Please rendezvous on Monday, November 17, at 9:50 am at the Asia Gate of the Bronx Zoo at the intersection of Boston Road and Bronx Park South.
To get there, take the #5 subway from Grand Central station to the West Farms Square/East Tremont Avenue station. When you exit the subway, walk north on Boston Road for about 4 blocks to reach the zoo entrance.
At 11 am, we will meet with Eric Sanderson, a landscape ecologist in charge of the Wildlife Conservation Society's Mannahatta Project. The goal of the project is to use old maps and geographical clues to create an accurate picture of Manhattan's biota and habitats at the time of European colonization.
Times Square area as it might have looked in 1609 vs. today(images from the New Yorker)