New York, New York

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The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1898 1986

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 12 of 579 shown

• 69th Regiment ArmoryNational Historic Landmark · listed 1994
• African Burying GroundNational Historic Landmark · listed 1993
• AMBROSE (lightship)National Historic Landmark · listed 1984
• American Stock ExchangeNational Historic Landmark · listed 1978
• Bayard-Condict BuildingNational Historic Landmark · listed 1976
• Carnegie HallNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966
• Andrew Carnegie MansionNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966
• Central ParkNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966
• Central SynagogueNational Historic Landmark · listed 1970
• Chrysler BuildingNational Historic Landmark · listed 1976
• Church of the Ascension (Protestant Episcopal)National Historic Landmark · listed 1987
• City HallNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966

Every listing in New York County

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

• 1898 USGS Staten Island quadrangle1:62500
• 1900 USGS Passaic quadrangle1:125000
• 1900 USGS Staten Island quadrangle1:62500, 10 printings
• 1905 USGS Passaic quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
• 1942 USGS Passaic quadrangle1:125000
• 1944 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
• 1947 USGS Jersey City quadrangle1:24000
• 1949 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1955 USGS Jersey City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1964 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1967 USGS Jersey City quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1984 USGS Newark quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Newark quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,121 fires within 5 miles of New York between 1995 and 2020, burning about 335 acres in total. 79 started naturally. 90 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Chinatown
• East Village
• Little Italy
• Soho
• Tribeca
• University Village

Every fire recorded in New York County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of New York: 6 occurrences, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Graphite, Manganese, Molybdenum. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in New York County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New York in 44 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 16 flash flood, 16 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 4 flood. The reports record 7 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm recorded in New York County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 975772. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.