Lower Manhattan Ward Map; Knickerbocker Village 1703

From The Historical Atlas of New York City by Eric Homberger.
Knickerbocker would be just beyond the lower right of this map. Crown Street would later be Liberty. This brooklyn genealogy site is a great reference for old street names

Knickerbocker Village 1695

This map is oriented with the south being on the right. The East River is on the top and Knickerbocker would be eventually further left of the top left of this map.

Knickerbocker Village 1664

From The Historical Atlas of New York City by Eric Homberger.
Knickerbocker would be just beyond the upper right of this map

Knickerbocker Village 1777

1782 Map Showing Old Streets In The Fourth Ward

A section of a map that I discovered at the brooklyn genealogy site In 1782 Pearl Street used to be Queen Street, Rose Street was Princess, William Street was King George. A great site for learning about those old street names is Gilbert Tauber's oldstreets.com

More Street Necrology From Forgotten-NY

Lowereast Necrology

Street Necrology From Forgotten New York

Street Necrology
from the terrific forgotten-ny site

Naming New York

Namin New York
from Naming New York

Baruch Place: Lost Streets Of The Lower East Side

Another pic I took on Monday. again from forgotten-ny:

Late in its career, Goerck Street was renamed Baruch Place, in honor of Simon Baruch, the innovative physician who emigrated from Poland as a youth and settled in NYC in 1881. He was the father of financier Bernard Baruch. A small piece of Baruch Place is still in place, forming an arc with Mangin Street just south of Houston Street and the FDR Drive.

Sheriff Street: Lost LES Street

I spotted this sign while I was on the LES on Monday 6/30. From forgotten-ny:

Originally from Grand Street at East Broadway north to East Houston Street.
Sheriff Street appears on maps as early as 1797. It most likely takes its name from Colonel Marinus Willett, who was Sheriff of New York from 1784-88 and later Mayor (1807) A short stretch of Sheriff is still there under the Williamsburg Bridge. The Amalgamated Dwellings (1930) (south of Delancey) and the Masaryk Towers (north of Delancey)surround that stretch.

Ethel Rosenberg's (Greenglass) family lived at 64 Sheriff Street