What did Manhattan look like before its trees were cut down and it was covered in concrete and glass? It looked like this:
By internet standards, this is ancient, but so is the Manhattan that it depicts, so I figure that is okay. The most interesting part to me is the interactive map that lets you compare Manhattan today with a British map from 1782. I’m not sure how sociological this is, but I’m always fascinated by the extent to which we transform coastlines, such as that of the Harlem River.
Memoirs of a SLACer 