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NYC Urban Ecosystem Toolbox: Piers and Waterfronts

NYPL books, atlases, maps, and online content.

Useful Catalog Subject Headings

Harbors -- New York (State) -- New York -- Maps

Piers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Maps

Waterfronts -- New York (N.Y.)

Waterfronts -- New York Metropolitan Area

Wharves -- New York (State) -- New York -- Maps

New York (N.Y.). Department of Docks (keyword search)

Collection Highlights: Books and Atlases

Manhattan water-bound : Manhattan's waterfront from the seventeenth century to the present by Ann L. Buttenweiser
Publication Date: 1999
New York waters : profiles from the edge by Ben Gibberd
Publication Date: 2007
Waterfront Manhattan : from Henry Hudson to the high line by Kurt C. Schlichting
Publication Date: 2018

Collection Highlights: Maps

Piers and Waterfronts

Map of Lower Manhattan piers

Map of Lower Manhattan piers (1860)

Online Resources

NY & NJ Harbor & Tributaries Focus Area Feasibility Study (HATS) -- US Army Corps of Engineers

Office of the Coast Survey: Chart Locator