Alphabet-City-area-of-1811-plan-for-Manhattan.png

Summary

Description
English: The w:Commissioners' Plan of 1811 defined the grid system for Manhattan north of Houston Street. The portion extracted here shows the lettered avenues—A, B, C, and D—from Houston to Kips Bay (around 14th Street). This is roughly the area designated by Alphabet City today.
Date
Source https://www.loc.gov/item/2005625335/
Author

William Bridges, -1814

Peter Maverick, 1780-1831
Permission
( Reusing this file )
This map is available from the United States Library of Congress 's Geography & Map Division
under the digital ID g3804n.ct000812 .
This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing .

العربية ∙ беларуская (тарашкевіца) ∙ বাংলা ∙ čeština ∙ Deutsch ∙ English ∙ español ∙ فارسی ∙ suomi ∙ français ∙ galego ∙ עברית ∙ magyar ∙ Bahasa Indonesia ∙ italiano ∙ 日本語 ∙ lietuvių ∙ македонски ∙ മലയാളം ∙ Nederlands ∙ polski ∙ português ∙ português do Brasil ∙ română ∙ русский ∙ sicilianu ∙ slovenčina ∙ slovenščina ∙ Türkçe ∙ українська ∙ 简体中文 ∙ 繁體中文 ∙ +/−

Licensing

This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
Public domain

This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer .

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office ) before January 1, 1929.

This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that " faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain ".
This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details.

Captions

Present-day Alphabet City neighborhood in Manhattan as laid out in Commissioners' Plan of 1811

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

Alphabet City

point in time : 1811

inception

16 November 1811 Gregorian

media type

image/png

checksum

f6405e69ee4ce4d7b439315727cbf034e58af82f

determination method : SHA-1

data size

8,792,185 byte

height

1,808 pixel

width

2,064 pixel