Mapping Historic New York: A Digital Atlas is a tremendous useful resource that gives an unprecedented take a look at how Manhattan and Brooklyn have been remodeled on the finish of nineteenth century and the start of the 20th century. The interactive map visualizes New York census information from 1850, 1880, and 1910, to disclose how migration, residential, and occupational patterns developed over the course of 60 years. Utilizing the atlas takes customers on to the doorsteps of historic New Yorkers, finding every particular person counted within the census at their dwelling tackle – generally even earlier than the town’s avenue grid was absolutely in place.
Utilizing preserved historic maps, metropolis directories, and census information, the Digital Atlas recreates the lived geographies of New Yorkers by race, gender, birthplace, and occupation. This interactive platform invitations customers to discover each big-picture tendencies and native tales, right down to particular person buildings and blocks. With plans to increase to all 5 boroughs and as much as the 1940 census, the Atlas permits you to uncover numerous narratives embedded throughout the metropolis’s wealthy previous. Whether or not you’re exploring case research or creating your individual visible tales, it is a distinctive software for diving deep into the city historical past of New York.
Should you dwell in Manhattan or Broadway the map additionally offers you with a singular perception into the historical past of your individual dwelling. If your house existed in 1850 ( or 1880 or 1910) you could find your constructing on the map and uncover who was really dwelling there over 150 years in the past, together with data on their race, gender, fatherland and their occupations.