500 dogs, helping countless pups find new fur-ever homes.

Steam seen rising from the streets is nothing new in New York City, but do you know exactly why we have steam in the first place? In this short informative video made back in 2014 by the New York Times, see how and why our unique system of underground steam helped the City grow into what it is today.

With more than 100 miles of steam piping and nearly 2,000 buildings served, New York’s steam system is the largest in the world.

Check out the accompanying article for more on the New York City steam network.