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Title	New York City 1870
Full Title	Map showing the portions of the City of New York and Westchester County under the jurisdiction of the Department of Public Parks / Department of Public Parks, Bureau of Civil and Topographical Engineering ; Wm. H. Grant, Chief Engineer.
Creator	New York (N.Y.). Bureau of Civil and Topographical Engineering
Contributors	Grant, Wm. H. (William H.)
Publication Date	1870
Map Publisher	New York (N.Y.). Bureau of Civil and Topographical Engineering
Subject	New York (N.Y.). Dept. of Public Parks--Maps Parks--New York (State)--New York--Maps Parks--New York (State)--Westchester County--Maps Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)--Maps New York (N.Y.)--Maps Westchester County (N.Y.)--Maps
Continent	North and Central America
Country	United States
State/Province	New York
City	New York
Notes	Oriented with north to the upper right. Includes index.
Essay Description of Item	This map was made in 1870 during a time of great change for the New York City parks. A group of corrupt politicians, known as the Tweed Ring after William “Boss” Tweed, abruptly replaced the Board of Commissioners of Central Park with a new city agency, the Department of Public Parks. The new parks commissioner, Peter B. Sweeny, then fired designer of Central Park Frederick Law Olmsted, Calvert Vaux, and Andrew Haswell Green, the park comptroller. Tweed and Sweeny, along with the other key ring members, Mayor Abraham Oakey Hall and Comptroller Richard B. Connolly, seized control of the finances of the city and embezzled hundreds of millions of dollars. The Tweed Ring was exposed in 1871 and the Department of Public Parks was taken over by some of the former commissioners of Central Park. Andrew Haswell Green was reinstated as Parks Department comptroller, and Olmsted and Vaux were rehired. The new Department of Public Parks completed Central Park and relandscaped many other Manhattan parks in the early 1870s, including Madison Square, Washington Square, Union Square, and Tompkins Square.
Type	image
Scale	[1:24,000]. "2000 ft. = 1 in."
Original Collection	American Geographical Society Library - Maps
Original Item Description	1 map : hand col., mounted on paper for repair, then mounted on linen ; 23 x 124 cm.
Original Item ID	(AGS) (RARE) 862.1 B-[1870]
Language	en
Repository	American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
Digital Publisher	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
Rights	The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System
Digital ID	am006584
Digital Format	image/tif; image/jp2
Date.Digitized	2008-01-01
Digital Collection	American Geographical Society Library Digital Map Collection

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