Alice Hudson's blog

Fall 2008 has been a busy season for Map Division staff and media related activity. NYPL’s "Treasures" video series features Matt Knutzen and Alice Hudson in a 7 minute presentation about our paper and computer maps.

On Nov. 12 we were featured in USA Today, the Life Section: N.Y. Public Library puts its 'Treasures' online.

New York 1 Television filmed Paul LeClerc, Alice Hudson and Rebecca Federman in November, and aired this presentation the week of November 24 on NY1.

It may well be picked up by CNN, but that is not known at this point.

Visit these sites to get a fun introduction to maps at the Library!

Five Points was a neighborhood area in Lower Manhattan, northeast of City Hall, at the intersection where Baxter [formerly Orange], Worth [formerly Anthony], Park Street [formerly Cross] came together to form a five point intersection. The area was made famous in the book, The Gangs of New York, by Herbert Asbury, 1928, and the screenplay to the 2002 movie. Matthew Dripps’ 1852 map, pl. 2, has the original street names, and notes the presence of the Pirnics Distillery, but not the Mission or House of Industry.  read more »