This is pretty damned amazing, especially if you live in a part of NYC that it covers. It's a sort of virtual walking tour.

Here is what I found out. Jack Kerouac wrote 'On the Road' two blocks from where I live. Mike'nDavid live across from Woody Guthrie's old apartment and the restaurant on the first floor of their apartment was a lesbian bar back in the Stonewall era.

I'm spending way too much time on this site, but it's really cool.