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#MapMondays! Aerial view of New York, 1879 (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm7Mn7quavJ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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#MapMondays! 1932 map showing land uses in the Lower East Side. (at Lower East Side, NY) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClPFok5u6Ya/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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#MapMondays! THE CITY OF BROOKLYN, 1879 Incredibly detailed "Birds-Eye-View" map of Brooklyn, showing the independent city's churches, working waterfront, parks, municipal buildings, banks, landmarks, major roads, Navy Yard and the (at the time under construction) Brooklyn Bridge. which would open four years later. At the time, Brooklyn was the third largest city in the country, following NYC and Philadelphia. Brooklyn was consolidated into New York City as a borough nine years later. #mapmonday #cartography #brooklyn #dumbo #brooklynheights #cobblehill #fortgreen #parkslope #gowanus #prospectheights #bedstuy #crownheights #williamsburg #bushwick #greenpoint #ridgewoodbrooklyn #forhamilton #urbanism #nycurbanism #brooklynhistory (at Fulton Ferry Landing) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChBOI-9OQGS/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#MapMondays 1930 plan to fill New York Harbor with landfill! The proposal by T. Kennard Thomson was originally published in 1911 in Popular Science and would have filled the entire East River with landfill in addition to creating new peninsulas off of Staten Island, Bayonne and Sandy Hook, totaling fifty square miles! With the East River gone, Thomson proposed connecting the Long Island Sound back to the harbor by digging a new channel from Flushing through Brooklyn. Thomson revised the plan in 1930 (seen above), naming the new landfill City of New Manhattan, half of which would be in the state of New Jersey, separated by the extension of Broadway which would be a grand boulevard over railroad tracks flowing into a tunnel to Staten Island. This grand boulevard would be four miles long and three levels high, with trains, automobiles, and airplane landings! Tunnels would also go from Sunset Park to Bayonne, Red Hook to Jersey City, and Cobble Hill to Jersey City. #redhook #jerseycity #cobblehill #manhattan #nychistory #urbanism #longislandcity #queensny #statenisland #bayonne #eastriver #popularmechanics #civilengineering #brooklyn #dumbo #brooklynheights #tribreca #nyc #nyharbor #hudsonriver #longislandsound #urbanplanning #lowermanhattan #fidi #nycurbanism (at Governors Island) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cia2xlcOJP4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#MapMondays - Charles Lamb's Diagonal Plan for New York City, 1904. Lamb was one of the numerous planners at the turn of the century who made it their mission to improve the city through public art, the creation of new streets, parks, bridges, and civic masterplans. As Gregory Gilmartin noted in Shaping the City, "Charles Lamb trained his intelligence on an amazing variety of urban issues: from skyscrapers and street signs to a proposal for communal kitchens that would, he hoped, save women from the drudgery of housework and free them to join in the city's public life. Few people have had such an effect on the shape of New York and yet been so thoroughly forgotten." One of Lamb's most interesting plans was to break up the grid with a diagonal plan, relieving congestion and creating public squares like those along Broadway, the only diagonal street in the modern grid. Lamb discussed his proposal in detail in the April 1904 issue of The Craftsman: "Broadway, the one great diagonal through New York, proves how essential such diagonals are, and it is but recently that a serious attempt has been made to- suggest modifications and improvements in the present plan of New York, so as to rectify many of the difficulties and adjust the changes to the inevitably increasing congestion of the growing metropolis... This permits the development of the city to the utmost that might be possible within many decades, because with the hexagon, the great advantage of the diagonal already discussed is secured, and, at the same time, intervening spaces which can be secured for playgrounds and park areas, between the large central areas, which, in turn, can be used for groups of civic buildings in certain parts of the city, and, again, in other parts of the city seats of learning, recreation, business in all its forms, banking, publishing, the newspaper industries, and the thousand and one trades, which, in their turn, seem to be desirous of grouping themselves around a common center." (Charles R. Lamb, City Plan, The Craftsman, April 1904) (at Union Square Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/Caz6FU5Ophq/?utm_medium=tumblr

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#MapMondays! Cozzens' 1843 Geological History of Manhattan or New York Island (top) and Profile of the Island of New York (bottom). Geologist Issachar Cozzens first published the map along with sections, tables and columns in 1843 for American students studying geology. Zoom into the map to view the colorful details. (at Tribeca) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgubJUnuQlC/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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#MapMondays! Lower Manhattan Expressway, feasibility study by #burtalist architect Paul Rudolph. The Lower Manhattan Expressway would have connected the Manhattan and Williamsburg Bridges to the Holland Tunnel with a ten lane highway, demolishing much of the #Soho, #NOLITA and #Tribeca we know today. The 1967 proposal would have been covered with brutalist housing blocks, a monorail, and a transit center. The 1967 study was the final push for the expressway before it was finally canceled in 1971. The New Yorker explains Rudolph's intentions and vision, "In 1967, presuming that the expressway was a done deal, Rudolph didn’t oppose it in the manner of Jane Jacobs, whose argument that it would have brought far more urban destruction than urban renewal ultimately carried the day. Instead, he took on the challenge of figuring out how to mitigate the highway’s impact on the city, and turn this incursion into something positive. Rudolph’s idea, in effect, was to double down on the intervention, to build so much around and atop and beside it that the expressway would seem almost irrelevant. Rudolph envisioned what was, in effect, a megastructure extending all the way across Manhattan—a whole series of buildings that stretched, nearly unbroken, from river to river. Some of them straddled the expressway, others were towers arranged in clusters, and still others were in the form of slabs that Rudolph placed along the approaches to both bridges, turning them into walled corridors. He designed many of the buildings as gigantic frames to hold prefabricated apartment units that were to have been slipped into the structures. There were “people movers,” gliding along tracks connecting the buildings, and several floors of open automobile storage at the base of many of the apartment towers. It was ridiculous in some ways, a futuristic city of the absurd. It ignored the streets, the lifeblood of New York’s urbanism, in favor what seems today like a brave new world of anti-urbanism... Indeed, he was proposing an intervention far more massive than anything Robert Moses ever conceived, an entirely new vision of what the city could be." (at SoHo Cast Iron Historic District) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZIQy0nuhgl/?utm_medium=tumblr

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