Restored Map From 1770

Someone at the New York Times loves maps and stories about maps. Yesterday we got a glimpse of a lovingly restored map of the lower New York Harbor drawn in 1770 by cartographer Bernard Ratzer. Here is the Times story but you should really check out the interactive digital image of the map in it's "old" state and then again in the newly rehabilitated state (both shown here from the same location on either map). Check out the west bank of the Hudson River, in New Jersey. All of that swamp land has been filled in to make Hoboken and Jersey City and Ellis Island was called Bucking Island.

They don't make maps like that anymore.

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