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Title: New York City Building Footprints to 42nd Street, 1854

Contributors:

Dates

  • Coverage: 1854

Publishers

  • NYPL

Summary

New York City Building Footprints to 42nd Street, 1854 is a polygon theme representing buildings in Downtown and Midtown Manhattan as of 1854. Attribute information includes building materials and description as well as street adress. This data was created and digitized through the New York Public Libraries usein historical fire insurance maps from Sanborn.

Subjects

  • Structure
  • New York (N.Y.)
  • Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • Bronx (New York, N.Y.)
  • Queens (New York, N.Y.)
  • Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
  • Staten Island (New York, N.Y.)
  • NYC
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-74.017, -73.968, 40.761, 40.7)
  • Geometry: BBOX (-74.017, -73.968, 40.761, 40.7)

Provider

Columbia

Rights

  • Access rights: Public

Citation

New York Public Library, Research Data Services (RDS), Columbia University Libraries. New York City Building Footprints to 42nd Street, 1854. NYPL. Polygon data. https://geodata.library.columbia.edu/catalog/sde-columbia-cul_nyc_nypl_1854_buildings

Format

Shapefile

Languages

  • English