“Redraft of the Castello Plan, New Amsterdam in 1660”

This work, originally published on a smaller scale in Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes’s seminal history The Iconography of Manhattan Island, is one of the most important maps for understanding the organization and function of 17th-century New Amsterdam (later, New York). Convinced that the open spaces on the ca. 1665 map Afbeeldinge van de Stadt Amsterdam in Nieuw Neederlandt did not accurately represent the city at that time, Stokes and his team created this new map to show the robust urban reality of the city. Using contemporary documents, including Nicasius De Sille’s “List of the survey (or census) of Houses on the 10 July 1660: within this town Amsterdam in N: Nederlant,” they painstakingly drafted a new plan of the city that shows every building, public space, street, and government structure.