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 ...

Stokes’s century-old six-volume masterwork, The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909 ... It just expanded Goerck’s map ten-fold and with little fanfare called it a day.

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 ...

By the same token, Manhattan seemed less an island than a moored raft covered ... On my deck I had an old National Geographic map of Manhattan that I’d cut up and had laminated and spiral ...

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 ...

“From one urban explorer to another,” wrote author Becky Cooper in our copy of her new book, Mapping Manhattan: A Love (and Sometimes Hate) Story in Maps by ... for old folks, of which I ...