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Cartographically this map claims to be the culmination of original survey work accomplished by William Hooker, but to our eye is a clear copy of Burr’s contemporaneous pocket map of New York City. Hooker’s map, like Burr’s names all streets and identifies city wards from the Battery to 52nd Street.
The first map to extensively depict New York City's transit lines is a United States Geological Survey map of southern Brooklyn drafted in 1888. The first subway focused map was published in 1904-1905 when several maps were published alongside the opening of the IRT subway. [11]
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Stagecoaches headed north originally started from Cortlandt Street in lower Manhattan; later the starting point was moved up to Broadway and Twenty-first Street. [ 3 ] In 1703, the legislative body provided for the postal road to be a "public and common general highway" along the same route, starting in Kingsbridge, Bronx and ending at a ferry ...
Fordham Road is a major thoroughfare in the Bronx, New York City, that runs west-east from the Harlem River to Bronx Park. Fordham Road houses the borough's largest and most diverse shopping district. [1] It geographically separates the geopolitical North Bronx from the South Bronx.
English: The maps use data from nationalatlas.gov, specifically countyp020.tar.gz on the Raw Data Download page. The maps also use state outline data from statesp020.tar.gz. The Florida maps use hydrogm020.tar.gz to display Lake Okeechobee.
The 183rd Street station of the Third Avenue El, shortly before its demolition. On May 17, 1886, the Suburban Rapid Transit Company operated the first rapid transit operation in the Annexed District—as the Bronx was known then—via a crossing over the Harlem River between 133rd Street and 129th Street in Manhattan. [1]
155th Street, 161st Street, 163rd Street, and Hunts Point Avenue June 27, 1948 [3] now the Bx6 (formerly Bx34) bus X 167th Street Crosstown Line: Washington Heights, Manhattan: Hunts Point: 181st Street, 167th Street, 168th Street, and 169th Street July 10, 1948 now the Bx35 bus X 207th Street Crosstown Line: Inwood, Manhattan: Belmont