#colonialnewyork

[nyc-urbanism]

#MapMondays! 1642 Map of New Amsterdam (today's Downtown Manhattan). The map inscription reads "Map of Original Grants of Village Lots from the Dutch West India Company to the Inhabitants of New-Amsterdam, (Now New-York.) lying below the present line of Wall Street." The waterline shown on the map is drastically different from today's landfilled shoreline, with Pearl Street (named from the pearly oyster shells that lined the shores) to the east and Greenwich Street to the west. The northern border of New Amsterdam was Wall Street, named after a physical wall built to protect the colony from Native Americans. North of the wall was mainly farms and small villages, such as Greenwich Village and the Village of Harlem. #newamsterdam #mapmonday #cartography #historicmap #downtownmanhattan #wallstreet #colonialnewyork #fortamsterdam #wallstreet #pearlstreetnyc #greenwichstreetnyc #dutchwestindiacompany #map #nychistory (at New Amsterdam) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrOXplGFAaW/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=14xfjticbwe88

[nyc-urbanism]

#MapMondays! 1642 Map of New Amsterdam (today's Downtown Manhattan). The map inscription reads "Map of Original Grants of Village Lots from the Dutch West India Company to the Inhabitants of New-Amsterdam, (Now New-York.) lying below the present line of Wall Street." The waterline shown on the map is drastically different from today's landfilled shoreline, with Pearl Street (named from the pearly oyster shells that lined the shores) to the east and Greenwich Street to the west. The northern border of New Amsterdam was Wall Street, named after a physical wall built to protect the colony from Native Americans. North of the wall was mainly farms and small villages, such as Greenwich Village and the Village of Harlem. #newamsterdam #mapmonday #cartography #historicmap #downtownmanhattan #wallstreet #colonialnewyork #fortamsterdam #wallstreet #pearlstreetnyc #greenwichstreetnyc #dutchwestindiacompany #map #fidinyc #nychistory (at New Amsterdam) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrOV-Y8lcUu/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=7kg5lzrb1ba5

[nyc-urbanism]

#MapMondays! 1642 Map of New Amsterdam (today's Downtown Manhattan). The map inscription reads "Map of Original Grants of Village Lots from the Dutch West India Company to the Inhabitants of New-Amsterdam, (Now New-York.) lying below the present line of Wall Street." The waterline shown on the map is drastically different from today's landfilled shoreline, with Pearl Street (named from the pearly oyster shells that lined the shores) to the east and Greenwich Street to the west. The northern border of New Amsterdam was Wall Street, named after a physical wall built to protect the colony from Native Americans. North of the wall was mainly farms and small villages, such as Greenwich Village and the Village of Harlem. #newamsterdam #mapmonday #cartography #historicmap #downtownmanhattan #wallstreet #colonialnewyork #fortamsterdam #wallstreet #pearlstreetnyc #greenwichstreetnyc #dutchwestindiacompany #map (at Wall Street Historic District (New York))