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This Vintage Illustrated Map Shows Birds-Eye View of Manhattan From Hoboken in 1876

2023-09-01T12:00:00-04:00

Created by T. Sulman and Robert Loudan in 1876, this vintage illustrated map shows a birds-eye view of Lower Manhattan as seen from Hoboken, New Jersey. Zooming in to the full version, you can see many pieces of the City that are still here today such as Trinity Church, Bellevue Hospital, and Union, Madison and Tomkins Square Parks.

New York : From Bergen Hill, Hoboken. Extra supplement to the Ilustrated London News, August 18, 1876. Bird's-eye view of New York, New York, showing Battery Park on the right and Central Park on the left; also visible are the foundations for the Brooklyn Bridge.

Check out the specimen page on Digital Commonwealth for more info on the map.

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Check Out This Impressive Etch-A-Sketch Art Showing an Aerial View of New York City

2021-11-03T12:00:00-04:00

Etch A Sketch artist Bryan Lee Madden is perhaps one of the most patient people on this planet, spending dozens of hours creating incredibly detailed illustrated sketches of New York City and other cities. If you are unfamiliar with how this children's toy works, you rotate the knobs to create lines using a stylus under the screen, but you cannot lift the stylus at all, so the entire image is created using just continuous 1-line. Check out Madden's portfolio for more of his work.

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[BOOKS] Every Person in New York, a Quirky Portrait Illustration Book by Jason Polan

2021-06-23T12:00:00-04:00

Every Person in New York is an interesting book from illustrator Jason Polan that captures hand-drawn caricatures of every person in the City.

Ok, not everyone, but Volume 1 of the book includes hundreds of random drawings to start from. Maybe by Volume 8,267, Polan will have drawn all 8.4 million of us.

Jason Polan is on a mission to draw every person in New York, from cab drivers to celebrities. He draws people eating at Taco Bell, admiring paintings at the Museum of Modern Art, and sleeping on the subway. With a foreword by Kristen Wiig, Every Person in New York, Volume 1 collects thousands of Polan's energetic drawings in one chunky book. As full as a phone book and as invigorating as a walk down a bustling New York street, this is a new kind of love letter to a beloved city and the people who live there.

Every Person in New York is available for purchase on Amazon.

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[REPOST] Watch New Yorker Cartoonist Roz Chast Create a Full Mural for Museum of the City of New York in Time Lapse

2020-06-13T16:00:00-04:00

Roz Chast is a well-known cartoonist for The New Yorker, and now has a special exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York that celebrates her illustrative work.

In this video from MCNY, watch in time lapse as Chast paints her mural "Subway Sofa" on the third floor of the museum to mark her exhibit's entrance.

During the first weekend of April, artist Roz Chast took up residence on the City Museum's 3rd floor to create "Subway Sofa," a painting that welcomes visitors to our #‎RozChast exhibition, on view through October 9, 2016. Featuring the cramped comfort of NYC apartments and the horrors of subway commuting, it's the perfect foray into a show that highlights Chast's uncanny ability to capture the absurdities of city life in hilarious cartoons.

The exhibit is free for any ticketed visitor at the museum.

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[WATCH] This Brooklyn Illustrator Creates Art While People Watching on the NYC Subway

2019-12-26T12:00:00-05:00

Meet Ebony Bolt, a Brooklyn-born artist who spends countless hours a week drawing people she sees on the subway. It started when a professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology suggested she take a sketchbook on the subway to work on her drawing. She has since filled more than a dozen books with her creations. Bolt’s sketches tell the story of New York — its diversity, its beauty, and its ugliness. Her work has appeared at the New York Transit Museum, and her poster, “The City of Dreamers,” is currently displayed in subway stations around the city.

Follow @ebony_bolt on Instagram to keep up with the artist and her work.

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[WATCH] This Illustrator Has Drawn The New York City Subway Stations For Nearly 40 Years

2019-09-08T16:00:00-04:00

Philip Ashforth Coppola is a local illustrator who has been drawing the New York City subway stations for nearly 4 decades, even publishing an amazing book of his work.

In this video titled For The Love of the Line from Great Big Story, learn more about Coppola and his (seemingly) never-ending illustration project.

To put it lightly, Philip Ashforth Coppola loves New York City's subway stations. For the past 38 years, the New Jersey-based illustrator has been exploring the Big Apple's underground stations and sketching its mosaics in amazing detail with just a ballpoint pen. In 1984, Copp published his first volume of subway drawings, "Silver Connections." He continues to document the city's underground, but doesn't expect to finish until 2040. Keep at it Phil!

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[BOOKS] Bodega Cat: a New Illustrated Book by Louie Chin

2019-06-18T11:00:00-04:00

Bodega Cat is a new book from local illustrator and designer Louie Chin which explores the New York City bodega through the eyes of its bodega cat.

In Bodega Cat, a cat named Chip takes us through his bustling workday at the Matos family’s Bodega: from receiving boxes in the morning and the breakfast rush, through inventory-counting and making deliveries, to dinnertime with his family when Chip's human-Papi cooks up some of the best Dominican food in the borough for their friends and neighbors. There is no rest for this busy kitty…except for when it’s time to chase pigeons with his human-brother Damian, or take the occasional nap on bags of potato chips.

the book is scheduled to be released in September, but you can pre-order a hardcover copy of Bodega Cat today for just $18 on Amazon.

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Check Out Columbia University's Illustrated Guide to the Manhattanville Neighborhood

2019-03-21T11:00:00-04:00

Columbia University recently partnered with illustrator Julia Rothman and founder Michelle Young of Untapped Cities to create this interesting Illustrated Guide to Manhattanville. Check out the guide to discover some of the arts, culture, and exceptional eats you can find in the uptown neighborhood.

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This Brooklyn Illustrator Creates Art While People Watching on the NYC Subway

2019-03-16T14:00:00-04:00

Meet Ebony Bolt, a Brooklyn-born artist who spends countless hours a week drawing people she sees on the subway. It started when a professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology suggested she take a sketchbook on the subway to work on her drawing. She has since filled more than a dozen books with her creations. Bolt’s sketches tell the story of New York — its diversity, its beauty, and its ugliness. Her work has appeared at the New York Transit Museum, and her poster, “The City of Dreamers,” is currently displayed in subway stations around the city.

Follow @ebony_bolt on Instagram to keep up with the artist and her work.

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This Illustrated Vintage Map Recreates Nieuw Amsterdam in 1662

2019-03-09T11:00:00-05:00

Recreated in 1942 based on the old Castello Plan and Maccoun's Map, this great illustrated map shows the Dutch colony of "Nieuw Amsterdam" as it likely would have appeared in 1662. Many of these Lower Manhattan streets still exist today.

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