Would you live in the Meadows or Minihattan?
New York City is famously divided into five boroughs, each with its own quirks and cultural nuances. So much of how the city is understood comes from the political boundaries of Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, and Staten Island, the boundaries of which were drawn up in the 1800s. Topos, an urbanism-oriented artificial intelligence startup, thinks it’s a woefully obsolete and outdated way to think about the city.