William Bridges’ map of Manhattan, from 1814, shows inklings of the modern city. “Notice the Empire State Building at 34th Street and 5th Avenue,” explain the writers at the Great American Grid.

In Santa Wolanczyk’s piece, Knitted Manhattan, she has knitted a 14 foot map of Manhattan, distorting the NYC borough to mirror the process of memory.

Artist Nobutaka Aozaki has embarked on a quest to preserve the act of drawing out directions with his ever-evolving work “From Here to There,” which is a partial map of Manhattan pieced ...

The map dates from 1660, but it remained lost to history for hundreds of years. Around 1667, a Dutch map maker sold it to Cosimo III de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany.