Bird's eye view of New York Harbor, 1907. Brooklyn Historical Society.
This month’s map of the month post is a sheet entitled “Bird’s Eye View of New York Harbor,” published by Geo. H. Walker of Boston in 1907. At first glance, it is a wonderful, sweeping view of a busy harbor as the eye follows the path of the ferries pouring from the mouth of the Hudson out into Upper New York Bay, through the Narrows past Coney Island to the Lower Bay. Beyond lies Sandy Hook and the Atlantic Ocean with tiny ships dotting the horizon on…
Map of the city of Brooklyn (as consolidated January 1st, 1855), incorporated as a village 1816, as a city 1834, popln. abt. 200,000, ca. 1855. Brooklyn Historical Society.
This month’s map is likely a printer’s proof of a Map of the City of Brooklyn, consolidated as of January 1st, 1855. It marks an important stage in the transformation of Brooklyn from rural village to the city comprising Kings County, for it shows the first expansion of the City that occurred when Brooklyn annexed the City of Williamsburgh and the Town…