Marking the entrance to the New Amsterdam Plein and Pavilion, this impressive sculpture by renowned artist Simon Verity and his partner, architect Martha Finney, provides a glimpse of the evolution of Lower Manhattan. Installed atop a large natural boulder, the monument features a three-dimensional bronze relief of The Castello Plan, a 1660 map of the city of New Amsterdam. All 317 houses extant at that time are delineated on the map, many with the gardens and orchards that supplied food to sustain the firs The Castello Plan — officially entitled Afbeeldinge van de Stadt Amsterdam in Nieuw Neederlandt (Dutch, "Picture of the City of Amsterdam in New Netherland") — is an early city map of Lower Manhattan from an original of 1660. It was created by Jacques Cortelyou (ca. 1625–1693), a surveyor in what was then called New Amsterdam — later renamed by Province of New York settlement as New York City. The map presently in the New York Public Library is a copy created around 1665 to 1670 by an unknown draughtsman from a lost Cortelyou original.