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NYC Urban Ecosystem Toolbox: Wetlands and Coastal Management

NYPL books, atlases, maps, and online content.

Useful Catalog Subject Headings

Coastal zone management -- New Jersey

Coastal zone management -- New York (State)

Coastal zone management -- New York (State) --New York

Coastal zone management -- New York (State) -- Long Island

Wetlands -- New York (State) -- New York -- Maps

Wetlands -- New York (State) -- New York -- Guidebooks

Collection Highlights: Books

The forests and wetlands of New York City by Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
Publication Date: 1971
Managing coastal vulnerability by Loraine McFadden, Robert J. Nicholls and Edmund Penning-Rowsell
Publication Date: 2007
The New York waterfront : evolution and building culture of the port and harbor by Kevin Bone
Publication Date: 1997
Woodlands, wetlands, and wildlife : a guide to the natural areas of New York City parks by Marianne O'Hea Anderson
Publication Date: 1994

Collection Highlights: Maps and Charts

Map of Rockaway Peninsula from Rockaway Point to Nassau County, showing changes in Atlantic coast line for various periods.
Publication Date: 1917
Map of the City of New York, from the Battery to 80th Street, showing the original topography of Manhattan Island by Egbert Viele
Publication Date: [1859?]
Map showing the original high and low grounds, salt marsh and shore lines in the city of Brooklyn from original government surveys made in 1776-7. by [Board of Health?]
Publication Date: [1876]
The natural areas of New York City parks by David Cain
Publication Date: 1992
Rockaway, Queens, N.Y. [Four maps showing the shoreline of Rockaway in 1835, 1860, 1879, 1916.]
Publication Date: 1918
Topographical map of the city of New York : showing original water courses and made land by Egbert Viele
Publication Date: 1865
[Old NY Harbor Charts U.S.C.& G.S.] by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
Publication Date: (1844-1974)

Online Resources

NYC Floodplain by the Numbers (2020) -- NYC Dept. of City Planning

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

Resiliency Plans -- NYC Parks Dept.

OneNYC 2050

FEMA flood maps products

Hurricane Sandy Flooding -- NYTimes

New York City Flood Hazard Mapper

New York City Hurricane Evacuation Map

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

Wetlands and Coastal Management

Pine Wetlands (1915)

Brooklyn high and low grounds [1876]

Map showing the original high and low grounds, salt marsh and shore lines in the city of Brooklyn from original government surveys made in 1776-7. [1876]