The Mad Men guide to NYC
To prepare you for tonight's return (AMC, 10pm) of Mad Men (OK, it was only off for a week, but a week without Mad Men is like a week without brushing your teeth*), Gridskipper has a really fun map showing all of the locations used on the show. They use Google to tell us where Sterling Cooper is located, where Mencken's Department Store is, even where Don and Betty live (Ossining, in Westchester County).
Not all of the locations are 100% accurate, because some of the exact locations haven't been mentioned in the show, but there are some good guesses here to go along with places they actually can pin down, such as The Gaslight Cafe, which was an actual establishment that opened in 1958 (it's the music/poetry place where Midge's beatnik friends take Don and Midge), and the Roosevelt Hotel, where Sal met the sales rep for a drink but couldn't go any further with their liaison.
*I have no idea what this means.

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