Manhattan in Maps 1527-2014

Paul E. Cohen, Robert T. Augustyn

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9780486779911
• eBook ISBN: 9780486799414
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

More than 400 years of history unfold in the pages of this lavishly illustrated volume, which presents sixty-five full-color maps of America's oldest major city. This is Manhattan's first atlas of historical maps, gathered from private collections and libraries throughout the world. From Giovanni da Verrazzano's first glimpse of New York Harbor in the sixteenth century to a modern aerial survey of the island, these rare and beautiful maps recount the city's urban and social history.
Each map is accompanied by a fascinating essay that explores its portrait of New York's changing physical and social contours. Examples from the Dutch colonial period reflect the findings of Manhattan's earliest European settlers. New York was the command center for British forces during the Revolution, and wartime maps painstakingly delineate the battleground's streams, swamps, hills, and shoreline. Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux's original plan for Central Park appears here, along with charts that reveal the development of the Manhattan grid as well as the expansion of ethnic neighborhoods, midtown vice, and the subway system. Each entry cites the map's title, date of creation and publication, cartographer, medium, and the institution or private collection where the map is archived. There is a Foreword by Tony Hiss, a bibliography, and complete index, as well as a new Introduction by Marguerite Holloway, author of The Measure of Manhattan (2013), and an essay by landscape ecologist Eric W. Sanderson, which includes a map by Mr. Sanderson and cartographer Markley Boyer providing a view of Manhattan Island as Henry Hudson might have seen it in 1609.
"Here then is the story of Manhattan as it was, as it is, and even as it might have been. Maps tell the story. All the output of all the journalists who have written about Manhattan does not succeed half as well."—Ted Koppel, former managing editor and anchor, Nightline
"Manhattan in Maps enables us all to look through layers of time and concrete to the ground of life in this city through over three centuries. . . . an invaluable visual guide to New York City history."—Alice C. Hudson, Chief, Map Division, Center for Humanities, The New York Public Library

INDEX

Note: Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations.

Adams, John Wolcott, 24, 26

Adams-Stokes’s Redrawing of the Castello Plan, 24, 26, 25–27

Aerial surveys, 142–44, 142–145

Allard, Carolus, 32

Allard Map, 32–33, 33

Andrews, P., 56, 58

Battery Park, Ewen’s Map of, 98, 99

Bellin, Jacques-Nicholas, 36, 37

Belmont, August Jr., 134, 135

Blaeu, Jan, 26

Block, Adriaen, 8–9, 12

Block’s Map of the Northeast, 8–9, 9, 12

Bollmann, Hermann, 138

Bollmann Map, 138, 138–39

Bradford, William, 40

Bridges, William, 82, 84, 86, 90–91, 92, 96

Bridges Plan, 82, 84, 85

Bridges’s Adaptation of the Commissioner’s Plan, 86, 90–91, 90–91

British Headquarters Map, 70–73, 71, 72–73

Bryant, William Cullen, 120

Buchnerd, Mrs., 46

Burr, David H., 106

Business maps, 126, 127, 128, 129

Carwitham, John, 43

Carwitham Plan and Chart, 43, 44, 45

Castello Plan, 24–27, 25–27

Central Park, 112, 116–17, 116–17, 118, 118–19, 120, 121, 124, 124–125

Colton, J. H. and Company, 106–07

Colton’s Topographical Map, 106–07, 106–07

Commissioners’ Plan, 86–91, 86–87, 89, 120

Cortelyou, Jacques, 24, 26, 28

Croton Aqueduct System, 103, 104, 105

de Koningh, Frederick, 25–26

De Laet, Johannes, 12–13

De Laet-Gerritsz Map, 12–13, 13

DesBarres, J. E W, 52, 54–55

DesBarres Chart, 52, 55

Desbarres Recognition Views, 52, 54–55, 54

Desobry, P., 102, 103

Directory Plan (1789), 76–77,...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• Foreword
• Introduction To The Dover Edition
• The Lost First Map
• Manhattan Found And Lost
• Hudson Rediscovers Manhattan
• The Invention of New Netherlands
• Early Reconnaissance
• Spreading The News Of New Amsterdam
• Metropolis In Embryo
• The Colony In Crisis
• New Lisbon
• New Amsterdamers In New Jersey
• The Brave Place
• The Fall of New Amsterdam
• The English Survey Their Prize
• Dutch Again
• The English Domain
• Cartographic Illusion: Fortress New York
• Expansion Under English Rule
• From Town To City
• All But Lost
• A Citizen’s Map
• Mapping From Memory
• Early Planned Growth
• Charting The Harbor
• Clandestine Cartography
• A Military Survey Becomes A Masterpiece
• Victory in Retreat
• Conflagration
• Manhattan’s Original Topography Preserved On Paper
• Diminished By War
• Capital Recovery
• A Preliminary Plan for Growth
• Fanciful Projection of The Future
• The Modern City Grid
• A Better Comprehensive Plan
• The Randel Survey
• Surveying The Waterfront
• Postwar Growth
• Fire Amid Prosperity
• Croton Water Reaches The City
• The Old Juxtaposed With The New
• Charting The Bay And Harbor With Advanced Methods
• Real-Estate Interests Drive Cartography
• Insurance Company Surveys
• Central Park
• Watery Foundations To Growth
• The Nation’s Business Center
• Uniting Brooklyn And Manhattan
• The Promise of Greater New York City
• Rapid Transit Under Ground
• The “Red Scare”
• City of Skyscrapers
• Times Square Cleanup
• Aviation In The Service of Cartography
• Selected Bibliography
• Index
• Illustration Credits
• About The Authors