Reports of Commissioners to lay out streets, avenues, and squares in the City of Brooklyn for 1838
Description
The accession consists of the original summary report submitted by the "Commissioners to lay out streets, avenues and squares in the City of Brooklyn" (created by Chapter 132, Laws of 1835) along with a photostat copy of their detailed "Remarks" submitted slightly earlier. The latter describes each of the new streets, avenues, and squares laid out by them in that part of the City not yet officially mapped, such as the 6th through 9th wards, of the then (1838) total of nine. A third element of the three-part report, the map illustrating their report, is missing. Three copies of the report (including the explanatory remarks and map) were made for submission to the Secretary of State, the Kings County Clerk, and the Mayor and Common Council of the City of Brooklyn. The nine-page summary element of this copy is addressed to the latter and has a wax seal. Although the document has been repaired/laminated on one side with silk netting (some time ago), it is splitting at the folds and requires early conservation treatment, particularly because of its high intrinsic value. As the report which essentially laid out the street system which prevails largely today, it is equivalent in importance to the Randel Commission report (circa 1809) for Manhattan. These documents were received in a box containing other materials relating to streets including a stat copy of a part of the modern borough map covering roughly the area included in the 1830s City of Brooklyn and heavily marked up in red, lavender, and black with numbers, street underlining, and dashed-lines (borders of original Village of Brooklyn, 1816 and City of Brooklyn 1834?) which may or may not refer to the Street Commissioners’ report. Since it does not appear to relate directly to the other records contained in the box, seven volumes of “Street Openings” for the years 1899-1969 (Accession 1983-087d), it is filed with the two 1838 documents.
Extent
1.00 cubic feet
Dates
1838
Record Groups
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