Content: Oriented with north to the upper right.
Content: Relief shown by contours and hachures.
Content: Scale [ca. 1:2,425].
Content: "Copied from the preliminary map of the Commissioners of Washington Heights, November, 1860."
Content: Covers Washington Heights in northern Manhattan west of 10th Avenue, between 152nd Street and Dyckman Street area.
Content: Shows planned street grid as well as existing roads, buildings, landowners' names and property lines, and pier line "established April 17th, 1857."

Physical Description

Extent: 1 map on 3 sheets : ms., col. ; 73 x 191 cm., sheets 77 x 68 cm. and 77 x 63 cm.

Identifiers

RLIN/OCLC: 57241771
Barcode: 33433062299478
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b16014619
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): c835f310-c5aa-012f-3fd9-58d385a7bc34

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Cartographic

Date Issued

1860

Cite this item

MLA format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "Fort Washington section." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1860. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/c835f310-c5aa-012f-3fd9-58d385a7bc34

APA format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. (1860). Fort Washington section. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/c835f310-c5aa-012f-3fd9-58d385a7bc34

Chicago/Turabian Format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "Fort Washington section." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 18, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/c835f310-c5aa-012f-3fd9-58d385a7bc34

Wikipedia citation

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