- Title: View of New York and Vicinity Showing Good Automobile Roads
- Author: George Nostrand
- Date: 1929
- Condition: Excellent - bound in original red cover.
- Inches: 30 3/4 x 20 5/8 [Paper]
- Centimeters: 78.11 x 52.38 [Paper]
- Product ID: 308597
Colorful Bird's Eye View Map of New York City
Depicts prominent roads and the area surrounding Manhattan to include the boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx. Shows Staten Island and extends to Nassau County in the east, Westchester in the north, the Long Island Sound to Oak Neck Point, and a large part of northeastern New Jersey including Hudson County and parts of Bergen, Essex, Passaic, and Middlesex counties.
Useful to locals and tourists alike, the map shows all the major roadways as well as ferries, tunnels, railroads, and bridges, existing and proposed. The waterways are filled with tugboats, pleasure craft, ferry boats, ocean going vessels and tall ships. Shows the “Spirit of St. Louis” in flight above New Jersey, capturing the excitement of Lindbergh’s world record solo trans-Atlantic crossing of 1927.
Background on Creator
George J. Nostrand was a lithographer and publisher of city and subway maps, active primarily in New York City during the 1920s and 1930s. He is known for creating detailed maps and bird's-eye views of New York City and its vicinity, often highlighting automobile roads and urban features of the time. Nostrand operated out of 258 Broadway in New York, a location once occupied by the Arthur Ohman Map Company, where he may have worked prior to publishing under his own name. His work closely resembles that of Ohman, particularly in the style of bird's-eye views. Nostrand's maps were significant during the era when hand-drawn panoramic city views were popular before the advent of aerial photography.