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Interactive Map of the Day: The Age of Every Building in Brooklyn
Plotting the ages of every structure in the borough.
If you read New York Times trend pieces or watch HBO's "Girls," we'd forgive you for assuming all of the buildings in Brooklyn are painstakingly-restored, turn-of-the-century brownstones or converted industrial lofts.
A new interactive map put together by an editor of the local website Bklynr shows visually whether or not this is true. The map displays nearly every building in Brooklyn, color coded by the year built -- blue and green for the oldest, yellow for turn-of-the-century, light red for the mid-20th century, and a dark red for the newest buildings. The full, interactive map is available on Bklynr's website, where you can hover over an individual building and find out its address and age.