Yahoo user Tzuki has taken a current map of the city of New York, and overlaid it with a historical map of New Amsterdam from 1660.
The current city of New York was originally settled by the Dutch, and was then known as New Amsterdam. When the English took it, it was renamed New York. Comparing the two, you can really see the vast amount of land that has been reclaimed from the ocean. The land the city occupies has at least doubled in the years since it was first settled.
Yahoo Map Mixer: Redraft of the Castello Plan New Amsterdam in 1660
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