Post site visit:
The article “unbinding the atlas” brings up a question I’ve always thought about but never gave it more thought. I have to admit that this will be my first time in maybe 7 years (since high school, possibly) that I will be visiting a New York City library, and I’m quite excited. Especially to be utilizing it for the historic maps which are found online but there’s some that my class and I have learned are not online. The articles and historic maps are strategically posted online while the beauty of visiting a library the “old school” way is still there. And the decision to post them was questioned, my vote is against that because when you enter a library or use anything from there you assume that the source is creditable and you don’t doubt it. The web creates an uncertainty because anyone can post anyone.

I’m looking forward to our visit to the New York Public Library map room. I’m very fond of that library; when I was a kid I used to sit on the steps and talk to the lions, Patience and Fortitude. I got a library card as soon as I could print my first name, though I mainly went to my local branches to take out books. I’m also looking forward to the visit because I’ve never been to the map room and I’ve always liked looking at maps. I really like geography so I find looking at old maps very interesting. I collect city maps whenever I travel—and of course I collect subway/metro/underground maps.

Matthew Allen Knutzen’s article, “Unbinding the Atlas: Moving the NYPL Map Collection Beyond Digitization,” was fascinating. I hadn’t thought much—at all—before about the process of digitizing paper maps. It’s an amazing project: not just simply putting maps online, but coordinating them with all sorts of other data about the region displayed and making them searchable not just by area names but by coordinates of longitude and latitude. That means it will be possible to find a map of a region even if the region had a different name or was still unnamed. It will be possible to visualize the changes in a region over time. An earlier project discussed, Building a Globally Distributed Historical Sheet Map Collection—“centered on a set of 776 topographic maps published in multiple editions by the Austro-

Hungarian Empire from 1877 to 1914”—would have been incredibly useful for another class I’m taking right now on immigration history. My own ancestors came from the Austro-Hungarian Empire during exactly those years.

It will be interesting to see the NYPL’s map collection, hundreds of thousands of maps spanning centuries—and it’s exciting to think that in the future I’ll be able to search many (most? all?) of this material online.

1.Police Department City of New York Compstat
This link shows crime statistics for the 84th Precinct.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/downloads/pdf/crime_statistics/cs-en-us-084pct.pdf

2.Police Department City of New York Moving Violations
This link shows the traffic reports for the 84th Precinct.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/downloads/pdf/traffic_data/mv-en-us-084sum.pdf

3.”Mayor de Blasio, Comptroller Stringer, NYCHA Chair Olatoye Announce Beginning of Security Camera Installation at Boulevard Houses and Five More Housing Developments Around the City”
The official website of the City of New York;Pressoffice;June 11 2014

Proposition for providing NYCHA buildings with new cameras.
http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/282-14/mayor-de-blasio-comptroller-stringer-nycha-chair-olatoye-beginning-security-camera#/0

4.”14 Charged in Drug Trafficking at Brooklyn’s Farragut Houses: Over
100 sales of narcotics, 3 firearms seized”
Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor for the City of New York;PDF

Information about a drug bust in the Farragut Houses, showing unsafe practices around the area
http://www.nyc.gov/html/snp/downloads/pdf/Farragut.pdf

5.”Newly Refurbished Gymnasium at Farragut Houses in Brooklyn:
Funding through Seized Narcotics Proceeds”
Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor for the City of New York;PDF; July 15, 2015

This shows the proceeds of the narcotics bust going to good use in a gym for the Farragut houses, showing that some good can come out of some bad.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/snp/downloads/pdf/farragut_houses_071515.pdf

1. New York City Library. OldNYC

Map with old 1850-1950 pictures of the New York City

2. Brooklyn Library Historical Newspapers

Collection of the Brooklyn Eagle Articles

3. New York City Library Historical Maps

Digital collection of the old maps in New York Public Library

4. VINEGAR HILL HISTORIC DISTRICT DESIGNATION REPORT 

Report about historical District of the Vinegar Hill.

5. http://catalog.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/

Digital collection of the old pictures in the Brooklyn Public Library

Five Primary Sources for Water Infrastructure system by the time of technology development.

1. Book Title: Brooklyn! An Illustrated History
Author: Temple University Press, Philadelphia 19122
Published 1996

Available at NYCCT Ursula C. Schwerin Library Reference (F 129 .B7 S69 1996).
http://onesearch.cuny.edu/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?tabs=detailsTab&ct=display&fn=search&doc=dedupmrg197290413&indx=1&recIds=dedupmrg197290413&recIdxs=0&elementId=0&renderMode=poppedOut&displayMode=full&frbrVersion=&dscnt=0&scp.scps=scope%3A%28CUNY_BEPRESS%29%2Cscope%3A%28NY%29%2Cscope%3A%28AL%29%2Cprimo_central_multiple_fe&frbg=&tab=default_tab&dstmp=1444754166837&srt=rank&mode=Basic&&dum=true&tb=t&vl(freeText0)=brooklyn%20an%20illustrated%20history&vid=ny

This book introduces a brief of history that why tenement building in Brooklyn waterfront area had become ‘slum area’ in 1850’s.

2. Government official website.
New York City Department of Environmental Protection
History of New York City’s Water Supply System
Available at http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/drinking_water/history.shtml
This article introduces not only a history of New York City’s water supply infrastructure, also today’s water supply system and regulations too.

3. Magazine: Popular Science: vol. 35
Published in December 1932
Title: World’s Longest Water Tunnel
Available at https://books.google.com/books?id=iigDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA35#v=onepage&q&f=false

The article introduced new technology in water tunnel system and its pros and cons.

4. Book title: The Encyclopedia of New York City
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press ; New York : New-York Historical Society, 1995
Contributor: Jackson, Kenneth T.
Available at New York Publick Library
https://nypl.bibliocommons.com/item/show/12321485052907_the_encyclopedia_of_new_york_city

This book contained the information about New York City’s first public water system: collect pond.

5. History of Plumbing in America
First published in July 1987, P & M magazine
Available at https://www.plumbingsupply.com/pmamerica.html

Vinegar Hill Historic PDF

Demographics