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Guide to the Maps Collection, 1666-2002

Brooklyn Brooklyn, NY 11238

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Finding aid prepared by Diana Bowers-Smith Copyright © 2016 . All rights reserved.

Descriptive Summary

Creator: Various Title: Brooklyn Maps Collection Date Span: 1666 - 2002 Abstract: A collection of maps depicting Brooklyn, , and . Quantity: 429 maps Location: Brooklyn Collection Flat File Repository: Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection

Scope and Content Note

This collection contains maps of Brooklyn, , and Long Island spanning the years 1666 to 2002. The maps were acquired from various sources and at various times. They vary considerably in coverage and style. Some features to be found on maps within this collection include topography, local landmarks, businesses, schools, demographic information, and transit information. This finding aid covers those maps in the collection which have been catalogued. New maps will continue to be added as they are acquired and catalogued.

Restrictions

Access Restrictions Collection is located in the Brooklyn Collection at the Central Branch at Grand Army Plaza. The collection may only be used in the library and is not available through interlibrary loan.

Use Restrictions While many items in the Brooklyn Collection are unrestricted, we do not own reproduction rights to all materials. Be aware of the several kinds of rights that might apply: copyright, licensing and trademarks. The borrower assumes all responsibility for copyright questions.

Access Points

Subject Topics: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)—Maps New York (N.Y.)--Maps New York Metropolitan Area—Maps Roads--New York Metropolitan Area--Maps Local transit--New York (State)--New York—Maps Subways--New York (State)--New York--Maps

Administrative Information

Provenance This is a compilation collection acquired from various sources.

Preferred Citation This collection should be cited as the Maps Collection, Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection.

Arrangement

Guide to the Maps Collection 2 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection The collection is arranged chronologically. Parks and cemeteries have their own section. Undated maps are found at the end of the chronological arrangement.

Drawer 1: 1666-1835

Identifier Title Coverage Date Coverage spatial Description Creator Size (W temporal x H)

1666.01.01 A Platt of ye Situation of the 1666 [later Brooklyn Map showing early 17th. Century towns, Cox Hubbard 9.75" x Towns & places on ye Wester copy] primitive map sketched by hand. 8.5" End of Long Island to Facsimile of original in state library. Hempsted. 1766.01.02 Plan of the Village of 1766- [later Nassau, Long Island, Color. Shows main roads, ferries, Ratzer, B., Lieut. in 16.25" x Brooklyn and part of Long 1767 copy] Brooklyn, , waterways, farms, and landowners' His Majesty's 60th 11" Island Governor's Island names. or Royal American Regiment (Surveyed by) 1766.02.02 Plan of the City of New York 1766- 1854 Brooklyn, , Black and white. Scene of harbor at Ratzer, B. (Lieut. in 16.5" x in North America 1767 Manhattan, New bottom. From Valentine's manual, 1854. His Majesty's 60th 21.25" Jersey, Long Island, of Royal American Nassau Reg.)

1775.01.01 Sketch of General Grant's [1775- 1794 Long Island, Photocopy of fold-out map from History 10.25" x Positions on Long Island 1783] Brooklyn, Manhattan of the American War by C. Stedman. 16" 1775.01.02 Sketch of General Grant's [1775- 1794 Long Island, Photocopy of fold-out map from History 10.25" x Positions on Long Island 1783] Brooklyn, Manhattan of the American War by C. Stedman. 16" 1775.02.01 Map of Brooklyn at the time of [1775- 1858 Brooklyn, Manhattan, Copy made for D.T. Valentine's Manual, Johnson, Jeremiah 20.5" x the Revolutionary War 1786] New York, Long 1858. Black and white. Shows roads, (Gen.) 15.5" Island, Governor's houses, estates, bridges, forts, ponds, Island creeks, etc. Text along the bottom describes the ships of war involved in the battles. 1775.03.01 From General Carrington's 1776 n.d. New York City and Revolutionary war map. Two pages-- General 9.125" x Battle Maps and Charts of the one is New York, one is New Jersey. Carrington/A.S. 5.75" Barnes & Co., publishers 1776.01.01 An Historical Map of the 1776 [mid Brooklyn Shows troop movements and 17" x Battle of Brooklyn 20th encampments, town names, and 14" c.?] folkloric events relating to the Revolutionary War. Features are

Guide to the Maps Collection 3 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection represented in stick figure cartoons, lines, and "X" marks for roads, troop movement and town boundaries. Useful teaching aid. No historically accurate use is appropriate. 1776.02.01 Plan of the Battle of Brooklyn, 1776 1870 Brooklyn, Manhattan, Black and white. Directional of true Stiles, S. Edward 18" x August 27th, 1776. Queens, Long Island North given. Recreation of (Drawn by) 19.5" Revolutionary War-houses and troop movements over the entire county. Very similar to map 1776.10.01. 1776.02.02 Plan of the Battle of Brooklyn, 1776 1870 Brooklyn, Manhattan, Color. Directional of true North given. Stiles, S. Edward 20" x August 27th, 1776. Queens, Long Island Recreation of Revolutionary War- (Drawn by) 19" houses and troop movements over the entire county. Very similar to map 1776.10.01.

1776.03.01 A Plan of New York Island, 1776 1865 New York Island, Black and white. American and British Faden, William 11.25" x & East New Staten Island, East Troop movements and defenses. (Successor to the 14" Jersey, with particular New Jersey, Bronx, Shows activity in Brooklyn, Flatbush, late Mr. Ts. description of the Manhattan, Long Flatlands and Bedford in 1776. Jeffreys, engagement on the woody Island, Queens, Originally engraved and published by Geographer to the heights of Long Island, Brooklyn, Flatbush, William Faden (Successor to the late King) between Flatbush and Flatlands, Bedford Mr. Ts. Jeffreys, Geographer to the Brooklyn, on the 27th of King), Charing Cross, London. August 1776 between His Majesty's Forces Commanded by General Howe and the Americans under Major General Putnam, with the subsequent Disposition of both Armies. 1776.04.01 The Campaign of 1776 1776 1878 Long Island, Color. Shows military positions in Riepe, G. 11" x around New York and Brooklyn, Governor's Brooklyn and New York in 1776. 9.5" Brooklyn Island, Red Hook, Flatbush 1776.05.01 Plan of the Battle of Long 1776 1878 Long Island, Black and white. American and British Johnston, Henry P. 21" x Island and of the Brooklyn Brooklyn, Flatbush, Troop movements and defenses. (compiled by) 26.5" defences, August 27th, 1776 Flatlands, Bedford, Shows activity in Brooklyn, Flatbush, Governor's Island Flatlands and Bedford in 1776. Red star affixed in middle is labeled in blue ink, "Ingersoll Bldg., Bklyn. Pub. Lib."

Guide to the Maps Collection 4 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection 1776.06.01 Plan of Fort Green, and Line [1776] 1856 Brooklyn, Fort Black and white. Very small area Hayward, G. 16" x of Intrenchments, from the Greene, Gowanus depicted. (copied fom original 19.25" Wallabout to Gowanus Creek. by Lieut. James Gadsden of the Engineers by) 1776.07.01 Plan of the Positions and 1776 1869 Long Island, Black and white. North directional Field, T.W. 21.5" x Movements of the British and Governor's Island, shown. Roads and meadowlands of 20" American Army on the 26th & New York, 1869. Many old roads. Hatchings for 27th of August 1776 on Long Manhattan, Brooklyn, various topological features. Island Flatbush, Red Hook 1776.08.01 A Plan of the Environs of 1776 Brooklyn, Manhattan, Color photocopy. Shows the original Sproule, Geo. 23" x Brooklyn, Showing the New York, Long hills and watercourses of South (Lieut. of the 16th 18.5" Position of the Rebel Lines Island, Governor's Brooklyn as well as roads, wooded Regiment of Foot and Defenses Island areas, some field boundaries, marshes, Assist Engineer) and fortifications. 1776.09.01 Plan of New York Island & 1776 [later Brooklyn See title - Major towns & roads are W. Kemble 6" x Part of Long Island: Showing copy-- shown. Minor topographic detail is 9.125" the Positions of the American mayb given; Swamps, Bluffs, & Waterways. & British Armies before, at, & e from after the Engagement on The a Heights. August 27th, 1776. book? ] 1776.10.01 Map of the Battle of Brooklyn 1776 Brooklyn Map shows Brooklyn w/battle lines, 8.5" x [August lines of marches, roads, towns, & Inset 11.125" 27] of , with a detailed look at the British Lines. Very similar to maps 1776.02.01 and 1776.02.02. 1777.01.01 Map of Queens, Kings, & 1777 1903 Brooklyn, Queens, Diagram depicting major towns & 10.5" x Richmond Counties, 1777. [Sept Richmond county, routes, shore outline, sections of 8.75" 4] New Jersey present-day NJ; major towns & neighborhoods are shown. State Library. 1778.01.01 Part of the City of New York & 1778 Manhattan, New Photostat. Black and white. Portion of Wester, Theodore 20.5" x Part of Long Island York, Long Island, Brookland Parrish. Brooklyn (labeled (author and 18" Brooklyn, Governor's Brookland) Ferry. Some topographical printer?) Island features. From the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 1781.01.01 A Map of the Environs of 1781 Brooklyn, Manhattan, Photocopy. Black and white. Skinner, Andrew 16.5" x Brooklyn New York, Long Directional given for true South 22.75" Island, Governor's "Magnetick Meridian." Coverage to Island Brooklyn boundaries.

Guide to the Maps Collection 5 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection 1797.01.01 Map of , 1797 1797 1903 Brooklyn, Jamaica Depiction of shoreline with inlets, 8.75" x Bay marshes, main roads. Location of 10.5" several prominent structures. From State Library. 1797.02.01 Map of the Town of Flatbush 1797 1903 Brooklyn, Flatbush Major streets shown; lands bordering Jeremiah Lott 10.25" x (New Lots) Flatbush, salt meadows, Flatbush Bay. 7.875" From State Library.

1820.01.01 Map of Brooklyn 1820 1820 Brooklyn, Manhattan, Facsimile. 1820 features drawn over Young & Currie 13.75" x Long Island, New more modern map (n.d.) Hand colored. (accredited to) 15.25" York, Nassau, Covers entire 20th century Kings Queens, Governor's County. Ornaments illustrate cultural Island features, i.e. roads and houses. For use as decoration. Many inaccurate features. 1827.01.01 Hooker's Map of the Village of 1827 1861 Brooklyn, New York, Color. Includes the Navy Yard, 20" x Brooklyn in the Year 1827. Manhattan, Long Governor's Island, part of the City of 16.25" For Bishop's Manual of the Island, Governor's New York and surrounding areas. Corporation. Island Colored lines outline the boundaries of the 5 wards of the village of Brooklyn as well as the Navy Yard and the Naval Hospital. 1827.01.02 Hooker's Map of the Village of 1827 1861 Brooklyn, New York, Color. Includes the Navy Yard, 20.75" x Brooklyn in the Year 1827. Manhattan, Long Governor's Island, part of the City of 16.25" For Bishop's Manual of the Island, Governor's New York and surrounding areas. Corporation. Island Colored lines outline the boundaries of the 5 wards of the village of Brooklyn as well as the Navy Yard and the Naval Hospital. 1833.01.01 Map of the Village of 1833 1942 Brooklyn, Black and white. McDowell, H. 13" x 9" Williamsburgh, Kings County; Williamsburgh (Engraved and As laid out by the Published by) Commissioners appointed by the Legislature in 1827. 1834.01.01 Map of Brooklyn, Kings 1834- 1836 Brooklyn, Kings Negative photocopy (white on black). 2 Martin, Alexr. 24.75" x County, Long Island 1836 County, New York, sections are encapsulated together. (Author) 18" Manhattan, Long Written on top, "Updated Clerks Office (each Island of South Dist., New York, March 1836." section) Important structures indicated - toll gates, cemeteries, churches, original farm lines - not houses or block numbers. Wards 1-5 only are labeled and no boundaries are shown. Guide to the Maps Collection 6 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection 1835.02.01 Map of the City of Brooklyn 1835 1835 Brooklyn, Color. City of Brooklyn section includes Daniel Haskel, 11.25" x surrounding towns street map and locations of city wards. Clerk's Office of the 14" (Bushwick/Williamsbu Southernmost streets are Union and District Court of the rgh, Flatbush, New Degraw; easternmost development is Southern District of Utrecht), Lower Gowanus Road; northernmost is New York Manhattan, Raymond Blvd. Major roads and Governor's, Ellis's, arteries of and through surrounding and Bedlow's Islands. areas shown. Map includes railroad to Jamaica. section features harbor slips, as well as ferry connections to Brooklyn.

Additional reference number at bottom: M3354067. Right margin: M 7.50 Daniel Magee.

Drawer 2: 1836-1859

1839.01.01 Map of the City of Brooklyn 1839 1839 Brooklyn Heights, A very large map in 4 separate Engraved by S. 24.75" x As Laid Out and confirmed by Red Hook, Bergen, sections. White on black photocopy. Stiles, Sherman & 18" A.G. Hammond, L. Cheever Williamsburgh, Shows street grid, water (bays, rivers, Smith (each and J. Tiffany, Bedford. Lower streams) with depth indications, parks section) Commissioners appointed Manhattan and cemeteries. under an Act of the Legislature of the State of New York 1840.01.01 New York. 1840 1840 Manhattan, New Color. Shows streets, parks, ferries, 16" x York, Brooklyn, railroads, waterways, and buildings. 13.25" Williamsburgh, Mostly Manhattan. Queens, Long Island, , , Jersey City, New Jersey 1841.01.01 A Map of the Olden Town of 1841 [1926] Brooklyn, Jamaica Color (blue, yellow, pink). Decorated Young, J., Esq., in 22.5" x Brooklyn Bay compass shown. Covers the entire conference with G. 16.25" modern Kings County. Depicts events Currie, Esq. of the first settlement to 1841. 3 winds as faces blowing across the county's cultural cartoons. According to text under the title, appears to be created in 1926 in commemoration of the first printing of the and Kings County Democrat in 1841. Not Guide to the Maps Collection 7 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection accurate but an interesting decoration. Related to map 1820.10.01.

1841.01.02 A Map of the Olden Town of 1841 [1926] Brooklyn, Staten Color (pink, red, blue, and white). Young, J., Esq., in 22.5" x Brooklyn Island, New Jersey, Decorated compass shown. Covers the conference with G. 16.25" Manhattan, Queens, entire modern Kings County. Depicts Currie, Esq. Jamaica, Long Island events of the first settlement to 1841. 3 winds as faces blowing across the county's cultural cartoons. According to text under the title, appears to be created in 1926 in commemoration of the first printing of the Brooklyn Eagle and Kings County Democrat in 1841. Not accurate but an interesting decoration. Same as 1841.01.02 but with brighter colors and paper. 1845.01.01 Map of the Village of 1845 1845 Brooklyn, Districts defined by color: yellow, green Vieth, Isaac 33" x Williamsburgh, Kings County, Williamsburgh and pink. Detailed streets. Handwritten 24.5" N.Y. note on verso.

1845.02.01 Hayward's Map of the City of 1845 Brooklyn Color. Directional shown. Shows 21" x Brooklyn Wards 1-9 with colored boundaries. 15.5" Extends to Town of Flatbush, Town of Bushwick, New Utrecht, and Williamsburgh. Greenwood Cemetery and Atlantic Dock are colored. Also contains a lithograph of Brooklyn Heights and a list with addresses of bankers, insurance officers, libraries, and the post office, city hospital, and city building. 1849.01.01 Map of the Property on 1849 Brooklyn, Brooklyn Black and white. Directional shown. 38.25" x Brooklyn Heights of Heights, Downtown Boundary to the north, Clark Street; 24" Pierrepont Real Estate and Brooklyn south, Livingston Street; east, Pearl Neighborhood. Street; west, East River. Shows notable buildings like churches and city hall, streets, and building numbers or lots. Guide to the Maps Collection 8 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection 1849.02.01 B No. 2 Sketch of Buttermilk 1849 Brooklyn, Atlantic Nautical chart showing soundings in 19" x Channel Dock, (Red Hook) . Land area hand 16" Buttermilk Channel, tinted in yellow, water edge tinted in Governor's Island blue, scale in red. Includes depth measurements. Same style as map 1853.01.01. 1850.01.01 City of New York 1850 1850 Manhattan, Brooklyn, Shows public buildings and squares, Cowperthwait, 13.5" x New York, Long hotels and churches with some Thomas & Co. 17" Island references to Brooklyn. Sixteen wards in different colors are numbered. Coverage of the City of Brooklyn: E - River, N - Wallabout and Williamsburgh to the Navy Yard, S - to Johnson Street, W - City Boundary Line at Bedford. Mostly Manhattan. 1850.02.01 Map of the City of Brooklyn, 1850 1850 Brooklyn, Red Hook, White on black. Map is encapsulated in Harrison, J.F. and 18" x .a L.I. Shewing the Streets as at Brooklyn Heights, 4 sections - this is the top left portion. Cundy, W.H. 24.5" present existing, with the Downtown, Carroll Black on white photocopy. Features Buildings, and the intended Gardens streets, houses, and other major Canal and other works buildings. 1850.02.01 Map of the City of Brooklyn, 1850 1850 Brooklyn, Navy Yard, White on black. Map is encapsulated in Harrison, J.F. and 18" x .b L.I. Shewing the Streets as at Williamsburgh, Fort 4 sections - this is the top right portion. Cundy, W.H. 24.5" present existing, with the Greene Black on white photocopy. Features Buildings, and the intended streets, houses, and other major Canal and other works buildings. 1850.02.01 Map of the City of Brooklyn, 1850 1850 Brooklyn, Fort White on black. Map is encapsulated in Harrison, J.F. and 18" x .c L.I. Shewing the Streets as at Greene, Downtown, 4 sections - this is the bottom right Cundy, W.H. 24.5" present existing, with the Bedford Stuyvesant, portion. Black on white photocopy. Buildings, and the intended Crown Heights Features streets, houses, and other Canal and other works major buildings. 1850.02.01 Map of the City of Brooklyn, 1850 1850 Brooklyn, Fort White on black. Map is encapsulated in Harrison, J.F. and 18" x .d L.I. Shewing the Streets as at Greene, Downtown, 4 sections - this is the bottom left Cundy, W.H. 24.5" present existing, with the Bedford Stuyvesant portion. Black on white photocopy. Buildings, and the intended Features streets, houses, and other Canal and other works major buildings. 1852.01.01 Complete Map of the of [1852] n.d. Map 1: lower Wards shown by number and color. C. Magnus, Lith. 23" x New York, Brooklyn and Manhattan to 40th St. Docks/slips on Manhatan map 18.5" Williamsburgh Map 2 Brooklyn, named.Streets, ferry routes. roughly Bedford to Gowanus Bay, Williamsburgh.

Guide to the Maps Collection 9 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection 1853.01.01 Romer and Flynn's Shoals 1853 1853 Brooklyn, Coney Map depicting soundings and buoys off L.D. Williams 13.125" Island shoreline and Sandy Hook. Color x engraving. Same style as map 15.875" 1849.02.01. 1855.03.01 Map of the City of Brooklyn 1855 Brooklyn, Manhattan, Color. North directional shown. Wards 22.5" x (as Consolidated January 1, New York, Queens, 1-18 are marked by color and number. 19" 1855) Governor's Island, Shows cemeteries, parks, Long Island , boundaries with New Utrecht, Flatbush, New Lots, East New York, Maspeth, and Queens. 1855.03.02 Map of the City of Brooklyn 1855 Brooklyn, Manhattan, Color. North directional shown. Wards 23.5" x (as Consolidated January 1, New York, Queens, 1-18 are marked by color and number. 19.25" 1855) Governor's Island, Shows cemeteries, parks, Long Island Long Island Rail Road, boundaries with New Utrecht, Flatbush, New Lots, East New York, Maspeth, and Queens. 1856.01.01 Map of the Cities of Brooklyn [1856?] [1856 Brooklyn, New York, Color. Directional shown. Includes Magnus & Co. 18.5" x and Williamsburgh with Part ?] Williamsburgh, Brooklyn, New Brooklyn, Bedford, and 11.25" of New-York Manhattan, Williamsburgh. Wards 1-9 marked by Governor's Island color and number. Borders with Flatbush, New Utrecht, and Bushwick shown. Wards of lower Manhattan marked by color and number. Includes a color lithograph of a New York harbor scene on the right side. 1856.02.01 Map of the City of Brooklyn 1856 [later Brooklyn, Black and white. North directional 15.25" x copy?] Williamsburgh shown. Street plan of the city. Shows 10.25" ward numbers, city boundaries, ferry locations, parks, cemeteries, bodies of water, etc. Same as map 1858.01.01. 1858.01.01 Map of the City of Brooklyn 1858 Brooklyn Map showing City of Brooklyn; map 16.5" x extends past Williamsburgh to Newtown 11.5" Creek, towards the Cemetery of Evergreens, & south past Greenwood Cemetery. Same as map 1856.02.01. 1858.02.01 Map Showing the Line of the 1858 Brooklyn Inset shows cross section of the canal & Bernhard Essroger 25.5" x Brooklyn Waterworks conduit W/type of construction & 12" materials used. Line near diagram of the entire system w/capacity given at several points. Major streets shown in relation to conduit & canal. Similar to 1864.04.01.

Guide to the Maps Collection 10 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection 1859.01.01 Map of the Consolidated City 1859 Brooklyn, Manhattan, Directional shown. Hand-colored ward 22" x of Brooklyn, 1859. New York, boundaries and judiciary districts 17" Governor's Island, marked. Old roads and plank roads Williamsburgh, labeled. Railroads and some ferry Greenpoint terminals shown. 1859.02.01 Map of the Cities of New 1859 New York, Brooklyn, Color. Marks plank roads, railroads, M. Dripps 12" x York, Brooklyn, Jersey City, Jersey City, Hudson parks, cemeteries, ferries, etc. 18.25" Hudson City, and Hoboken City, Hoboken, Bedford, Williamsburgh, Greenpoint, Bushwick, New Lots, Flatbush, Bay Ridge, East New York, Queens, Manhattan, Governor's Island, Bronx 1859.02.02 Map of the Cities of New 1859 Brooklyn, Manhattan, Major streets named,major ferry lines, M. Dripps 12" x York, Brooklyn, Jersey City, Hoboken, Jersey average depth of surrounding waters, 19" Hudson City, & Hoboken. City, Hudson City transit lines shown along with town & village boundaries. Tri-colored.

Drawer 3: 1860-1869

1860.01.01 Plan Of New York & C. 1860 1860 Manhattan from 46th Lower Manhattan & City of Brooklyn are S. Augustus 12.25" x St. southwards; shown. Major streets are named along Mitchell 15.5" Brooklyn; w/trolley & ferry lines. Five colors Williamsburgh; Green highlighting Manhattan and waterfront Point. Jersey City, NJ areas. Mostly Manhattan. and Hoboken, NJ. Extensive verso on back, including Governors Island and probable provenance. Ellis Island. 1861.01.01 Map of the Consolidated City 1861 1861 Brooklyn, Manhattan, White on black negative photocopy. 18" x of Brooklyn, 1861. Governor's Island, Features ward boundaries, fire bells, 25" Long Island, New railroads, and cemeteries. Same as York, Queens, 1863.02.01. Similar to 1865.02.01. Bushwick, Greenpoint, Williamsburgh, Flatbush, New Utrecht

Guide to the Maps Collection 11 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection 1863.01.01 Field of Gettysburg 1863 1863 Gettysburg Directional shown. Color. Features Ditterline, T. 16" x rebel and union forces in battle (Prepared by) 19.25" positions, including the 11th Corps, which had soldiers from Brooklyn. Shows roads, buildings, and topographical features. 1863.02.01 Map of the Consolidated City 1863 1861 Brooklyn, Manhattan, Color. Features ward boundaries and 25" x of Brooklyn, 1863. Governor's Island, number and boundaries are hand 20.75" Long Island, New colored in red. Also features fire bells, York, Queens, railroads, parks, and cemeteries. Same Bushwick, as 1861.01.01. Similar to 1865.02.01. Greenpoint, Williamsburgh, Flatbush, New Utrecht 1864.01.02 Johnson's Map of New York 1864 Brooklyn, Manhattan, Color. Covers parts of Williamsburgh, 26.5" x and Adjacent Cities. New York, Long Brooklyn, and Red Hook. Only wards 18" Island, Ellis Island, shown completely are 6, 10, 4, 3, 14, Governor's Island, and 17. Wards are colored. Mostly Jersey City, Manhattan. Hoboken, Greenpoint, Williamsburgh, , Blackwell's Island, Queens 1864.02.01 Map of Brooklyn and Vicinity 1864 1864 Brooklyn, Manhattan, Three colors. Directional given. Wards 20.75" x New York, Long are numbered and colored. Railroads 27.75" Island, Governor's shown. Some large tracts of land Island, Hunter's outside the city, in Flatbush, Flatlands, Point, Flatbush, New New Utrecht, etc., are labeled with Utrecht, Flatlands, landowners' names. Shows original Oakland, East New outline of (including York, Greenpoint, Brooklyn Central Library site). Maspeth, Laurel Hill, Flushing, Queens 1864.03.01 Map of the City of Brooklyn [1864] Brooklyn, Manhattan, Black and white. Shows streets and Cooper, H.P. 18.5" x Long Island, New ward and district numbers. (Printed by) 15.75" York, Flatbush, Bedford 1864.04.01 Map Showing the Line of the 1864 Brooklyn and water Shows City of Brooklyn, with G. Hayward 27.875" Brooklyn Water Works conduits going out as landmarks, and water conduits going x far as Rockville, Long out as far as Rockville, LI. Some 16.875" Island. Some locations, especially ponds and Guide to the Maps Collection 12 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection locations, especially reservoirs, shown on Long Island. ponds and reservoirs, Similar to map 1858.02.01 but with on Long Island more and different information.

1865.01.01 Colton's Map of the City of 1865 Manhattan, New Four colors. Wards are numbered and 27.75" x New York and the Adjacent York, Brooklyn, Long colored. Covers Williamsburgh, 17.5" Cities. Island, Jersey City, Brooklyn, and Red Hook. Brooklyn Hoboken, Governor's wards completely shown: 6, 10, 8, 3, 4, Island, Ellis Island, 11, and 14. Mostly Manhattan. Blackwell's Island, Williamsburgh, Greenpoint, Harlem, Hunters Point, Ravenswood, Astoria, Queens, Randall's Island, Red Hook 1865.02.01 Map of the Consolidated City 1865 Brooklyn, Long Four colors. Features colored and Henry McCloskey's 23.5" x of Brooklyn, 1865. Island, New York, numbered wards, ferry lines, railroads, Manual 17.75" Manhattan, New school districts and fire bells. Similar to Utrecht, Flatbush, 1861.01.01, 1863.02.01 and East New York, 1868.01.01/1868.01.02. Ridgewood, Maspeth, Laurel Hill, Hunter's Point, Bushwick, Greenpoint, Williamsburgh, Governor's Island. 1865.03.01 Colton's New York City, 1865 New York, Brooklyn, Three colors. Fire districts are labeled 17.25" x Brooklyn, Jersey City, Jersey City, with Roman numerals. Wards are 28" Hoboken, Etc. Hoboken, Hudson colored and labeled in Arabic numbers. City, Manhattan, Ellis Shows most ferry routes. Island, Bedloe's Island, Governor's Island, Williamsburgh, Greenpoint, Hunters Point, Long Island City, Ravenswood, Astoria, Blackwell's Island, Ward's Island, Randel's Island, Randall's Island, Guide to the Maps Collection 13 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection Sunken Meadow, Queens 1866.01.01 Johnson's New York and 1869 Brooklyn, Long Wards are colored and numbered. 24.25" x Brooklyn Island, New York, Shows streets, street car lines, parks, 20.5" Manhattan, cemeteries, ferries and railroads. Main Governor's Island, roads in outlying districts labeled. Five Flatbush, Oakland, colors. North directional. Bedford, New Lots, Bushwick, Williamsburgh, Greenpoint, Hunters Point, Long Island City, Maspeth, Ravenswood, Astoria, Queens, Blackwell's Island, Ward's Island, Randel's Island, Randall's Island, Westchester, Harlem, Jersey City, Hoboken, Weehawken, New Jersey 1866.02.01 Plan of New York &c. 1866 1866 New York, Plan of New York and surrounding 12.25" x Manhattan, Jersey area. Includes parts of Brooklyn, 15.25" City, Hoboken, Williamsburgh, and Greenpoint. Wards Brooklyn, are colored and numbered. Only Williamsburgh, complete wards in Brooklyn shown are Greenpoint, Queens, 5, 3, and 2. Mostly Manhattan. Includes Long Island, ferry lines. Governor's Island, Ellis Island 1866.02.02 Plan of New York &c. 1866 1866 New York, Plan of New York and surrounding 12.25" x Manhattan, Jersey area. Includes parts of Brooklyn, 15.25" City, Hoboken, Williamsburgh, and Greenpoint. Wards Brooklyn, are colored and numbered. Only Williamsburgh, complete wards in Brooklyn shown are Greenpoint, Queens, 5, 3, and 2. Long Island, Governor's Island, Ellis Island

Guide to the Maps Collection 14 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection 1866.03.01 Map of the Consolidated City 1866 Brooklyn, Long Four colors. All Brooklyn wards colored 22.5" x of Brooklyn, 1866. Island, New York, and numbered. Features ferry lines, 18.5" Manhattan, Queens, railroads, school districts, and fire bells. Hunters Point, Laurel Hill, Maspeth, Ridgewood, East New York, Bushwick, Greenpoint, Williamsburgh, Bedford, Oaklands, Flatbush, New Utrecht 1866.03.02 Map of the Consolidated City 1866 Brooklyn, Long Four colors. All Brooklyn wards colored 22.5" x of Brooklyn, 1866. Island, New York, and numbered. Features ferry lines, 18.5" Manhattan, Queens, railroads, school districts, and fire bells. Hunters Point, Laurel Hill, Maspeth, Ridgewood, East New York, Bushwick, Greenpoint, Williamsburgh, Bedford, Oaklands, Flatbush, New Utrecht 1867.01.01 Map of the Consolidated City 1867 Brooklyn, Long Wards are colored and numbered. 24.75" x of Brooklyn Island, New York, Shows fire bells, school districts, parks, 20" Manhattan, cemeteries, and railroads. Governor's Island, New Utrecht, Windsor Terrace, Flatbush, Oaklands, Bedford, East New York, Bushwick, Williamsburgh, Greenpoint, Hunters Point, Laurel Hill, Maspeth, Ridgewood, Queens 1867.02.01 City of Brooklyn; Plan of a 1867 Brooklyn Dimensions of blocks & parkways are Olmsted, Vaux & 10.375" portion of as given. Placement of foliage & names of Co. x 8.5" Proposed to be Laid Out from surrounding streets are shown. the Eastern Part of the City to the Plaza. Guide to the Maps Collection 15 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection 1867.02.02 City of Brooklyn; Plan of a 1867 Brooklyn Dimensions of blocks & parkways are Olmsted, Vaux & 9.5" x 9" portion of Parkway as given. Placement of foliage & names of Co. Proposed to be Laid Out from surrounding streets are shown. the Eastern Part of the City to the Plaza. 1867.05.01 Map of the City of Brooklyn. [1867] Brooklyn, Newtown Map showing the towns extending from Entered according 19.5" x Creek, Evergreen , Evergreen Cemetery to an act of 16" Cemetery & & Greenwood Cemetery. Also shows Congress in the Greenwood the beginning of Flatbush. Shows year 1858 by I.I. Cemetery. Also original Prospect Park design, including Phelps in the clerks shows the beginning Brooklyn Central Library site, in detail. office of the District of Flatbush. Court for the Southern District of New York. 1868.01.01 Map of the Consolidated City 1868 Brooklyn, Long Wards are colored and numbered. 24.75" x of Brooklyn Island, New York, Shows fire bells, school districts, parks, 20" Manhattan, cemeteries, and railroads. Similar to Governor's Island, 1861.01.01, 1863.02.01, and New Utrecht, 1865.02.01. Windsor Terrace, Flatbush, Oaklands, Bedford, East New York, Bushwick, Williamsburgh, Greenpoint, Hunters Point, Laurel Hill, Maspeth, Ridgewood, Queens 1868.01.02 Map of the Consolidated City 1868 Brooklyn, Long Wards are colored and numbered. 24.75" x of Brooklyn Island, New York, Shows fire bells, school districts, parks, 20" Manhattan, cemeteries, and railroads. Similar to Governor's Island, 1861.01.01, 1863.02.01, and New Utrecht, 1865.02.01. Windsor Terrace, Flatbush, Oaklands, Bedford, East New York, Bushwick, Williamsburgh, Greenpoint, Hunters Point, Laurel Hill, Maspeth, Ridgewood, Queens

Guide to the Maps Collection 16 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection 1868.02.01 Colton's New Map of the City 1868 Brooklyn, Long Wards are colored and numbered. Fire Barnard, W.S., 16 30" x of Brooklyn and Environs Island, New York, districts marked. Shows parks, Beekman Street, 24.25" Manhattan, cemeteries, and railroads. Concentric NY (Engraved by) Governor's Island, circles at 1/2 mile intervals mark the New Utrecht, distance from Brooklyn city hall. Main Gravesend, Flatbush, roads in outlying districts labeled. Ferry Flatlands, Oaklands, routes described. Bedford, East New York, New Lots, Bushwick, Williamsburgh, Greenpoint, Hunters Point, Laurel Hill, Maspeth, Astoria, Winfield, Newtown, Middle Village, Jamaica, Ridgewood, Queens, Blackwell's Island 1868.03.01 Map of Kings County N.Y. 1868 1868 Covers Newtown Older (northern) areas are divided into 26" x Creek to Gravesend wards by colors, and ward numbers. 33" Bay; East River to Streets and avenues, parks, Jamaica Bay. cemeteries, Navy Yard. Creeks and Labeled sections: bays. Water depths indicated. Brooklyn, Green Point, Bedford, Oakland, Flatbush, New Utrecht, New Lots, Flatlands, Gravesend, Coney Island. Small section of lower Manhattan and Stapleton, Staten Island. 1869.01.01 Map of the City of Brooklyn 1869 Brooklyn, Long Wards are colored and numbered. 24.25" x Island, New York, School districts are numbered and 20.5" Manhattan, bounded. Shows parks, cemeteries, Governor's Island, and railroads. Main roads in outlying New Utrecht, districts labeled. Ferry routes Windsor Terrace, described. Flatbush, Oaklands, Lower right corner: "Entered according Bedford, East New to Act of Congress in the Year 1861 by York, Bushwick, A.Brown&Co in the Clerks Office of the Guide to the Maps Collection 17 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection Williamsburgh, District Court on the Southern District of Greenpoint, Hunters New York " Point, Laurel Hill, Maspeth, Ridgewood, Queens 1869.01.02 Map of the City of Brooklyn 1869 Brooklyn, Long Wards are colored and numbered. 24.25" x Island, New York, School districts are numbered and 20.5" Manhattan, bounded. Shows parks, cemeteries, Governor's Island, and railroads. Main roads in outlying New Utrecht, districts labeled. Ferry routes Windsor Terrace, described. Flatbush, Oaklands, Lower right corner: "Entered according Bedford, East New to Act of Congress in the Year 1861 by York, Bushwick, A.Brown&Co in the Clerks Office of the Williamsburgh, District Court on the Southern District of Greenpoint, Hunters New York " Point, Laurel Hill, Maspeth, Ridgewood, Queens 1869.03.01 Watson's New Map of the 1869 1869 Brooklyn, Long White on black negative photocopy. 34" x City of Brooklyn and Environs Island, New York, Wards are numbered. Shows streets, 25" Manhattan, parks, cemeteries, ferries and railroads. Governor's Island, Main roads in outlying districts labeled. Flatbush, Oakland, Directional. Bedford, New Lots, Bushwick, Williamsburgh, Greenpoint, Hunters Point, Long Island City, Maspeth, Ravenswood, Astoria, Queens, Blackwell's Island

Drawer 4: 1870-1879

1870.01.02 The Village of Flatbush as it 1870 1943 Brooklyn, Long Shows streets, part of Prospect Park, 14.5" x was in the year 1870 Island, New York, stores, houses, churches, and schools. 21" Flatbush Directional given. 1870.01.04 The Village of Flatbush as it 1870 1943 Brooklyn, Long Shows streets, part of Prospect Park, 15" x was in the year 1870 Island, New York, stores, houses, churches, and schools. 21" Flatbush Directional given. 3 copies of the map encapsulated together. Guide to the Maps Collection 18 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection 1870.02.01 The Village of Flatlands as it 1870 1944 Brooklyn, Long Features streets, stores, churches, and Nelson, Catherine & 29.5" x was in the year 1870 Island, New York, schools. Shows ownership of houses. E. Theodore 22" Flatlands 1870.02.02 The Village of Flatlands as it 1870 1944 Brooklyn, Long Features streets, stores, churches, and Nelson, Catherine & 29.5" x was in the year 1870 Island, New York, schools. Shows ownership of houses. E. Theodore 22" Flatlands 2 maps encapsulated together. 1870.03.01 The Village of Fort 1870 [194?] Brooklyn, Long Features streets, stores, churches, and Nelson, Catherine & 22" x and Bay Ridge as they were Island, New York, schools. Shows ownership of houses. E. Theodore 28" in the year 1870 North directional given. 1870.03.02 The Village of Fort Hamilton 1870 [194?] Brooklyn, Long Features streets, stores, churches, and Nelson, Catherine & 22" x and Bay Ridge as they were Island, New York, schools. Shows ownership of houses. E. Theodore 28" in the year 1870 Fort Hamilton North directional given. 3 or more copies of the map encapsulated together. 1870.04.01 The Village of Gravesend as 1870 1943 Brooklyn, Long Features streets, stores, churches, and Nelson, Catherine & 21.25" x it was in the year 1870 Island, New York, schools. Shows ownership of houses. E. Theodore 16" Fort Hamilton North directional given. 4 copies of the map encapsulated together. 1870.04.02 The Village of Gravesend as 1870 1943 Brooklyn, Long Features streets, stores, churches, and Nelson, Catherine & 20.5" x it was in the year 1870 Island, New York, schools. Shows ownership of houses. E. Theodore 16" Fort Hamilton North directional given. 1870.04.03 The Village of Gravesend as 1870 1943 Brooklyn, Long Features streets, stores, churches, and Nelson, Catherine & 20.5" x it was in the year 1870 Island, New York, schools. Shows ownership of houses. E. Theodore 16" Fort Hamilton North directional given. 1870.04.04 The Village of Gravesend as 1870 1943 Brooklyn, Long Features streets, stores, churches, and Nelson, Catherine & 20.5" x it was in the year 1870 Island, New York, schools. Shows ownership of houses. E. Theodore 16" Fort Hamilton North directional given. 1870.05.01 New York and Brooklyn 1870 1870 Brooklyn, Long Parks and wards are marked and 21.25" x Island, New York, colored. Four colors. Brooklyn 16" Manhattan, Hoboken, covered as far south as Prospect Park Jersey City, and east to Flatbush. Same as Governor's Island, 1872.01.01 and 1877.01.01. Similar to Long Island City, 1870.07.01 but with less detail. Ravenswood, Astoria, Ward's Island, Randall's Island, Morrisania, Melrose, High Bridgeville, Bronx, Queens

Guide to the Maps Collection 19 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection 1870.07.01 Johnson's New York and 1866 [1866] Brooklyn, Long Shows all of New York and most of 18" x Brooklyn Island, New York, Brooklyn. Wards are colored and 26.75" Manhattan, Hoboken, labeled. Features city car routes, rail Jersey City, roads and ferries. Update of 1866 Weehawken, edition. Guttenburg, New Jersey, Ellis Island, Bedloe's Island, Governor's Island, Gowanus, Flatbush, Oakland, Bedford, New Lots, Williamsburgh, Greenpoint, Long Island City, Hunters Point, Blissville, Laurel Hill, Maspeth, Ravenswood, Astoria, Ward's Island, Randel's Island, Queens, Harlem, Westchester, Randall's Island, Morrisania, Melrose, High Bridgeville, Bronx 1871.02.01 New York, From a Balloon 1871 1871 Manhattan, Brooklyn, Aerial-view of New York City and it's Harper's Weekly 22.125" [May Staten Island, surrounding suburbs. A panoramic x 15.75" 6] Queens, , rather than a detailed map. Yonkers, New Jersey. Bodies of water include: , , East River, , Newtown Creek, , and among others. 1872.01.01 New York and Brooklyn 1872 1870 Brooklyn, Long Parks and wards are marked and 15.25" x Island, New York, colored. Four colors. Brooklyn 22.75" Manhattan, Hoboken, covered as far south as Prospect Park Jersey City, and east to Flatbush. Ferry lines and Guide to the Maps Collection 20 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection Governor's Island, their distances shown. Same as Long Island City, 1870.05.01 and 1877.01.01. Similar to Ravenswood, 1870.07.01 but with less detail. Astoria, Ward's Island, Randall's Island, Morrisania, Melrose, High Bridgeville, Bronx, Queens 1872.02.01 Current stations near Middle 1872 Gowanus Bay, Shows currents around Middle Ground U.S. Coast Survey 11.25" x Ground Shoal Buttermilk Channel, Shoal at head of Gowanus Bay. "Note: 11.25" Governor's Island, The arrows, plotted to the scale of 1 Middle Ground Shoal mile to the inch, represent the mean velocities of ebb and flood currents." No. 2 from same book as other coastal survey maps in the collection. 1873.01.01 R.M. Whiting Jr. & Co's New 1873 1873 Brooklyn, Long School districts and ward boundaries R.M. Whiting Jr. & 22.5" x Map of the City of Brooklyn Island, New York, marked. School districts numbered. Co. 18.5" Manhattan, Hoboken, Black and red on white. Shows streets, Jersey City, railroads, and ferries. Governor's Island, Long Island City, Ravenswood, Astoria, Ward's Island, Randall's Island, Morrisania, Melrose, High Bridgeville, Bronx, Queens 1873.02.01 Portion of East New York, 1873 1873 Brooklyn, Long Meridian shown. Hospitals, churches, 23.25" x Gravesend, Fort Hamilton Island, New York, and schools marked in green. Lots 15" East New York, New shown and numbered. Buildings Lots, Fort Hamilton, shown with owner's names. Streets Gravesend named. Seems to be from the same source as 1873.03, 1873.04, and 1873.05 maps. 1873.03.01 Portion of East New York, 1873 1873 Brooklyn, Long Churches and schools marked in 20.75" x .a New Lots, Canarsie Island, New York, green. Lots shown and numbered. 15.5" East New York, New Buildings shown with owner's names. Lots, Fort Hamilton, Streets named. Continuation of 2-4. Gravesend Northern border is Jamaica Plank Road. South border is Atlantic Avenue. Seems to be from the same source as Guide to the Maps Collection 21 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection 1873.02, 1873.04, and 1873.05 maps.

1873.03.01 Portion of East New York, 1873 1873 Portion of East New Churches and schools marked in 15" x .b Flatlands. York - Liberty, green. Lots shown and numbered. 12" Atlantic, Jamaica Buildings shown with owner's names. Plank Road- Wyckoff Streets named. East New York on one to Siegel. side, Flatlands on the other. Seems to be from the same source as 1873.02, 1873.04, and 1873.05 maps. 1873.04.02 Map of Town of Flatbush, Bay 1873 1946 Brooklyn, Long Shows buildings, streets, railroad, park, 42" x .a Ridge, Bath, New Utrecht Island, New York, and cemeteries. Sections on either 24.5" Flatbush, Midwood side show buildings with their location, owner, and a sketch of the facade. Illustrated. Seems to be from the same source as 1873.02, 1873.03, and 1873.05 maps. 1873.05.01 Flatbush 1873 Brooklyn, Long Shows buildings and streets. Prospect 22" x Island, New York, Park, schools, and churches are 14.25" Flatbush, New marked in green. Lots are shown and Utrecht, Bay Ridge, labeled with owners' names. 4 colors. Bath Beach, Verso shows New Utrecht, Bay Ridge, Gravesend and Bath Beach. Seems to be from the same source as 1873.02, 1873.03, and 1873.04 maps. 1875.01.01 Plan exhibiting the system of 1875 1876 Brooklyn proper up to Shows every sewerage pipe in J.W. Adams, C.E. 15" x sewerage in the City of 1875 boundaries, not Brooklyn differentiated as to size from 20" Brooklyn, N.Y. 1875 including the rest of 12 inch to 132 inch; a key shows Kings County widths as red, blue, black and dotted lines and different combinations thereof. Oriented with NW toward base of map. 1876.01.01 Watson's New Map of New 1876 1876 Brooklyn, Long Negative photocopy. Shows streets 18" x York and Adjacent Cities Island, New York, and house numbers. 4 adjoining maps 25" Manhattan, Hoboken, encapsulated together, only 2 of which (each Jersey City, show Brooklyn. section) Governor's Island, Long Island City, Ravenswood, Astoria, Ward's Island, Randall's Island, Morrisania, Guide to the Maps Collection 22 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection Melrose, High Bridgeville, Bronx, Queens, Hudson Valley 1877.01.01 New York and Brooklyn 1877 1870 Brooklyn, Long Parks and wards are marked and 23" x Island, New York, colored. Four colors. Brooklyn 15.25" Manhattan, Hoboken, covered as far south as Prospect Park Jersey City, and east to Flatbush. Ferry lines and Governor's Island, their distances shown. Same as Long Island City, 1872.01.01 and 1870.05.01. Similar to Ravenswood, 1870.07.01 but with less detail. Astoria, Ward's Island, Randall's Island, Morrisania, Melrose, High Bridgeville, Bronx, Queens 1877.02.01 Map of Kings County, New 1877 1877 Brooklyn, Long Colored map showing ward boundaries 27" x York Island, New York, and with index numbers referring to 37.75" Kings County, pages in the 1877 Dripps Kings County Manhattan Atlas, from which this was taken. 1879.01.01 Map of Coney Island 1879 Coney Island, from Map showing Coney Island, from William Kowalski, 22" x Manhattan Beach to Manhattan Beach to the tip of Coney (Entered according 11.25" the tip of Coney Island. Shows hotels, proposed race to Act of Congress) Island, Gravesend course, Gravesend Bay & Sheepshead Bay, Sheepshead Bay. Also includes advertisements at Bay. bottom of map. White on black photocopy. 1879.02.01 The St. Denis Hotel Traveler's 1879 1879 Manhattan, from 48th This map shows the locations of 13.5" x Chart Map of Lower St. south; Brooklyn; famous New York City sites. Also 20" Manhattan Jersey City, New shown on the map are the horse car Jersey; part of routes and the steam hauled elevated Governors Island. train lines on third, sixth and Ninth Avenues. Verso gives detailed history of map and times. Ferry lines shown.

Drawer 5: 1880-1893

Guide to the Maps Collection 23 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection 1884.01.01 Map of the City of Brooklyn 1884 1884 Brooklyn, Long Black and white. Wards are numbered. 25.25" x Island, New York, Flatbush Town and Parkville streets 18.75" Kings County, also shown. Features parks, Manhattan, Long cemeteries, ferries, and streets. Similar Island City, to 1886.01.01. Ridgewood, Laurel Hill, , Maspeth, East New York, East Williamsburgh, Flatbush, Parkville 1884.01.02 Map of the City of Brooklyn 1884 1884 Brooklyn, Long Wards are numbered in color. Flatbush 25.25" x Island, New York, Town and Parkville streets also shown. 18.75" Kings County, Features parks, cemeteries, ferries, and Manhattan, Long streets. Districts have been numbered Island City, and outlined in red. Ward outlines are Ridgewood, Laurel described in the top left. Similar to Hill, Berlin, Maspeth, 1886.01.01. East New York, East Williamsburgh, Flatbush, Parkville 1884.02.01 New Map of Brooklyn, 1884 1884 Brooklyn, Long Shows entire county. Color. Compass 25.5" x Including Kings County Island, New York, shown. Lower left has history of 36" Kings County, Brooklyn. Manhattan, Newtown, New Jersey 1884.02.02 New Map of Brooklyn, 1884 1884 Brooklyn, Long Shows entire county. Color. Compass 24.5" x Including Kings County Island, New York, shown. Lower left has history of 35.75" Kings County, Brooklyn. Manhattan, Newtown, New Jersey 1884.02.03 New Map of Brooklyn, 1884 1884 Brooklyn, Long Shows entire county. Color. Compass 25.5" x Including Kings County Island, New York, shown. Lower left has history of 36" Kings County, Brooklyn. Manhattan, Newtown, New Jersey 1884.03.01 Map of Long Island and its 1884 1884 Brooklyn, Long Covers Brooklyn as western portion of The Long Island 21" x Railroad Systems Island, New York, Long Island. Steam railroad lines only. Rail Road 8.5" Kings County, Color. Company Manhattan, Long Island City, Jersey City, Hoboken, Connecticut, Nassau County, Suffolk Guide to the Maps Collection 24 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection County, Staten Island, Queens, Bronx, New Jersey, Westchester 1884.04.01 Watson's Map of Long Long Island, Brooklyn Shows Long Island; Incl. Brooklyn. Also Coast Survey 49" x Island/Long Island Sound shows RRs, Stations, Counties, Charts (latest info) 25.125" Townships & Post Offices. Map is black &white w/color tinting. Close up section of Coney Island. 1885.01.01 East Riverfront of New York & 1885 1886 East River, Brooklyn, Shows East Riverfront from Red Hook – US Coast Guard & 28" x Brooklyn New York, Blackwell’s Island; Incl. Piers, bridges, Geologic Survey, 44" Greenpoint, Red canals, docks, ferries, churches & Thorn Hook Governor's Island, as well as Superintendent navigational points inland such as spires and flagstaffs. 1886.01.01 Map of the City of Brooklyn 1886 1886 Brooklyn, Long Black and white. Compass shown. 26.75" x Island, New York, Similar to 1884.01.01/02. 26.75" Kings County, Manhattan, Newtown, Queens, Governor's Island 1886.02.01 Map of Brooklyn 1886 1886 Brooklyn, Long Color. Detailed street map showing 10.5" x Island, New York, northern portion of New Utrecht. 13.5" Kings County, Features railroads, elevated roads, Manhattan, Long steam and horse rail, and car routes. Island City, Queens, Governor's Island, New Lots 1889.02.01 Map of New York and Vicinity [1889] [1889] Manhattan north to Mostly Manhattan. Color. Detailed George F. Cram, 14.5" x 132nd St, Brooklyn streets; ferry lines; steam, elevated and Engraver and 21.5" East River to east to horse rail lines; rivers and islands. Publisher Franklin Ave/Flushing Businesses and ocean steamship lines Ave, Long Island City shown. and Hoboken. 1890.01.01 Colton's New Indexed Map of 1890 1890 Brooklyn, Long Black and white photocopy. 2 sheets 25" x the City Of Brooklyn Island, New York, encapsulated together. Shows streets, 19" Kings County, house numbers, and ward numbers. (each Manhattan, section) Governor's Island, Newtown, Linden Hill, Queens

Guide to the Maps Collection 25 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection 1890.02.01 Map of the city of Brooklyn 1890 1890 Brooklyn, Long Black and white. Streets are labeled. 26" x Island, New York, Numbers of wards are shown. Ferry 26.25" Kings County, routes given. Railroads are shown, Manhattan, including stations. Directional given. Governor's Island, Similar to 1893.01.01. Flatbush, Hunters Point, Laurel Hill, Berlin, Maspeth, East Williamsburgh, Newtown, Ridgewood, Unionville, Queens 1890.03.01 to Jamaica Bay- 1890 2005 Jamaica Bay, Colored topographical map showing Maps of the Past 34.5" x -Coney Island North to Rockaway Beach, contour lines, marshy areas etc., as well Inc. 23" Brooklyn part of Staten Island, as streets, railway lines, parks and part of Jamaica, neighborhoods. Includes nautical Queens soundings and lines of latitude and longitude. Jamaica Bay is shown in detail. 1890.04.01 Pierhead and Bulkhead Lines 1890 1890 Brooklyn, Long Black and white. Original map signed War Department 37" x for Newtown Creek, New Island, New York, by the Acting Secretary of War, L.A. 20" York Kings County, Grant, and all members of the New Queens, Long Island York Harbor Line Board. Includes City street names, distances from street to pier and bulkhead lines, and depths in the creek. 1890.05.01 Map of the City of Brooklyn, 1894- 1890 Brooklyn including Streets, rail lines, trollies shown. Eleventh Census of 11.5" x N.Y. 1890 Greenpoint, Boundaries for (?) census tracts and the . 16.5" Williamsburgh, U.S. wards. "Mortality" in upper right corner. Robert P. Porter Navy Yard, South Density of death rates illustrated by Superintendent Brooklyn, Greenwood shades of brown. Cemetery,. Bushwick, Prospect Park. (Data included) Bath Beach, Parkville, Kensington, Flatbush (Shown on map - data not included) 1890.06.01 Map of the City of Brooklyn, 1894- 1890 Brooklyn including Streets, rail lines, trollies shown. Eleventh Census of 11.5" x N.Y. 1890 Greenpoint, Boundaries for (?) census tracts and the United States. 16.5" Williamsburgh, U.S. wards. "Mortality" in upper right corner. Robert P. Porter Navy Yard, South Density of death rates illustrated by Superintendent Brooklyn, Greenwood shades of brown. Guide to the Maps Collection 26 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection Cemetery,. Bushwick, Prospect Park. (Data included) Bath Beach, Parkville, Kensington, Flatbush (Shown on map - data not included) 1890.07.01 Map of the City of Brooklyn, 1894- 1890 Brooklyn including Streets, rail lines, trollies shown. Eleventh Census of 11.5" x N.Y., 1890 Greenpoint, Boundaries for (?) census tracts and the United States. 16.5" Williamsburgh, U.S. wards. "Mortality" in upper right corner. Robert P. Porter Navy Yard, South Density of death rates illustrated by Superintendent Brooklyn, Greenwood shades of brown. Cemetery,. Bushwick, Prospect Park. (Data included) Bath Beach, Parkville, Kensington, Flatbush (Shown on map - data not included) 1891.01.01 Map Of Brooklyn 1891 1891 Brooklyn, Long Color. Detailed street plan with every 14.5" x Island, New York, street identified. Ferry routes traced. 10.5" Kings County, Elevated rail lines noted as well as Manhattan, horse-car lines and steam roads. Parts Governor's Island, of Flatbush and New Utrecht are Flatbush, New shown. Directional given. This map is Utrecht, Long Island difficult to read and similar information City can be found on other maps. 1891.02.01 Map of Brooklyn & Vicinity 1891 [looks Brooklyn from Map of Brooklyn from Williamsburgh to 22" x moder Williamsburgh to New New Lots, , & West 28" n] Lots, Flatbush Brooklyn. Indicates streets, parks, Avenue, & West cemeteries, subway lines, bridges, Brooklyn. tunnels, & ferry routes. Colors for rivers and parks. Map verso shows different graphs depicting the relationship of population & race. 1892.01.01 Improvements of Gowanus 1892? Gowanus Bay, Gowanus waterfront and depth Corps of Engineers 23.25" x Bay [handwritt Buttermilk Channel, measurements of bay. No. 4 from same 13.5" en "NYC Governor's Island, source as other coastal survey maps. 1895"] Middle Ground Shoal, Bay Ridge area, Red Hook channel

Guide to the Maps Collection 27 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection 1893.01.01 Map of the city of Brooklyn 1893 1893 Brooklyn, Long Black and white. Streets are labeled. 25.5" x Island, New York, Numbers of wards are shown. Ferry 25.5" Kings County, routes given. Railroads and branches Manhattan, are shown. Directional given. Shows Governor's Island, Gowanus Bay and parts of Flatbush, Flatbush, Hunters Flatlands, and Canarsie. Rail lines Point, Long Island listed, including stations. Similar to City, Blissville, 1890.02.01. Maspeth, Laurel Hill, Metropolitan, Evergreen, Glendale, Queens, Flatlands, Canarsie 1893.02.01 [Map of New York area 1893 1893 Brooklyn, Long Small map, perhaps taken from a guide 8.25" x including Brooklyn, Queens, Island, Staten Island, book, showing built-up areas in red, 6.25" Staten Island, Manhattan, Manhattan, New waterways in blue, and railway lines in and parts of New Jersey] Jersey, Bronx, black. Brooklyn place names labeled Queens include Blythebourne, Parkville, Bay Ridge, Bath, Locust Grove, West Brooklyn, Kensington, Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Bedford Sta. etc.

Drawer 6: 1894-1909

1894.01.01 Map of the Enlarged City of 1894 1894 Brooklyn, Long Black and white, with certain areas 36.5" x Brooklyn Island, New York, (hand?) colored in red. Streets are 27" Kings County, labeled. Numbers of wards are shown. Manhattan, Ferry routes given. Railroads and Governor's Island, branches are shown. Directional given. Flatbush, Hunters Shows Gowanus Bay and parts of Point, Blissville, Flatbush, Flatlands, and Canarsie. Linden Hill, East Verso has advertisements. Williamsburgh, Middle Village, Glendale, Woodhaven, Queens, Flatlands, Canarsie, Gravesend, Parkville, Windsor Terrace, Jamaica, Newtown, Manhattan, South Greenfield, Unionville, Bath Guide to the Maps Collection 28 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection Beach, Fort Hamilton, Bay Ridge, Coney Island

1894.02.01 New York City & Vicinity New York City, Shows New York City, Westchester, & J.W. Powell, 32.75" x Westchester, & New New Jersey. Where water reaches the Director of US 50.5" Jersey. shorelines, water is colored blue. Geological Survey Shows major roads & railroads. Also shows boundary of states & counties. 1895.01.01 Map of the City of Brooklyn 1895 1894 Brooklyn, Long Black and white. Streets are labeled. 37" x Showing Improved Island, New York, Numbers of wards are shown. Ferry 30" Pavements, Laid and Kings County, routes given. Railroads, branches, and Underway Manhattan, stations are shown. Directional given. Governor's Island, Covers all of Kings County. Some Flatbush, Hunters roads hand colored. Point, Blissville, Linden Hill, East Williamsburgh, Middle Village, Glendale, Woodhaven, Queens, Flatlands, Canarsie, Gravesend, Parkville, Windsor Terrace, Jamaica, Newtown, Manhattan, South Greenfield, Unionville, Bath Beach, Fort Hamilton, Bay Ridge, Coney Island

Guide to the Maps Collection 29 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection 1895.02.01 Map of the City of Brooklyn, 1895 Brooklyn Map consists of 4 different sections. Compiled from the 26.75" x Kings County This particular section covers the East latest Official City 34.25" River border of Brooklyn, Newtown Surveys - Private Creek, Calvary Cemetery, Red Hook, & maps on record by part of Prospect Park. Wards also leading City numbered. Engineers & valuable information furnished by the Department of City Works. 1895.03.01 Map of the City of Brooklyn, Flatlands, Compiled from the 26.75" x Kings County. Sheepshead Bay, latest Official City 34.25" and some of Surveys - Private Canarsie. maps on record by leading City Engineers & valuable information furnished by the Department of City Works. 1895.04.01 Jamaica Bay and Rockaway 1877- 1895 Brooklyn, Jamaica Nautical chart showing soundings in Triangulation and 27.25" x Inlet Long Island New York 1895 Bay, Rockaways Bay, and naming all channels and topography by B.A. 22.5" islands. Not a lot of Brooklyn is shown. Colonna, Assistant in Charge of Office and others. 1895.05.01 Plan of Bay Ridge Parkway 1895 1895 Brooklyn, Bay Ridge Plan of Parkway along Bay Ridge Olmsted, Olmsted 43.375" shoreline shore. and Eliot, x 13.5" Landscape Architects 1895.06.01 Map of New York and vicinity 1895 1895 Manhattan (below Mostly Manhattan. The map shows 13.5" x 130th street); Long routes of steam railroads, elevated 22" Island City, Queens, railroads, and horse railroads. The map Western Brooklyn, is marked with piers along the East parts of Hoboken, NJ, River and Hudson shores and the and Jersey City, NJ steamship chart (destination and departing pier) is listed in the map legend.

Guide to the Maps Collection 30 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection 1896.01.01 Bay Ridge and Red Hook 1896 1896 Brooklyn, New York: Detailed map of , Major H.M. Adams, 12.5" x Channels, Buttermilk [June 30] [June Erie Basin, Red including sounding depths. Past Corps of 22.5" Channel, 30] Hook, and northern improvements shown. Brooklyn streets, Engineers, U.S.A. and Gowanus Creek Bay Ridge area harbors, and ferry slips shown, as well Channel, New York, Showing (Sunset Park). as Manhattan ferry slips. Condition of Improvements in Governors Island and charge of Major H.M. Adams, Manhattan Battery Corps of Engineers, U.S.A. harbor area. June 30, 1896 Bottom right corner, additional note reads Eng 54 2. 1897.01.01 Bird's-Eye View of the 1897 1897 Brooklyn, Long One tint. Shows roads, buildings, Brooklyn Daily 35.5" x Borough of Brooklyn Island, New York, shoreline, parks, etc. Eagle 23.5" Kings County 1897.01.02 Bird's-Eye View of the 1897 1897 Brooklyn, Long One tint. Shows roads, buildings, Brooklyn Daily 36" x Borough of Brooklyn Island, New York, shoreline, parks, etc. Eagle 24" Kings County 1897.01.03 Bird's-Eye View of the 1897 1897 Brooklyn, Long One tint. Shows roads, buildings, Brooklyn Daily 36" x Borough of Brooklyn Island, New York, shoreline, parks, etc. Eagle 24" Kings County

1897.02.01 Map of the Enlarged City of 1897 1897 Brooklyn, Long White on black photocopy. Streets are 18" x Brooklyn Island, New York, labeled. Numbers of wards are shown. 25.25" Kings County, Ferry routes given. Railroads and (each Manhattan, branches are shown. Includes jockey side) Governor's Island, clubs, driving clubs, penitentiary, parks, Flatbush, Hunters and cemeteries. Directional given. Point, Blissville, Shows Gowanus Bay and parts of Linden Hill, East Flatbush, Flatlands, and Canarsie. Williamsburgh, Middle Village, Glendale, Woodhaven, Queens, Flatlands, Canarsie, Gravesend, Parkville, Windsor Terrace, Jamaica, Newtown, Manhattan, South Greenfield, Unionville, Bath Beach, Fort Hamilton, Bay Ridge, Coney

Guide to the Maps Collection 31 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection Island

1898.01.01 Guide Map of the Borough of 1898 [1898 Brooklyn, Long Colored. Shows ward boundaries, Brooklyn Daily 20.25" x Brooklyn, Kings County, New ? Island, New York, different types of railroads and roads, Eagle 24.5" York Looks Kings County, parkways, and parks. Gridded lines more Manhattan, show distances from City Hall. moder Governor's Island, n] Flatbush, East Williamsburgh, Middle Village, Glendale, Queens, Flatlands, Canarsie, Gravesend, Parkville, Windsor Terrace, Newtown, South Greenfield, Unionville, Bath Beach, Fort Hamilton, Bay Ridge, Coney Island, New Jersey, , Ellis Island 1898.01.02 Guide Map of the Borough of 1898 1898 Brooklyn, Long Colored. Shows ward boundaries, Brooklyn Daily 20.25" x Brooklyn, Kings County, New Island, New York, different types of railroads and roads, Eagle 24.5" York Kings County, parkways, and parks. Gridded lines Manhattan, show distances from City Hall. Torn Governor's Island, corners and missing segments of map. Flatbush, East Williamsburgh, Middle Village, Glendale, Queens, Flatlands, Canarsie, Gravesend, Parkville, Windsor Terrace, Newtown, South Greenfield, Unionville, Bath Beach, Fort Hamilton, Bay Ridge, Coney Island, New Jersey, Guide to the Maps Collection 32 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection Liberty Island, Ellis Island

1898.01.03 Guide Map of the Borough of 1898 1898 Brooklyn, Long Colored. Shows ward boundaries, Brooklyn Daily 20.25" x Brooklyn, Kings County, New Island, New York, different types of railroads and roads, Eagle 24.5" York Kings County, parkways, and parks. Gridded lines Manhattan, show distances from City Hall. Torn Governor's Island, corners and missing segments of map. Flatbush, East Williamsburgh, Middle Village, Glendale, Queens, Flatlands, Canarsie, Gravesend, Parkville, Windsor Terrace, Newtown, South Greenfield, Unionville, Bath Beach, Fort Hamilton, Bay Ridge, Coney Island, New Jersey, Liberty Island, Ellis Island 1898.02.01 Map of the Borough of 1898 1898 Brooklyn, Long Black and white. Streets are labeled. 36.5" x Brooklyn Island, New York, Numbers of wards are shown. Ferry 27.5" Kings County, routes given. Railroads and branches Manhattan, are shown. Directional given. Shows Governor's Island, Gowanus Bay and parts of Flatbush, Flatbush, Hunters Flatlands, and Canarsie. Was once a Point, Long Island folded booklet; verso shows booklet's City, Blissville, covers. Maspeth, Laurel Hill, Metropolitan, Evergreen, Glendale, Queens, Flatlands, Canarsie 1898.03.01 Indian Place Names Within 1898 1898 Brooklyn, Long Shows boundaries of original towns. Nenning, C. 11" x the Six Original Towns of Island, New York, Includes dates of incorporation, 14" Kings County Kings County, annexation and consolidation. Flatbush, Flatlands, Photocopy (no red).

Guide to the Maps Collection 33 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection Canarsie, Gravesend, New Utrecht, New Lots, Bushwick, Williamsburgh, Coney Island, Manhattan, Queens 1898.03.02 Indian Place Names Within 1898 1898 Brooklyn, Long Black and white photocopy. Shows Nenning, C. 11" x the Six Original Towns of Island, New York, boundaries of original towns. Includes 8.5" Kings County Kings County, dates of incorporation, annexation and Flatbush, Flatlands, consolidation. Canarsie, Gravesend, New Utrecht, New Lots, Bushwick, Williamsburgh, Coney Island, Manhattan, Queens 1898.03.03 Indian Place Names Within 1898 1898 Brooklyn, Long Black and white photocopy. Shows Nenning, C. 11" x the Six Original Towns of Island, New York, boundaries of original towns. Includes 8.5" Kings County Kings County, dates of incorporation, annexation and Flatbush, Flatlands, consolidation. Canarsie, Gravesend, New Utrecht, New Lots, Bushwick, Williamsburgh, Coney Island, Manhattan, Queens 1898.04.01 Wallabout Channel, New 1898 1898 Shows docks, water, stone causeway J.A.Yates, 23" x York Harbor and vicinity. (w/ elevation?), buildings in Navy Yard Surveyor; Core of 16" and nearby streets: Mollenhauer Sugar, Engineers; Andrew Brooklyn City Railway, Nassau Gas; B. Graham, Cross, Austin & Co. Photolitho, DC 1898.04.01 Borough of Brooklyn 1898 1898 Brooklyn, Long Streets are labeled. Directional shown. 40" x .a Island, New York, Shows ferries, Brooklyn Bridge, 15.5" Kings County, bulkhead and pierhead lines. City Brooklyn Heights, property colored in pink. Governor's Island 1898.04.01 Borough of Brooklyn 1898 1898 Brooklyn, Long Streets are labeled. Directional shown. 28" x .b Island, New York, Shows ferries, bulkhead and pierhead 20.5" Kings County, Navy lines, and Navy Yard. City property Guide to the Maps Collection 34 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection Yard colored in pink.

1898.04.01 Borough of Brooklyn 1898 1898 Brooklyn, Long Streets are labeled. Directional shown. 28" x .c Island, New York, Shows ferries, bulkhead and pierhead 20.5" Kings County, lines, and Bushwick and Newtown Greenpoint, Creeks. City property colored in pink. Williamsburgh, Long Island City, Queens 1899.01.01 Map of Long Island, New 1899 1899 Brooklyn, Long Color. Shows rail and elevated 14.5" x York Island, New York, railroads and stations. Names of 11" Kings County, communities are labeled. Verso shows Queens, Suffolk Westchester. Seems to be from an County, Connecticut, atlas. New Jersey, Jersey City, Staten Island 1899.03.01 Metropolitan Street Railway 1899 1899 Manhattan, Brooklyn Mostly Manhattan. Color photocopy. 12.5" x System Map of Manhattan's and Long Island City Shows the trolley lines and horse car 37.5" Trolley and Horse Car Lines lines that operated within Manhattan. Location of depots and power houses. Some landmarks (ex. Aquarium at Castle Garden). 1901.01.01 New York City & Vicinity [1901] [1901 Manhattan, Brooklyn, Shows all 5 boroughs, Nassau County, US Geological 32.75" x ?] Queens, Bronx, & New Jersey. Incl. Roads, RRs, Long Survey 50.5" Staten Island, Island Sound, Westchester, parks & Nassau County, New cemeteries. Similar coverage to Jersey. 1894.02.01. 1902.01.01 Brooklyn and Vicinity 1902 1902 Brooklyn, Long Color. Shows Brooklyn and Kings Rand McNally [from 27.5" x Island, New York, County elevated railroads. Names of atlas] 20.5" Kings County, communities are labeled. Concentric Queens, Long Island circles at 1 mile intervals mark distance City, Winfield, from . Same as Maspeth, 1891.02.01 except 11 years later. Woodhaven, Jamaica, Ridgewood, New Jersey, Jersey City, Governor's Island, Manhattan, Greenpoint, Williamsburgh, Flatbush, New Lots, East New York

Guide to the Maps Collection 35 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection 1902.02.01 Map of the Borough of 1902 1902 Brooklyn, Long Color. Directional Given. Streets Office of the 24" x Brooklyn, City of New York Island, New York, colored in brown, green, blue, pink, President of the 34.25" Kings County, orange, and yellow show sewers of Borough, Bureau of Queens, different materials and different dates of Sewers Metropolitan, Wyckoff construction. Predominant color is Heights, Woodhaven, green, showing pipe sewers Ridgewood Heights, constructed up to January 1st, 1902. Manhattan, Canarsie, Bergen Beach, Flatbush, Flatlands, Vanderveer Park, Kensington, Parkville, Martense, Borough Park, Bay Ridge, Fort Hamilton, Lefferts Park, New Utrecht, Bath Beach, Unionville, Bensonhurst, Gravesend 1903.01.01 The Brooklyn of the Future "the 1903 Brooklyn, Long Depicts a predicted "transformation of Brooklyn Daily 36" x future" Island, New York, the borough." Green on buff. Shows Eagle Art and 24" Kings County, major roads, bridges, tunnels, railroads, Engraving Queens, Manhattan, subways and ferries (including Department Staten Island, New proposed). Shows prominent buildings (Designed and Jersey, Bronx, and branches of the Eagle offices. Engraved by) Randall's Island, Directional given. Ward's Island, Blackwell's Island, Governor's Island, Ellis Island, Bedloe's Island, Bay Ridge, New Utrecht, Coney Island, Flatlands, Canarsie, Flatbush, East New York, Bedford, Fort Greene, Navy Yard, Greenpoint, Long Island City, Newtown, Flushing, College Point, Whitestone, Jamaica

Guide to the Maps Collection 36 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection 1903.02.01 Map of the Borough of 1903 - [1903] Brooklyn See title above. All street blocks of 18" x Brooklyn & Vicinity 1904 Brooklyn are shown along with names 12.5" of major streets & areas. 1905.01.01 Brooklyn's Transportation 1905 1903 Brooklyn, Long Color. Recommended tunnel and Brooklyn Daily 21.75" x Problem Solved Island, New York, subway routes are drawn over the Eagle 29" Kings County, existing street plan. Shows existing Queens, Manhattan, ferries and surface lines. New Jersey, Governor's Island, Ellis Island, Liberty Island, Bay Ridge, New Utrecht, Coney Island, Fort Greene, Navy Yard, Long Island City, Newtown 1905.01.02 Brooklyn's Transportation 1905 1903 Brooklyn, Long Color. Recommended tunnel and Brooklyn Daily 21.75" x Problem Solved Island, New York, subway routes are drawn over the Eagle 29" Kings County, existing street plan. Shows existing Queens, Manhattan, ferries and surface lines. New Jersey, Governor's Island, Ellis Island, Liberty Island, Bay Ridge, New Utrecht, Coney Island, Fort Greene, Navy Yard, Long Island City, Newtown 1909.01.01 Jamaica Bay and Rockaway 1909 1909 Brooklyn, Queens, Black and white. Directional of true Knight, John G.D., 33.5" x Inlet, N.Y. Long Island, North given. Shows underwater depths, Colonel, Corps of 29.5" Manhattan, New basins, railroads, and streets. Only Engineers, U.S. York, Jersey City, main streets are labelled. Army (Surveyed New Jersey, by) Governor's Island, Staten Island, Ellis Island, Liberty Island, Bedloe Island 1909.02.01 Map of the Borough of 1909 1909 Brooklyn, Long Color. Features tunnels, trolley lines, E. Belcher Hyde 28.5" x Brooklyn, New York Island, New York, streets, pierhead lines, lighthouses, and 33" Kings County, wards with numbers and boundaries Queens, Manhattan, marked. Directional given. Governor's Island, Bay Ridge, Bath Beach, Bergen Guide to the Maps Collection 37 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection Beach, Coney Island, Fort Greene, Navy Yard, Laurel Hill, Newtown, Woodhaven, Richmond 1909.04.01 Map of Land of Estate of 1909 1909 Brooklyn, 36 St - Appears to be a surveyor's drawing and Samuel McElroy, 17" x Rachel Martense and Estate West Street, Church not published or printed. Created in Civil Engineer and 24.75" of Maria Story Ave to Tehama, 1909 City Surveyor, 26 showing building lots. Court St, Brooklyn Neighboring streets: Martense's Lane on West and Gravesend Ave on East. 1909.05.01 Rand-McNally Indexed Atlas: 1909 Brooklyn Rand McNally 28" x Brooklyn and Vicinity 20.5"

Drawer 7: 1910-1929

1910.01.01 Map showing Lands in Sub- 1922 [Feb Brooklyn Detailed Sub-Surface engineering 32" x Surface of Streets Occupied 8] diagram of Atlantic Yards area showing 11" by the Long Island Railroad all dimensions, street names, etc. Company in the Vicinity of its Flatbush Avenue Terminal outside of its Right of Way. 1911.01.01 Williams' Map of Borough of 1911 1911 Brooklyn, Long Color. Wards with numbers and 21.5" x Brooklyn Island, New York, boundaries marked. Good illustration of 22" Kings County, the islands in Jamaica Bay. Queens, Manhattan, Governor's Island, New Jersey, Coney Island, Fort Greene, Navy Yard, Blissville, Linden Hill, Maspeth, Glendale, Nassau Heights, Hopedale, Forest Hills, Laurel Hill, Woodhaven 1911.02.01 Eagle Almanac Map of the 1911 1911 Brooklyn, Long Color. Shows streets, transit lines, 21" x Borough of Brooklyn Island, New York, bridges, and ferries. 24.25" Kings County, Queens, Governor's

Guide to the Maps Collection 38 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection Island, Manhattan, Coney Island, Bath Beach, Bergen Beach, Fort Greene, Navy Yard, Newtown, East Williamsburg, Glendale, Richmond Hills, Laurel Hill, Woodhaven 1911.02.02 Eagle Almanac Map of the 1911 1911 Brooklyn, Long Color. Shows streets, transit lines, 21" x Borough of Brooklyn Island, New York, bridges, and ferries. 24.25" Kings County, Queens, Governor's Island, Manhattan, Coney Island, Bath Beach, Bergen Beach, Fort Greene, Navy Yard, Newtown, East Williamsburg, Glendale, Richmond Hills, Laurel Hill, Woodhaven 1911.03.01 [] 1911 1911 Brooklyn, Long Hand-drawn map of Downtown 16" x Island, New York, Brooklyn showing elevated tracks, 21.75" Kings County bridges, Borough Hall and courthouse. 1911.04.01 Free Public Educational 1911 1911 Brooklyn, Long Color. Shows schools, libraries, major Department of 20" x Institutions of the City of New Island, New York, streets, transit lines, parks, and borough Public Education of 31.75" York in the Year 1911 Kings County, boundaries. the Museum of Queens, Governor's Natural History Island, Ellis Island, (Prepared by) Bedloe's Island, New Jersey, Jersey City, Hoboken, Weehawken, Manhattan, Coney Island, Fort Greene, Navy Yard, North Beach, Flushing, College Point, Whitestone, Bayside, Bronx, Riker's Island, Randall's Island, Ward's Island, Guide to the Maps Collection 39 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection Blackwell's Island

1911.05.01 Map of the Borough of 1911 1911 Brooklyn, Queens, Color photocopy. Shows the original 12" x Brooklyn, N.Y. and Vicinity Lower Manhattan. routes and station of the Sea Beach 18.5" Showing that part of the and Bath Beach Lines. Issued free by Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co. the Brooklyn Rapid Transit system and (BRT) inserted in the trade publication Street Railway Journal as well as Brooklyn Daily Eagle Almanac. Elevated, depressed, or at grade transit lines shown. 1912.01.01 The Rand-McNally New 1912 1912 Brooklyn, Long Color. Shows elevated lines, rapid Rand-McNally 27.5" x Commercial Atlas Map of Island, New York, transit lines, street cars, parks, and 21" Brooklyn and Vicinity Kings County, parkways Queens, Governor's Island, Ellis Island, Liberty Island, New Jersey, Manhattan, Fort Greene, Navy Yard, Greenpoint, Bay Ridge, , Heights, Glendale, Middle Village, Hillside, Colonial Heights, Winfield, Woodside Heights, Elmhurst Heights, Hyatt Heights, Metropolitan, Wyckoff Heights, Linden Hill, Melvina, Fresh Pond, Berlinville 1912.02.01 Forest Park [1912] Brooklyn, Queens All of Forest Park shown. Park 16" x boundaries are marked; w/topographic 18" details of land. Surrounding streets are shown & named; Topographic detail is superimposed upon street details. Part of St. John's Cemetery is shown in upper left - hand corner. Guide to the Maps Collection 40 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection 1913.01.01 Map of Borough of Brooklyn 1913 1914 Brooklyn, Long Color. Shows ward numbers and Williams Map & 20.75" x Island, New York, boundaries and different types of transit Guide Co. 22" Kings County, lines, including proposed. Good Queens, Governor's illustrations of the islands in Jamaica Island, Ellis Island, Bay. From the Brooklyn Daily Eagle New Jersey, Almanac, 1914. Manhattan, Fort Greene, Navy Yard, Coney Island, Nassau Heights, Laurel Hill, Blissville, Woodhaven, Hopedale, Forest Hills, Linden Hill, Maspeth 1914.01.01 Greater New York and 1914 1914 Brooklyn, Long Color. Shows proposed subways and 11.25" x Vicinity Island, New York, existing transit systems and stations. 12.75" Kings County, Queens, Ellis Island, New Jersey, Manhattan, Staten Island, Bronx, Westchester 1914.02.01 Map of Brooklyn 1914 1914 Brooklyn, Long Color. Shows proposed and existing 21" x Island, New York, transit systems as well as locations of 24.25" Kings County, factories, warehouses, and factory Queens, Governor's districts. Island, Ellis Island, New Jersey, Manhattan, Coney Island, Forest Hills, Hopedale, Nassau Heights, Middle Village, Glendale, Maspeth, Laurel Hill, Blissville. 1914.03.01 [Railroad Lines] 1914 1914 Brooklyn, Long Color. Sketch showing connecting 11" x Island, New York, railroad lines. 16" Kings County, Queens, Manhattan, Coney Island, Ward's Island, Randall’s Island, Bronx, Long Guide to the Maps Collection 41 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection Island City, Woodside, Elmhurst, Bay Ridge, Canarsie, Flatbush 1916.01.01 Brooklyn ("Rider's New York 1916 1916 Brooklyn, Long Color. Shows streets, transit lines, Rand McNally & 28" x City") Island, New York, bridges, ferries, and Jamaica Bay Co. 26" Kings County, islands and marsh lands. Directional Queens, Manhattan, given. Coney Island, Governors Island, Ellis Island, Bedloes Island, New Jersey, Jersey City, Hoboken, Staten Island 1916.02.01 The New York Connecting 1916 1916 Manhattan, Hudson Panoramic painting in black and white E.W. Spofford 9.75" x R.R. River, Long Island of area from air (resembles aerial 23.5" City, East River photo) Depicts railroad routes including islands and bridges, tunnels and bridges (railroad not downtown Brooklyn subway). Brooklyn is barely visible in the background. 1916.03.01 Map of the Borough of 1916 1922 Brooklyn Standard street map, including feature Brooklyn Eagle 17.5" x Brooklyn, City of New York, such as parks and cemeteries, with Press 22.25" 1916 information about schools recently added or planned. This looks handwritten but uncertain as there is a printed key to symbols in lower right corner. From the Brooklyn Municipal Club Report of the Committee on Public Schools. 1916.04.01 Rand McNally standard map c. 1916 1916? Brooklyn Includes transit information. Was once a Rand-McNally 27.75" x of Brooklyn and vicinity two-page spread in the Commercial 20.5" Atlas of America.

1919.01.01 Map of Borough of Brooklyn 1919 1920 Brooklyn, Long Color. Directional given. Shows transit Williams Map & 29.5" x (copyright Island, New York, lines, streets, bridges, pierhead and Guide Co. 34.25" 1911; Kings County, bulkhead lines, parks, and cemeteries. corrected Manhattan, Queens, Supplement to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle August New Jersey, Almanac, 1920. Verso shows Queens. 1919) Governors Island, Bedloes Island, Staten Island, Westchester Guide to the Maps Collection 42 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection 1919.02.01 Rand McNally map of the [1919] [1919] New York City, Colored street map showing entire NYC Rand McNally Co 46" x Borough of Manhattan the Jersey City area, bridges, and ferry lines. Mostly 66" principal portions of the Manhattan but has good transit boroughs of Bronx, Brooklyn information. Shipping lines occupying and Queens and the piers are printed in red along shoreline Business District of Jersey of Manhattan's , Brooklyn and City New Jersey. Subways, surface lines, elevated railroads and other railroads are marked as are subways under construction. Originally a pocket map. 1920.01.01 [Map of Brooklyn Land] For 1920 Remsen Village, East A rare cadastral map of Remsen Robert A. Welcke 24" x Sale by Wm. E. Harmon & Flatbush, Brooklyn, Village, in Brooklyn, which takes its 19" Co. Canarsie name from an early settler of Albany, New York, Rem Jansen Vanderbeek. He died in 1861, and his children adopted a surname "Remson", which means "son of Rem". The map is for land for sale North to South from East 89th street to Ramsen Avenue, and West to East from Linden Ave to Long Island Rail Road, its Rugby Station's location is marked in pencil. The real estate developer, William E. Harmon (1862-1928) was an incredibly successful salesman, businessman, and philanthropist. When his family fell on hard times, he rethought his career, and went into sales. After uncovering his hidden talent for sales, he decided that the thing that folks wanted the most, but could not afford was land. His business model was to sell land with a down payment of a dollar, and a weekly payment of a few cents, and with that he set up a shop in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was tremendously successful, so he expanded to Pittsburgh, Boston and New York. With growing investments from venture capitalists, Harmon opened a New York office in 1898, and soon after spent millions on land in Brooklyn, which after the subways were expanded, proved to be exceedingly

Guide to the Maps Collection 43 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection profitable. This map includes an arrow to the Subway Station "3 blocks from property", Remsen Village, as most of East Flatbush, contains the largest proportion of foreign born in Brooklyn. 1921.01.01 Rand McNally standard map c. 1921 1921? Brooklyn Includes transit information. Was once a Rand-McNally 27.5" x of Brooklyn and vicinity two-page spread in the Commercial 20.25" Atlas of America. 1922.01.01 Map I 1922 1922 Brooklyn, Long Color. Mounted. Indian paths are [see description for 16.5" x .a (copyr Island, New York, marked in red over modern street map source] 21.5" ight Kings County, with current community names. From 1912) Queens, Manhattan, Bolton, Indian Paths in the Great Coney Island, Metropolis(New York: Museum of the Governors Island, American Indian, 1922); BPL call no. Ellis Island, Liberty 970.1 B. Island, New Jersey, Jersey City, Hoboken, Staten Island, Newark, Paterson, Yonkers, Bronx, Westchester, Long Island City, Great Neck, Manhasset Neck 1922.01.01 Map VIII, A 1922 1922 Brooklyn, Long Color. Mounted. Indian paths are [see description for 14.5" x .b Island, New York, marked in red over modern street map source] 21.5" Kings County, and Indian place names are labelled. Manhattan, New From Bolton, Indian Paths in the Great Jersey, Jersey City, Metropolis(New York: Museum of the Hoboken, American Indian, 1922); BPL call no. Williamsburg, 970.1 B. Greenpoint, Governor's Island 1922.01.01 Map VIII, B 1922 1922 Brooklyn, Long Color. Mounted. Indian paths are [see description for 14.75" x .c Island, New York, marked in red over modern street map source] 21.25" Kings County, and Indian place names are labelled. Greenpoint, Long From Bolton, Indian Paths in the Great Island City, Queens, Metropolis(New York: Museum of the Newtown, East New American Indian, 1922); BPL call no. York, Bushwick, 970.1 B. Blackwell's Island, Williamsburg, Maspeth, Nassau Guide to the Maps Collection 44 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection Heights, Middle Village, Linden Hill, Laurel Hill, Woodside, Blissville, Elmhurst, Winfield 1922.01.01 Map VIII, C 1922 1922 Brooklyn, Long Color. Mounted. Indian paths are [see description for 14.25" x .d Island, New York, marked in red over modern street map source] 21" Kings County, Coney and Indian place names are labeled. Island, South From Bolton, Indian Paths in the Great Marlboro, Metropolis(New York: Museum of the Bensonhurst, Bath American Indian, 1922; BPL call no. Beach, New Utrecht, 970.1 B. Van Pelt Manor, Bay Ridge, Lefferts Park, Homewood, Mapleton, South Bensonhurst, Gravesend, The Lindens, South Greenfield, Oakcrest, Parkville, Blythebourne, Borough Park, Martense, Kensington, Flatbush, Valley Grove, Gowanus, Cowenhoven 1922.01.01 Map VIII, D 1922 1922 Brooklyn, Long Color. Mounted. Indian paths are [see description for 14.75" x .e Island, New York, marked in red over modern street map source] 21" Kings County, and Indian place names are labeled. Westminster Heights, From Bolton, Indian Paths in the Great Manhattan Beach, Metropolis(New York: Museum of the Plumb Island, Mill American Indian, 1922; BPL call no. Island, South 970.1 B. Flatbush, Flatlands, Waverly, West Waverly, Canarsie, Plunders Neck, Brownsville, East New York, Rugby

Guide to the Maps Collection 45 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection 1922.01.02 Map I 1922 1922 Brooklyn, Long Color. Indian paths are marked in red [see description for 16.5" x .a Island, New York, over modern street map with current source] 21.5" Kings County, community names. Blue ink stamped: F Queens, Manhattan, 2060793. From Bolton, Indian Paths in Coney Island, the Great Metropolis(New York: Governors Island, Museum of the American Indian, 1922; Ellis Island, Liberty BPL call no. 970.1 B. Island, New Jersey, Jersey City, Hoboken, Staten Island, Newark, Paterson, Yonkers, Bronx, Westchester, Long Island City, Great Neck, Manhasset Neck 1922.01.02 Map VIII, A 1922 1922 Brooklyn, Long Color. Indian paths are marked in red [see description for 14.5" x .b Island, New York, over modern street map and Indian source] 21.5" Kings County, place names are labelled. Blue ink Manhattan, New stamped: F 2060793. From Bolton, Jersey, Jersey City, Indian Paths in the Great Hoboken, Metropolis(New York: Museum of the Williamsburg, American Indian, 1922; BPL call no. Greenpoint, 970.1 B. Governor's Island 1922.01.02 Map VIII, B 1922 1922 Brooklyn, Long Color. Indian paths are marked in red [see description for 14.75" x .c Island, New York, over modern street map and Indian source] 21.25" Kings County, place names are labelled. Blue ink Greenpoint, Long stamped: F 2060793. From Bolton, Island City, Queens, Indian Paths in the Great Newtown, East New Metropolis(New York: Museum of the York, Bushwick, American Indian, 1922; BPL call no. Blackwell's Island, 970.1 B. Williamsburg, Maspeth, Nassau Heights, Middle Village, Linden Hill, Laurel Hill, Woodside, Blissville, Elmhurst, Winfield

Guide to the Maps Collection 46 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection 1922.01.02 Map VIII, C 1922 1922 Brooklyn, Long Color. Indian paths are marked in red [see description for 14.25" x .d Island, New York, over modern street map and Indian source] 21" Kings County, Coney place names are labeled. Blue ink Island, South stamped: F 2060793. From Bolton, Marlboro, Indian Paths in the Great Bensonhurst, Bath Metropolis(New York: Museum of the Beach, New Utrecht, American Indian, 1922; BPL call no. Van Pelt Manor, Bay 970.1 B. Ridge, Lefferts Park, Homewood, Mapleton, South Bensonhurst, Gravesend, The Lindens, South Greenfield, Oakcrest, Parkville, Blythebourne, Borough Park, Martense, Kensington, Flatbush, Valley Grove, Gowanus, Cowenhoven 1922.01.02 Map VIII, D 1922 1922 Brooklyn, Long Color. Indian paths are marked in red [see description for 14.75" x .e Island, New York, over modern street map and Indian source] 21" Kings County, place names are labeled. Blue ink Westminster Heights, stamped: F 2060793. From Bolton, Manhattan Beach, Indian Paths in the Great Plumb Island, Mill Metropolis(New York: Museum of the Island, South American Indian, 1922; BPL call no. Flatbush, Flatlands, 970.1 B. Waverly, West Waverly, Canarsie, Plunders Neck, Brownsville, East New York, Rugby 1922.02.01 Map of the Borough of 1922 1922 Brooklyn, New York, Color. Directional given. Shows 20.75" x Brooklyn Manhattan, New streets, transit lines, parks, and 22" Jersey, Governors waterways. From the Brooklyn Daily Island, Ellis Island, Eagle Almanac, 1923. Queens 1924.01.01 BMT Lines 1924 1924 Brooklyn, Long Color. Shows transit lines, bridges, 11" x Island, New York, tunnels, parks and ferries. Directional 13.5" Guide to the Maps Collection 47 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection Kings County, given. Manhattan, Queens 1924.02.01 Directory of Brooklyn Public 1924 1924 Brooklyn, Long Hand drawn indications of Brooklyn Brooklyn Public 28" x Library Activities, 1924 Island, New York, Public Library activities, including Library [?] 31.5" Kings County, branches and street or mobile service. Manhattan, Governors Island 1924.03.01 Board of Water Supply of the 1924 1924 Brooklyn, Queens, Shows route of water supply tunnel Board of Water 18.25" x City of New York Map and Manhattan, Bronx from Hill View Reservoir in Yonkers Supply of the City 29.5" Profile of Delivery Tunnel through the Bronx, Queens and of New York from Hill View Reservoir to Brooklyn as far as Hamilton Ave, Red the Boroughs of the Bronx, Hook. Route of Catskill aqueduct also Queens and Brooklyn shown. Includes profile diagram of the 20-mile long tunnel. 1925.01.01 Lawyers Mortgage 1925 1925 Brooklyn, Long Color. Full street layout. Directional 26" x Company's Map of Brooklyn Island, New York, shown. Includes ferries, bridges, and 31.5" Kings County, parks. Manhattan, New Jersey, Queens, Hoboken, Jersey City, Governors Island, Ellis Island 1925.02.01 Section of Borough of 1925 Brooklyn Shows proposed new parkway route 7.5" x Brooklyn Showing Proposed [Novembe connecting Fort Hamilton around 7.5" New Parkway with r 18] southern perimeter to Connections To Existing and (?). Proposed Parks and Parkways 1926.01.01 Brooklyn Eagle Almanac 1926 1926 Brooklyn, Long Directional given. Black and white. 17.25" x 1926 Map of Borough of Island, New York, Features subways, elevated lines, 23" Queens, N.Y. City Kings County, railroads, ferry lines, and streets. Four (each Manhattan, New pieces encapsulated together. Verso section); Jersey, Queens, shows Queens. 33.75" x , Wards 43.5" Island, Blackwell’s (total) Island 1928.01.01 City Tunnel No. 2 1928 [May 1928 Manhattan, The Main highlight is approximate limit of M.B. Brown 10" x 15] Bronx, western water supply contract (within western Printing & Binding 21.5" Brooklyn and Queens). Map also includes major Co., 37-41 Queens. streets, subways, surface, and elevated Chambers St., N.Y. transit lines, ferry lines, auto, and water supply tunnels. Further note from map: File Cont 226-5.43 Dy Acc.31524. Guide to the Maps Collection 48 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection 1928.02.01 City Tunnel No. 2 1928 [May 1928 Manhattan, The Main highlight is approximate limit of M.B. Brown 10" x 15] Bronx, western water supply contract (within western Printing & Binding 21.5" Brooklyn and Queens). Map also includes major Co., 37-41 Queens. streets, subways, surface, and elevated Chambers St., N.Y. transit lines, ferry lines, auto, and water supply tunnels. Further note from map= File Cont 227-5.43 Dy Acc.31532 1929.01.01 Wallabout Terminal 1929 1929 Brooklyn, Long Mounted sketch. Black and white. 8" x 9" Island, New York, Shows streets, buildings, and Kings County, waterways. Shows Navy Yard, Naval Wallabout Terminal, Hospital, and Wallabout Market. Navy Yard

Drawer 8: 1930-1949

1933.01.01 Brooklyn Heights 1933 1933 Brooklyn, Long Black and white. Directional given. Langstaff, B. 24.25" x Island, New York, Shows streets, bridges, and some Meredith and Elmer 16.25" Kings County, buildings. Boundaries: west - Furman Carlson Del Brooklyn Heights Street, south - Atlantic Avenue, east - (cartographers/artis Court Street, north - the Manhattan ts) for the Garden Bridge Plaza. Churches and major Place Association buildings shown. 1935.01.01 Map of Brooklyn's Eastern 1935 Brooklyn Schematic diagram of rail lines with 17" x District Terminal. BEDT. sidings, switches, etc. Along with 22" Brooklyn, NY (Dec. 1935) storage buildings & surrounding streets names. 1935.02.01 Proposed Wallabout Market 1935 Brooklyn Map showing Wallabout Terminal. Incl. 24" x Clinton Avenue, , & 11" Fleeman Avenue. Shows piers & railroads. 1936.01.01 Hagstrom's First Complete 1936 1936 Brooklyn, Bronx, Color photocopy. The first and only map The Hagstrom Map 11.75" x Map of the New York Manhattan, Queens showing Brooklyn's Company 19.25" Subways and Elevated elevated line in full service. Other lines Systems marked. There are also five professional sports facilities: Stadium, Madison Square Garden, Polo Grounds, Prospect Park (Brooklyn Dodgers home), Madison Square Garden Bowl. 1938.01.01 Fulton Street Brooklyn Shows the Fulton Street/Flatbush 33.75" x Avenue Business District. Also incl. 22" Stores, schools, banks, theatres, &

Guide to the Maps Collection 49 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection restaurants.

1938.02.01 Brooklyn Shows Business District of Kings 33.75" x Highway; from - Ocean 22" Parkway. Incl. Names of stores, banks, theatres, & BMT rail-lines. 1938.03.01 Flatbush Avenue Brooklyn Continuation of Flatbush Avenue after 33.75" x Duryea Place & Beverly Road. Inset on 22" bottom-right hand of map. 1938.04.01 Fulton Street 1938 Brooklyn Shows Fulton Street Business District 33.75" x from Place - Court Street. Incl. 22" Stores, Borough Hall, the Municipal Building, Court House, Hall of Records, & Polytechnic Institute. 1940.01.01 Hagstrom's Map of Long 1940 1940 Brooklyn, Long Covers Brooklyn as western portion of 31" x Island, New York [May] Island, New York, Long Island. Color. Compass shown. 16.5" Kings County, Manhattan, Long Island City, Jersey City, Hoboken, Nassau County, Suffolk County, Staten Island, Queens, Bronx, New Jersey, Westchester 1940.02.01 New York City Borough of 1940 1941 Brooklyn, Long Black and white. Directional given. 15.5 " Brooklyn U.S. Census Tract Island, New York, x18" Boundaries, 1940 Kings County 1940.03.01 Brooklyn's Housing Projects 1940 1940 Brooklyn, Long Directional given. Shows operating 8.5" x Island, New York, projects, projects under construction 11" Kings County and pending construction, and veterans' emergency projects. 1940.04.01 Hagstrom's Map of New York 1940 1940 Brooklyn, Long Directional given. Brightly colored map 16.5" x Subways Island, New York, showing IRT, BMT IND, elevated and 26.75" Kings County, railroad lines. Was originally a folded Manhattan, Bronx, booklet and the covers are still Queens, New Jersey, attached. Staten Island, Governors Island, Ellis Island, Bedloes Island

Guide to the Maps Collection 50 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection 1940.05.01 Brooklyn 'Center of 1940 1940 Brooklyn, Long Black and white. Outline diagram. Brooklyn Daily 8.5" x Education' Island, New York, Directional given. Caption reads: Eagle 11" Kings County, "Where they are - present locations of Manhattan, Queens, boro's top 11 schools." Schools are New Jersey, identified by location and name and Governors Island, address are given. Coney Island 1940.06.01 Greater New York 1940 Brooklyn, Manhattan, Very detailed coastlines. Verso has a F.H. Champion 22" x Queens, Staten portion of a color map of upstate New 20.25" Island,Bronx. Also York. Roads Works Projects adjoining areas of Administration/NYS Writers' Project. western Nassau County and eastern New Jersey. Towns, highways and Brooklyn parkways, tunnels, water features with depth lines, tunnels. Some streets shown but not labeled. 1946.01.01 Indian Villages, Paths, 1946 1946 Brooklyn, Long Directional given. Overlay of Native Nenning, C.W. 15.5" x Ponds, and Places in Kings Island, New York, American sites and names onto modern (cartographer) 18" County Kings County, map. Bushwick, Flatbush, Flatlands, New Lots, New Utrecht, Gravesend, Queens, Manhattan, Governors Island, Staten Island 1946.02.01 Track Map of Brooklyn Brooklyn Map shows Brooklyn & its RR's & bus 19.75" x lines; Extending from Coney Island, 17" past the Williamsburgh Bridge. - also shows the Bridges & those lines going across the Bridges. 1946.03.01 Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel 1946 1946 Tunnel under East Tunnel maps include ventilation, Chief engineer- 34" x [Aug River with some of pierheads, and rock depth. name cannot be 11" 1] Brooklyn (Hamilton read. Avenue area) and Manhattan (Battery Park area) at each end. Two additional Guide to the Maps Collection 51 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection maps on page showing engineering plan of East and West tunnels. 1947.01.01 Hagstrom's Map of Brooklyn, 1947 1947 Brooklyn, Long Black and white. Directional given. Hagstrom 25" x New York City Island, New York, Shows transit lines, streets, house Company 29.75" Kings County, numbers, parks, and cemeteries. Manhattan, Queens, New Jersey, Governors Island, Ellis Island 1949.01.01 [New York City] 1949 1949 Brooklyn, Long Color. Directional given. Shows the Triborough Bridge 20" x Island, New York, five boroughs and greater New York and Tunnel 16" Kings County, area. Features parkways, Authority Manhattan, Queens, expressways, airports, golf courses, New Jersey, parks, ferries, bridges, and cemeteries. Governors Island, Bedloes Island, Staten Island, Westchester

Drawer 9: 1950-1959

1950.01.01 [New York City] 1950 Brooklyn, Long Color. Directional given. Shows 20" x Island, New York, expressways, tunnels, bridges, golf 15.75" Kings County, courses, parks, and cemeteries. Manhattan, Queens, New Jersey, Staten Island, Bronx, Westchester 1950.02.01 Distribution of Puerto Rican 1950 1953 Brooklyn, Long Black and white. Directional given. 8.5" x Population in Brooklyn by Island, New York, Sketch. 11" Health Areas Kings County, Gowanus, Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Bushwick, Bedford, Brownsville, Flatbush, Gravesend, Bay Ridge

Guide to the Maps Collection 52 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection 1950.03.01 Giant Map of Brooklyn (New [1950] [1950] Jersey City, Kings Detailed black and white map showing Geographia Map 50.25" x York City) County, Brooklyn, streets, transit lines, recreation areas Co. 39" New York, and parking lots. Lists shipping lines Greenpoint, operating from the Brooklyn piers. Williamsburg, Directional given. At coordinates K5, Brooklyn Heights, handwritten note in black ink: Fort Greene, "Cemetery of the B'Nal Jeshurum and Bushwick, Shereth Israel." Notes in pencil: "1950 Ridgewood, Bedford- #37" in upper margin; "37 G&W 1950 Stuyvesant, South drawer (4)" in right-hand margin. Brooklyn, Red Hook, Crown Heights, Sunset Park, Gowanus, , Brownsville, East New York, Bay Ridge, Borough Park, Flatbush, East Flatbush, Canarsie, Bensonhurst, Midwood, Flatlands, Gravesend, Sheepshead Bay, Coney Island. 1950.04.01 Map of the Territory Served 1950 n.d. Brooklyn, from Detailed street map with names. Dark 22" x by the Brooklyn Borough Gas Cortelyou Ave south line from Gravesend Bay shore north 17" Company to shore. From Dyker east to Foster Avenue, then southeast Heights East to Mill to Marine Park. Straight red line from Basin to Foster. Both look hand and are not labeled. 1950.05.01 Outline Map Borough of c. 1950 c. Brooklyn General map of Brooklyn, showing Brooklyn Council 8.5" x Brooklyn 1950 major neighborhoods, thoroughfares, for Social 11" and landmarks. Also found in the Planning? Brooklyn Council for Social Planning (BCSP) records. 1951.01.01 Proposed Planning Districts 1951 Brooklyn, Long Black and white. Directional given. City of New York, 14.5" x Island, New York, City Planning 21" Kings County, Commission Manhattan, Bronx, Queens, Staten Island 1952.01.01 Hagstrom's Map of Brooklyn, 1952 1952 Brooklyn, Long Black and white. Directional given. Hagstrom 25" x New York City Island, New York, Shows transit lines, streets, house Company 29.75" Guide to the Maps Collection 53 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection Kings County, numbers, parks, and cemeteries. Manhattan, Queens, New Jersey, Governors Island, Ellis Island 1952.02.01 New York's Traffic Arteries 1952 1952 Brooklyn, Long Black and white. Directional given. New York Sunday 10.25" x Island, New York, Shows existing roads and those in News staff 15" Kings County, progress, along with tunnels, bridges, Manhattan, Queens, airports and ferries. Verso shows an New Jersey, Staten advertisement. Island 1952.03.01 Postal Zone Map of Brooklyn Brooklyn Map shows postal zones for all of Hagstrom 25" x Brooklyn. Each zone is numbered with Company Inc., NY. 17" with a name or station letter. Each zone has index; the bordering streets or avenues map showing where one zone ends & others itself is begin. Also includes index with streets 9.5" x alphabetized. 7.5" 1952.04.01 Station Guide, IND Division 1952 1952 New York City Service information, transfer points, 23" x cost. 28" 1952.05.01 Station Guide, BMT Division 1952 1952 New York City Service information, transfer points, 23" x cost. 28" 1952.06.01 Station Guide, IRT Division 1952 1952 New York City Service information, transfer points, 23" x cost. 28" 1953.01.01 Tenant Relocation Study: 1953 1953 Brooklyn, Long Black and white. Directional given. Office of Master 17" x .a Puerto Ricans as a Percent of Island, New York, Planning, 25" Total Census Tract Kings County, Department of City Population Manhattan, Queens, Planning, City of New Jersey, Staten New York Island, Bronx, Westchester 1953.01.01 Tenant Relocation Study, 1953 Brooklyn, Long Black and white. Directional given. Office of Master 17" x .b 1953 Island, New York, "Spot map of new private addresses Planning, 25" Kings County, given by tenants formerly on public Department of City Manhattan, Bronx, housing sites, by race." Planning, City of Queens, Staten New York Island 1953.01.01 Tenant Relocation Study, 1953 Brooklyn, Long Black and white. Directional given. Office of Master 17" x .c 1953 Island, New York, "Location of dwelling unites reported Planning, 25" Kings County, 'vacant' in April 1950…" Department of City Manhattan, Bronx, Planning, City of Queens, Staten New York Island Guide to the Maps Collection 54 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection 1953.01.01 Tenant Relocation Study, 1953 Brooklyn, Long Black and white. Directional given. Office of Master 17" x .d 1953 Island, New York, "Areas of substantial new private Planning, 25" Kings County, residential construction 1949-1952." Department of City Manhattan, Bronx, Planning, City of Queens, Staten New York Island 1953.01.01 Tenant Relocation Study, 1953 Brooklyn, Long Black and white. Directional given. Office of Master 17" x .e 1953 Island, New York, "Non-white dwelling unit increases by Planning, 25" Kings County, census tracts 1940-1950." Department of City Manhattan, Bronx, Planning, City of Queens, Staten New York Island 1953.01.01 Tenant Relocation Study, 1953 Brooklyn, Long Black and white. Directional given. Office of Master 17" x .f 1953 Island, New York, "Vacant land--large tracts status on Planning, 25" Kings County, June 1, 1953." Department of City Manhattan, Bronx, Planning, City of Queens, Staten New York Island 1953.01.01 Tenant Relocation Study, 1953 Brooklyn, Long Black and white. Directional given. Office of Master 17" x .g 1953 Island, New York, "Race and ethnic composition of Planning, 25" Kings County, families in public housing projects by Department of City Manhattan, Bronx, project size, March 31 1953." Planning, City of Queens, Staten New York Island 1953.02.01 Utilization of Schools in the 1953 Brooklyn, Long Color. Directional given. Shows American Map 16" x Borough of Brooklyn Island, New York, streets, house numbers, transportation Company, Inc. 20" Kings County, and school enrollment and over- and Manhattan, Queens, underutilization. New Jersey, Governor's Island 1954.01.01 Brooklyn 1954 1954 Brooklyn, Long Black and white. Directional given. Brooklyn Daily 18.25" x Island, New York, Shows Transit Authority's proposed Eagle? 22.75" Kings County, subway construction program. Verso Manhattan, Queens, has a caption from the Brooklyn Daily Governors Island Eagle. 1955.01.01 Hagstrom's Map of Brooklyn, 1955 1955 Brooklyn, Long Black and white with hand-drawn Hagstrom 24.5" x New York City Island, New York, congressional and assembly district Company 29.5" Kings County, boundaries and numbers in blue and Queens, Manhattan, red. Directional given. Shows all New Jersey, streets, transit lines, parks, and Governors Island, cemeteries. Ellis Island

Guide to the Maps Collection 55 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection 1956.01.01 Borough of Brooklyn 1956 Brooklyn, Long Black and white. Directional given. De Mola 33.5" x Island, New York, Shows all streets and highways. Corporation, New 41" Kings County, York, Map Makers Queens 1956.02.01 New York Harbor Terminals 1956 1956 Brooklyn, Long Color. Directional given. Shows all The Port of New 20" x Map Island, New York, roads, railroad connections, and other York Authority 27" Kings County, features significant to shipping. Queens, Manhattan, New Jersey, Staten Island, Bronx, Rikers Island, Randall’s Island, Wards Island, Welfare Island, Ellis Island, Bedloes Island, Westchester 1956.03.01 Vacationing in the City 1956 1956 Brooklyn, Long Color. Directional given. Features New York Sunday 10.25" x Island, New York, sports and recreation areas, including News Staff Artists 14.75" Kings County, parks and beaches. Sundberg and Queens, Manhattan, Krauss Staten Island, Bronx, Randall’s Island, Wards Island 1956.04.01 Police Department City of 1956? Brooklyn Map shows Police Department Police Department, 20.25" x New York, Borough of divisions. Each division is numbered & City of New York 21.5" Brooklyn Divisions. colored. The Brooklyn East Division & Cartography Office Brooklyn West Division are divided by a red line. Each individual division is separated by a black line. 1956.05.01 New York Subways 1956 1956 Brooklyn, New York, Color photocopy. Directional given. Hagstrom 10" x Kings County, Hagstrom's first subway map issued by Company 18" Manhattan, Bronx, the Transit Authority showing subway Queens service to the Rockaways.

Drawer 10: 1960-1969

1960.01.01 Hagstrom's Map of Brooklyn, 1960 1960 Brooklyn, Long Color. Directional given. Shows all Hagstrom 42.5" x New York City Island, New York, streets, transit lines, parks, and Company 62" Kings County, cemeteries. Queens, Manhattan, New Jersey, Governors Island, Ellis Island

Guide to the Maps Collection 56 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection 1960.02.01 Civic Center 1960 1960 Brooklyn, Long Black and white. Shows streets, 8.5" x Island, New York, buildings, and parks. Location of 11" Kings County, branch of Brooklyn Public Library has Brooklyn Heights, been added. Downtown 1960.03.01 Postal Zone Numbers 1960 1960 Brooklyn, Long Black and white. Directional given. 8.5" x Island, New York, 11" Kings County, Manhattan, Queens, Governor's Island 1960.04.01 Postal Zone Map of Brooklyn 1960 1960 Brooklyn, Long Color. Shows boundaries of postal 25" x Island, New York, zones and locations of stations. 17" Kings County Compare to similar 1952 map.

1960.05.01 Map of the Borough of 1960 1960 Brooklyn, Long Black and white. Shows all streets, Office of the 28" x .a Brooklyn Island, New York, highways, parks, bridges, tunnels, President of the 36" Kings County, pierhead and bulkhead lines, and Borough of Queens, Manhattan, waterways. Brooklyn, Bureau of Governors Island Highways and Sewers, Division of Street Plan 1960.05.01 Map of the Borough of 1960 1960 Brooklyn, Long Black and white. Shows all streets, Office of the 28" x .b Brooklyn Island, New York, highways, parks, bridges, tunnels, President of the 36" Kings County, Staten pierhead and bulkhead lines, and Borough of Island waterways. Brooklyn, Bureau of Highways and Sewers, Division of Street Plan 1960.05.01 Map of the Borough of 1960 1960 Brooklyn, Long Black and white. Shows all streets, Office of the 28" x .c Brooklyn Island, New York, highways, parks, bridges, tunnels, President of the 36" Kings County, pierhead and bulkhead lines, and Borough of Queens waterways. Brooklyn, Bureau of Highways and Sewers, Division of Street Plan

Guide to the Maps Collection 57 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection 1960.05.01 Map of the Borough of 1960 1960 Brooklyn, Long Black and white. Directional given. Office of the 28" x .d Brooklyn Island, New York, Shows all streets, highways, parks, President of the 36" Kings County, bridges, tunnels, pierhead and bulkhead Borough of Queens lines, and waterways. Brooklyn, Bureau of Highways and Sewers, Division of Street Plan 1960.05.01 Map of the Borough of 1960 1960 Brooklyn, Long Black and white. Directional given. Office of the 28" x .e Brooklyn Island, New York, Shows all streets, highways, parks, President of the 36" Kings County bridges, tunnels, pierhead and bulkhead Borough of lines, and waterways. Brooklyn, Bureau of Highways and Sewers, Division of Street Plan 1960.05.01 Map of the Borough of 1960 1960 Brooklyn, Long Black and white. Directional given. Office of the 28" x .f Brooklyn Island, New York, Shows all streets, highways, parks, President of the 36" Kings County, bridges, tunnels, pierhead and bulkhead Borough of Queens lines, and waterways. Brooklyn, Bureau of Highways and Sewers, Division of Street Plan 1960.05.02 Map of the Borough of 1960 1960 Brooklyn, Long Black and white. Shows all streets, Office of the 28" x .a Brooklyn Island, New York, highways, parks, bridges, tunnels, President of the 36" Kings County, pierhead and bulkhead lines, and Borough of Queens, Manhattan, waterways. Brooklyn, Bureau of Governors Island Highways and Sewers, Division of Street Plan 1960.05.02 Map of the Borough of 1960 1960 Brooklyn, Long Black and white. Shows all streets, Office of the 28" x .b Brooklyn Island, New York, highways, parks, bridges, tunnels, President of the 36" Kings County, Staten pierhead and bulkhead lines, and Borough of Island waterways. Brooklyn, Bureau of Highways and Sewers, Division of Street Plan 1960.05.02 Map of the Borough of 1960 1960 Brooklyn, Long Black and white. Shows all streets, Office of the 28" x .c Brooklyn Island, New York, highways, parks, bridges, tunnels, President of the 36" Kings County, pierhead and bulkhead lines, and Borough of Queens waterways. Brooklyn, Bureau of Highways and Sewers, Division of Street Plan

Guide to the Maps Collection 58 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection 1960.05.02 Map of the Borough of 1960 1960 Brooklyn, Long Black and white. Directional given. Office of the 28" x .d Brooklyn Island, New York, Shows all streets, highways, parks, President of the 36" Kings County, bridges, tunnels, pierhead and bulkhead Borough of Queens lines, and waterways. Brooklyn, Bureau of Highways and Sewers, Division of Street Plan 1960.05.02 Map of the Borough of 1960 1960 Brooklyn, Long Black and white. Directional given. Office of the 28" x .f Brooklyn Island, New York, Shows all streets, highways, parks, President of the 36" Kings County, bridges, tunnels, pierhead and bulkhead Borough of Queens lines, and waterways. Brooklyn, Bureau of Highways and Sewers, Division of Street Plan 1961.01.01 New York Harbor: Mercator 1961 New York City Depth measurements and waterfront U.S. Department of 35" x Projection street plans. Commerce 45.5" 1962.01.01 Brooklyn Neighborhoods 1962 1962 Brooklyn, Long Black and white. Photocopy. 14.75" x Island, New York, Directional given. Shows names and 21.75" Kings County, street boundaries of neighborhoods. Manhattan, Queens 1963.01.01 Community Districts 1963 1963 Brooklyn, Long Directional given. Shows numbers and Office of the 32" x Island, New York, boundaries of community districts. President of the 35.75" Kings County, Borough of Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn Governor's Island 1963.03.01 Borough of Brooklyn 9th 1963 1963 Brooklyn, Long Directional given. Color. Shows De Mola 23.75" x Assembly District Island, New York, streets, house numbers, parks, Corporation 17" Kings County, Bay neighboring assembly districts, and Ridge electoral districts. 1964.01.01 Triborough Bridge and Tunnel 1964 1964 Western Long Island Colored map showing roads, parkways, Triborough Bridge 23.5" x Authority 1964 including Brooklyn; expressways, roads proposed and and Tunnel 17" Manhattan, Bronx, under construction, airports, bridges, Authority, Robert Staten Island, part of tunnels, points of interest and the site of Moses, Chairman New Jersey and part the 1964-5 World's Fair. of Westchester County 1964.02.01 Nester's New York City 1964 1964 Manhattan, Brooklyn, This small scale map of the New York Lewis J. Nesterman 16" x Subway Transit Map Queens, Bronx Subway system measures 11.75 x 16. It 11.75" shows subway lines, few NYC destinations and major airports of the area. Verso has a portion of a larger city map.

Guide to the Maps Collection 59 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection 1965.01.01 Triborough Bridge and Tunnel 1965 1965 Brooklyn, Long Directional given. Color. Shows main 23.75" x Authority Island, New York, roads, parks, airports, points of interest, 17" Kings County, and golf courses. Queens, Bronx, Westchester, New Jersey, Staten Island, Governors Island, Nassau, Suffolk 1965.02.01 A Walking Tour of Historic 1965 1965 Brooklyn, Long Black and white. Directional given. Seymour, Catryna 20" x Brooklyn Island, New York, Shows area of Brooklyn Heights and Ten Eyck 14" Kings County, downtown Brooklyn with points of Brooklyn Heights, interest numbered and some sketched. Downtown 1966.01.01 Hagstrom's Map of Brooklyn, 1966 1966 Brooklyn, Long Color. Directional given. Shows Hagstrom 24.5" x New York City Island, New York, streets, parks, cemeteries, house Company 29.25" Kings County, Staten numbers, and transit lines. Postal zone Island, Queens, map in mylar on verso. Manhattan, Governors Island, New Jersey 1966.01.02 Hagstrom's Map of Brooklyn, 1966 1966 Brooklyn, Long Color. Directional given. Shows Hagstrom 24.5" x New York City Island, New York, streets, parks, cemeteries, house Company 29.25" Kings County, Staten numbers, and transit lines. Hand-drawn Island, Queens, boundaries of neighborhoods (labeled Manhattan, by number). List on verso of which Governors Island, neighborhoods are shown. New Jersey 1966.01.03 Hagstrom's Map of Brooklyn, 1966 1966 Brooklyn, Long Color. Directional given. Shows Hagstrom 24" x New York City Island, New York, streets, parks, cemeteries, house Company 29.5" Kings County, Staten numbers, and transit lines. Island, Queens, Manhattan, Governors Island, New Jersey 1966.02.01 Map of the Borough of Brooklyn Assembly map of Brooklyn with each Office of the 21" x Brooklyn. district w/black ink outlining each one. President of the 24" Each district numbered; Southern part Borough of of Manhattan is depicted. Parks & Brooklyn Cemeteries shown. Same base map as Topographical 1963.01.01. Bureau 1967.01.01 Bedford-Stuyvesant Renewal 1967 1967 Brooklyn, Long Color. Shows streets, railroads, and Bedford-Stuyvesant 24.5" x & Rehabilitation Study Island, New York, parks in the Central Brooklyn Model Development 19.75" Kings County, City Community Development Area. Services Guide to the Maps Collection 60 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection Bedford Stuyvesant, Location and names of library branches Corporation Crown Heights, added in red. Clinton Hill 1967.02.01 Diagram Showing Proposed 1967 1967 Brooklyn, Long Directional given. Shows streets, City Planning 24.5" x Designation of Urban Island, New York, railroads, and parks in the Central Commission, The 19.75" Renewal Area Kings County, Brooklyn Model City Community City of New York Brownsville, East Development Area. Location and New York, Bedford names of library branches added by Stuyvesant, Crown hand in red. Heights, Flatbush 1967.04.01 New York City Transit Map 1967 1997 Manhattan, Brooklyn, Subway map. This is a full color reprint New York City 16" x and Station Guide Queens, Bronx, of the original 1967 map. Transit Authority 19.25" Staten Island 1968.01.01 Brooklyn, 1968 1968 1968 Brooklyn, Long Black and white. Directional given. Allied Map 40.75" x Island, New York, Shows streets, parks, cemeteries, and Company 24.5" Kings County, Staten borough boundaries. (each Island, Queens, section) Manhattan, Governors Island, New Jersey, Bronx 1968.02.01 Police Precincts. 1968? Brooklyn Shows police precincts that are T.J. Mina 33.75" x numbered & bordered by other 37" precincts of Brooklyn. Also includes Community Planning Districts. Border of each district is dark brown: Also including the boundary of the borough. Same base map as 1963.01.01. 1969.01.01 A Map of Brooklyn 1969 Brooklyn, Long Pen and ink drawing. Directional given. Rosenblum, 16" x Island, New York, Neighborhoods and waterways are Richard 19" Kings County, labeled. Cartoon figures represent Manhattan, neighborhood characteristics. Main Governors Island roads are shown by lines of cars. Features parks, subways, railroads, cemeteries, bridges, and buildings. 1969.02.01 District No. 15 1969 Brooklyn, Long Black and white. Gives boundaries of 8.5" x Island, New York, school district and names and locations 11" Kings County, Red of public schools. Features streets, Hook, Gowanus, parks, cemeteries, and pierhead and Carroll Gardens, bulkhead lines. Handwritten note Sunset Park, Park identifies source as publication Focus Slope, Downtown, on Fifteen Vol. I no. 1, March 1969. , Cobble Hill Guide to the Maps Collection 61 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection 1969.03.01 Land Use Policy: New York Manhattan, Brooklyn, Shows land usage in all 5 boroughs. Department of City 32" x City Queens, Bronx, Color depicted according to density of Planning 32" Staten Island usage. Lighter colors show lesser use, Darker colors show greater use. Color can be translated by the inset key at the top left corner of the map.

Drawer 11: 1970-1974

1970.01.01 Utilization of School 1970 [1970] Brooklyn, Long Directional given. Colored black, white, New York (N.Y.) 52" x Buildings and Data on Island, New York, red and grey. Board of Education 39.75" Large-scale housing Kings County, (as of October 30, Greenpoint, 1970) Williamsburg, Brooklyn Heights, Fort Greene, Bushwick, Ridgewood, Bedford- Stuyvesant, South Brooklyn, Red Hook, Crown Heights, Sunset Park, Gowanus, Park Slope, Brownsville, East New York, Bay Ridge, Borough Park, Flatbush, East Flatbush, Canarsie, Bensonhurst, Midwood, Flatlands, Gravesend, Sheepshead Bay, Coney Island. 1970.02.01 Local School Board [1970] Brooklyn, Bay Ridge, Black and white photocopy of a section [Board of 17.25" x District #20 New Utrecht, of map 1970.01.01. Local school board Education, City of 17" Bensonhurst, district borders traced by hand with red New York, School Gravesend, Borough marker. Planning and Park, Kensington Research Division, Programming Section] 1970.03.01 New York City Census 1970 1979 Manhattan, Brooklyn, Colored in shades of brown, red and Francis P. Vardy at 34" x Tracts, 1970 Queens, Bronx yellow to indicate density of Polish Department of City 23" Guide to the Maps Collection 62 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection residents, and also poverty areas, in Planning each census tract 1971.01.01 Nester's Brooklyn 1971 1971 Brooklyn, Long Color. Shows streets, transit lines, 26.5" x Maps Island, New York, parks, and cemeteries. 38" Kings County, Queens, New Jersey, Governors Island 1971.02.01 Historic Park Slope 1971 1971 Brooklyn, Long Black and white. Directional given. Lazzaro, V. 22" x Island, New York, Shows streets, buildings, and Prospect 28" Kings County, Park Park. Three dimensional drawing. Slope 1971.02.02 Historic Park Slope 1971 1971 Brooklyn, Long Black and white. Directional given. Lazzaro, V. 22" x Island, New York, Shows streets, buildings, and Prospect 28" Kings County, Park Park. Three dimensional drawing. Slope 1971.03.01 Utilization of School Brooklyn Shows Brooklyn schools in 43.5" x Buildings & Data on progress/under construction, according 53.75" Large-Scale Housing to symbols. Symbols are colored or shaded in red. Boundary for each district is red; Housing symbolized w/triangle colored black. Symbols are within insets on top-left corner. Other insets are bottom-left corner &bottom- right corner. Insets show schols' names & their development. 1972.01.01 The New York 1972 1972 Brooklyn, Long Color. Shows subway lines and stops. New York City 21.5" x Subway Map Island, New York, Transit Authority 25.5" Kings County, Queens, Manhattan, Bronx 1972.02.01.a Land Use 1971-72 1972 1972 Brooklyn, Long Shows streets, parks, waterways, Sanborn Map 46.5" x Island, New York, borough boundaries, transit lines, and Company, Inc. 36" Kings County, different types of land use. Note in Queens, Rockaway upper margin: 30. Note in lower margin: Beach Brooklyn. Land Use. 1971-72 #34A 1972.02.01.b Land Use 1971-72 1972 1972 Brooklyn, Long Shows streets, parks, waterways, Sanborn Map 46.5" x Island, New York, borough boundaries, transit lines, JFK, Company, Inc. 36" Kings County, and different types of land use. Note in Queens, East New lower margin: Brooklyn. Land Use. York, Flatlands 1971-72 #34B

Guide to the Maps Collection 63 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection 1972.02.01.c Land Use 1971-72 1972 1972 Brooklyn, Long Shows streets, parks, waterways, Sanborn Map 46.5" x Island, New York, borough boundaries, transit lines, JFK, Company, Inc. 36" Kings County, and different types of land use. Queens 1972.02.01.d Land Use 1971-72 1972 1972 Brooklyn, Long Shows streets, parks, waterways, Sanborn Map 46.5" x Island, New York, borough boundaries, transit lines, and Company, Inc. 36" Kings County, Park different types of land use. Slope, Gowanus, Prospect Heights, Flatbush, Windsor Terrace, Clinton Hill, Fort Greene, Bedford Stuyvesant, Downtown, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill, Red Hook, Sunset Park, Brooklyn Heights, Governors Island, Liberty Island 1972.02.01.e Land Use 1971-72 1972 1972 Brooklyn, Long Shows streets, parks, waterways, Sanborn Map 46.5" x Island, New York, borough boundaries, transit lines, Company, Inc. 36" Kings County, cemeteries, and different types of land Queens, Bushwick, use. Newtown Creek, Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Bedford Stuyvesant 1972.02.01.f Land Use 1971-72 1972 1972 Brooklyn, Long Shows streets, parks, waterways, Sanborn Map 46.5" x Island, New York, borough boundaries, transit lines, Company, Inc. 36" Kings County, cemeteries, and different types of land Queens, Sheepshead use. Bay, Manhattan Beach, Mill Basin, Marine Park, Jamaica Bay 1973.01.01.a Land Use 1972-73 1973 1973 Brooklyn, Manhattan, Shows streets, parks, waterways, Sanborn Map 46.5" x Greenpoint, borough boundaries, transit lines, and Company, Inc. 36" Williamsburg, different types of land use. Marginal Brooklyn Navy Yard note in pencil: Brooklyn Land Use. (Wallabout), Vinegar 1972-73. #35A Hill, Dumbo, Brooklyn Heights, Downtown Guide to the Maps Collection 64 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection Brooklyn

1973.01.01.b Land Use 1972-73 1973 1973 Brooklyn, Queens, Shows streets, parks, waterways, Sanborn Map 46.5" x Cypress Hills, borough boundaries, transit lines, and Company, Inc. 36" Cemetery of the different types of land use. Marginal Evergreens, Bedford notes in pencil: R.W. Brooklyn. Land Stuyvesant, Use. 1972-73. #35B Stuyvesant Heights, Weeksville, Carrville, Crown Heights, Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, East New York, New Lots 1973.01.01.c Land Use 1972-73 1973 1973 Fort Hamilton, Bay Shows streets, parks, waterways, Sanborn Map 46.5" x Ridge, Bensonhurst, borough boundaries, transit lines, and Company, Inc. 36" Sunset Park, different types of land use. Marginal Midwood, Borough note in pencil: Brooklyn. Land Use. Park, Greenwood 1972-73. # 35C R.W. Cemetery, Parade Grounds, , Flatbush, Caton Park, Ditmas Park 1973.01.01.d Land Use 1972-73 1973 1973 Brooklyn, Gravesend Shows streets, parks, waterways, Sanborn Map 46.5" x Bay, Coney Island, borough boundaries, transit lines, and Company, Inc. 36" Sea Gate, Bath different types of land use, as well as Beach, Bensonhurst, existing and proposed bulkhead lines Gravesend and pierhead lines. Marginal note in pencil: Brooklyn. Land Use. 1972-23. #35D. Note in ink: R.W. 1973.01.01.e Land Use 1972-73 1973 1973 Brooklyn, Midwood, Shows streets, parks, waterways, Sanborn Map 46.5" x East Midwood, borough boundaries, transit lines, and Company, Inc. 36" Nottingham, East different types of land use. Shows in Flatbush, Erasmus, detail the different Brooklyn basins, Rugby, Remsen bulkhead and pierhead lines. Marginal Village, Canarsie, note in pencil: Brooklyn. Land Use. Marine Park 1972-23. #35E. Note in ink: R.W. 1973.02.01 Hagstrom Brooklyn [1973] [1973] Brooklyn, Lower "Map No. 2040A." Colored. Directional Hagstrom 24" x New York Manhattan, Jersey given. Shows streets, transit lines, Company 29.5" City parks, hospitals and cemeteries. Index (map); and postal zone map mounted at side. 24.25" x 16" Guide to the Maps Collection 65 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection (index)

Drawer 12: 1975-present

1975.01.01 Utilization of School 1975? Brooklyn Map shows the present Brooklyn 36.75" x Buildings & schools & those under construction. 52.5" Information on Leased Incl. All of Brooklyn's Elementary, Annexes Middle, High, & Special Schools. Map has 3 insets; 2 on top of map consisting of certain keys, & the legend key & there is an inset at the bottom of the map which shows Index of Schools. 1976.01.01 Utilization of School 1976? New York City Shows public school buildings in all 5 43.5" x Buildings & boroughs and their usage and status. 63.75" Information on Leased Annexes 1980.01.01 Subway Map 1980 1980 All of New York City Standard New York subway map. Metropolitan 22.75" x except Staten Island Transit 28" Authority/New York City Transit Authority 1982.01.01 101 Reasons to Vote 1982 1982 Neighborhoods Shows one district in South Brooklyn. Board of Elections 16" x for Tom Cuite named in subtitle. Street grid, parks. Map numbered to in the City of New 24" (30th Councilmanic match included list of 101 Tom Cuite York District) accomplishments for neighborhoods. Note: Paid for Tom Cuites' Campaign Committee. 1983.01.01 Subway Map 1983 1983 All of New York City Standard New York subway map Metropolitan 22.5" x except Staten Island Transit 28" Authority/New York City Transit Authority 1983.02.01 Map of Brooklyn: 1983 Brooklyn, Queens Brooklyn, with neighborhood labels, Directions 22" x "Your Guide to and lower Manhattan. points of interest, main streets and Marketing 36" Brooklyn" highways, in white, green red and gold. Company / Adjoining Queens and lower Manhattan Brooklyn Chamber with only main streets and highways, of Commerce and parks, in yellow and green. Map is extensively bordered by ads for Brooklyn businesses. Border includes a feature: "Getting to Know Brooklyn," Guide to the Maps Collection 66 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection listing locations of landmarks, museums, libraries, hospitals, and colleges.

1984.01.01 Brooklyn on Tour 1984 1984 Brooklyn Decorative, multi-colored map showing Graphics: Keith 22.5" x neighborhoods, main streets and Godard of Works. 35.5" selected landmarks (parks, markets, Map: Cadre churches). Note: also in ephemera Graphics collection. 1984.01.02 Brooklyn on Tour 1984 1984 Brooklyn Decorative, multi-colored map showing Graphics: Keith 22.5" x neighborhoods, main streets and Godard of Works. 35.5" selected landmarks (parks, markets, Map: Cadre churches). Graphics 1985.01.01 Fort Greene Clinton 1985 Brooklyn, Fort Streets with numbered locations of 23" x Hill Service Directory Greene, Clinton Hill commercial establishments. Bright 34" colors on black. Lists businesses.

1987.01.01 Subway Map 1987 1987 Manhattan, Brooklyn, This is the standard subway map Metropolitan 22" x Queens, Bronx produced by Transit Authority. Transportation 16.5" except Staten Island Authority/New York City Transit Authority 1987.02.01 Yellow Book Map 1987 1989 All of Brooklyn, with Detailed street map, with neighborhood 21.75" x Borough of Brooklyn small map names. Map created for use with Yellow 35" highlighting Brooklyn Pages classified phone directory. Heights, Carroll Similar to 1989.01.01 but worse quality. Gardens, Park Slope, Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill 1989.01.01 Yellow Book Map 1989 1989 All of Brooklyn, with Detailed street map, with neighborhood 21.75" x Borough of Brooklyn small map names. Map created for use with Yellow 35" highlighting Brooklyn Pages classified phone directory. Heights, Carroll Gardens, Park Slope 1990.01.01 New York City Transit 1990 1990 Brooklyn and Queens List of branch libraries in Brooklyn and Metropolitan 60" x Makes It Easy to Read Queens, with addresses, and a map of Transit Authority 88" Between the Lines subway system. Also photos of library patrons.

Guide to the Maps Collection 67 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection 1994.01.01 New York: A City of 1977 1994 Manhattan, Brooklyn, Community district boundaries/different Department of City 32" x Neighborhoods Queens, Bronx colors, with neighborhood names. Grid Planning 35" pattern shown but no street names. "Neighborhood names and the Community District boundaries as revised in 1977." 1996.01.01 Guide Map to 1996 1996 Brooklyn. Gravesend Street map of areas named above. Eric J. Ierardi / The 21.5 " x Historical Sites in and adjoining Historic sites numbered on map with Gravesend 17" Gravesend, Brooklyn communities -West to detailed key in border. Colored. Flag Historical Society New Utrecht, South and coat of arms for Gravesend. 4 to Coney Island, East insets. to Gerritsen Beach, North to Flatlands/Flatbush 1999.01.01 Brooklyn 1999 1999 Brooklyn, Lower Street map of Brooklyn. Shows main Hagstrom Map Co. 33" x Manhattan, part of highways in red, through roads in 35.25" Queens yellow, subway lines in grey, parks and cemeteries in green; also hospitals, points of interest etc. Neighborhoods labeled in blue. 2001.01.01 Brooklyn Public 2001 2000 Brooklyn, Long Not really a map. Illustration for 2001 Meshon, Aaron 9" x Library Island, New York, Brooklyn Public Library calendar. Naif- 19.5" Kings County, style pictorial map shows names and approximate locations of BPL Central Library and all Brooklyn Public Library branches with respect to main thoroughfare Colored. Directional in shape of open book placed over two pencils pointing in the four directions. 2002.01.01 NYC Cycling Map. The 2002 2002 Manhattan, Brooklyn, Map of cycle paths, on-street bike City of New York 34.5" x Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, lanes, recommended on-street routes; 24" Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island also shows bike shops, main streets, Staten Island. sites of interest etc.

Drawer 13: Parks & Cemeteries (1850-1988)

PC.1850.01.01 Map No. 5 Burial Plots [1850] n.d. Queens Upper map show location of Evergreen R. Graves, 21" x 27.25" of the Cemetery of the Cemetery in context: bays and rivers, Engineer. Evergreens lower Manhattan, downtown Brooklyn, and Clinton Hill, Williamsburg. Selected Topographer streets and rail line in Brooklyn. Lower map shows burial plots in Evergreen

Guide to the Maps Collection 68 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection cemetery.

PC.1861.01.01 Green-wood Cemetery 1861 Brooklyn, Greenwood Black and white. Names lanes and 11.25" x 15.5" Cemetery topographical features and shows (map); 12" x 6" locations of noted graves and (index) surrounding streets. Encapsulated with a separate sheet listing "Objects of Special Interest." PC.1865.01.01 Preliminary Map 1865 [1866] Brooklyn, Prospect This topographical map shows Viele's Bancroft, 8.25" x 13.375" showing lineal and Park, Park Slope, original (1861) boundary of Prospect J.M. and topographical surveys Prospect Heights, Park, which included Flatbush Avenue Krause, H.F. of Prospect Park Windsor Terrace within the park. It also shows proposed (drawn by) Brooklyn additions to the west and south (1865). Black and white boundary highlighted in pink [watercolor]. Grand Army Plaza boundaries highlighted in purple [watercolor]. Rubber stamped in red "[Property] of the Mercantile Library, Brooklyn." Perforation stamped "Brooklyn Public Library." PC.1865.02.01 Plan showing present 1865 1865 Prospect Park, Hand colored map from 1865 Annual 8.75" x 4.5" & proposed [Feb] Brooklyn Report of Parks Department showing boundaries of proposed extension of park from Prospect Park approximately 3rd St to Flatbush Ave. Brooklyn PC.1866.01.01 Design for Prospect 1866 1866 Brooklyn, Prospect Colored two shades of green, blue and Olmsted, 11.75" x 19.25" Park Park, Prospect yellow. Directional given. Note in Vaux and Heights, immediate present area: "No Co. surroundings of plan for the improvement of this portion Prospect Park to the of the Park has been adopted." West and Northeast. Perforation stamped: Brooklyn Public Library. PC.1867.01.01 Map showing progress 1867 1867 Brooklyn, Prospect Shows progress of work on Prospect Olmsted, 12.25" x of work upon the park Park, Park Slope, Park. Black and white. Directional Vaux and 18.875" Prospect Heights, given. Stamp perforation: Brooklyn Co. Windsor Terrace Public Library. PC.1867.02.01 Design for Prospect 1866- [1867] Brooklyn, Prospect Shows the proposed design for Olmsted 7.5" x 11.75" Park 1867 Park, Park Slope, Prospect Park. Black and white. Vaux and Prospect Heights, Perforation stamped: Brooklyn Public Co. Windsor Terrace. Library. Rubber stamped in red ink: Property of the Mercantile Library

Guide to the Maps Collection 69 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection Brooklyn.

PC.1867.03.01 Plan for the Parade 1867 1867 Long Island, Kings Colored white, green and brown. Olmsted, 7.5" x 11.75" Ground County, Brooklyn, Directional given. Shows plan for the Vaux and Prospect Park, Parade Ground with separate entrances Co. Parade Grounds for officers, carriages and the public from Coney Island Road, Franklin Avenue and Clarkson Avenue. Stamp in lower right corner: "Olmsted, Vaux & Co., 110 N.Y., Dec. 9, 1867." PC.1868.01.01 Map showing progress 1868 1868 Brooklyn, Prospect Colored. Directional given. Note in Olmsted 13" x 19.5" of the works indicated Park, Park Slope, pencil: Prospect Park. Stamp Vaux and below up to January Prospect Heights, perforation: Brooklyn Public Library. Co. 1st. 1868. Windsor Terrace Shows major thoroughfares and elevation levels. PC.1868.02.01 Plan for the Parade [1868] [1868] Long Island, Kings Colored white, green and brown. Olmsted, 7.5" x 11.75" Ground County, Brooklyn, Directional given. Shows plan for the Vaux and Prospect Park, Parade Ground with separate entrances Co. Parade Grounds for officers, carriages and the public from Coney Island Road, Franklin Avenue and Clarkson Avenue. Note in pencil: Olm. Vaux p. 233 1868. Perforation stamped: Brooklyn Public Library. Rubber stamped in red ink: Property of the Mercantile Library. PC.1868.03.01 Design for Prospect 1868 1868 Brooklyn, Prospect Colored two shades of green, blue and Olmsted, 19.75" x 12.75" Park Park, Prospect white. Directional given. Note in present Vaux and Heights, immediate Botanical Garden area: "No plan for the Co. surroundings of improvement of this portion of the Park Prospect Park to the has been adopted." west and northeast. PC.1868.03.02 Design for Prospect 1868 1868 Brooklyn, Prospect Black and white - appears to be a Olmsted, 20" x 13" Park Park, Prospect photocopy of PC.1968.03.01. Vaux and Heights, immediate Co. surroundings of Prospect Park to the west and northeast. PC.1868.03.03 Design for Prospect 1866 1866 Brooklyn, Prospect Colored two shades of green, blue and Olmsted, 11.75" x 19.25" Park Park, Prospect yellow. Directional given. Note in Vaux and Heights, immediate present Botanical Garden area: "No Co. surroundings of plan for the improvement of this portion Guide to the Maps Collection 70 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection Prospect Park to the of the Park has been adopted." West and Northeast. Perforation stamped: Brooklyn Public Library. PC.1870.01.01 Design for Prospect 1870 1870 Brooklyn, Prospect Park map shows roads, lake, and other 20.5" x 12.25" Park in The City of Park, Prospect features. Neighboring streets labeled. Brooklyn Heights, immediate Reservoir. "Plaza Platform." Area surroundings of adjoining Flatbush Ave labeled "Ground Prospect Park to the reserved for public buildings." Just past, west and northeast. labeled "For sale." PC.1870.06.01 Design For Laying Out [1870] Brooklyn View of layout of proposed park; Olmsted, 7.5" x 10.5" Tompkins Park - showing tree placement & surrounding Vaux, & Co. Brooklyn cross streets. Stamp: Property of Mercantile Library of Brooklyn. PC.1871.01.01 A Map of Prospect 1871 [mode Brooklyn, Prospect Roads within park and park features. Olmsted, 20" x 16" Park rn] Park and adjoining Printed in green, blue, ochre. Note: Vaux, & Co. streets on all sides. "Design from the Twelfth Annual Report / Prospect of the Commissioners of Prospect Park, Park Alliance published in 1871. Photograph by Paul Rocheleau." This is a modern reproduction (undated) of an 1871 map, and is one side of a pamphlet produced by Prospect Park Alliance, titled on verso A History of Prospect Park, A Keepsake Map of the Park and its History of Service to the Community. PC.1871.01.02 A Map of Prospect 1871 [mode Brooklyn, Prospect Roads within park and park features. Olmsted, 20" x 16" Park rn] Park and adjoining Printed in green, blue, ochre. Note: Vaux, & Co. streets on all sides. "Design from the Twelfth Annual Report / Prospect of the Commissioners of Prospect Park, Park Alliance published in 1871. Photograph by Paul Rocheleau." This is a modern reproduction (undated) of an 1871 map, and is one side of a pamphlet produced by Prospect Park Alliance, titled on verso A History of Prospect Park, A Keepsake Map of the Park and its History of Service to the Community. PC.1874.01.01 Greenwood Cemetery 1874 Brooklyn, Long Black and white. Directional shown. 13.5" x 18.5" Island, New York, Guide to monuments of special interest. Greenwood Photocopy. Cemetery

Guide to the Maps Collection 71 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection PC.1881.01.01 Green-wood Cemetery 1881 Brooklyn, Greenwood Black and white. Names lanes and 16.25" x 24" Cemetery topographical features and shows locations of noted graves and surrounding streets. PC.1888.01.01 Plan of Prospect Park 1888 Brooklyn, Prospect Park map shows roads, lakes, sections 8.5" x 12.5" Brooklyn, N.Y. Park and neighboring such as Long Meadow and Deer streets on all sides Paddock. Features are numbered. . PC.1888.01.02 Plan of Prospect Park 1888 Brooklyn, Prospect Park map shows roads, lakes, sections 8.5" x 12.5" Brooklyn, N.Y. Park and neighboring such as Long Meadow and Deer streets on all sides Paddock. Features are numbered. . PC.1909.01.01 Map of Prospect Park 1909 [1909] Brooklyn, Prospect Photocopy with the location of Central Superintend 12.5" x 22.25" photo Park and a few Library hand-drawn in pencil. Shows ent and copy adjoining streets on features within park including roads, Commission made all sides including lake, Long Meadow, Quaker Cemetery. er in Grand Army Plaza. (signatures 1962? illegible) PC.1909.01.02 Map of Prospect Park 1909 [1909] Brooklyn, Prospect Shows features within park including 12.5" x 22.25" Park and a few roads, lake, Long Meadow, Quaker adjoining streets on Cemetery. all sides including Grand Army Plaza. PC.1909.01.03 Map of Prospect Park 1909 [1909] Brooklyn, Prospect Shows features within park including Superintend 12.5" x 22.25" Park and a few roads, lake, Long Meadow, Quaker ent and adjoining streets on Cemetery. Commission all sides including er Grand Army Plaza. (signatures illegible) PC.1909.02.01 Map of Prospect Park 1909 [1909] Brooklyn, Prospect Shows features within park including Superintend 11" x 16.5" Park and a few roads, lake, Long Meadow, Quaker ent and adjoining streets on Cemetery. This is a smaller photocopy Commission all sides including of PC.1909.01. er Grand Army Plaza. (signatures illegible) PC.1915.01.01 City of New York. 1915 1915 Brooklyn, Long Black and white. Shows major roads 15.5" x 18" Dep't of Parks Boro. of Island, New York, and bridges, as well as parks and B'klyn Plan of Park Kings County, parkways. System Queens, Manhattan, Coney Island, Governors Island

Guide to the Maps Collection 72 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection PC.1931.01.01 Plan Showing 1931 1931 Brooklyn, Long Black and white. Hand drawn. Ward, R.F. 21.5" x 18" Proposed [June Island, New York, Directional given. Shows streets, some (Drawn by) Development of 1] Kings County, Marine buildings, and landscaping of park. Marine Park Park PC.1935.01.01 Topographical Map- 1935 1935 Brooklyn, Prospect Part of large set of topographical maps Taylor& 24" x 34" Portion of Prospect [April Park. Parade with different dates, depicting adjoining Steffenson, Park 5] Grounds and nearby sections of park. Very detailed park surveyor; Coney Island Ave, features. Multiple maps housed in each drawn by Caton Ave. Adjoining sleeve. Numbered BT 73-120. Richard buildings. Cutrona. Topographic al engineer (head of project?) not legible PC.1935.02.01 Topographical Map- 1935 1935 Brooklyn, Prospect Part of large set of topographical maps Taylor- 24" x 34" Portion of Prospect [April Park. Parade with different dates, depicting adjoining surveyor; Park 5] Grounds and nearby sections of park. Very detailed park drawn by Caton Ave and features. Multiple maps housed in each WB Parade Place sleeve. Numbered BT 73-121. Sparer .Topo graphical engineer (head of project?) not legible PC.1935.03.01 Key Map of Prospect 1935 1935 Brooklyn, Prospect #3 (chronologically) of large set of Drawn by 24" x 34" Park [May Park. topographical maps with different dates. C.F. 3] Detailed park features. Multiple maps Homolka. housed in each sleeve. Numbered BT Topographic 73-100. al engineer (head of project?) not legible PC.1935.04.01 Topographical Map- 1935 1935 Brooklyn, Prospect Part of large set of topographical maps Taylor- 32" x 34" Portion of Prospect [Oct] Park. Parade with different dates, depicting adjoining surveyor; Park Grounds. Features sections of park. Very detailed park drawn by drawn in. features. Multiple maps housed in each WB sleeve. Numbered BT 73-100A. Sparer .Topo graphical engineer (head of project?) not legible Guide to the Maps Collection 73 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection PC.1935.05.01 Topographical Map- 1935 1935 Brooklyn, Prospect Part of large set of topographical maps Steingart & 24" x 34" Portion of Prospect [Nov Park. Section of with different dates, depicting adjoining Party, Park 14] Prospect Park sections of park. Very detailed park surveyor; bounded by Prospect features to level of individual trees drawn by Park SW, Bartel Multiple maps housed in each sleeve. Nich Pritchard Circle and Numbered BT 73-101. Loganoff. Prospect Park West, Topographic including West Drive. al engineer Adjoining buildings. (head of project?) not legible PC.1935.06.01 Topographical Map- 1935 1935 Brooklyn, Prospect Part of large set of topographical maps Waxman & 24" x 34" Portion of Prospect [Nov Park. Section of with different dates, depicting adjoining Party, Park 14] Prospect Park sections of park. Very detailed park surveyor; bounded by Prospect features to level of individual trees drawn by Park West, 3rd St. - Multiple maps housed in each sleeve. Shatten. 8th St., showing West Numbered BT 73-102. Topographic Drive and including al engineer greenhouses, storage (head of yards, Litchfield project?) not House. Adjoining legible buildings. PC.1935.07.01 Topographical Map- 1935 1935 Brooklyn, Prospect Part of large set of topographical maps Waxman. 24" x 34" Portion of Prospect [Nov Park. Section of park with different dates, depicting adjoining Friedman & Park 14] bounded by Prospect sections of park. Very detailed park Parties Park West, Union St - features to level of individual trees. surveyor; 2nd St, showing West Multiple maps housed in each sleeve. drawn by Drive, Long Meadow, Numbered BT 73-103 with additional Geo.A. East Drive. Adjoining B.T 40 and B.T. 48. Pontefract street on PPW, and Sloan. Flatbush and Grand Topographic Army Plaza. al engineer Adjoining buildings. (head of project?) not legible PC.1935.08.01 Topographical Map- 1935 1935 Brooklyn, Prospect Part of large set of topographical maps Steingart & 24" x 34" Portion of Prospect [Nov Park. Section of park with different dates, depicting adjoining Party, Park 14] adjoining Prospect sections of park. Very detailed park surveyor; Park Southwest near features to level of individual trees. drawn by 11th Ave, showing Multiple maps housed in each sleeve. C.E.Tucker West Drive, Quaker Numbered BT 73-104. and Geo. Cemetery, Long Pontefract. Meadow. Topographic Guide to the Maps Collection 74 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection al engineer (head of project?) not legible

PC.1935.09.01 Topographical Map- 1935 1935 Brooklyn, Prospect Part of large set of topographical maps H.A.Steingar 24" x 34" Portion of Prospect [Nov Park. Section of park with different dates, depicting adjoining t surveyor; Park 14] showing Long sections of park. Very detailed park drawn by Meadow, Swan Boat features to level of individual trees. D.J. Granito Lake, House, Multiple maps housed in each sleeve. and Picnic House. Numbered BT 73-105. Holcomb. Topographic al engineer (head of project?) not legible PC.1935.10.01 Topographical Map- 1935 1935 Brooklyn, Prospect Part of large set of topographical maps Steffensen, 24" x 34" Portion of Prospect [Nov Park. Section of park with different dates, depicting adjoining Ward, Park 14] adjoining both sides sections of park. Very detailed park Waxman, of Flatbush Avenue, features to level of individual trees. Friedman, including East Drive, Multiple maps housed in each sleeve. surveyors; and what is now Vale Numbered BT 73-106. drawn by of Cashmere, Lilly F.E. Brown, Pools. Section of Holcomb Botanic Garden. and other(?) Adjoining buildings. Topographic al engineer (head of project?) not legible PC.1935.11.01 Topographical Map- 1935 1935 Brooklyn, Prospect Part of large set of topographical maps Ward, 24" x 34" Portion of Prospect [Nov Park. Section of park with different dates, depicting adjoining Steingart, Park 14] adjoining Prospect sections of park. Very detailed park Taylor, Park South West, 16 features to level of individual trees. Epstein, St - Vanderbilt St. Multiple maps housed in each sleeve. surveyors; including West (Lake) Numbered BT 73-107. drawn by Drive, playground Aiken. near Vanderbilt, Well Brown and House Drive. Edge of Bjerland. Lookout Hill. Topographic Guide to the Maps Collection 75 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection Adjoining buildings. al engineer (head of project?) not legible PC.1935.12.01 Topographical Map- 1935 1935 Brooklyn, Prospect Part of large set of topographical maps Taylor and 24" x 34" Portion of Prospect [Nov Park. Section of park with different dates, depicting adjoining party, Park 14] showing portions of sections of park. Very detailed park surveyors; West Lake Drive, features to level of individual trees. drawn by West Drive, Central Multiple maps housed in each sleeve. D.Bjerland. Drive, Well House Numbered BT 73-108. Topographic Drive. Shows al engineer Lookout Hill. No (head of adjoining streets project?) not shown. legible PC.1935.13.01 Topographical Map- 1935 1935 Brooklyn, Prospect Part of large set of topographical maps H.A. 24" x 34" Portion of Prospect [Nov Park. Section of park with different dates, depicting adjoining Steingart Park 14] showing portions of sections of park. Very detailed park and party, Central Drive and features to level of individual trees. surveyors; East Drive and area Multiple maps housed in each sleeve. drawn by between two. Old Numbered BT 73-109. D.J.Granito Area, bridle . and E. No adjoining streets Morantz. shown. Topographic al engineer (head of project?) not legible PC.1935.14.01 Topographical Map- 1935 1935 Brooklyn, Prospect Part of large set of topographical maps Ward and 24" x 34" Portion of Prospect [Nov Park. From East with different dates, depicting adjoining party, Park 14] Drive in park across sections of park. Very detailed park surveyors; Flatbush to features to level of individual trees. drawn by Washington Avenue. Multiple maps housed in each sleeve. F.J. Lynch Most of map shows Numbered BT 73-110. and O. what is now Botanic Bjerland.Top Garden, including ographical lake, paths, formal engineer plantings, admin (head of building. Within project?) not Prospect Park shows legible zoo and section of East Drive. Adjoining buildings.

Guide to the Maps Collection 76 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection PC.1935.15.01 Topographical Map- 1935 1935 Brooklyn, Prospect Part of large set of topographical maps Epstein, 24" x 34" Portion of Prospect [Nov Park. Park section with different dates, depicting adjoining Taylor, Ward Park 14] bounded by Prospect sections of park. Very detailed park surveyors; Park South West features to level of individual trees. drawn by from Reeve Place to Multiple maps housed in each sleeve. Tore Luvdahl Park Circle. Shows Numbered BT 73-111. (?) section of West Lake Topographic Drive and lake al engineer (Prospect Lake). (head of Adjoining buildings. project?) not legible PC.1935.16.01 Topographical Map- 1935 1935 Brooklyn, Prospect Part of large set of topographical maps Ward & 24" x 34" Portion of Prospect [Nov Park. Section of park with different dates, depicting adjoining party, Park 14] showing sections of sections of park. Very detailed park surveyors; Well House Drive and features to level of individual trees. drawn by Hill Drive, and 2 Multiple maps housed in each sleeve. C.P.Homolk lakes, presumably Numbered BT 73-112. a and R. Lull Water and Cutrona. Prospect Lake. No Topographic adjoining streets. al engineer (head of project?) not legible PC.1935.17.01 Topographical Map- 1935 1935 Brooklyn, Prospect Part of large set of topographical maps Waxman & 24" x 34" Portion of Prospect [Nov Park. Small section of with different dates, depicting adjoining party, Park 14] Ocean Avenue and sections of park. Very detailed park surveyors; Flatbush Avenue at features to level of individual trees. drawn by bottom right of map. Multiple maps housed in each sleeve. Henry Section of park Numbered BT 73-113. Holcomb. showing lake (Lull Topographic Water?) sections of al engineer Hill (Breeze Hill?) (head of Drive and East Drive. project?) not legible PC.1935.18.01 Topographical Map- 1935 1935 Prospect Park. Small Part of large set of topographical maps Taylor & 24" x 34" Portion of Prospect [Nov section of Parkside with different dates, depicting adjoining Ward, Park 14] Avenue and Parade sections of park. Very detailed park surveyors; Place. Parade features to level of individual trees. drawn by R. Grounds. Within park, Multiple maps housed in each sleeve. Cutrona and shows section of Numbered BT 73-115. W.B. Sparer. South Lake Drive and Topographic lake (Prospect Lake) al engineer including islands. (head of Guide to the Maps Collection 77 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection project?) not legible

PC.1935.19.01 Topographical Map- 1935 1935 Prospect Park. Part of large set of topographical maps Taylor & 24" x 34" Portion of Prospect [Nov Section of park with different dates, depicting adjoining Ward, Park 14] showing part of East sections of park. Very detailed park surveyors; Lake Drive and part features to level of individual trees. drawn by R. of lake (Prospect Multiple maps housed in each sleeve. Cutrona and Lake) including Numbered BT 73-116. W.B. Sparer. islands and tip of Topographic peninsula. No al engineer adjoining streets. (head of project?) not legible PC.1935.20.01 Topographical Map- 1935 1935 Prospect Park. Part of large set of topographical maps Ward, Bedell 24" x 34" Portion of Prospect [Nov Adjoining Ocean with different dates, depicting adjoining and party, Park 14] Avenue near Lincoln sections of park. Very detailed park surveyors; Road. Shows section features to level of individual trees. drawn by of East Lake Drive Multiple maps housed in each sleeve. Floyd V. and playground, a Numbered BT 73-117. Brown. restaurant and Topographic pavilion (now Oriental al engineer Pavilion?) (head of project?) not legible PC.1935.21.01 Topographical Map- 1935 1935 Brooklyn, Prospect Part of large set of topographical maps Friedman, 24" x 34" Portion of Prospect [Nov Park. Adjoining with different dates, depicting adjoining Bedell, Park 14] Parkside Ave sections of park. Very detailed park surveyors; intersection of Ocean features to level of individual trees. drawn by Avenue. Shows small Multiple maps housed in each sleeve. Henry section of East Lake Numbered BT 73-118. Holcomb. Drive. Adjoining Topographic buildings. al engineer (head of project?) not legible PC.1935.22.01 Topographical Map- 1935 1935 Brooklyn, Prospect Part of large set of topographical maps J. Epstein 24" x 34" Portion of Prospect [Nov Park. Park Circle at with different dates, depicting adjoining and party, Park 14] intersection with sections of park. Very detailed park surveyors; . features to level of individual trees. drawn by Multiple maps housed in each sleeve. Floyd V. Numbered BT 73-119. Brown. Topographic

Guide to the Maps Collection 78 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection al engineer (head of project?) not legible PC.1935.23.01 Topographical Map- 1935 1935 Brooklyn, Prospect Part of large set of topographical maps Lund and 24" x 34" Portion of Prospect [Nov Park. Section of with different dates, depicting adjoining party, Park 14] Grand Army Plaza at sections of park. Very detailed park surveyors; Union Street and features to level of individual trees. drawn by E. Plaza Street. Kemble Multiple maps housed in each sleeve. Herson. Warren Monument. Numbered BT 73-122. Topographic Adjoining buildings. al engineer (head of project?) not legible PC.1935.24.01 Topographical Map- 1935 1935 Brooklyn, Prospect Part of large set of topographical maps De 24" x 34" Portion of Prospect [Nov Park. Section of with different dates, depicting adjoining Francesco Park 14] Grand Army Plaza sections of park. Very detailed park and party, and Plaza Street from features to level of individual trees. surveyors; Berkeley across Multiple maps housed in each sleeve. drawn by Flatbush to Butler Numbered BT 73-123. Malvin Huff. Place. Fountain at Topographic center. Adjoining al engineer buildings. (head of project?) not legible PC.1935.25.01 1935 1935 Brooklyn with main Sketch style map showing Riis park in 15" x 10.5" road and rail lines. relation to rest of Rockaways and Shows outline only of Brooklyn Manhattan and part of Queens and Bronx (no details) PC.1937.01.01 Topographical Map- 1937 1935 Brooklyn, Prospect Part of large set of topographical maps Lund, 24" x 34" Portion of Prospect [Marc Park. Bounded by with different dates, depicting adjoining Gunsolus, Park h 18] Flatbush and Eastern sections of park. Very detailed park Friedman Parkway. Shows features. Multiple maps housed in each and parties, library (under sleeve. Numbered BT 73-124. surveyor; construction?), part of drawn by Grand Army Plaza Hersin, and Plaza Street, and H.Holcomb, buildings on streets Olav Bjerlund. Topographic al engineer Guide to the Maps Collection 79 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection (head of project?) not legible PC.1937.02.01 Topographical Map- 1937 1935 Brooklyn, Prospect Part of large set of topographical maps Friedenburg 24" x 34" Portion of Prospect [Marc Park. Bounded by with different dates, depicting adjoining and party, Park h 18] Washington Avenue, sections of park. Very detailed park surveyor; Empire Blvd and features. Multiple maps housed in each drawn by Flatbush Avenue. sleeve. Numbered BT -73-114, BT -10, F.J. Lynch . BT-48. and P.W. Shows features of Wilson. Botanic Garden, Topographic Lefferts Mansion al engineer across Flatbush and (head of buildings on streets. project?) not legible PC.1937.03.01 Topographical Map- 1937 1935 Brooklyn, Prospect Part of large set of topographical maps Ward, 24" x 34" Portion of Prospect [Marc Park. Adjacent to with different dates, depicting adjoining Friedman Park h 18] Eastern Parkway, sections of park. Very detailed park and parties, from approx. #77 to features. Multiple maps housed in each surveyor; 173.Shows reservoir sleeve. Numbered BT 73-125, B.T.-48. drawn by in park, section of C.E. Tucker, Botanic Gardens and S. buildings on streets. Bosyeff(?). O. Bjerlund. Chief topographica l engineer R.N. Duckie PC.1937.04.01 Topographical Map- 1937 1935 Brooklyn, Prospect Part of large set of topographical maps Ward and 24" x 34" Portion of Prospect [Marc Park. Guider Park with different dates, depicting adjoining Party Park h 18] between Classon sections of park. Very detailed park surveyor; Avenue, Eastern features. Multiple maps housed in each drawn by Parkway and sleeve. Numbered BT 73-125, B.T.-48. Olav Washington Avenue. Bjerlund. Section of Botanic Chief Garden and showing topographica part of Brooklyn l engineer Museum. Buildings R.N. Duckie on streets.

Guide to the Maps Collection 80 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection PC.1940.01.01 Brooklyn Botanic 1940 1940 Brooklyn, Long Color. Directional given. Shows paths, 26.5" x 9.25" Garden Island, New York, buildings, and plants within the garden, Kings County, as well as nearby streets and subway Brooklyn Heights station. PC.1952.01.01 St. John's Park 1952 1952 Brooklyn, Long Blue on white. Diagrams. 2 sheets 8.5" x 11.25" Island, New York, mounted and encapsulated together. (each section) Kings County, Crown First shows location of St. John's Park Heights in surrounding street plan. Second shows interior layout of park (boundaries: east - Schenectady Avenue, north - Bergen Street, west - Troy Avenue, south - Prospect Place). Directionals given. PC.1962.01.01 Map of Prospect Park 1962 [1909] Brooklyn, Prospect Shows features within park including Superintend 11" x 16.5" Park and a few roads, lake, Long Meadow, Quaker ent and adjoining streets on Cemetery. Commission all sides including This is a copy of PC.1962.01.01 (itself a er Grand Army Plaza. copy of PC. 1909.01 with date changed (signatures by hand to 1962). illegible) PC.1962.01.02 Map of Prospect Park 1962 [1909] Brooklyn, Prospect Shows features within park including Superintend 11" x 16.5" Park and a few roads, lake, Long Meadow, Quaker ent and adjoining streets on Cemetery. Commission all sides including This is a copy of PC.1962.01.01 (itself a er Grand Army Plaza. copy of PC. 1909.01 with date changed (signatures by hand) This copy has hand written illegible) updates in blue ink. Name of 9th Avenue changed by hand to Prospect Park West and date changed to 1962. PC.1962.01.03 Map of Prospect Park 1962 [1909] Brooklyn, Prospect Shows features within park including Superintend 11" x 16.5" Park and a few roads, lake, Long Meadow, Quaker ent and adjoining streets on Cemetery. Commission all sides including This is a copy of PC.1962.01.01 (itself a er Grand Army Plaza. copy of PC. 1909.01 with date changed (signatures by hand) This copy has hand written illegible) updates in blue ink . Name of 9th Avenue changed by hand to Prospect Park West and date changed to 1962. PC.1962.01.04 Map of Prospect Park 1962 [1909] Brooklyn, Prospect Shows features within park including Superintend 11" x 16.5" Park and a few roads, lake, Long Meadow, Quaker ent and adjoining streets on Cemetery. Commission all sides including This is a copy of PC.1962.01.01 (itself a er Grand Army Plaza. copy of PC. 1909.01 with date changed (signatures by hand) This copy has hand written illegible) Guide to the Maps Collection 81 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection updates in blue ink. Name of 9th Avenue changed by hand to Prospect Park West and date changed to 1962.

PC.1965.01.01 Map Showing Walks 1965 1965 Brooklyn, Prospect Large hand drawn map shows features Department 36.5" x 46" Drives and Bridle [Feb] Park and a few within park including roads, lake, Long of Parks - Paths in Prospect adjoining streets on Meadow, Quaker Cemetery. Drawing Arsenal - Park - Borough of all sides including No. B-L-73-3100. Penciled correction of Brooklyn Grand Army Plaza. spelling for Lefferts Homestead. PC.1965.01.02 Map Showing Walks 1965 1965 Brooklyn, Prospect Large hand drawn map shows features Department 36.5" x 46" Drives and Bridle [Feb] Park and a few within park including roads, lake, Long of Parks - Paths in Prospect adjoining streets on Meadow, Quaker Cemetery. Drawing Arsenal - Park - Borough of all sides including No. B-L-73-3100. Red date stamp of Central Park Brooklyn Grand Army Plaza. March 4 1965. PC.1965.01.03 Map Showing Walks 1965 1965 Brooklyn, Prospect Large hand drawn map shows features Department 36.5" x 46" Drives and Bridle [Feb] Park and a few within park including roads, lake, Long of Parks - Paths in Prospect adjoining streets on Meadow, Quaker Cemetery. Drawing Arsenal - Park - Borough of all sides including No. B-L-73-3100. Central Park Brooklyn Grand Army Plaza. PC.1967.01.01 Up to the Minute Map 1967 1967 Brooklyn, Grand Streets labeled. Schools, hospitals, H. Rosenfeld 21.5" x 17.125" of Grand Army Plaza [July] Army Plaza and churches and other buildings indicated. / Holm Area neighboring streets in Map looks hand drawn. *Not really Estate Inc. Park Slope and Parks & Cemeteries. Prospect Heights. PC.1972.01.01 Prospect Park and the 1972 1972 Brooklyn, Prospect Originally a pamphlet, 2-sided. Green George 22" x 17" Brooklyn Botanic Park ,Botanic Garden and blue. Side one parks map shows Colbert and Garden and nearby streets features, road, and buildings (labeled or Guenter with number key). Elevations. Side two Vollrath 3 small maps illustrating text history of park. PC.1982.01.01 Prospect Park Tree 1982 1982 Brooklyn, Prospect Blue green and black map of park, with Mapping: 22" x 16.875" Map Park and some features and buildings, and numbers Brenda adjoining streets. indicating locations of different types of Corbin. trees. Design: Prisma Graphics PC.1988.01.01 The Greenwood 1988 Brooklyn, Greenwood Shows Greenwood Cemetery & the 15.5" x 22.5" Cemetery Cemetery bordering streets. Map depicts the landscape & the roads within the cemetery. The inset incl. The visiting hours & from which entrance one can enter.

Guide to the Maps Collection 82 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection PC.ND.01.01 A Map of Prospect n.d. [199?] [1990' Brooklyn, Prospect Detailed map of park in colors and color Prospect 17" x 21.5" Park and Its s] Park and nearby photos of park activities in border. Park Alliance Communities streets on one side. Communities map in color, has Reverse shows parts locations of services and key. of surrounding communities - Crown Heights, Prospect- Lefferts Gardens, Wingate, Flatbush, Prospect Park South, Kensington, Borough Park, Greenwood Cemetery, Park Slope, Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens Cobble Hill, Fort Green, Clinton Hill, Bedford Stuyvesant. PC.ND.01.02 A Map of Prospect n.d. [199?] [1990' Brooklyn, Prospect Detailed map of park in colors and color Prospect 17" x 21.5" Park and Its s] Park and nearby photos of park activities in border. Park Alliance Communities streets on one side. Communities map in color, has Reverse shows parts locations of services and key. of surrounding communities - Crown Heights, Prospect- Lefferts Gardens, Wingate, Flatbush, Prospect Park South, Kensington, Borough Park, Greenwood Cemetery, Park Slope, Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens Cobble Hill, Fort Green, Clinton Hill, Bedford Stuyvesant. PC.ND.02.01 Guide Map to the n.d. n.d. Brooklyn and Very large map, 2 sides. Drawing style. 32" x 23" (each Brooklyn and Queens Queens. Shows Similar concept to map PC.1915.01.01. section) Parks parks in green wiht numbers, main roads, shorelines

Guide to the Maps Collection 83 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection PC.ND.03.01 Prospect Park sketch n.d. n.d. Brooklyn, Prospect Includes engineering diagrams and Egbert L. 16" x 22" showing Triangulation Park and adjoining does not included any park features Viele, Topg. & Levelling streets. except unlabeled bodies of water. Engineer PC.ND.04.01 Design for the [186?] [186?] Brooklyn, Prospect Color map published by States & Kock, Olmsted, 7.5" x 10.5" Arrangement of Park. Detail of 171 Pearl St cor. Pine, N.Y. Shows Vaux, & Co. Pedestrian Concourse area. Prospect Park with details of Concert Grove, Lake and Carriage Concourses. Stamp: Property of Mercantile Library of Brooklyn. Perhaps from the same book as map 1870.06.01? PC.ND.05.01 Prospect Park [1911] n.d. Brooklyn, Prospect Purpose appears to be show route of 13" x 22.5" Park. Layout with The "New Cross Country Course" across Plaza and Botanic park. Unusual paper- textured pale Gardens noted on gray. Collection includes other maps in edge. this style--same artist? PC.ND.06.01 Greenwood Cemetery n.d. [19??] n.d. Brooklyn, New York: Topographical map of Greenwood 18.25" x 23.25" Greenwood Cemetery. Includes subway station and Cemetery and Prospect Expressway for dating Environs. North is purposes. oriented to readers' diagonal left. N-17th St.; W-13th Ave.; E- 4th Ave.; S-approx. 41st St. PC.ND.13.01 Plan for the n.d. [186?] n.d. Brooklyn. Prospect 19th-century map of proposed Egbert L. 14.5" x 21.5" Improvement of Park. Boundaries are improvements to Prospect Park. Map Viele, Topg. Prospect Park Washington Avenue, predates Grand Army Plaza, Eastern Engineer Brooklyn New (Unnamed) Parkway, and Avenue, Ninth Street, Botanical Gardens, Central Branch of , Third BPL. Street, Ninth Avenue, , Principal features of map include main and Warren St. drives, park botanical garden, parade ground, flower garden, and The Esplanade. Topographical features of surrounding area given, as well as outlines for future streets and their names. Southern section of present-day park is shown as future streets, and other current borders are also very different.

Guide to the Maps Collection 84 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection PC.ND.13.02 Plan for the n.d. [186?] n.d. Brooklyn. Prospect 19th-century map of proposed Egbert L. 14.5" x 21.5" Improvement of Park. Boundaries are improvements to Prospect Park. Map Viele, Topg. Prospect Park Washington Avenue, predates Grand Army Plaza, Eastern Engineer Brooklyn New (Unnamed) Parkway, Brooklyn Museum and Avenue, Ninth Street, Botanical Gardens, Central Branch of Tenth Avenue, Third BPL. Principal features of map include Street, Ninth Avenue, main drives, park botanical garden, Vanderbilt Avenue, parade ground, flower garden, and The and Warren St. Esplanade. Topographical features of surrounding area given, as well as outlines for future streets and their names. Southern section of present-day park is shown as future streets, and other current borders are also very different. PC.ND.14.01 The Greenwood n.d. n.d. Brooklyn. Greenwood Cemetery Map. 16" x 24" Cemetery Boundaries: 4th Subdivisions marked by names. Map is Avenue; 20th St.; also divided into sections for locating McDonald Avenue; plots. Some lot numbers given. Roads Fort Hamilton and paths are shown, and map includes Avenue; and 37th St. plots of various individuals, families, and monuments.

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ND.01.01 Borough-Wide System of n.d. n.d. Brooklyn, Long Shows locations of branches of the Brooklyn 8.5" x 11" the Brooklyn Public Island, New York, Brooklyn Public Library with addresses. Public Library Library Kings County, Main streets, parks, and bridges are Queens, Manhattan shown. ND.03.01 Map of Brighton Beach n.d. [19??] n.d. Brooklyn. Brighton 2-sided. Front is map of Brighton Brighton 12" x 13" Beach, boundaries of Beach. Bottom Inscription reads: Beach area: North - Guider Compliments of Brighton Beach Chamber of Av./Voorhies Av. Chamber of Commerce, 411 Brighton Commerce (Coney Island Beach Ave., Brighton Beach, N.Y. Hospital); West- Includes B.M.T. train stations and Ocean Parkway; East routes and what appear to be bus - Mayo St./Homecrest routes. Verso includes "things done" Av.; South - Atlantic and "things to be done." Ocean (Boardwalk/Brighton Baths/Public Bathing Beach).

Guide to the Maps Collection 85 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection ND.04.01 Marine Parkway in n.d. [19??] n.d. New York City: Map shows existing parkways, as well Brooklyn 12" x 13" Relation to Brooklyn Brooklyn, Queens, as those under construction or Daily Eagle? Circumferential Manhattan, Bronx, proposed at publication of map. Map and Parkway System and Richmond predates construction/completion of Belt (Staten Island). Very Highway, Brooklyn-Manhattan Tunnel, small section of New as well as BQE through western Jersey. Brooklyn and the FDR Highway. ND.06.01 Hammond's Transit and n.d. [19??] n.d. Brooklyn, Lower Sectioned into 6 areas (Municipal Court C.S. 14.5" x 17.75" House Number Map of Manhattan Districts) in heavy pencil, see verso. Hammond & the Borough of Brooklyn Company, (New York City) Inc. ND.07.01 City of New York - n.d. [post n.d. Brooklyn. Navy Yard, Shows old Navy Yard and 1940s-era 14.25" x Borough of Brooklyn: 1941] Fort Greene extensions, as well as Fort Greene 17.75" Navy Yard-Fort Greene neighborhood and projected projects. Neighborhood Predates completion of BQE extension to Brooklyn Bridge. Section along left side of map is cut out. Verso reads "index," which may indicate the Index Department of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle as the source. ND.09.01 Map of the Railroads and n.d. [late n.d. Brooklyn, Manhattan Map includes railroads, steamboats, Overton's 8" x 10" Steamboats Connecting 1800's, from Central Park ferries, and elevated trains running Coney Island Coney Island from New pre- southwards, Staten through area. Partial street map & York and Adjoining 1960's/Ver Island, Jersey City included of Brooklyn, and location of Sheepshead Places razano and Hoboken, New major landmarks. Bottom of map Bay Directory Bridge] Jersey. includes note: "Drawn and engraved expressly for Overton's Coney Island & Sheepshead Bay Directory..... Copyrighted." ND.10.01 Map of the Original n.d. n.d. Original Plantations Very small. Sheet appears to be page 4.37" x 6.75" Plantations of [former city of] torn out from the book Brooklyn's Brooklyn, western Eastern District by Eugene L. Queens and Armbruster. Layout includes Dutch and southeastern section Anglo property owners, as well as of "Island of the Indian lands. Purchase dates are given ". for some of the plots. Verso lists wards Present-day and how they changed over time. is also shown. ND.11.01 Beard's Piers & n.d. [19??] n.d. Erie Basin, Brooklyn, Layout of piers, dry docks, and 9.25" x 9.37" Warehouses, Erie Basin, Red Hook; Upper warehouses in district. Borders: Van Brooklyn, New York City New York Bay and Brunt St., Vandyke St., and Columbia Gowanus Bay. St. Various dimensions are given. Guide to the Maps Collection 86 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection Property holders are stated.

ND.12.01 Marine Parkway Authority n.d. [19??] n.d. Brooklyn, Queens, Map focuses on proposed bridge over [Marine 8.25" x 14" Nassau County to and Marine Parkway Parkway Island Beach, along southern shore of Long Island. Authority] / Lower Manhattan Map highlights proposed bridge Brooklyn ultimately connecting said highway Daily Eagle? traffic via Brooklyn to Holland Tunnel between New York and New Jersey. This map mostly shows Long Island and is not very detailed. ND.15.01 Brooklyn's Community 1920- n.d. All of Brooklyn. Geological feature shown: terminal 16" x 19.5" Boundaries 1920-1957 1957 Delineates Old murraine. Some streets. Short dotted Brooklyn (Brooklyn lines shown but not labeled (possibly Heights, Fort Greene, rail lines?). Photocopy. Park Slope, etc.) and New Brooklyn (Midwood, Flatlands, Canarsie, Dyker Heights, etc.). Shows community boundaries. ND.16.01 Brooklyn n.d. n.d. Brooklyn. The five Rivers and bays shown. Dutch names Stephen J. 17" x 20.5" original Dutch and included for many neighborhoods. Voorhies one original English Photocopy. Original six towns. Cut off a townships - Brooklyn, bit at the edges. Flatbush, Flatlands, Bushwick, New Utrecht and Gravesend Neighborhoods: Greenpoint, Williamsburg, Wallabout, Cripplebush, Bedford, Brooklyn Village, Gowanus, Flatbush, Fort Hamilton, Flatlands, New Lots. ND.17.01 Situation 1781 [Oct n.d. Long Island and German language map. Some houses, 15" x 19" 7] Staten Island. Covers some roads, fort on Staten Island. Bay Ridge, the Ferry. Photocopy. Narrows and Guide to the Maps Collection 87 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection shoreline of Staten Island. ND.18.01 Lieut General Earl n.d. [1776 Western Brooklyn, Sketch of battle field (Battle of 16" x 12.25" Cornwallis Aug] Eastern Staten Brooklyn?) showing location of military Island, lower units and generals. Photocopy. Manhattan ND.19.01 Military map - n.d. [1776] n.d. Western Brooklyn, Military map (Battle of Brooklyn?). No 13" x 17" Revolutionary War lower Manhattan, year but presumably 1776. Dates given: Eastern New Jersey. Aug 22 - Oct 30.Labels in cursive. (Fort Lee). Long Appears to be photocopy of hand drawn Island Sound, North map. 3 quarters. (Hudson) River ND.20.01 Military Map- n.d. [1776 n.d. Western Brooklyn, Troop placements, forests and hills 17" x 13" Revolutionary War Aug] Gravesend Bay, shown. Photocopy. Bushwick ND.21.01 Early Brooklyn Distances 16/1700s n.d. Western Major roads and geographic features 16" x 10" handwritte Brooklyn/Queens. such as bays sketched but not labeled. n Labels: Jamaica, Cursive text below gives directions from document Flushing, New Town, one location to another. Photocopy. Bushwick, Bedford, Brookland, Flatlands, Flatbush, Yellow Hook, Utrecht, Gravesend, Coney Island ND.22.01 A Conjectural Plan of the n.d. [very 1924 Authors' guess at Natural features, guessed-at Geo. M. 11.25 x 13.5 " Three Flats Called by the early New location of original boundaries, Dutch and Native names. Sprague Indian Keskateuw and by Amsterda patents; Brooklyn, Individual houses by name. From book the Dutch Amersfoort m] New Lots, Flatbush, Keskachauge, Or, the First White New Utrecht and Settlement on Long Island by Frederick Canarsie. Brooklyn Van Wyck (1924). south and east of Prospect Park, to Jamaica Bay. ND.23.01 Map of a Part of the n.d. [after n.d. Brooklyn from Detailed streets. Rail lines, ferries, Encyclopedic 11" x 15" Borough of Kings 1898] Broadway South to parks, Castle William on Governor's Atlas and (Brooklyn) , New York Bay Ridge Parkway, Island. Docks. Page from a book. Gazetteer City East river to East of Prospect Park. Lower Manhattan. ND.24.01 Brooklyn Towns n.d. n.d. 5 small maps of Several colors. Shows property owners 11.25" x Unionville/Gunthervill names, streets, rail lines, some 13.75" e, Gravesend, (2 buildings. # 32 upper right corner. Guide to the Maps Collection 88 of 89 Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection maps), Flatlands, Seems to be from an atlas. New Utrecht. ND.26.01 Downtown Brooklyn n.d. [after n.d. Brooklyn Heights Very detailed, brightly color coded. Incentra 27" x 40" 1993] Fulton Landing, Shows government buildings and International Former Navy Yard, private organizations by names and in Clinton Hill, Fort red, other kinds of buildings in other Greene, edge of colors. Subway lines and stations and Prospect Heights and boundaries of historic districts. Dates of Boerum Hill. buildings. ND.27.01 Coney Island n.d. n.d. Coney Island from White on black photocopy. No date, 5.75 " x 21.5" West End to origin, or other information. Shows main Sheepshead Bay. streets, beaches, some buildings. "Proposed hotel" and other buildings labeled. ND.29.01 Map of the Borough of n.d. early n.d. Brooklyn Map shows all streets, some features Office of the 54" x 40" Brooklyn 1900s? (beaches, bays, recreational areas, President of etc.).Very large maps. Sewers shown. the Borough, Bureau of Sewers ND.30.01 NYC Transit System n.d. n.d. New York City "This map purchased atop the Empire Pioneer 9" x 16.5" Souvenir Map State Building…" Shows all subway Office Supply lines; IRT/BMT etc. Co.

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