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1967 Map of Brooklyn

Name: 1967 Topographic Map of Brooklyn
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1970
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1970

About this map

Prospect Park serves as a central green lung for Brooklyn on this 1960s-era survey, its winding paths anchored by the Litchfield Mansion and overlooking the expanse of Prospect Lake. The surrounding urban grid is a dense network of distinct neighborhoods, from the historic brownstones of Brooklyn Heights to the residential streets of Flatbush and Borough Park. This map captures the industrial and logistical character of the borough's waterfront, dominated by the Navy Yard and the shipping channels of Wallabout Bay and Bushwick Inlet.

A network of bridges and tunnels, including the Williamsburg Bridge and the Pennsylvania Tunnels, connects the borough to Manhattan, while massive burial grounds like Green-Wood Cemetery and Calvary Cemetery define large sections of the landscape. Institutions such as the Pratt Institute and Kings County Hospital mark the social and educational geography of a borough in the midst of post-war transformation, as highway corridors like the Long Island Expressway and Gowanus Expressway rewrite the transit patterns of the Five Boroughs.