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NYC Urban Ecosystem Toolbox: East River

NYPL books, atlases, maps, and online content.

Useful Catalog Subject Headings

East River (N.Y.)

New York (State) -- East River

Collection Highlights: Books and Atlases

The East River agenda : principles and recommendations to revitalize New York's East River. by Municipal Art Society of New York
Publication Date: 2007
Hell Gate : a nexus of New York city's east river by Michael Nichols
Publication Date: 2018

Collection Highlights: Maps and Charts

A chart of New York Island & North River, East River, passage through Hell Gate, Flushing Bay, Hampstead Bay, by Joseph F.W. Des Barres
Publication Date: [177?]
East River rising by CMAP (Organization)
Publication Date: 2002
H₂O access, East & Harlem Rivers by Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance
Publication Date: 2002
[Old NY Harbor Charts U.S.C.& G.S.] by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
Publication Date: (1844-1974)

Online Resources

East River maps -- NYPL Digital Collections

Office of the Coast Survey - Maps & Charts

New York Harbor Water Quality Results Maps

Controlling Depth Reports and Surveys -- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

East River

Scene in the East River

Scene in the East River (1820-1890)