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#MapMondays! 1728 Plan Of The City Of New York This incredible map gives a great look into British New York, decades before the Revolutionary War. In 1664 Dutch Governor Peter Stuyvesant surrendered New Amsterdam to the British, who changed the city's name to New York after the Duke of York who organized the attack. The British removed the wall along Wall Street and expanded the city north and into the harbor via landfill. While many of the street names remain the same today, the British did rename many streets with names like Queen, Duke and Crown Street. Tap to purchase a fine-art print on museum quality archival paper – on sale today. #mapmonday #cartography #newamsterdam #nychistory #americanhistory #dutchnewamsterdam #nyc #lowermanhattan #wallstreet #financialdistrict #castelloplan #historicmap #hudsonriver #bowlinggreen #nyhistory #mapnyc #urbanism #nycurbanism (at Lower Manhattan) https://www.instagram.com/p/BuUbGOOnFmw/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=2fx5ekqmjj7i

British New York in 1674, ten years after Dutch Governor Peter Stuyvesant surrendered the city to the British. Following it's capture, New Amsterdam's name was changed to New York after the Duke of York who organized the attack. The colony of New Amsterdam had only been established 150 years earlier by the Dutch West India Company whose governor Peter Minuit "purchased" the island from a native tribe who did not believe in land ownership for approximately $24 in trinkets. #mapmonday #cartography #newamsterdam #castelloplan #newyorkcity (at Lower Manhattan)