F. W. Beers

Portion of East New York. New Lots Tn. Kings Co. L.I.

Hand colored engraving. 1873
Image size 13 7/8 x 20 7/8 (351 x 532 mm)
Good condition. LOCATION: New York City

Inventory Number: 48360
Price: $110.00
Publisher : Published by Beers, Comstock & Cline, New York. A detailed map from "Atlas of Long Island, New York. From recent and actual surveys and records." It depicts a section of East New York from Wycoff to Bennett Avenues, Duryea to Ridgewood Avenues, an area that remained largely rural until around 1835, when a Connecticut merchant named John Pitkin bought large amounts of land north of present-day New Lots Avenue named the area as being suggestive of its location, and built a shoe factory. After the Williamsbutg Bridge opened in 1903 and a subway line to New Lots was completed it grew rapidly and became home to many Eastern European immigrants.Could be paired with item # 48362. Maps

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