Historic Map - New York, NY - 1867

New York und Umgegend. Printed by H. Peters. Engraved by R. Kupfer.

This reproduction panoramic map of New York, New York was published by R. Lexow in 1867 and provides a map title in Deutch: "New York und Umgegend, Pramie zum sechszehnten Bande des New Yorker Belletristischen Journals". The map looks at New York just two years after the American Civil War ended. In the foreground is Battery Park showing lively pedestrian scenes. At the left is Jersey City and at the right is Brooklyn Heights, not yet bridged to the island of Manhattan. Wear and damage are evident and some of the original numbered references at the map's lower right have been lost from the image but determined and hand-written in the lower margin.

Prospect Park opened in Brooklyn the same year that this map was published, after a long delay caused by the Civil War. Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, this 526-acre park was completed in 10 years. The first cable-car line on elevated steel girders was demonstrated by Charles T. Harvey in 1867, running a quarter of a mile along Greenwich Street.

This bird's-eye view map from 1867 shows buildings, river ports, and shipping traffic.

Features numbered references to the following locations:

1. Brooklyn
2. Jersey City
3. Hoboken
4. Williamsburgh
5. Greenpoint
6. Hunter's Point
7. Ravenswood
8. Astoria
9. Battery Immigrant Depot
10. Government Barge Landing
11. Bowling Green
12. Broadway
13. Trinity Church
14. St. Paul's Church
15. Wall Street
16. Whitehall Street
17. South Street
18. West Street
19. Broad Street
20. Exchange Place
21. Custom House
22. Treasury Building
23. Post Office
24. City Hall Park
25. City Hall
26. New Court House
27. Hall of Records
28. City Hospital
29. Chatham Street
30. Bowery
31. East Broadway
32. Grand Street
33. Canal Street
34. 14th Street
35. 4th Avenue
36. Madison Avenue
37. 5th Avenue
38. 8th Avenue
39. Washington Square
40. Union Square
41. Grammercy Park
42. Stuyvesant Square
43. Tompkins Square
44. Madison Square
45. Bloomingdale Square
46. Hamilton Square
47. Central Park
48. Staten Island Ferry
49. Liberty Street Ferry
50. Cortlandt Street Ferry
51. Barclay Street Ferry
52. Pavonia Ferry
53. Desbrosses Street Ferry
54. Christopher Street Ferry
55. Weehawken Ferry
56. Central J. R. R. Depot & Ferry
57. Cunard Steamships Wharf
58. N. J. R. R. Depot & Ferry
59. Long Dock
60. Hamburg & Bremen S. S. Wharf
61. Hudson City
62. Elysian Fields
63. The Palisades
64. Weehawken
65. Gutenberg
66. East River
67. Hamilton & Atlantic Ferries
68. Wall St. Ferry
69. Fulton St. Ferry
70. Roosevelt Ferry
71. James Slip Ferry
72. Catherine St. Ferry
73. Jackson St. Ferry
74. Grand St. Ferry
75. Houston St. Ferry
76. 10th St. Ferry
77. Brooklyn Heights
78. City Hall, Brooklyn
79. Fulton Street, Brooklyn
80. Navy Yard
81. Navy Hospital
82. Blackwell's Island
83. Ward's Island
84. Randall's Island
85. Hell Gate
86. The Sound
87. Harlem River
88. Roanoke
89. Dunderberg
90. New Ironsides