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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.
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. Our next steps are to expand through the full history of New Amsterdam with a timeline from 1624 to 1664, when it was taken over by the English.
The Castello Plan, a 1660 map of New Amsterdam (the top right corner is roughly north). The fort gave The Battery (in present-day Manhattan) its name, the large street going from the fort past the wall became Broadway, and the city wall (right) gave Wall Street its name.
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 that was built to keep the British out.
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).
Map Code: Ax00660 The Dutch first arrived in the territory they would christen New Netherland in 1609. Over the next few years they surveyed and laid claim to a broad swathe of the coastline, its primary attraction initially being to source beaver fur.
14 mar 2017 · Below are the historical maps of New Amsterdam and New Netherlands. “The city of the Dutch West India as ‘Dirk Storm First’ knew it in 1662.” New Amsterdam was a 17th-century Dutch settlement founded at the strategic southern point of Manhattan Island that functioned as the colonial administration place in New Netherland.
