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WeWork Inc. was recently declared the world’s fifth most valuable startup...But the company owes over $18 billion in rent. How did this happen? We look into the WeWork #realestate story, here: https://t.co/WM37kPksJK

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The princess has chosen her prince! "Nearly 75 seriously interested developers .. pursued this highly sought-after opportunity" https://t.co/KYcW8g4zFQ

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WeWork owes about $18 billion in rent. Oops. 🙊 We take a look at their business model here: https://t.co/WM37kPksJK #RealEstate #NYCRealEstate

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"The study drew on data scraped from Airbnb listings and used regression analysis to compare what rents would have been across 55 neighborhoods if thousands of units had not been listed on the home-sharing website." https://t.co/Q87LpAw7Vr #NYCData #NYCRealEstate

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We explored one patch of the BK coastline and found a park built on coastal infill from the land dug out to build the Verrazano bridge: https://t.co/5s84WLcNCU #NYCRealEstate #NYCHistory #NYCArchitecture

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https://t.co/cIBmBkxv4m The planimetric view is the one we're all used to staring at in our phones. Straight overhead, street grid prominent. Like ours <3 #maps #urbandata #cartography

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"In many ways, the seismic shift in the brokerage business can be summed up in one word: data." https://t.co/ybOxSy7WHg #sorrynotsorry #NYCRealEstate

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Birds-eye view maps "show the area on the oblique as if from an aerial view... Major attractions, buildings, and monuments are often readily identifiable with the streets, waterways, and harbors often bustling with activity." https://t.co/cIBmBkxv4m #urbandata #citymaps

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For 100s of years the built environment has challenged cartographers to convey massive amounts of information in an understandable way. 3 types of plan address this: profile, bird’s-eye view, and the planimetric plan." https://t.co/cIBmBkxv4m #urbanmaps #urbandata #cartography

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"The #builtenvironment...presents numerous challenges not the least of which is how to convey massive amounts of [#urbandata] in an understandable way. Over time, 3 types of plan were created to address this need." new Maps exhibit at Stanford has us 😍🗺 https://t.co/Ns1AKRSGUa

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Over time, #maps have used different strategies to capture and make useful huge amounts of city and #urbandata: https://t.co/cIBmBkxv4m Stanfords new exhibit showcases some different historical methods for capturing the build environment. #urbanmaps #citymaps #historicalmaps

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We compared the street grid in this 1878 map with our own current one, and dug up some history of what we did with Verazanno bridge landfill: https://t.co/5s84WLcNCU #Datamaps #NYCMaps #NYCHistory

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Comparing this 1878 map of south Brooklyn, we uncovered the history of Calvert Vaux park, a piece of land filled in with excavated material from the building of the Verazanno Bridge" https://t.co/5s84WLcNCU #NYCHistory #NYCHistoricalMaps #DataMaps

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"in the smartphone era, the idea of a paper map may seem a little backward, but the striking design of these maps would be difficult to replicate on a small screen to similar effect" Mapping Chicago's beautiful concrete beasts https://t.co/S9EUHfrdev #architecture #citymaps

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"There were a lot of counterfeit operations out there... making smaller maps using our data," https://t.co/IINE3aywVK #maps have always been #datamaps

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"The city contends that Kushner Companies had missed crucial deadlines for the project, and that it did not believe the firm could see the project through to completion." https://t.co/QAQXR81gI7 #NYCRealEstate

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"Housing officials and experts agree that disinvestment at all levels of government led to Nycha’s precarious situation." https://t.co/RVhE7cF8td #NYC #NYCHousing

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Cuomo's "Unprecedented and historic” funding may be a biiiit of an overstatement: https://t.co/rQ7JMXTtdf #NYCData #urbandata

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w/ a "30% decline from the same time last year, but Tribeca still squeaked out a win beating out Soho, which had a median sales price of $3.2 million" https://t.co/j143yfmtEs #NYCRealEstate #NYRealEstateMarket

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Cuomo's "unprecedented" level of funding to NYCHA? When the FEMA funds are subtracted from the real amount of state payments, $ falls way down to $4.3 million in 2016 and a staggering $0 in 2017. #thedataspeaks #urbandata #NYCData https://t.co/rQ7JMXTtdf