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Mapping Brooklyn Exhibit

Brooklyn Historical Society 128 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn

Mapping Brooklyn juxtaposes the work of contemporary artists working with historic maps, with examples of maps themselves, suggesting the myriad ways that maps can represent, on the one hand, such practical matters as way finding, property ownership, population shifts, and war strategy, and on other, the terrain of the metaphorical, psychological, and personal.

Free

Watershed Relief Map Presentation

Queens Museum Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens

New York City hosted the 1939 World's Fair in Flushing, Queens. To show off the city's water system that tapped mountain springs as far as 100 miles away, the Cartographic Survey Force, a branch of the Works Progress Administration, constructed a 3-dimensional model of the system out of wood and plaster for @ $100,000 (about $1.5 million in today's dollars).

You can now see the map for yourself and hear about its story from NYC water educator Matt Malina.

Free