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NYC's Story: The City on RecordUnderstanding the Past, Guiding the Future

NYC's Story: The City on RecordUnderstanding the Past, Guiding the Future

NYC's Story: The City on RecordUnderstanding the Past, Guiding the Future

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NYC's Story: The City on RecordUnderstanding the Past, Guiding the Future

Colorful map displaying the original land grants of village lots by the Dutch India Company. Each lot includes measurements of plot, name of owner, and other distinctive features such as streets and marshlands.

Original lots comprising New Amsterdam, 1857 depiction

What makes NYC, NYC?

Colorful map of Dutch West India Company land grants with lot measurements, owner names, and labeled streets.

Colorful decorative map with ornate border that reads Longe Isleand on top. The map features large detailed ships at harbor and the outline of the city, The map uses green to denote garden areas and there is a prominent large compass rose in the center of the drawing.

Towne of Mannados (New Amsterdam) Longe Iseland, 1859

What makes NYC, NYC?

Decorative map titled “Longe Isleand” with ornate border, ships in the harbor, gardens in green, and a large compass rose.

Seventeenth century architectural drawing of town grid depicting a central square section surrounded by perspective lines. The central square section contains smaller squares and grid lines outlining smaller plots. The map contains various handwritten notations.

Map of Graves End (Gravesend) and Deed, 1694

What makes NYC, NYC?

Architectural grid drawing of a 16th-century town square with notes, alongside a faded 17th-century handwritten property deed.

Document showing schematic of wall including measurements and notations written in Old Dutch.

Diagram of Dutch wall, March 17, 1653

How was NYC built?

Page from the 1653 Court Minutes of New Amsterdam showing a proposed plan for the original wall that later became Wall Street.

Large topographical survey displaying the land that became Central Park. The map shows the receiving reservoir along with the locations of various structures marked in red. There is also a section marked lands taken for Croton Reservoir.

Central Park survey map, Egbert Viele, 1855

How was NYC built?, What makes NYC, NYC?

Topographical survey map of Central Park showing the receiving reservoir, land plots in red, and areas taken for the Croton Reservoir.