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Feeding Gotham: The Political Economy and Geography of Food in New York, 1790–1860 (Princeton UP, 2016) xviii, 347 pp. Batterberry, Ariane Ruskin & Michael Batterberry (1973). On the Town in New York, from 1776 to the Present. Scribner. ISBN 0-6841-3375-X. Hauck-Lawson, Annie; Deutsch, Jonathan, eds. (2010). Gastropolis: Food & New York City ...
The earliest surviving map of the area now known as New York City is the Manatus Map, depicting what is now Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, Staten Island, and New Jersey in the early days of New Amsterdam. [7] The Dutch colony was mapped by cartographers working for the Dutch Republic. New Netherland had a position of surveyor general.
The Taylor Map is an engraved map of New York City, produced by Will L. Taylor for Galt & Hoy in 1879. [1] The map depicts the entire length of the island of Manhattan , although not to scale, and is surrounded by period advertisements and portraits of various businesses in New York and New Jersey .
The Manhattan New York Temple is the 119th operating temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). It is the church's second "high rise" temple to be constructed, after the Hong Kong China Temple, and the third converted from an existing building, after the Vernal Utah and Copenhagen Denmark temples.
The map proved popular, and he began selling it, forming the Hagstrom Map Company in 1916. [5] He expanded coverage to all of Manhattan, then all of New York City, then its outlying regions, eventually offering over 100 maps. [2] The New York City Subway used a Hagstrom design for its official subway maps during the 1940s and up to 1958.
Today the building, once two stories high, now five, is a Buddhist temple. The New York County Jail, better known as the Eldridge Street Jail, was located at 22 Eldridge Street [8] and operated from 1836 to 1862, [9] when it was replaced by a new jail on Ludlow Street. The jail building started out as a three-story private home and before ...
The Fulton–Nassau Historic District is a federally designated historic area of New York City roughly bounded by Broadway and Park Row, Nassau, Dutch and William Streets, Ann and Spruce Streets, and Liberty Street, in lower Manhattan. It contains a mix of late 19th- and early 20th-century architectural styles.
Irving's fictional History of New York published. [7] [37] 1810 – Scudder's American Museum in business. 1811 May 19: Close to 100 buildings burn down on Chatham Street. Commissioners' Plan of 1811 lays out the Manhattan grid between 14th Street and Washington Heights. [7] 1812 – New York City Hall built. [19] 1816 – American Bible ...