January 18, 2008

The very short list of New York's map shop resources

If you hit up the elegantly renovated map division in the New York Public Library, you'll find a pair of handouts about where to buy maps in the New York metro area. Unfortunately the list is shorter than you might think.

The NYPL handouts are divided into antiquarian and current maps. For the current maps, they plug Barnes & Noble, as well as the Hagstrom Map and Travel Center, whose sole remaining Manhattan location is about a block from the library at 57 W. 43rd Street, map.

The other options are more specialized:

New York City Department of Planning, map sales shop
22 Reade Street, 1st floor

New York Nautical Instrument Service Corp.
158 Duane Street

NY Convention Bureau Inc.
810 7th Avenue

Times Square BID Visitors' Center
1560 Broadway.

Elsewhere on the Internet you may find reference to the Manhattan Map Co. on 28th Street, which NewYorkology stopped by recently to verify. It's now a condominium.

Here are a few other map resources to peruse:

Hand-drawn, downloadable map of Old Croton Aqueduct State Historic Park

Opus Publishing is now making its own credit-card-size maps of New York

NYC.gov has a cycling map

Ork's unique poster maps of Brooklyn and Manhattan

Digital Sanborn Maps of New York State from 1867-1970 are now availbale at the Brooklyn Public Library

The Post this week detailed the city's quest to best preserve "the official maps of New York County dating back to 1748, many of which have faded and begun to crumble to the point that they are in dire need of preservation."

Earlier: Transit Museum store adds new posters, old maps
Library map rooms to reopen after $5 mln renovation
Tiny, subtle subway maps for your pocket or wallet

January 18, 2008 04:26 PM in Cheap Stuff, History, Maps, Midtown, Shopology

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