The Castello Plan is the earliest known map of New Amsterdam, and it was created by Cortelyou around 1660. The map, pictured above (zoomable version here), shows a quaint little settlement with a ...

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The Castello Plan of 1660, now visiting New York ... Russell Shorto’s revelatory chronicle of life in New Amsterdam. Shorto, who is also the show’s curator, argues in the book that the ...

is built around a map showing New Amsterdam around 1660, at the peak of its settlement. The show’s curator, Russell Shorto, writes in the New York Times that correctly honoring 400 years of ...