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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. July 1985; gray paper covers; small mark on front cover; mild wear to corners; interior is clean; 148 pages; 4to - over 9 3/4" - 12" Tall.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A historical document detailing a meeting held in May 1922 to discuss plans for the New York City metropolitan area, including transportation, housing, and parks.

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. 8vo. Orig. brown card wrappers, sewn and glued binding. 83 pp. [6] Folding B&W maps tipped in. Black smudges to foot of front cover, a few light creases.

First and only edition. Original cloth. Thin, very large folio (48 cm), 28 pp. Fine copy. Unrealized original plan for the United Nations. Flushing Meadows was the site of the 1939 New York World's Fair. Visionary illustrations by Hugh Ferriss, one of the modern masters of architectural drawing. Gift inscription on front free endpaper from a collaborator (name of presenter(s) not legible to me) to architect Michael Harris, dated October, 1952, "This tells where it might have been [etc.]." Harris was associated with the firm that built the actual UN headquarters in Manhattan, Harrison and Abramowitz, and was assistant director of planning for that project. He also was principal designer for several important buildings in midtown Manhattan. Express Mail only on foreign orders.

Soft cover. Good. Wear along original fold lines. Slight loss at fold intersections. Text on verso. Size 21.75 x 13.75 Inches. This is a 1938 Fairmap Company pictorial map of New York City. The map depicts the city from the Hudson River to the Interborough Parkway between Brooklyn and Queens and from the Bronx to the Statue of Liberty. Created as a promotional advertisement for The Roosevelt Hotel, located on Madison Avenue and 45th Street near Grand Central Station, numerous tourist attractions and New York City landmarks are illustrated in profile and identified. Some of these include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Museum of Natural History, the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, Radio City Music Hall, and Grand Central. Other New York City institutions, such as Barnard College, Columbia University, the Cooper Union, and the Fraunces Tavern are also noted. The Manhattan Bridge, Brooklyn Bridge, Williamsburg Bridge, and Triborough Bridge are all illustrated. In anticipation of the 1939 World's Fair, the map shows the fairgrounds in Queens and marks the best automobile routes to them from Manhattan. Routes to the fair, and auto routes to the island of Manhattan from New Jersey and Upstate New York are shown with their ultimate terminus at The Roosevelt. Major streets throughout Manhattan are illustrated and labeled, including Fifth Avenue, Park Avenue, and 14th, 34th, and 42nd Streets. Express subway stops are also noted on the I.R.T., B.M.T., and Independent lines, although local stops are ignored. Publication History and Census This map was created and published by the Fairmap Company as a promotional brochure for the Roosevelt Hotel.

Hardcover. Excellent. 2 manuscript maps on waxed cloth. Dimensions of first map are 11 x 17.25 and the second map is 4.75 x 20.5. Size 11 x 17.25 Inches. This is a set of diagrams drawn in 1924 - 1925 by H.H.S. Phillips and T. Kennard Thomson proposing a tunnel to create a 'great thoroughfare' along 39th St. at the intersection of 5th Ave. in Manhattan. They were part of a wider effort by Thomson and other urban planners to alleviate congestion in Midtown Manhattan at the time. A Closer Look The two plans present an overhead view and cross-sectional drawings of the proposed open cut and tunnel beneath 5th Ave. The recessed areas would be dedicated to automobile traffic bypassing 5th Ave., while lanes on either side would be for traffic turning onto 5th Ave. (which ran in both directions at this time). The sidewalks would remain at their existing level but be modified to form pedestrian 'arcade sidewalks.' Thomson was an enthusiast of layering streets according to different functions - the present plans are a precursor to his much more ambitious plan in the late 1920s for a four-levelled distribution along major streets to divide automobile, train, and pedestrian traffic (see below). The open cut method was far less expensive than building subways or proper tunnels, and, although less elaborate than some of Thomson's other plans for New York, this scheme was motivated by the same desire to address major problems of urban congestion with bold and pragmatic solutions. Kennard Thomson's Ambitious Urban Plans In the early 20th century, Manhattan faced many of the same challenges as today - limited space, soaring real estate values, overpopulation, and gridlock traffic congestion. Kennard Thomson believed that engineering would come to the rescue. His solutions, including tiered avenues (as here, and more extensively in our NoMoreSubways-kennardthomson-1927) and massive landfills (NewManhattan-kennardthomson-1930), were novel and futuristic but in no way the crackpot fantasies of a maverick visionary. Kennard Thomson was a highly respected engineer, having pioneered innovations in pneumatic caissons, worked on countless major urban infrastructure projects, and spoke regularly at the American Society of Civil Engineers. Publication History and Census These manuscript maps were drawn by H.H.S. Phillips (most likely the H.S. Phillips noted as 'the chief draughtsman of the main drainage section of the Department of Works, Toronto' in a 1915 issue of The Canadian Engineer ) and Thomas Kennard Thomson between 1924 and 1925. Thomson's use of the title 'Consulting Engineer' suggests that these plans were meant to be presented to the city government. As manuscript works, they are entirely unique. These diagrams are jointly owned with Boston Rare Maps.

Hardcover. Very good. Manuscript map on waxed cloth. Creasing. Unrepaired margin tear upper left corner. Size 18.75 x 29.75 Inches. This is a c. 1907 T. Kennard Thomson manuscript map proposing loops between Brooklyn and Manhattan consisting of double-tracked trains. Although never fulfilled as Thomson envisioned, the plan was similar to and possibly inspired a partially completed plan for the Centre Street and Nassau Street Loops, collectively known as the BMT Brooklyn Loops. Mass Transit Loops This map was most likely produced in the later part of the first decade of the 20th century. At the time, the Brooklyn Bridge was well-established as a thoroughfare, with elevated trolley cars running in both directions; however, these did not connect with other mass transit options, specifically the various subway lines being developed under Manhattan. The Williamsburg Bridge was slow to get off the ground after opening in December 1903, as the bridge was opened in a rush, and neither the trolley nor the rapid transit (subway) lines were ready for use upon opening. Trolley tracks were laid and trains began operating within several months, but rapid transit services did not begin until September 1908. The Manhattan Bridge was completed in 1909 and likewise saw a delay before mass transit service began. Streetcars began operating in 1912, and subway lines in 1915. With the bridges coming to fruition, demand for mass transit into Lower Manhattan soaring, and no obvious alternative in sight, urban planners like Thomson imagined ways in which mass transit across the East River in both directions could be made more efficient. One solution was 'loops' for subways, which would allow a train to make a circuit between the boroughs instead of having to stop at a terminus and either turn around by some method (such as the wyes employed on railroads) or run in reverse in the opposite direction. The leading proposal of the era, approved by the city in January 1907 but never completed, was the Centre Street Loop, named for the street of that name in Manhattan, also known as the Brooklyn Loop Subway. This plan would have seen a subway line below Centre Street in Manhattan connect with trains running across the Williamsburg Bridge, link all three bridges with four-track lines (two in each direction, expanded from the original proposal of one track in each direction), and add a subway connection to the Brooklyn Bridge. The Nassau Street Loop, a related project, would link Brooklyn and Manhattan in a loop utilizing the Manhattan Bridge. In many ways the most difficult part of the work was completed quickly, with the stations leading to and under Centre Street (the Delancey St., Bowery, and Canal St. stations on today's J, Z lines) being ready by 1910 except for the massive interchange station under the Municipal Building (Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall/Chambers Street Station), which opened in 1914. All that was needed was to link the new station with the trains coming off the Brooklyn Bridge, and preparatory work was undertaken to this end, but the link was never established because the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT) did not want to pay the city the annual rental fee for 'use' of the Brooklyn Bridge. Also, there was uncertainty over how the loops would operate given the presence of both BMT and BRT trains, and these ambiguities were not entirely cleared up by the 1913 'Dual Contracts' agreement between the two companies. As priorities shifted towards expanding subway service in Midtown Manhattan in the 1910s and 1920s, the project fell by the wayside and in the following years parts of the loop infrastructure were torn down or abandoned (as with the still extant unused central platform at the Chambers Street BMT Jamaica Line/J, M, Z station, and remnants of several entrances to the interchange station that were subsequently closed off). The Nassau Street Loop also failed to materialize quickly, but was ultimately completed. Thomson's Plan The plan presented here.

Soft cover. Very good. Mounted on linen. Light wear along original fold lines. Size 13 x 12.5 Inches. This is a 1922 Regional Plan proof state infographic map of New York City, highlighting passenger rail traffic. The map is an early attempt to analyze the New York commute to better manage passenger rail networks. A Closer Look The map covers the five boroughs of the city along with portions of Long Island, Westchester County, and Connecticut. The contours and features of the land are faint, overlaid with more prominent lines and shading indicating passenger rail routes. A wider area of shading denotes more passengers in a given 24-hour period, and narrower shading illustrates relatively fewer passengers. However, all the lines thus represented carried at least several dozen trains in each direction in a given day. This system explained in a legend at bottom-right, reveals that the Long Island Railroad and New York Central were the busiest lines, while New Jersey saw a great number of passengers reaching Manhattan via a larger number of lines, so numerous and dense that color shading is employed here to help distinguish them. Historically, passengers crossing either the Hudson River or East River would need to disembark and take ferries to Manhattan, but the completion of rail tunnels under both waterways between 1906 and 1910 revolutionized travel, allowing passengers from distant parts of New Jersey or Long Islands to take one continuous train journey (on an electrified rather than steam train) into the heart of the city, at Pennsylvania Station ('Old Penn Station') (passengers utilizing Grand Central Station for travel to/from the north would have used the older Park Avenue Tunnel, which was upgraded and renovated around this time to also run electrified trains). The First Regional Plan for New York The impetus for the creation of the Regional Plan of New York was driven primarily by three factors: first, the greater affordability and mass adoption of automobiles in the 1920s; second, the explosive growth of New York City's population at the turn of the 20th century; and, third, the contemporaneous Modernist affinity for ambitious urban planning. Inspired by similar plans for other cities, particularly the 1909 Burnham Plan for Chicago, a group of business and civic leaders led by banker Charles Dyer Norton and the Russell Sage Foundation formed an advisory committee in 1914 to propose an equivalent project for the New York City metropolitan region. Delayed by World War I (1914-1918) and other obstacles, the committee nevertheless made progress, adding prominent members (including future President Herbert Hoover) and forming a permanent body in 1922. After years of research and discussion, maps, publications, and other media were brought to the public starting in the 1920s, especially the late 1920s. Although the Regional Plan was not associated with the legendary urban planner Robert Moses (1888-1981), their ideas were largely congruent, and the Regional Plan provided added momentum to the push for building highways (including parkways) in the city in a more deliberate and comprehensive manner. While the emphasis here is on passenger rail, the number of automobiles on the road was skyrocketing when this map was being prepared. It is worth noting that although the 1930s saw a deep economic depression throughout the country, many infrastructure and urban planning projects were undertaken in New York City during these years, leaving the city with most of the bridges, tunnels, and highways that it maintains today. Publication History and Census This map was prepared in 1922 by the Physical Survey section of the Regional Plan of New York and Its Environs. It appeared in the 1923 book Maps and diagrams showing present conditions, New York and its environs, March, 1923 , published by the Physical Survey. However, unlike the published version of the map, which includes a page number (p. 23) and a title banner, this example lacks those feature.

Very good. Minor overall toning. Size 5.5 x 8.5 Inches. This is a scarce 1871 map of Herald Square in New York City by Kellogg and Pilat. The map shows the plans of improvement of the square located between west 34th st and west 35th st and between Broadway and Sixth Avenue. It depicts the location of trees and shrubbery within the triangular square. Herald Square, along with the southern Greeley Square form a bot-tie square in Manhattan. Named after the New York Herald newspaper, which was located on the square, it formed part of the old printing and newspaper district of New York. Soon the surrounding area became known as Herald Square. Today the square consists of tables and chairs, providing a rest area for the thousands of shoppers in this retail hub. This plan was created by Parks Engineer in Chief M. A. Kellogg and Chief Landscape Gardener I. A. Pilat for the First Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of the Department of Public Parks for the Year Ending May 1, 1871 .