The map was drawn by Joseph Colton, who one of the most prominent map publishers in New York City, with a career spanning three decades from the 1830s to the 1850s.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and the MTA are facing a new deadline to stop the program, as their legal battle with the U.S. Department of Transportation continues to work its way through court.

There were farms on Manhattan. What?! Yes! And these maps from the New York Public Library’s digital gallery’s Atlases of New York City collection show exactly where they were. But here’s ...