The Mapping Early New York Project overlays the Castello plan with maps of New York today, and an Encyclopedia, along with 3D models.

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The Plan is a surveyor’s depiction of what old New Amsterdam was like. You can see the settlement with its houses, farms, taverns, and workshops surrounded by walls.  Over the centuries that followed, this area became the Financial District.  The east wall was torn down and named Wall (Waal) Street. The canals were paved over, and became streets.  Skyscrapers were built while the island was expanded with infill. Above ground, almost nothing remains of New Amsterdam except for the original street pattern. Underground, archeologists have found evidence of the plots of houses and gardens, yellow brick from Amsterdam, and pollen samples of plans.