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Five Points (or The Five Points) was a 19th-century neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City.The neighborhood, partly built on low-lying land which had filled in the freshwater lake known as the Collect Pond, was generally defined as being bound by Centre Street to the west, the Bowery to the east, Canal Street to the north, and Park Row to the south.
Dec 7, 2021 · By. Shannon Werle. December 07, 2021. A glimpse into New York City at the turn of the 20th century can now be viewed at an exceptional level of detail: 6.5 million unique census records from 1850, 1880, and 1910 are pinpointed to residential addresses on the recently launched website Mapping Historical New York: A Digital Atlas.
This cadastral map of Manhattan in 26 sections on 13 sheets appears to be a draft of another map printed in Sackersdorff, Otto. Maps of farms, commonly called the Blue Book 1815 (New York: 1868). The map shows property lines and owners’ names, some existing roads and projected streets, and shows relief by hachures. Pen-and-ink, watercolor on ...
Collection Data. Description. NYPL's holdings of real estate and fire insurance atlases dating from the 19th and 20th centuries, showing streets, blocks, tax lots, and land use classifications of New York City's five boroughs and the surrounding metropolitan area. Cartographers and publishers include Perris, Hyde, Hopkins, Bromley, and Sanborn.
New York's congressional districts. A map of New York's congressional districts. The U.S. state of New York contains 26 congressional districts. Each district elects one member of the United States House of Representatives to represent it. [1] The state was redistricted in 2022 following the 2020 U.S. census. It lost one seat in Congress. [2]
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Mar 5, 2021 · Sounds like something you might read in any US newspaper beginning February 2020. “It was 1795, and the yellow fever—which had burned through Philadelphia two years earlier, killing more than 10 percent of the city’s population—had arrived in New York. It would return in 1798, and those two epidemics killed between 3,000 and 3,500 New ...
