Long Island City - Africa Shows from the southern reaches

Shows from the southern reaches of Denmark to German cities of Hamburg and Lauenburg

A fine copperplate engraving with crisp detail

Does show the extent of the rail system at the time

and curious points in our developing history

and on the right over a dozen insets show specific islands

Long Island City - Africa Shows from the southern reachesLong Island City It is now an area full of neighborhoods such as Astoria, Hunters Point, Dutch Kills and Queens West, amongst others, but this folding map shows the area when from Rikers island to the Newtown Creek, it was all just Long Island City, bounded by neighboring Newtown. Just prior to the Queensborough bridge, the proposed area of the approach to the bridge is shown. A large Blackwells Island (present day Roosevelt island) is shown, but