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The Castello Plan is the earliest known “map” of New York City. The perspective bird’s-eye view was a radically novel idea in both city planning and cartography at the time. The original Plan was created in 1660 by Jacques Cortelyou (c. 1625–1693), surveyor general of New Netherland, in employ of the WIC (Dutch West India Company).
Underground, archeologists have found evidence of the plots of houses and gardens, Amsterdam yellow brick, and pollen samples of plants. You can swipe the map to compare the Castello Plan in 1660 to the present, and explore each lot, where it shows what was there and who lived there.
The Castello Plan – officially entitled Afbeeldinge van de Stadt Amsterdam in Nieuw Neederlandt (Dutch, "Picture of the City of Amsterdam in New Netherland") – is an early city map of what is now the Financial District of Lower Manhattan from an original of 1660.
A 1660 map of the city of New Amsterdam called the Castello Plan. The Castello Plan is a map of New Amsterdam created by surveyor Jacques Cortelyou in 1660. It provides a detailed view of the layout and land use in New Amsterdam, including Fort Amsterdam, streets, homes and businesses, the canal, and the wall along the northern edge of the city ...
8 sty 2015 · This vintage map is the Castello Plan, one of the earliest known city maps of New Amsterdam. The City at that time ended with a long wall which is the namesake for the modern Wall Street.…
Map of New Amsterdam Vingboons, Johannes / Courtelyou, Jacques Vingboons based this map of New Amsterdam on the work of the resident surveyor Jacques Cortelyou, who in 1660 was tasked by the city government to map the city.
12 lis 2024 · This map of New Amsterdam, a 1916 pen-and-ink drawing copied from the 1660 original, shows the Dutch settlement on the southern tip of Manhattan (the map is oriented so that the southernmost part of the island appears to be facing west).
