Map Showing the Portions of the City of New York and Westchester County Under the Jurisdiction of the Department of Public Parks 1870

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Old map of New York, United States of America.

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.
Created by Wm. H. (William H.) Grant, New York (N.Y.). Bureau of Civil and Topographical Engineering in 1870.

• Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
• "Scale 1:24,000. 2000 feet = 1 inch"--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
• Original resource extent: 1 map : hand colored, mounted on paper for repair, then mounted on linen ; 23 x 124 centimeters.
• Original resource at: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries.
• Content in English.
• Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Map Subjects

Manhattan (New York New York)

New York

New York (N.Y.). Department Of Public Parks

United States Of America

Westchester County (N.Y.)

Wm. H. (William H.) Grant

New York (N.Y.). Bureau Of Civil And Topographical Engineering

1870