{"product_id":"new-york-in-1873-new-york-city-brooklyn-albany-central","title":"New York in 1873 - New York City, Brooklyn, Albany","description":"\u003cp\u003eF.W. Beers compiled this map of the central portions of New York and Brooklyn in 1873 for his Atlas of Long Island, published by Beers, Comstock \u0026amp; Cline and engraved by Charles Hart and L.E. Neuman, one of the rarer entries among the various Beers-produced New York area atlases of the period. Bound among ninety-seven maps focused specifically on property ownership across Long Island and the two central cities, the atlas served a very particular audience of real estate buyers and title researchers rather than general travelers, and this plate's hand-tinted coloring distinguishes individual properties and boundaries with unusual precision for a general city map. By 1873, both New York and Brooklyn were expanding rapidly amid heavy immigration, and property records like this atlas had become essential tools for tracking ownership across a rapidly subdividing urban landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe North River, as the Hudson was commonly known on period maps, borders Manhattan to the west, while the East River separates the island from Brooklyn, both waterways rendered in the careful detail expected of a property-focused atlas. Central Park is marked in green near the center of the Manhattan portion of the plan, already a well-established landmark by 1873 and a fixed point of reference for the surrounding real estate grid. Street names and individual property boundaries are densely labeled throughout, the level of parcel-by-parcel detail that set this Beers atlas apart from more general-purpose city plans of the same decade. Together the two rivers, the park, and the dense property labeling capture a city being subdivided and sold off lot by lot even as it continued to grow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plan is a meaningful choice for a New York or Brooklyn family researching property their ancestors once owned, a collector interested in real estate-focused nineteenth-century atlases specifically, or anyone drawn to Central Park's early established years. The Vault also carries an 1873 Beers plan of Brooklyn alone and several other New York views; this \"Central Portions\" sheet is distinguished by covering both cities together at property-record detail, a scope neither the standalone Brooklyn plate nor the Vault's other New York sheets attempt. It's available unframed in a full range of sizes, from a compact study print to a larger statement piece.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TheMapVault","offers":[{"title":"16x20 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58529709326667,"sku":"1796-16x20","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A2 (42x60cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58529709359435,"sku":"1796-A2","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"18x24 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58529709392203,"sku":"1796-18x24","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"50x70 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58529709424971,"sku":"1796-50x70","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A1 (60x84cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58529709457739,"sku":"1796-A1","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"24x32 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58529709490507,"sku":"1796-24x32","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"70x100 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58529709523275,"sku":"1796-70x100","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"75x100 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58529709556043,"sku":"1796-75x100","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A0 (84x119cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58529709588811,"sku":"1796-A0","price":55.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/2456\/5323\/files\/SKU1796.jpg?v=1789780471","url":"https:\/\/www.themapvault.com\/products\/new-york-in-1873-new-york-city-brooklyn-albany-central","provider":"TheMapVault","version":"1.0","type":"link"}