“Culture Map” Posters and Walking Tour Guides

East Village Culture Map Poster

East Village Guide Poster Map

For over half-a-century, the East Village has been ground zero for bohemian and avant-garde culture in New York City. This illustrated map spotlights the writers, artists, musicians, actors, entrepreneurs and political leaders that have helped define new directions in American fine arts and popular culture.

• Diane Arbus • Jean Michel Basquiat • Lenny Bruce • William Burroughs • CBGBs • Club 57 • Dorothy Day • Willem de Kooning • Five Spot • Fillmore East • Graffiti Murals • Keith Haring • Jimi Hendrix • Abbie Hoffman • Jack Kerouac • Lee Krasner • Jasper Johns • LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) • Leadbelly • Madonna • Norman Mailer • Robert Mapplethorpe • Jonas Mekas • Joseph Papp • Charlie Parker • Jackson Pollack • Ramones • Larry Rivers • Patti Smith • Sun Ra • Talking Heads • Velvet Underground • Andy Warhol

Harlem Renaissance Culture Guide Map Poster

Harlem Renaissance Culture Guide Poster Map
One Hundred Years of History, Art, and Culture

Poster map guide shows the homes, nightclubs, and churches linked with Harlem’s writers, artists, musicians, thinkers, and political leaders of the 1920s.

• Alvin Ailey • Charles Alston • Marian Anderson • The Apollo Theater • James Baldwin • Romare Bearden • The Cotton Club • W.E.B. DuBois • Katherine Dunham • Duke Ellington • Ralph Ellison • Marcus Garvey • Althea Gibson • Dizzy Gillespie • W.C. Handy • Billie Holiday • Langston Hughes • Zora Neale Hurston • Jacob Lawrence • Joe Louis • Thurgood Marshall • Malcolm X • Minton's Playhouse, • Adam Clayton Powell Jr. • Paul Robeson • A. Philip Randolph • Augusta Savage • The Savoy • The Schomburg Center • James Van Der Zee • Madam C. J. Walker • Mary Lou Williams

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Queens Culture Map Poster

Queens Jazz Trail Guide Poster Map

New York City’s borough of Queens has been the residence of choice for hundreds of the music’s leading players. The Queens Jazz Trail map shows the different neighborhoods and sites that are part of Queens hidden jazz history.

• Cannonball Adderly • Louis Armstrong • Addisleigh Park • Mildred Bailey • Count Basie • Tony Bennett • Bix Beiderbecke • James Brown • John Coltrane • Corona • Roy Eldridge • Ella Fitzgerald • Flushing Cemetery • Dizzy Gillespie • Benny Goodman • Jimmy Heath • Woody Herman • Milt Hinton • Billie Holiday • Lena Horne • Milt Jackson • Illinois Jacquet • Scott Joplin • Glenn Miller • Charlie Mingus • Clark Terry • Fats Waller • Ben Webster • Lester Young

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Lower Manhattan: A History Map Poster

Lower Manhattan: A History Map tells the story of New York City’s oldest neighborhood, from the arrival of Giovanni da Verrazano in New York Harbor in 1524 through the destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, with illustrations of landmark buildings, historic figures and major events.

The back of the map contains the itinerary for a complete walking tour of the historic sites of Lower Manhattan. Designed for scholars, tourists, students, and city buffs, the map provides a perfect introduction to New York City and its history.

• African Burial Ground • Dewitt Clinton • David Dinkins • Dutch West India Company • Federalist Papers • Five Points • Benjamin Franklin • Fracunces Tavern • Cass Gilbert • Rudolph Giuliani • Great Fire of 1835 • Horace Greeley • Alexander Hamilton • Henry Hudson • John Jay • Mychal Judge • Fiorelio LaGuardia • Emma Lazarus • Jenny Lind • Peter Minuit • J. P. Morgan • Thomas Nast • John D. Rockefeller • John Roebling • Theodore Roosevelt • Saint Elizabeth Bayley Seton • Alfred E. Smith • South Street Seaport • Peter Stuyvesant • Titanic Memorial Lighthouse • “Boss” Tweed • George Washington • Frank W. Woolworth • World Trade Center • Minoru Yamasaki