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Cities · seven registers

Places, kept
as registers.

New York, Los Angeles, Miami and Milwaukee, each written as a book rather than a brochure: 490 places across the four, every record carrying its own notes and every picture framed and credited. No affiliate links, no sponsored rooms, and nothing on any of these pages was placed by somebody who paid to be there.

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New York City 172 places, and 1,748 verified restaurants Nine sections across the five boroughs — and THE TABLE beside them, 1,748 restaurants each checked against the city’s own register of licensed food establishments. Los Angeles 132 places across ten sections Attractions, only-in-LA legends, hotels, restaurants, bars, cafés, sport, neighbourhoods, the economy and the schools — with 85 framed pictures and a live wire. Miami 103 places across eight sections The Magic City by section rather than by ranking: what to see, where to stay, where to eat and drink, and the sport, industry and universities underneath it. Milwaukee 83 places across eight sections The Brew City, written the same way as the other three — the lakefront, the Third Ward, the breweries and custard stands, and 65 framed pictures. Yum Restaurants, everywhere else The worldwide register: 1,130 rooms audited one at a time, with a separate kosher collection of 518 beside it, so the guide's own counts stay true. Padel 8,210 courts, mapped Every padel facility in OpenStreetMap, clustered out of 17,309 raw objects into the places you can actually turn up and play. 47th Street The diamond district, dealer by dealer New York's jewellery block as a directory rather than a map pin — who is in which building, and what they actually deal in.

What they share

Written down, not scraped.

Every entry in these registers was placed by hand and carries its own note. Nothing is ranked by an algorithm, nothing was paid for, and no picture is stock — where a photograph exists it is credited to whoever took it, and where one does not, the card says so rather than borrowing a stranger's.