Manhattan 1804 Map

by Peter Ogden

Title

Manhattan 1804 Map

Artist

Peter Ogden

Medium

Drawing - Lithograph

Description

This is a reproduction of an 1804 map of Manhattan "The Great Metropolis" by "T. Bonar, N.Y.". The original was a stone lithograph. This highly detailed map depicts named shipyards, docks, piers, slips, wharves and ferries on the Hudson and East Rivers including Rhinelander's Shipyards, Swartwout's Dock, the Long Island Ferry and Port of Nassau. It also includes wards, Crown Point, Broadway and Bowery Lane which becomes the "Road to Boston." This map is a fascinating piece of early New York cartographic history.
Manhattan, known regionally as The City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. It is the urban core of the New York metropolitan area, and coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state of New York. Manhattan serves as the city's economic and administrative center, cultural identifier, and historical birthplace. The borough consists mostly of Manhattan Island, bounded by the Hudson, East, and Harlem rivers along with several small adjacent islands, including Roosevelt, U Thant, and Randalls and Wards Islands. Manhattan additionally contains Marble Hill, a small neighborhood now on the U.S. mainland, separated from the rest of Manhattan by the Harlem Ship Canal and later connected using landfill to the Bronx. Manhattan Island is divided into three informally bounded components, each cutting across the borough's long axis: Lower, Midtown, and Upper Manhattan.
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January 5th, 2018

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