Map of New York City, Antique Map, 1789; Custom Printed to Order

This is a museum-grade reproduction of a map of New York City in 1789. The plan depicts a city fully recovered from the depredations of the Revolution and beginning the explosive growth that made it the commercial capital of the world. Comparison with earlier plans reveals the rapid development of the city in the post-war years: the boundaries of the city's seven wards have been reorganized; the old Anglo-Dutch fort at the Battery razed and replaced with Government House; Broadway extended and Greenwich Street completed; the huge De Lancey and Rutgers estates (either side of Bowery Lane, and east of Catharine Street, respectively) surveyed in anticipation of development; and numerous public buildings, churches, markets and wharves constructed. Beyond modern-day Broome and Montgomery Streets dotted lines indicate the beginnings of work to extend the street grid further into what had been the old Stuyvesant Farm and became Bowery Village. The very western tip of Long Island is seen at lower right, linked to Manhattan by ferries to the Fly Market, Ferry Street and Catherine Street. A table at upper left identifies 43 landmarks including government buildings, churches, markets, and even "Bakers Tamony Museum" established by the (Jeffersonian) Republican-leaning Tammany Society. The only post-war plans of the city pre-dating this plan appeared in editions of The New-York Directory and Register beginning in 1789.