Material: Bronze, Tiger-stripe granite boulder
The Castello Plan, titled "Picture of the City of Amsterdam in New Netherland" in Dutch, is an early map of Lower Manhattan's Financial District. Created in 1660 by Jacques Cortelyou, a surveyor in New Amsterdam (which later became New York City), it is now preserved at the New York Public Library. An unknown draughtsman made a copy of the map around 1665-1670. Cartographer Joan Blaeu included it in an atlas sold to Cosimo III de' Medici. The map resurfaced in Italy in 1900 at the Villa di Castello, receiving the name "Castello Plan" in 1916. It is documented in Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes' survey and honored with this monument in Lower Manhattan.
