One map didn’t make it into @brentincolumbus.bsky.social ’s new book. Here it is: columbusunderground.com/map-shows-ne...

Special Xmas-week bonus, available only on Columbus Underground – the lost map from Columbus in 50 Maps! Also, a rundown of the top pedestrian and bike stories of 2025:

@brentincolumbus.bsky.social #Columbus in 50 Maps -- excellent! #importantwork

💰Trump’s wealth increased by about $2.5B since his reelection, to $6.9B 💰 Eric’s increased 10x, to $400M. 💰 Don Jr.’s 6x, to $300M. 💰 Barron, a college sophomore, is worth $150M.

Thanks to Alissa Widman Neese from Axios for the great write-up on the book!

ICE has made it to Columbus and I’m honestly quite heartened by the solidarity being exhibited by my neighbors.

Know your rights and stay safe out there. columbusunderground.com/ice-arrives-...

Amazing to think about what the internet was like in 2001 and how much change has occurred since then (MySpace was founded in 2003). Looking forward to celebrating CU's 25th all next year: columbusunderground.com/columbus-und...

more changes in store this weekend: columbusunderground.com/flyover-ramp...

I just finished @brentincolumbus.bsky.social book Columbus in 50 Maps and it’s delightful. As a transplant who has been here for 16 years I always relish the opportunity to learn more about this city that I love.

Good news on the Salesian Building, hadn't heard anything about plans to renovate it since 2022: columbusunderground.com/two-downtown...

News from yesterday's downtown commission meeting:

Tap-to-pay (with credit/debit cards or phones) starting in January is a pretty big deal I'd say, as is C-Pass continuing: columbusunderground.com/cota-roundup...

Here's the latest on the German Village sidewalk ramp saga: columbusunderground.com/lawsuit-prop...

I'll be on All Sides with Amy Juravich on WOSU 89.7 this morning at 11, talking about Columbus in 50 Maps! www.wosu.org/show/all-sides

OK, here's my follow-up, in which I ask the city what they are going to do to make this intersection safer. columbusunderground.com/city-conside...

Researching the building's history I discovered this 2012 CU article about the Columbus Historic Taverns book, which contains this amazing fact: there were 480 or more taverns in the present-day Downtown area in the 1890s. columbusunderground.com/historic-tav...

The Elevator's building (which has no elevators) is getting the office-to-residential treatment. columbusunderground.com/apartments-p...

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The building and its nearly two-acre lot were sold to Nationwide Children’s Hospital earlier this year for $1.2 million. MORE: columbusunderground.com/demolition-o...

Love to share the road with cars programmed to blast past speed limits

But that's not all, folks! There are 100 maps today! Columbus in 50 Maps, by @brentincolumbus.bsky.social with cartography by PRESIDENT OF MAPS @buffalomaps.bsky.social is also out today. www.arcadiapublishing.com/products/col...

Wow, what a great article from @matternews.bsky.social on the book. Thanks @andydowning33.bsky.social for taking the time to talk to me about it (and for coming up with that headline!)

I was lucky to get some pictures yesterday before the main portion of the building had been taken down: columbusunderground.com/demolition-o...

This is tonight, 7pm at Prologue!

Yay, today's the day!

Columbus and Cincy on the same day!

This should be really fun, I'm looking forward to it - join me tomorrow night at Prologue Bookshop in the Short North for the official release day event for Columbus in 50 Maps! prologuebookshop.com/event/brentw...

I happily donate to Wikipedia, incredible resource in this day and age especially.

All Aboard Ohio organized a tour last week of the possible future train station at the convention center: columbusunderground.com/convention-c...

In 1924, Calvin Coolidge's 16-yr-old son played tennis on the White House grounds w/o wearing socks. He got a blister and was dead from infection a week later. This is unthinkable today—which is why I wrote this series. Cuz the systems that save us from this kind of fate are in urgent need of care.

The code changes passed last night, pushed through by Otto Beatty, who will be leaving council at the end of the year. columbusunderground.com/city-council...

We interviewed the editor and cartographer, and you can peep that conversation here @brentincolumbus.bsky.social @submarinesandwich.bsky.social beltpublishing.com/pages/conver...

Of the ten apartment developments listed, six were awarded Low Income Housing Tax Credits, which means they will offer a significant number of affordable units: columbusunderground.com/the-list-10-...

6 of the 10 are affordable tax credit projects; I get some insight into why that might be from @ahacohousing.bsky.social columbusunderground.com/the-list-10-...

Columbus, OH! We will be at THE Ohio State University for a LIFE AFTER CARS live show on Tues, January 27th at the Wexner Center for the Arts. Tickets are now available. See you there! cura.osu.edu/events/life-...

The one-story building that held a Papa Johns and a cell phone store was demolished yesterday. columbusunderground.com/renderings-w...

Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.

2023: Project planners told CU that Leading Pedestrian Intervals (LPIs) at signal changes will be installed. 2025: “The LPI wasn’t implemented because it wasn’t aligned with the city’s traffic safety standards,” said a spokesperson for the Recreation and Parks Department. We deserve better.

Read an excerpt from The Great Black Swamp 🐸 www.greatlakesnow.org/2025/11/the-...

The city responds to the many concerns raised by people trying to cross North Broadway along the new trail section:

ICYMI from Friday, a really interesting proposal!

Oh hey, I found the war on christmas

Planning for this goes back to 2021 - this stretch will be repaved and striped with the bike lanes in the spring, and the city wants to add in bollards/protection where they can (that's new): columbusunderground.com/work-has-sta...

Most of the food scraps collected in those yellow buckets and at drop-off sites currently have to be driven far away to be turned into compost - this proposal would build a facility right in Milo-Grogan. columbusunderground.com/proposed-com...

Tune in to this episode of All Sides from WOSU to hear from CU reporter Brent Warren for an update on passenger rail service in Ohio: www.wosu.org/show/all-sid...

More details on this plan:

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

TIL that the area we used to call West Campus, that OSU first rebranded into the West Campus Innovation District and then made a pretty big deal out of naming Carmenton (in 2022, under Kristina Johnson), is now officially called the Innovation District at Ohio State.