Growing up just a few minutes outside of New York City, I spent a lot of time venturing into the urban playground just across the Hudson River. Over the years, I navigated between the East and West sides, uptown and downtown, and in college, discovered which diners stayed open late enough to serve French fries at 4 AM. Whenever someone visited and went to "the city" with me, I was the unofficial tour guide of the group, trying to explain the lay of the land to wide-eyed travelers.

Over the years, I became a fan of sketching simple pocket visual aids to help inform visitors about the neighborhoods that comprised the borough of Manhattan (geek alert). They certainly weren't detailed maps--those would've been too overwhelming and were, of course, ubiquitous--but they helped visitors understand the geography of the city at a glance. They were perfect for getting "lost in the city" without really doing so. It made visiting much more manageable.

As a lover of maps, you can imagine my delight when I found Here & There: A Horizonless Projection. They're offering a limited run of gigantic (three feet by two feet), high resolution projections of Manhattan. If you're a geek who enjoys a good map, or if you just want to get a visual sense of Manhattan, this is a truly wonderful thing.