The Welikia Project, made by ecologists at the New York Botanical Garden, uncovers all the flora and fauna that thrived in ...

and it inspired Gizmodo to dig up other historic maps. They mashed them together into a cool GIF that shows Manhattan's ever-expanding border, and we picked out five of our favorites. The colored ...

"Our goal was to create a portal that will be used by the full range of people," Maggie Schreiner, the manager of archives and special collections at the former Brooklyn Historical Society ...

Manhattan Island, the bustling heart of New York City, is a symbol of urban dynamism and cultural amalgamation. This small ...

Ellis Island ... This steel-engraved map by J. H. Colton, from 1836, is an interesting layering of the street grid with the old topography of pre-urban Manhattan. This was a time of explosive ...

The project is basically an intelligent mash-up that digitally displays the entire history of development in Manhattan on one map. Or something ... half of Manhattan Island, and an exploded ...

From lush forest to metropolis, the evolution of Lower Manhattan. Our critic walks with ... The book geolocated old maps onto the modern city to reimagine a cornucopia of hills, beaches, fields ...