Hi All,

Carmen, the NYPL librarian we worked with today, shared a list of the materials we looked at, which may be helpful for your site reports:

• Insurance maps of the borough of Brooklyn, city of New York [1912-1942]
Vol. 6, updated to 1977,
o Map Div. (Sanborn Map Co. Insurance maps of N.Y.) Offsite
• Robinson’s atlas of the city of Brooklyn, New York : embracing all territory within its corporate limits; from official records … [1886] plate 29.
o Map Div. (Brooklyn) (Robinson, E. Robinson’s atlas of the city of Brooklyn) (Disbound)
• Plan for the drainage of that part of the city of Brooklyn which empties its water into Gowanus Creek & Bay, 1848
o Map Div. 01-1886 [Filed with Brooklyn. Related work in Map Div. 01-1887]
• Plan of the city of Brooklyn, L.I. 1855, plate 9
o Map Div. 87-5624 in 15 sheets – only need sheets with Gowanus Canal
• Downtown Brooklyn, Fort Greene, Clinton Hill. (cont.) v. 3 1969
o Map Div. 80-680
• Use District Map Section No. 16
o Map Div.+++ 00-13147
• Plan of the city of New York in North America : surveyed in the years 1766 & 1767
o Map Div. 01-314
• Brooklyn–Dumbo, Ft. Greene, Downtown, Park Slope, Red Hook, Clinton Hill, Williamsburg, Gowanus, Bk. Hts., Astoria & Long Island City-Qns. : the essential guide to neighborhoods, restaurants … for urban explorers / Red Maps ; RedMaps.
o Map Div. 16-4530
• Gowanus improvement.
o IXZ p.v. 381 no. 1-6
• Sanborn Brooklyn v. 1, v. 6 updated to 1972
o Map Div +++ 02-423 (Book)
• Rediscovery Map of Brooklyn 1979
o Map Div 82-3023
• Hagstrom Brooklyn 1985
o Map Div 86-4004
• Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway 2009
o Map Div 14-1224

Here are also links to digital redlining maps and Gowanus digital collections at NYPL: Redlining Maps | Digital Collections : Gowanus

See you all on Thursday.

N.A.