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#MapMondays - City of Brooklyn (1879) Incredibly detailed "Birds-Eye-View" map of Brooklyn by Currier & Ives showing the independent city's churches, working waterfront, parks, municipal buildings, banks, landmarks, major roads, Navy Yard and the (at the time under construction) Brooklyn Bridge. which would open four years later. At the time of this map, Brooklyn was the third-largest city in the country! Less than two decades later it would be consolidated into New York City as one of the Five Boroughs. Tap to purchase a fine-art print of the map. #MapMonday #cartography #historicmap #brooklyn #cobblehill #dumbo #brooklynheights #carrollgardens #parkslope #gowanus #sunsetpark #bayridge #bensonhurst #crownheights #greenpoint #williamsburgbrooklyn #bushwick #vinegarhill #redhook #midwood #brooklynhistory #historicbrooklyn #brooklynbridge #brooklynbridgepark #nyc #nychistory #nyhistory #boroughhall #urbanism (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B71vy8EH53b/?igshid=1t3vs38w9yq69

#MapMondays! Herman Bollmann's 1963 #Axonometric Map of #Midtown. Definitely one of the most extraordinary maps of NYC - One of the greatest cartographic feats of all time. Georgaphicus described the cartographers method in creating the masterpiece and how they were able to illustrate the dense metropolis from the same angle and height without obscuring or distorting the surrounding cityscape: "[Bollmann] and his team designed and built special cameras to take 67,000 photos, 17,000 from the air. Using these photos as a base, they then began to hand draw the entire city. Using then-secret cartographic techniques, Bollmann and team managed to depict the smallest details while simultaneously conveying the city's soaring, vertiginous beauty. The viewer is thus placed in the position of an Olympian God, a perspective that no other technologic and artistic form offers, even in the Internet age." #cartography #map #mapmonday #chryslerbuilding #empirestate #centralpark #timessquare #architecture #urbanism #urban #manhattan #archilovers #midtown #historicmap #nyc #nychistory #nyhistory #eastriver #hudsonriver #skyline #aerialview #aerialphotography #axonometric #axonmap #axonometricmap #cityscape #aerial #nycphoto #nycurbanism (at United Nations) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2MyKY5gygh/?igshid=qlsu24x9f8pk

#MapMondays - How did Queens get it's confusing street names? This post-consolidation map shows Long Island City streets and their legal status. Streets colored yellow were in the process of acquiring by the city. Two years earlier Queens had become a Borough of New York City, consolidating the many independent towns and villages of Queens, seen in the second map from 1891. Private streets were acquired to connect the Borough, but each village had its own street naming system, with most of the streets having alphabetical, worded names. In the following decade, the city would institute a massive street numbering grid system for the Borough, with east-west avenues increasing in number from north to south and north-south streets from west to east. Some neighborhoods like Flushing, with many diagonal streets, would keep their old names and the Rockaway Peninsula would get its own numbering system. Other exemptions include #Ridgewood, who would share its grid and name system with its #Brooklyn neighbor, #Bushwick. In connecting two separate street systems, there would frequently be one or more short streets between two numbered streets. To give those streets a name, the rule was as follows: "If a single street should fall between 20th and 21st Streets, it would be called 20th Place; if two streets should be left in this way, the first would be designated as 20th Place and the second as 20th Lane. A similar system is used in the case of avenues, or highways running east and west; but in this instance, in order to avoid confusion, the terms, "Road" and "Drive" are employed instead of "Place" and "Lane." In some localities short curved streets have also been projected, as in Forest Hills, Douglaston, etc.; these are called "Terraces" or "Crescents."" (The American City, February 1928) What do you think about the numbering system? Confusing? Tap to purchase a map, use code FALL30 for 30% OFF. #mapmonday #queens #queensny #longislandcity #astoria #flushing #sunnyside #sunnysidequeens #queenshistory #nyhistory #nychistory #map #historicmap #mapcollector #mappingnyc #urbanism #nycurbanism #ravenswood #dutchkills #newtowncreek #greenpoint #hunterspoint #eastriver #bronx (at Long Island City) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3nM-iHHHdU/?igshid=1oe04onb8myu9

#MapMondays - Three magnificent early views of Central Park; 1863, 1864, 1874. Take 30% OFF all prints this week with code FALL30. Tap to view one of the above maps on our website. #centralpark #map #mapmonday #historicmap #crotonresevoir #nychistory #centralparknyc #nyc #midtown #upperwestside #centralparkwest #robinsonmap #cartography #nychistory #nyhistory #historicpreservation #urbanplanning #nyparks #nycparks #midtown #hellskitchen #harlem #metmuseum #centralparklake #greatlawn #centralparkwest #5thavenyc #urbanism #nycurbanism (at Central Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3VOEDenYx1/?igshid=1txqox58s3mo

#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

#MapMondays! Bird’s Eye View of New York, 1874, nine years before the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 👆Tap to purchase an archival print from our website, or view the map in full resolution. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #mapmonday #cartography #ohny #architecture #urbanism #nychistory #historicmap #governorsisland #batteryparknyc #dumbo #brooklyn #cobblehill #brooklynheights #redhookbrooklyn #brooklynnavyyard #fortgreene (at Federal Hall National Memorial) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpP78qXlmcD/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1h2ykgpn3ux38

#MapMondays! 1642 Map of New Amsterdam (today's Downtown Manhattan). The map inscription reads "Map of Original Grants of Village Lots from the Dutch West India Company to the Inhabitants of New-Amsterdam, (Now New-York.) lying below the present line of Wall Street." The waterline shown on the map is drastically different from today's landfilled shoreline, with Pearl Street (named from the pearly oyster shells that lined the shores) to the east and Greenwich Street to the west. The northern border of New Amsterdam was Wall Street, named after a physical wall built to protect the colony from Native Americans. North of the wall was mainly farms and small villages, such as Greenwich Village and the Village of Harlem. #newamsterdam #mapmonday #cartography #historicmap #downtownmanhattan #wallstreet #colonialnewyork #fortamsterdam #wallstreet #pearlstreetnyc #greenwichstreetnyc #dutchwestindiacompany #map #nychistory (at New Amsterdam) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrOXplGFAaW/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=14xfjticbwe88

#MapMondays! 1642 Map of New Amsterdam (today's Downtown Manhattan). The map inscription reads "Map of Original Grants of Village Lots from the Dutch West India Company to the Inhabitants of New-Amsterdam, (Now New-York.) lying below the present line of Wall Street." The waterline shown on the map is drastically different from today's landfilled shoreline, with Pearl Street (named from the pearly oyster shells that lined the shores) to the east and Greenwich Street to the west. The northern border of New Amsterdam was Wall Street, named after a physical wall built to protect the colony from Native Americans. North of the wall was mainly farms and small villages, such as Greenwich Village and the Village of Harlem. #newamsterdam #mapmonday #cartography #historicmap #downtownmanhattan #wallstreet #colonialnewyork #fortamsterdam #wallstreet #pearlstreetnyc #greenwichstreetnyc #dutchwestindiacompany #map #fidinyc #nychistory (at New Amsterdam) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrOV-Y8lcUu/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=7kg5lzrb1ba5