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Taylor Map Of New York
The Taylor Map is an engraved map of New York City, produced by Will L. Taylor for Galt & Hoy in 1879. The map depicts the entire length of the island of Manhattan, although not to scale, and is surrounded by period advertisements and portraits of various businesses in New York and New Jersey. Original prints sold for $10 "on spring rollers", or $12.50 "in black walnut or gilt case with handsome cornice". The original map was , printed on four sheets. The Taylor Map was one of the first true attempts to label all roads and piers and to depict buildings using a vanishing perspective. Locations At the bottom of the map is the Brooklyn Bridge, although the bridge was not yet completed at the time of the map's publication. Included in the locations depicted are factories, such as the Matthiessen and Wiechers Sugar Refining Works shown on the right, businesses such as the Fifth Avenue Hotel and Brown & Pray Carriage Builders, and locations such as Manhattan Beach. Ads The ...
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Taylor Map - City Of New York
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Fifth Avenue Hotel
The Fifth Avenue Hotel was a luxury hotel located at 200 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, New York City from 1859 to 1908. It had an entire block of frontage between 23rd Street and 24th Street, at the southwest corner of Madison Square. Site and construction The site was previously the location of Madison Cottage, which was a stagecoach stop for passengers headed north from the city. From 1853 to 1856 it was the site of Franconi's Hippodrome, a tent-like structure of canvas and wood which could accommodate up to 10,000 spectators who watched chariot races and other "Amusements of the Ancient Greeks and Romans". The Fifth Avenue Hotel was built in 1856–59 by Amos Richards Eno at the cost of $2 million. The building was designed by Griffith Thomas with William Washburn. Due to the site's location away from the city center, the hotel was labelled as "Eno's Folly" during construction, due to its location away from the city centre. Following the hotel's opening, it be ...
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Cartography Of New York City
The cartography of New York City is the creation, editing, processing and printing of maps that depict the islands and mainland that now comprise New York City and its immediate environs. The earliest surviving map of the area is the Manatus Map. History of mapping in New York City According to Robert T. Augstyn and Paul E. Cohen in their study ''Manhattan in Maps: 1527 - 1995'', New York City is unique in that it is young enough that, unlike major European and Asian cities, and unlike other American cities of about the same age, its early maps have survived. Further, its founding as a city for European immigrants came during the early- and mid-seventeenth century, a golden age of mapmaking with its center in Holland. When New Amsterdam was a young colony, Amsterdam was turning out more accurate maps than ever before in history. As a commercial city, the merchants and seafarers of the new colony needed more and better maps so they could monitor and extend their commercial activ ...
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Taylor Map Of New York
The Taylor Map is an engraved map of New York City, produced by Will L. Taylor for Galt & Hoy in 1879. The map depicts the entire length of the island of Manhattan, although not to scale, and is surrounded by period advertisements and portraits of various businesses in New York and New Jersey. Original prints sold for $10 "on spring rollers", or $12.50 "in black walnut or gilt case with handsome cornice". The original map was , printed on four sheets. The Taylor Map was one of the first true attempts to label all roads and piers and to depict buildings using a vanishing perspective. Locations At the bottom of the map is the Brooklyn Bridge, although the bridge was not yet completed at the time of the map's publication. Included in the locations depicted are factories, such as the Matthiessen and Wiechers Sugar Refining Works shown on the right, businesses such as the Fifth Avenue Hotel and Brown & Pray Carriage Builders, and locations such as Manhattan Beach. Ads The ...
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Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn
Manhattan Beach is a residential neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the south and east, by Sheepshead Bay on the north, and Brighton Beach to the west. Traditionally known as an Italian and Ashkenazi Jewish neighborhood, it is also home to a sizable community of Sephardi Jews and a large Russian Jewish immigrant presence. Manhattan Beach is part of Brooklyn Community District 15, and its primary ZIP Code is 11235. It is patrolled by the 61st Precinct of the New York City Police Department. Politically it is represented by the New York City Council's 48th District. The area is also represented by the Manhattan Beach Community Group, established in 1941, and the Manhattan Beach Neighborhood Association, established in 2008. History Manhattan Beach was the most upscale of the three major resort areas that developed at Coney Island shortly after the American Civil War; the other two areas were Brighton Beach and West Bri ...
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