'Mapping New York’s Shoreline, 1609-2009' at the New York Public Library
(Credit: “Plan of the City of New York,” engraved map by Thomas H. Poppleton, 1817.)
400 years ago Henry Hudson and the intrepid Dutch explorers sailed into New York's wondrous waterways. Today, you can share their journeys with "Mapping New York's Shoreline" which lovingly explores the rivers, harbors, watersheds and more in an extraordinary exhibition of rare maps, atlases, books, journals and prints. On view September 25 through June 26, 2010. (The New York Public Library, 917-ASK-NYPL, www.nypl.org)

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