Google Maps has a cool new Street View option available for some major cities. Click here for the demo.

I spent a little time tonight flying around New York City, revisiting favorite places:

Papaya King at 86th & 3rd. A New York landmark; great hot dogs.

The late, great CBGB at Bowery & Bleecker.

Manitoba’s, my favorite New York bar. Owned by Handsome Dick Manitoba of the Dictators.

And just a block away, the little Joe Strummer memorial mural. I blogged this last December.

Every once in a while, I miss New York. For about five minutes.