Welcome to New York City, 1609
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Interactive Map Shows What The NYC Area Looked Like Back In The 1600s
Have you ever wondered what New York was like before it was a city? Find out here, by navigating through the map of the city in 1609.
Have you ever wondered what New York was like before it was a city? Find out here, by navigating through the map of the city in 1609.
Already three rival Original Ray's Pizza locations, I see.
posted by Chrysostom at 8:45 AM on September 29, 2015 [9 favorites]
posted by Chrysostom at 8:45 AM on September 29, 2015 [9 favorites]
Lenape farmer: "CBGB? Oh, nobody goes there anymore."
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 8:45 AM on September 29, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 8:45 AM on September 29, 2015 [4 favorites]
It would be neat to convert a block in some super dense part of town back to native forest. I wonder how that low-line subway station park is coming along ......
posted by The Whelk at 8:47 AM on September 29, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by The Whelk at 8:47 AM on September 29, 2015 [1 favorite]
That's always been a fantasy of mine, The Whelk!
posted by Chrysostom at 8:53 AM on September 29, 2015
posted by Chrysostom at 8:53 AM on September 29, 2015
No matter which directions I click in, no matter how tiny the increments, I am always a nonzero number of meters away from an encampment and it's gone beyond frustrating and into deeply hilarious.
posted by poffin boffin at 8:56 AM on September 29, 2015
posted by poffin boffin at 8:56 AM on September 29, 2015
a map of every saloon, bordello and opium den around west 18th street in 1870
posted by The Whelk at 9:26 AM on September 29, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by The Whelk at 9:26 AM on September 29, 2015 [1 favorite]
Isn't there that little strip of land at Houston and Laguardia Place that's planted to resemble the native flora of the area? I love that little spot.
posted by Liesl at 9:59 AM on September 29, 2015
posted by Liesl at 9:59 AM on September 29, 2015
From their album "Songs of the Forgotten Future: Vol 2," the Brooklyn band Pinataland has a song "In Old New York," (listen for free, buy the song, read the lyrics, does not autoplay... best possible music site ever, really) that was inspired by The Mannahatta Project which collected much of the data seen in the Welikia map.
posted by Sunburnt at 3:52 PM on September 29, 2015
posted by Sunburnt at 3:52 PM on September 29, 2015
It would be neat to convert a block in some super dense part of town back to native forest. I wonder how that low-line subway station park is coming along ......
There is no going back. While NY is lucky with elms, the chestnuts are gone. The mountain lions and elk and bears are gone. The people who lived there are gone. There are simulacra, and the Ramble does a pretty good job of doing that. It is almost hyper real in the spring when the migrants come through because there is nowhere else for them to go. Warblers everywhere.
posted by one_bean at 5:16 PM on September 29, 2015
There is no going back. While NY is lucky with elms, the chestnuts are gone. The mountain lions and elk and bears are gone. The people who lived there are gone. There are simulacra, and the Ramble does a pretty good job of doing that. It is almost hyper real in the spring when the migrants come through because there is nowhere else for them to go. Warblers everywhere.
posted by one_bean at 5:16 PM on September 29, 2015
Liesl: Isn't there that little strip of land at Houston and Laguardia Place that's planted to resemble the native flora of the area?
I assume that's going to be ripped out in the NYU expansion?
posted by computech_apolloniajames at 5:30 PM on September 29, 2015
I assume that's going to be ripped out in the NYU expansion?
posted by computech_apolloniajames at 5:30 PM on September 29, 2015
nyu delenda est
posted by poffin boffin at 10:46 PM on September 29, 2015
posted by poffin boffin at 10:46 PM on September 29, 2015
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