The 1855 Concern Map Of Novel York

The New York Public Library's Map Warper project uses the ability of the 'crowd' to assistance digitize the library's wonderful collection of historical maps. The New York Library's Building Inspector is about other 'citizen science' tool that allows anyone to assistance the library put edifice footprints on the library's maps.

Recently the Building Inspector has added the selection for volunteers to detect as well as annotate the types of businesses labelled on its historical maps. This novel selection has already begun to pay dividends.


NYPL Labs' Mauricio Giraldo has created an interactive searchable map of the 3 K strange house names as well as then far collected from the library's 1855 maps. The 1855 New York Business map shows the place of mid-19th Century New York businesses.

You tin forcefulness out filter the types of concern shown on the map using the drop-down menu. You tin forcefulness out also operate the search business office to display specific types of business, for event 'brewery'. The map provides a fascinating insight into life inwards 19th Century New York, a globe where at that spot were far to a greater extent than churches than offices (I wonder if that's all the same truthful inwards 21st Century New York).