Zoom of the 1852 Dripps map of Manhattan, showing the proximity of downtown cemeteries, via David Rumsey Map Collection
What lies below: NYC’s forgotten and hidden graveyards
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Zoom of the 1852 Dripps map of Manhattan, showing the proximity of downtown cemeteries, via David Rumsey Map Collection
The Ninth Avenue El near 14th Street c. 1914. Via Bain Collection, Library of Congress.
The Stuyvesant Casino in 1945, via the Swedish Buck Johnson Society (L); The Ukrainian National Home Today, via Wally Gobetz/Flickr (R)
Image by Elizabeth Jeegin Colley for the Prospect Park Alliance
South Beach in 1899 © NYPL Digital Gallery
Magnolia Grandiflora via Wiki Commons (L); Weeping Beech Tree via NY State Archives (R)