Nerd alert! "Mapping New York's Shoreline, 1609-2009" opens on friday at the New York Public Library. The exhibit features 200 maps, prints and atlases mostly from the library's amazing collection (above a map showing New Amsterdam's original land plots). The show focused on Manhattan's is one of many cultural events this year marking the 400th anniversary of Dutch explorer Henry Hudson's arrival in what is now Manhattan.
More pics at Gothamist
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