Site report #1 is due on Thursday, September 27. Please post a link to the PDF of your site report or upload the PDF to the media library of our OpenLab site.
By C.S. Imming [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or Public domain], from Wikimedia Commons
This Thursday is our visit to the
Map Division of the New York Public Library, in the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building at 476 Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street. The closest subways are the B, D, F, M, and 7 trains at 42nd Street/Bryant Park. You are probably familiar with Patience and Fortitude, the famous lion sculptures outside the library. That’s Fortitude, above. We will meet in room 117 at 3pm SHARP. Come prepared to take notes (pencil only, please) and photos (no flash). In class today we examined familiar places represented on
historic fire insurance maps of New York City and asked the question,
What has time done to this place?
