Enter ever-wonderful New York City public radio staple and oddly popular tote-bag emblem WYNC. Using data gathered from the Department of City Planning consisting of voter rolls and district lines as of April 2011, the site's John Keefe recently threw together a Google Map listing our city's Republicans by district. WYNC's Colby Hamilton explained:

President Barack Obama is leading Mitt Romney by more than 30 points in New York state. But fueled by the Tea Party-inspired energy of motivated activists, Republicans are winning local office.

The map can be viewed here. Users can go borough to borough or neighborhood to neighborhood.

It's a fun exercise for the politically curious, as well as a way to reinforce your beliefs and umbrella generalizations about who lives where.

For example (click to enlarge):

Almost forgot (click to enlarge):

For more fun with New York City's Republicans (and where they reside), head over to WNYC.

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In other words, gird your locales.

WNYC and The Guardian partnered up and took it upon themselves to compile a list of all of the locations that 'Girls' has filmed at, and then throw them into the despicably handy form of a Google Map.

Among the locations are:

• Weather Up
• Washington Commons
• Cafe Grumpy
• Tom & Jerry's

And so on. The result of this has the potential to be wildly amusing. There are the resentful locals who despise 'Girls' for its facile-yet-generally-accurate portrayal of their lives, and the tourists who are inspired to follow in Hannah & Co.'s footsteps, mixed together.

If you live near or frequent these locations, and the threat doesn't seem considerable, then consider this: Instead of out-borough tourists just going to "Williamsburg" or "Brooklyn"—simply because of their reputations as destinations for "alternate" cool—all of those people now have a television show explaining where they should go, specifically.

Another way to put it: Do you know remember what Pastis was like before 'Sex and The City'?

Neither does anybody else. And the most embittering part of all?

The creators and cast members now make enough money to emigrate from the Brooklyn that inspired their masterwork. To Manhattan. And to parts of Manhattan where they will, in all likelihood, rarely encounter the tourists who come in search and/or tribute of them.

Here's the map. Batten down those hatches:

http://project.wnyc.org/girls-map

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Night train! (kreurgarten/Flickr)

The MTA has been pushing a slew of changes lately: cell phone service has become available in Midtown and Chelsea stations, $15,000 in prizes for an app competition and even those fancy underground time tables for the 456 and 123 lines. Though there has been some data restrictions, the MTA published its first ever late night subway map today:

We’ve released the first-ever map showing the scheduled overnight service of the subway system, when three subway lines don’t run, three lines become shuttle trains, six express trains run as locals, and a night-only shuttle appears. The map has a gray background color to prevent confusion with the normal subway map.

The New York City Subway is the only large subway or metro system in the world to maintain service to all its stations around the clock. The overnight service shown in the night map runs generally from midnight to 6 a.m., although certain lines’ overnight service patterns depicted in the map may begin or end slightly earlier or later than these times.

In addition to having 25,000 pocket-size copies at Transit Museum Annex in Grand Central and Museum at Boerum Place & Schermerhorn Street in Downtown Brooklyn, the map is available online in PDF.

Subways away! (M.T.A.)

From day-glow posters to silk dresses, New Yorkers have been simultaneously celebrating and mourning Massimo Vignelli's iconic subway map, which reigned over those ever-so-gritty stations (ah, nostalgia) from 1972 to 1979, before the M.T.A. switched to the the geographically boring maps we have today. Now, Mr. Vignelli's maps are back, and they are more useful than ever.

The M.T.A. has revived the maps for a new web feature known as the Weekender. It just went live on their site, as it will starting every Friday afternoon. The reason the Vignelli map works so well is because it shows every line—one of its greatest strengths and an ongoing absence many designers lament as confusing to neophyte subway users.

"With The Weekender, we are presenting weekend service diversion information in a visual way and an interactive way for the first time," Paul J. Fleuranges, Senior Director of Corporate and Internal Communications, said on the agency's site. "We're very excited to introduce this new feature for our customers today, but we also know it's going to evolve over time." So send in that feedback!

On The Weekender, it shows you every line and station in the city and its status. There are blinking lights that are a little confusing, but otherwise, this should make that weekend commute if not faster at least a little more clear.

The map is currently lit up like a Christmas tree, so it should be fun getting around all weekend. Now if only there was a way to get around all that track work.

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(Chiascuro Foundation)

Did you know that New York City had 87,273 abortions in 2009? That's like 1 percent of the city's population. Thanks to the anti-abortion group the Chiascuro Foundation (motto "fight for the protection of all human life from conception to natural death"), we now even know which are the naughtiest neighborhoods through a helpful interactive map.

Chiascuro, which points out 41 percent of all New York City pregnancies are terminated, got the city to break out its abortion numbers by zip code, and the resulting map is both enlightening and puzzling. Zip code 10012, smack in the middle of Greenwich Village has a 60.3 percent abortion rate, which makes sense considering its proximity to N.Y.U. Less clear is why 10018 tops this list—it's the Garment District and that neighborhood we love, Hellsea, so it's not exactly a bustling hood.

Other interesting facts? Greenpoint has more abortions than Williamsburg, the Upper East Side is more prudish than the Upper West, and many of the city's minority communities—Bushwick/Bed-Stuy/Brownsville in Brooklyn; Jamaica, Queens; the South Bronx; Coney Island—have high abortion rates.

The Chiascuro Foundation has developed a plan to stave the city's abortion rate: don't have sex!

"The City and it’s extremist allies will tell you that only so-called “comprehensive” sex education works, and that “abstinence-only” curricula have been “proven” not to work," the Chiascuro Foundation's website says. " They recommend a program focused solely around abstinence.

But fear not. The group's anti-sex plan is super informative about contraceptives too.  "Abstinence-centered programs contain plenty of information about contraceptive methods: how frequently they fail to protect young people from pregnancy and STDs, and how condoms provide no protection against HPV and only reduce the risk of contracting herpes by about 30%." Thanks for the advice guys!

The Observer talked to Planned Parenthood of New York to hear their take on the stats—numbers, it should be said, the group does not dispute. "Making abortion less available isn't going to do anyone any favors in terms of health," Erica Sackin said. "New York City has one of the highest rates of unintended pregnancy int eh country. That's something we should be focusing on."

The data dynamos from OkCupid looked at how likely users from each zip code were to respond to online flirtations, as well as how they answered questions like, "If it were up to you, how often would you have sex?"

Turns out there is a corridor of lust running east through Kings County, and kinkiness accelerates the further out one goes on the L train. "The deeper into Brooklyn you go, the hornier people get," says OKCupid cofounder Christian Rudder. "It runs along Bushwick Avenue to Pennsylvania Ave. To the sea." In terms of enthusiasm for sex, meanwhile, Manhattan's NYU area and East Village win the borough, but can only hold their own with the middle range of Brooklyn neighborhoods.

We're having a tough time figuring out what creates this lustful streak through Brooklyn. Is it that Manhattan is too distracting, what with the museums, skyscrapers, and Central Park? Maybe there's just more time to concentrate beyond the East River.

Anyway, in honor of Valentine's Day, here's the tasteful pink sex map of New York City.

Source: OKCupid.

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Thanks to the latest batch of Census data and the fine folks at the Citizens Housing and Planning Council, we now have the maps to prove it.

They determined the make-up of households in the five boroughs,  and in a city where 33 percent of people live alone, every neighborhood south of Harlem has around one in two people living by themselves. The one exception is the East Village/Lower East Side, where only four in ten people live alone.

Meanwhile, the outer reaches of the outer boroughs have the highest concentrations of nuclear families. Looks like Park Slopes and the rest of Brownstone Brooklyn need to pop out a few more babies if they ever hope to compete with New Dorp or Forest Hills.

Looking for love? Try the Chelsea Hotel. >>

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