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New York topographic maps

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Brooklyn

United States > New York > New York

Average elevation: 9 m

Staten Island

United States > New York > New York

Although Staten Island is a borough of New York City, the island is topographically and geologically a part of New Jersey. Staten Island is separated from Long Island by the Narrows and from mainland New Jersey by the Arthur Kill and the Kill Van Kull. Staten Island is positioned at the center of New York…

Average elevation: 9 m

Queens County

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Many of the village street grids of Queens had only worded names, some were numbered according to local numbering schemes, and some had a mix of words and numbers. In the early 1920s, a "Philadelphia Plan" was instituted to overlay one numbered system upon the whole borough. The Topographical Bureau, Borough…

Average elevation: 11 m

Bronx County

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The Bronx's highest elevation at 280 feet (85 m) is in the northwest corner, west of Van Cortlandt Park and in the Chapel Farm area near the Riverdale Country School. The opposite (southeastern) side of the Bronx has four large low peninsulas or "necks" of low-lying land that jut into the waters of the East…

Average elevation: 21 m

Gravesend Bay

United States > New York > New York

Average elevation: 2 m

Staten Island

United States > New York > New York

Average elevation: 11 m

Queens

United States > New York > New York

Average elevation: 12 m

Orchard Beach

United States > New York > New York

Average elevation: 3 m

Kaiser Park

United States > New York > New York

Average elevation: 2 m

Franz Sigel Park

United States > New York > New York

Average elevation: 16 m

Emerson Hill

United States > New York > New York

Average elevation: 53 m

Sylvan Water

United States > New York > New York

Average elevation: 25 m

The Bronx

United States > New York > New York

The Bronx's highest elevation at 280 feet (85 m) is in the northwest corner, west of Van Cortlandt Park and in the Chapel Farm area near the Riverdale Country School. The opposite (southeastern) side of the Bronx has four large low peninsulas or "necks" of low-lying land that jut into the waters of the East…

Average elevation: 23 m

Lawrence Point

United States > New York > New York

Average elevation: 4 m

Gowanus Canal

United States > New York > New York

Average elevation: 11 m

New York County

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Marble Hill is one example of how Manhattan's land has been considerably altered by human intervention. The borough has seen substantial land reclamation along its waterfronts since Dutch colonial times, and much of the natural variation in its topography has been evened out.

Average elevation: 16 m

Flushing Bay

United States > New York > New York

Average elevation: 4 m

Fort Greene Park

United States > New York > New York

Average elevation: 17 m

Flushing Meadows-Corona Park

United States > New York > New York

Around 1907, contractor Michael Degnon, whose firm constructed the Williamsburg Bridge, the Cape Cod Canal, and the Steinway subway tunnel (used by today's 7 and <7>​ trains), purchased large tracts of marsh near Flushing Creek. At the time, the land was considered "all but worthless". Degnon envisioned…

Average elevation: 15 m

Prospect Park

United States > New York > New York

Average elevation: 34 m

Willets Point

United States > New York > New York

Average elevation: 2 m

Todt Hill

United States > New York > New York

Average elevation: 75 m

Coastline access

United States > New York > New York

Average elevation: 3 m

Bowery Bay

United States > New York > New York

Average elevation: 5 m

Richmond County

United States > New York > New York

Although Staten Island is officially an administrative borough of New York City and its coterminous Richmond County is an administrative county of New York State, Staten Island is topographically and geologically a part of New Jersey. Staten Island is separated from Long Island by the Narrows and from mainland…

Average elevation: 9 m

Barren Island

United States > New York > New York

Average elevation: 16 m