PORTION OF EAST NEW YORK. NEW LOTS TN. KINGS CO. L.I.

F. W. Beers

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

Hand colored engraving. 1873
Image size 13 1/2 x 21" (342 x 533 mm)
LOCATION: New York City

Inventory Number: 48362
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." Many land owners names are given. It depicts a section of East New York, 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. Maps