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NYC Urban Ecosystem Toolbox: Harlem River

NYPL books, atlases, maps, and online content.

Useful Catalog Subject Headings

Harlem River (N.Y.)

Harlem River (N.Y.) -- Maps

Collection Highlights: Books and Reports

Harlem Commons Syndicate correspondence, 1874-1911 by Harlem Syndicate, Inc.
Harlem River ship canal; letter from Simon Stevens to the Commissioners of the sinking fund of the city of New York. December 25, 1891 by Simon Stevens
Publication Date: 1892
Report of the Board of conference relative to the proposed improvement of the Harlem River
Publication Date: 1920

Collection Highlights: Maps and Charts

H₂O access, East & Harlem Rivers by Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance
Publication Date: 2002
Map accompanying the report of the Bureau of Civil and Topographical Engineering, April 20th 1871
Publication Date: 1871
Map of the Harlem River and Spuyten Duyvil Creek from Ward's Island to the Hudson River by G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co.
Publication Date: 1892

Online Resources

Harlem River maps -- NYPL Digital Collections

Urban Waters Initiative – BRONX & HARLEM RIVERS -- USGS

New York Harbor Water Quality Results Maps

Office of the Coast Survey: Chart Locator

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

Harlem River

Map bounded by E. 135th St., Willis Ave., Harlem River, Park Ave. [1911]

Plate 3 (Map bounded by E. 135th St., Willis Ave., Harlem River, Park Ave.) [1911]