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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.
11 kwi 2016 · Figure: New Amsterdam in 1660 & Amsterdam Today. The map on the left shows the village of New Amsterdam. Note how the center of the town starts at the fort and goes east toward the port, and then up to the canal, what is Broad Street today.
The Mapping Early New York Project overlays the Castello plan with maps of New York today, and an Encyclopedia, along with 3D models. The Plan is a surveyor’s depiction of what old New Amsterdam was like.
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.
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.
What did New Amsterdam look like 1650 - 1660? Houses and gardens in New Amsterdam during the late Dutch period are shown in amazing detail in three images courtesy of the New York Public Library, the Maps Division of the Library of Congress and Columbia University.
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.
