See How New York Became a City in This New Digital Collection of Maps

This 1864 copy of a 1766 map shows a “plan of the village of Brooklyn and part of Long Island.” | Courtesy of the Brooklyn Historical Society What did your neighborhood look like in the 17th century? Now you can find out. Back when Brooklyn was bucolic, marshes and farmland connected the scatter of 17th-century […more]

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