80,000 old photos create a Google Street map of New York City in the 1800s

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New York City has a long and sprawling history, but looking at the city today, it's hard to tell what it looked like in the past. Luckily, an enterprising coder has solved that problem by creating a Google Street View map for New York City for the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Developer Dan Vanderkam collaborated with the New York Public Library to plot all the old photos from the Photographic Views of New York City, 1870s-1970s collection on an interactive map.

The project, called OldNYC, lets you browse 19th-century New York as easily as you would click around on Google Maps. The collection contains over 80,000 original photographs.

Visit the OldNYC site here, or look below for some of the best photos we saw from the late 1800s and early 1900s, marked with their locations in the city.


Photos of New York City in the 1800s with Google Street View - Tech Insider


https://www.oldnyc.org/

 

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New York City has a long and sprawling history

Not to Europeans and Asians and Africans. North Americans may see it as old, but people in much of the rest of the world see it as a young city.

Plagiarism!

Victory Arch, New York City

Marble Arch, London

 

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plagiarism, plagiarism everywhere.

 

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Not exactly plagiarism. The three - collectively known as Cleopatra's Needle - are genuine Ancient Egyptian obelisks.

One is in the London Borough of the City of Westminster on the Victoria Embankment near the Golden Jubilee Bridges; one (the crappiest one in the picture at the bottom) is in Central Park in New York City; and the other is in the Place de la Concorde in Paris.