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The map was drawn by Joseph Colton, who one of the most prominent map publishers in New York City, with a career spanning three decades from the 1830s to the 1850s. Colton’s production was ...
There are tens of thousands of officially-designated landmarks in New York ... map, called Discover NYC Landmarks, has points for every single designated landmark in the city, whether it's an ...
“Boom, within a couple of weeks, it was on the map,” he said. It’s a New York pastime to gripe that neighborhoods are invented and defined by real estate brokers, developers and other city ...
One of the earliest pictorial maps of the city (above) depicts New Amsterdam as it stood when the British took the city and renamed it New York in 1664. The map shows the tip of Manhattan Island ...
Debates like these have endured for ages, largely because there is no map that captures all of the city’s neighborhoods and their borders. “There are a million ways to slice New York City that ...
First, transit officials in New York City said goodbye to the Metrocard. Now the MTA is waving farewell to another transit icon: the famed subway map. “This is a lynchpin moment,” said MTA ...