Person of Interest Interactive Map — New York's surveillance machine with 20 Illustrated Locations


What this atlas is
This is not a static image and not a wiki page. It is a single illustrated world map with 20 clickable locations, each drawn as its own scene. Open The Library and you get A shuttered Beaux-Arts library repurposed as the team's nerve center, where a payphone in the stacks rings with numbers that do not exist.
Open The Subway and the view changes completely: The city's circulatory system: abandoned platforms, maintenance catacombs, and payphones that ring only for people who are about to disappear. The same map holds NYPD 8th Precinct — A tired precinct house where Detective Carter worked both sides of the law and every file cabinet held two versions of the truth.
All 20 locations
- The Library A shuttered Beaux-Arts library repurposed as the team's nerve center, where a payphone in the stacks rings with numbers that do not exist.
- The Subway The city's circulatory system: abandoned platforms, maintenance catacombs, and payphones that ring only for people who are about to disappear.
- NYPD 8th Precinct A tired precinct house where Detective Carter worked both sides of the law and every file cabinet held two versions of the truth.
- Reese's Loft A bare industrial loft above a failed factory, all concrete, guns, and one chair facing the door.
- Shaw's Loft A cool white apartment that looks like a showroom and hides a sniper's nest behind the closet wall.
- Ingram's Loft Nathan Ingram's airy architect's loft, where a model of the city sat beside a wall of screens watching it.
- IFT Plaza The glass tower of International Funding Trust, where charitable money and machine intelligence share the same elevators.
- Ordos A half-built coal city on the Ordos plateau, where IFT's offshore money became concrete, rails, and silence.
- Office of Special Counsel A federal hearing room where intelligence is entered into evidence with the names blacked out and the truth left in the margins.
- Rikers Island A prison island in the East River, reachable only by ferry and official permission, holding people the Machine was told not to count.
- Universal Heritage Insurance A respectable insurance company whose actuarial tables were a cover for a black budget and a list of people worth erasing.
- Hanford Nuclear Reservation A dead reactor reservation in the Washington desert, still guarded, still humming, still the perfect place to hide a machine.
- Brighton Beach A Russian-speaking boardwalk neighborhood where old loyalties, cheap apartments, and a very public assassination collide.
- Macombs Dam Bridge A steel swing bridge over the Harlem River, chosen for a handoff because the traffic cameras never quite cover the span.
- New Rochelle A quiet suburban town north of the city, where a safe house looks exactly like every other house on the street.
- New York City The whole machine in one frame: eight million people, thirty thousand cameras, and a handful of numbers that decide who gets saved.
- Decima Facilities A brutalist signals compound behind razor wire, where Decima's antennas listen to the city and answer to Samaritan.
- Staten Island Ferry The orange ferry that keeps crossing the harbor, a moving blind spot where a conversation can vanish between two boroughs.
- Samaritan's Server Vault A buried vault of black racks and cold air, built to hold an intelligence that does not want to be found.
- The Machine's Faraday Cage A copper-mesh cage in a derelict power station, where the Machine was kept deaf and blind while the world decided what it was.
How to explore it
Pan the map
Drag the atlas, or scroll to zoom. The whole world is one surface.
Open a location
Click any marker. The detail view is a full illustrated scene, not a thumbnail.
Read the points of interest
Each place has three of its own. Click one for its name and what happened there.



Three languages, one map
The atlas ships with an English, Simplified Chinese and Japanese interface. Switching language changes the marker labels, location titles and intros, all sixty point-of-interest names and descriptions, and the controls. The choice is remembered on the next visit.
What makes it different
- Illustrated, not traced.Each of the 20 locations is a painted miniature with its own palette and silhouette, then cut out and placed on the chart.
- Detail views that are places.The detail screen is a full 16:9 scene with three internal points of interest, not an enlarged icon.
- Built for phones.Markers stay tappable, labels reflow, and the detail copy moves out of the way on small screens.
- No install, no account.It is a web page. Open the link and the map is there.
Questions
- Is it canon? The locations and descriptions follow Person of Interest. The art is an original painted interpretation, not a screenshot or an official map.
- How many places are there? 20 locations, each with three points of interest — 60 in total.
- Does it work offline? The first load needs a connection. After that the page is light: one base map, twenty cutouts and twenty detail images.
- Can I use it on a phone? Yes. The map and detail views are responsive, and the language switch stays reachable without opening a menu.
Start exploring
Open the atlas, or make your own illustrated map for New York's surveillance machine.
Create your own map
Start with a world you love. The atlas skill builds the base map, the location markers and the detail scenes.