Armed with blank maps that she printed by hand, Becky Cooper hit New York City, she handed strangers she met the gray outline of their island and asked them to "map their Manhattan". Mapping Manhattan includes 75 maps from both anonymous mapmakers and from notable New Yorkers, and will also contain a blank map that can be filled out by the reader.
Armed with hundreds of blank maps she had painstakingly printed by hand, Cooper walked Manhattan from end to end. She asked the strangers to "map their Manhattan" and to mail the personalized maps back to her. Soon, her P.O. box was filled with a cartography of intimate narratives.
