{"product_id":"old-birdseye-map-of-new-york-by-root-tinkler-1879-central-park-brooklyn-bridge-battery-park-broadway-east-river","title":"Old Birdseye Map of New York by Root \u0026 Tinkler, 1879: Central Park, Brooklyn Bridge, Battery Park, Broadway, East River","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe City of New York, issued in 1879, is a tour-de-force bird’s-eye view by Root \u0026amp; Tinkler, conceived as a promotional panorama for Rogers, Peet \u0026amp; Co., and printed by George Mather’s Sons’ Inks. Sweeping over Manhattan and a slice of Brooklyn, it arrays thousands of rooftops, chimneys, and steeples in meticulous perspective, with the island’s waterfronts bristling with masts and smokestacks. As a city map, it is unusually revealing: an advertising piece that doubles as an urban portrait, plotting store locations while faithfully rendering streets, parks, and piers. The result is a richly layered snapshot of late–Gilded Age New York, where commerce, architecture, and infrastructure jostle for attention in a single compelling frame.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDowntown’s mercantile engine unfurls from Battery Park through Wall, Nassau, and Water Streets, their canyons of countinghouses hard by the East River slips. City Hall Park anchors the civic heart, with Park Row radiating toward newspaper offices and municipal institutions, while Fulton, John, Liberty, and Maiden Lane knit the financial and retail worlds together. Chambers and Barclay Streets stride westward toward the Hudson River, their cross-streets serving warehouses and forwarding houses on West and Washington Streets. Ferries streak the East River, tugs shepherd barges, and ocean-going packets nose toward deepwater, capturing a waterfront economy at full throttle—precision detail that makes this a particularly informative city map of public life and private enterprise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBroadway, the city’s great axis, threads the composition from the Battery past Canal, Grand, and Spring, alive with traffic and storefront signs. Around Prince and Mercer Streets, cast-iron lofts rise in fashionable ranks, the Metropolitan Hotel standing proudly at the Broadway and Prince intersection as a beacon of hospitality and theater-bound society. Rogers, Peet \u0026amp; Co. flags its own locations along this promenade of shoppers and flâneurs, embedding the brand into the geography of urban desire. Nearby, Church, Hudson, Varick, and Leonard Streets reveal a workaday landscape of printers, wholesalers, and carriage houses, demonstrating how commerce cascaded outward from Broadway into a finely grained, interdependent grid.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUptown, the map celebrates green relief and residential aspiration. Houston Street marks the transition to a more regular grid, beyond which Madison Square gathers hotels, clubs, and emporia into a genteel node, while Central Park opens like a pastoral theater—meadows, copses, and transverse roads inscribed with lyrical clarity. West Street hums with piers and freight sheds facing the broad Hudson River, while east of Broadway the dense blocks around Allen and Grand Streets hint at rising tenement districts and small manufactories. City Hall Park, Park Row, and Nassau Street still anchor governance and finance below, yet the image makes plain how commerce and residence are surging northward—an urban narrative told block by block.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlong the margins, the rivers become protagonists. The Hudson and East Rivers teem with sidewheel steamers, ferries, brigs, and tugs, each crisply drawn to register New York’s maritime metabolism. On the East River, the monumental towers and web of cables of the Brooklyn Bridge rise in mid-construction, a prophecy of the metropolitan future that will bind Manhattan to Brooklyn’s busy waterfront. Battery Park frames the harbor’s threshold, while West Street’s sheds and the East River slips complete a choreography of loading, lightering, and departure. Root \u0026amp; Tinkler fuse promotional verve with documentary acuity; even the printer’s credit, George Mather’s Sons’ Inks, reads like a badge of industrial pride in a city racing toward modernity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStreets and roads on this map\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBroadway\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChurch Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eForth Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGrand Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHudson Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLeonard Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMercer Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePark Row\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrince Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReade Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBroadway and Prince intersection\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWall Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWater Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWest Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCanal Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChambers Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCity Hall Park\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHouston Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMadison Square\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNassau Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpring Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBarclay Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFulton Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJohn Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLiberty Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMaiden Lane\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWashington Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVarick Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAllen Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNotable Features \u0026amp; Landmarks\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBattery Park\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBrooklyn Bridge\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCentral Park\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHudson River\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEast River\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVarious residential, commercial, and public buildings\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Metropolitan Hotel\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRogers, Peet \u0026amp; Co. store locations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMajor waterfront maritime activities, with ships of various sizes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHistorical and design context\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes: This birdseye view map serves as a promotional piece for Rogers, Peet \u0026amp; Co., Wholesale and Retail Clothiers. It highlights various landmarks, streets, and the bustling waterfront of late 19th-century New York.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDate Created: 1879\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMapmaker\/Publisher: Created by Root \u0026amp; Tinkler; printed by George Mather's Sons' Inks. Rogers, Peet \u0026amp; Co. served as the advertising entity.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThemes: The map reflects urban development, maritime activities, architectural diversity, and the vibrant commercial landscape of New York City during the late 1800s.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDesign\/Style: The map is characterized by a detailed birdseye perspective, capturing thousands of buildings and maritime activity, embodying the artistic style of promotional maps of the era.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHistorical Significance: This map provides insights into the urban landscape and economic activities of New York City in the late 19th century, showcasing key architectural and infrastructural advancements, particularly the representation of the Brooklyn Bridge.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlease double check the images to make sure that a specific town or place is shown on this map. You can also get in touch and ask us to check the map for you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis map looks great at every size, but I always recommend going for a larger size if you have space. That way you can easily make out all of the details. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis map looks amazing at sizes all the way up to 50in (125cm). If you are looking for a larger map, please \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/contact-us\"\u003eget in touch\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe model in the listing images is holding the 18x24in (45x60cm) version of this map.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fifth listing image shows an example of my map personalisation service.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you’re looking for something slightly different, check out my collection of the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/all-old-vintage-antique-maps\"\u003ebest old maps\u003c\/a\u003e to see if something else catches your eye.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlease \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/contact-us\"\u003econtact me\u003c\/a\u003e to check if a certain location, landmark or feature is shown on this map.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis would make a wonderful birthday, Christmas, Father's Day, work leaving, anniversary or housewarming gift for someone from the areas covered by this map.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis map is available as a giclée print on acid free archival matte paper, or you can buy it framed. The frame is a nice, simple black frame that suits most aesthetics. Please get in touch if you'd like a different frame colour or material. My frames are glazed with super-clear museum-grade acrylic (perspex\/acrylite), which is significantly less reflective than glass, safer, and will always arrive in perfect condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Unique Maps Co.","offers":[{"title":"12x16in (30x40cm) \/ Map","offer_id":58033159045504,"sku":"UM00276932A","price":75.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"12x16in (30x40cm) \/ Framed map","offer_id":58033159078272,"sku":"UM00276933A","price":200.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"12x16in (30x40cm) \/ Framed canvas map","offer_id":58033159111040,"sku":"UM00276934A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"A3 (297x420mm) \/ Map","offer_id":58033159143808,"sku":"UM00276935A","price":75.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"A3 (297x420mm) \/ Framed map","offer_id":58033159176576,"sku":"UM00276936A","price":200.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"A3 (297x420mm) \/ Framed canvas 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