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Nat Henry

@nathenry.com

Director of Henry Spatial Analysis | Professional Geographer | Seattleite | Into maps, health data, walking places

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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 2d ago

Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · 5d ago

Shep Fort Benton, MT

Nat Henry @nathenry.com · 5d ago

A guy can dream..

Location report for the penthouse at the top of Smith Tower, generated by Close+ (https://close.city)

Nat Henry @nathenry.com · 6d ago

Really grim to hear that some Bite of Seattle booths got looted in the aftermath of the mass shooting. Go support PaPa Kitchen in Roosevelt: papakitchen25.com

Long quote from a Seattle Times article today:

Last year, Nguyen and another family pooled their money to open Papa Kitchen near the Roosevelt light rail station. He said they make enough to pay the rent.

In a city flooded with banh mi counters and pho shops seemingly around every corner, Nguyen figured he had to branch out beyond the neighborhood to generate more revenue.

The couple paid the $3,000 Bite of Seattle registration fees to set up a booth across from the beer garden. Festival sales for the banh mis and vermicelli noodle bowls were going well, Nguyen said, until the gunfight started.

How well, he may never know.

The day after the shooting, Nguyen returned to pack up his kitchen supplies and noticed missing were the cash register and a new air fryer that was still in the box that he brought as backup. At least $1,000 worth of meat and seafood were left unattended and spoiled, he said.

Restaurants are a risky venture, so Nguyen braced for the reality that he could lose money at this festival. But not like this, he said.

The family has not tallied all the missing items and stolen money yet. He’s still holding out hope that festival organizer FoodieLand will offer reimbursement; if not part of the registration fee, then perhaps a stipend to cover some loss. He, like many food vendors, said he has not heard from event organizers.

Seattle Social Housing Developer @seasocialhousing.bsky.social · last wk.

As with all our housing, these buildings will be forever publicly owned, permanently affordable and climate forward. We look forward to telling you more soon !

Nat Henry @nathenry.com · 2w ago

Want to coordinate a highway lidding study around U District? Now's your chance! udistrictpartnership.org/about/career...

JOB POSTING:

Project Coordinator, Lid I-5 Feasibility Study
Reports to: Urban Vitality Manager
Position Type: 3-year Temporary Term-Limited (TLT), full-time, hourly
Location: In-person: at UDP’s office in the U District or on-site in the neighborhood at events
Timing Typically 40 hours per week, with occasional evenings and weekends
Duration: Sep 2026 – Sep 2029
Compensation: $32.50 – $41.50 Hourly

The U District Partnership is seeking an organized, proactive and collaborative Project Coordinator to support the Lid I-5 North Feasibility Study—a federally funded planning initiative exploring opportunities to reconnect neighborhoods divided by Interstate 5 between NE 45th Street and NE 50th Street.

This is a unique opportunity to be a part of one of Seattle’s most significant long-term planning efforts, working alongside community leaders, public agencies, and technical experts to explore how Interstate 5 could be transformed from a barrier into a connector between neighborhoods.

Churches of New York @brooklynwandering.bsky.social · 2w ago

America Buddhist Chants Research Center, 1543 71st St, Brooklyn, NY 11228

Nat Henry @nathenry.com · 2w ago

Meanwhile, on LinkedIn...

A LinkedIn AI slop ad from SCANTRON of all companies

Nat Henry @nathenry.com · 2w ago

@annehelen.bsky.social saying "no one would call Seattle a public transportation city" in this week's Culture Study... 🤔🙋‍♂️

Seattle Times headline from June 6, 2026: "Seattle's daily light rail rideship jumps to No. 1 in US", by Mike Lindblom. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/seattles-daily-light-rail-ridership-jumps-to-no-1-in-u-s/

Graph: "Major US City Commute Patterns 2023" based on ACS data. Seattle roughly ties with Philadelphia for "Percent of Commuters Commuting by Public Transit," ranking below NYC, DC, Boston, SF, and Chicago, and above all other major US cities.

Post from former SDOT director Greg Spotts (@spottnik.bsky.social) on LinkedIn from mid-June. Begins with:
"⚽️ Seattle is setting new records for active transportation during the World Cup!
Friday June 19 Match Day Ridership:
🚌 286K boardings KCM buses
🚆 280K boardings Sound Transit
🛴 83K Lime scooter/bike rides
⛴️ 9K Water Taxi
🚃 7K Streetcar
Plus thousands of fans walking along the Waterfront and thru pedestrianized Pioneer Square (photo shows the “March to the Match”)"

World Cup game days later in the month repeatedly broke this record

Nat Henry @nathenry.com · 2w ago

Close now features a subscription for power users! One new feature solves the 2-body problem: "what neighborhoods are walkable AND commutable for both of us?" This is about two years in the making and I'm pretty proud of it. Check it out: close.city

Nat Henry @nathenry.com · 3w ago

Every job in America, mapped: jobs.close.city

Nat Henry @nathenry.com · 3w ago

Not enough room to describe all the new features that just released on Close today—go check them out! close.city Three more major updates coming this week 👀

Nat Henry @nathenry.com · 4w ago

Took an unexpected lime scooter from Roosevelt Station to Pike Place Market 🥲 some days the Link tests you

Jason@jrock08.bsky.social · 4w ago

Happy impromptu "drive everywhere day" to those people that would have taken public transit today but didn't due to the light rail issues. The traffic was noticeably worse downtown than normal.

Nat Henry @nathenry.com · last mo.

Everyone is rightfully mad about the Kavanaugh letter, but I'm equally amazed by the gall to call yourself a "former public school teacher" based on what looks like one year of TFA

Will Dreher's campaign About page, describing him as a "former [...] public school teacher"

Will's early career trajectory: bachelor's in Foreign Service at Georgetown, what *looks like* one year of Teach for America in a majority-black Maryland school district, then straight to Harvard Law

Robert Cruickshank@robertcruickshank.com · last mo.

The endorsement of Brett Kavanaugh clerk and Brett Kavanaugh confirmation supporter Will Dreher over @ronpdavis.bsky.social, who has a strong progressive record, should destroy what little remains of the Stranger's credibility.

Nat Henry @nathenry.com · last mo.

Love the Roosevelt and 12th bike lanes @seattledot.bsky.social , but they need hardening. This Tesla driver in the black sweatshirt had them confused for a delivery lane!

White Tesla parked in bike lane, delivery driver in black sweatshirt clearly confused by meaning of flex posts

Nat Henry @nathenry.com · last mo.

Delighted to learn about @kingcountymetro.bsky.social's World Cup shuttles by running into them in pixel form ⚽

Nat Henry@nathenry.com · 3mo ago

I redid my website with a new splash page - come hang out and enjoy some transit for a bit. nathenry.com

Nat Henry @nathenry.com · last mo.

Between pedestrians on the street, the architecture, and the streetcar station, it took me a second to realize this wasn't a European city center!

Jeremiah Oshan@jeremiah.sounderatheart.com · last mo.

Going to raise my hand and say I definitely underestimated interest in this game. Just watched the Bosnia-Herzegovina match go through Jackson and occidental. It took 15 minutes to clear.

칠락싱하는중 @lcj-faure.bsky.social · last mo.

Bruh

Nat Henry @nathenry.com · 2mo ago

At our meeting tomorrow, Northeast Safe Streets will be hosting Alex Hudson to present on the upcoming Seattle Transit Measure! Everyone is welcome: the meeting is at 6:30 in the U District Partnership building.

A picture of Alex Hudson, taken in winter near the Stimson-Green Mansion.

Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Kathy Hochul rooting for the refs 🧐

JM =^D@jm539581.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Zohran Mamdani

Nat Henry @nathenry.com · 2mo ago

My Chicago-Madison connecting flight got cancelled because of wind, and American tried to rebook me on a redeye through Dallas (😱) but real ones know it's only a 2h bus ride. See you soon #SOTMUS!

Nat Henry @nathenry.com · 2mo ago

I'm headed to @osmus.bsky.social State of the Map in Madison this week—who else is going? Let's hang out!

Names of my two talks at OSM US State of the Map this week:

Friday - "OpenPOIs: a superset of open place data"
Saturday - "What is real? Estimating the fidelity of OSM data using changesets"

Nat Henry @nathenry.com · 2mo ago

Shout-out to fellow cugos.org member Aaron Schechter (transitmapping.net) for his great op-ed in the Urbanist today! It comes with a brilliant interactive map, of course

The Urbanist@theurbanist.org · 2mo ago

NEW OP-ED// Op-Ed: The Case for Shifting to a Land Value Tax By Aaron Schechter via @theurbanist.org

Victoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Holkham beach, Norfolk - I was commissioned by someone to replicate this beautiful beach and all its shades and textures as an aerial embroidery! Lots of grasses, reeds and mud mixed in with the sand. Not sure if the tide in coming on or going out though... More close-ups are in the thread: 1/2

An embroidered aerial view landscape of a beach, with fields framing the bottom edges and water to the top. the beach has different shades of gold, brown and dull greens for different textures and elements.

An angled view of an embroidered aerial view landscape. It depicts a beach scene with different shades of gold and brown.

Nat Henry @nathenry.com · 2mo ago

We're gonna make it 🙏 Pic from Reddit

Light rail direction signs now have a "via Seattle" subheader

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 2mo ago

Young people are always told what not to do. But what should you do? Did you know that most public libraries have a Nintendo Switch to use? That parks show free movies at night? That there's a map of pickup basketball games?

A screenshot of the Summer in NYC website.

Nat Henry @nathenry.com · 3mo ago

I redid my website with a new splash page - come hang out and enjoy some transit for a bit. nathenry.com

Nat Henry @nathenry.com · 3mo ago

Good stuff. I just subscribed 👍

Excerpt from the article:

There is a phrase that does a lot of work in arguments like this one, even when it is not said out loud. "Our way of life." "Neighborhood character." "What makes Seattle Seattle."

Those phrases are not nothing. People love their neighborhoods. They love the maple on the corner that turns orange in October. The view of the Olympics from the porch. The coffee shop they walk to on Saturday mornings. The school their kids can get to on foot. The forests up Highway 2, the farms in the Skagit, the orca whales in the Salish Sea. These are real things, and they are worth preserving.

We are trying to preserve them.

A walkable neighborhood with a corner store and a bus that comes every 10 minutes is not a threat to a way of life. It is one. The kid who can bike to school instead of being driven, the grandmother who can age in her home because the pharmacy is three blocks away, the family that can afford to stay in the city where their parents grew up: those are ways of life too, and the current rules in our region have made them harder, not easier, to live.

The Urbanist@theurbanist.org · 3mo ago

NEW STORY// Editorial: Seattle Times Called Us 'Builders' Mouthpiece' for Trying to Build a Better City By Doug Trumm via @theurbanist.org

Beth Day @thebethocracy.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Okay Version 1 (AKA The One Line) is complete! CHOO-CHOO!

Nat Henry @nathenry.com · 3mo ago

Wait, this is extremely cool

Portland Bureau of Transportation@pbotinfo.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We can confirm, this @missedconnections.bsky.social post is true. PBOT uses "rest in red" traffic signal technology to interrupt dangerous driving behavior—such as excessive speeding on wide, open corridors during late night and early morning hours—which contributes to deadly crashes.

A screenshot of an Instagram post from the account "missed connections PDX" says: " White Tesla Powell blvd 11pm. Idk if you've figured it out or not, bro.. but when you speed up the light turns red. There are radars that detect your speed, there were several articles in the news about them. So instead of us having a smooth all green travel up Powell, you offset everything. Read the room, chump." An image of a map of SE Portland with a blue pin marks the location of this post.