According to a partly shredded Texaco street map of the city, that is.
Sure, most of the streets are the same. But there’s no Soho or Tribeca, and Battery Park City is at least a decade away; West Street is the western border of Manhattan, the map reveals.
Texaco put together a few paragraphs on what do in New York. Some interesting bits:
The map suggests visiting “a great univeristy”—Columbia. NYU was still a middling commuter school at the time.
“Greet airliners at Idlewilde Airport.” Guess President Kennedy is still alive.
“Ferry your car over and tour the farmlands of Staten Island.” No Verrazano-Narrows Bridge yet; that isn’t open until 1964. Farmland?
Ephemeral New York 