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 ...

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

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 ...

Becky Cooper, a 24-year-old cartographer ... to map their own versions of Manhattan. She took to the streets, distributing 3,000 copies of a hand-printed outline of the island and encouraged ...

"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 ...

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 ...

The museum’s online interactive map plots the 252 structures on both historic and contemporary maps of Manhattan. A timeline feature starting at 1874 (the year Manhattan’s first ten story ...

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 ...

Altogether, that's about 45 square miles — about one and a half times the size of Manhattan. It's on older maps ... it took a good, old fashioned look-see to discover Sandy Island's non-existence." ...

including the Freedom Tower and historic lower Manhattan. Read more: 25 Gorgeous Islands For Vacationing That Won't Break The Bank Little Island is probably best known for its trails, which wind ...