@history_guy_00: Want to watch Manhattan grow before your eyes? This is a new angle on my NYC Time Machine project, showing more than 350 years of change in just a few seconds. The island starts as a small colonial settlement and gradually transforms into the dense, constantly evolving New York City we know today. The project combines historical maps, property records, tax records, insurance maps, landmark data, and other sources to recreate how the city expanded over time. You can watch shorelines shift, streets fill in, farmland become neighborhoods, ships change with the technology of the era, and famous landmarks appear across the timeline. I’m building this because history feels completely different when you can explore it spatially. Instead of seeing one old map at a time, you can move through centuries and watch the city change in front of you. Idk if it is just me, but tools like this really help me get a deeper understanding of our past. This is still a work in progress, so there are definitely glitches and details I’m continuing to improve. My hope is that Manhattan is only the beginning. I want to eventually bring this kind of interactive history to other cities and time periods. What should I visualize next? Would you explore your own city if you could rewind it 300 years? Comment the city you want to see, and follow along for more historical time travel. #newyork #nyc #History #historytok #mamdani #timemachine #franksinatra #timelapseart #geographytok #architecture #historyfacts #map #maps

18236392 :

Hello wtc

Feral_hog :

humans really are a mold

paintbrush :

you were looking at lower manhattan at 2x speed werent you

glue sniffer :

why everyone in the comments so pissed off

Holis10 :

Why are people so mad 😭 it’s a single island

1284 :

we fucking suck

hi :

just like that its gone..

Idkwhattoputhere :

Website name?

Bellaa :

False before it was Central Park it was Seneca village then was flooded and made into the park itself .

bonejosh :

People mad like they arent living in a city that used to be nature and driving to work that releases carbon

Thelastmanonearth :

And I’m responsible for 3/4 of all of it

1865 :

Awkward like ratio

ImAnNPC13 :

Humans really are the best

RealDan :

it lowkey looks better now

Spergiez :

Humans are so cute

Zaiden :

Squirrel :

these comment sections are suprised humans are using land to build a society? ill say they definitely shouldve conserved/integrated way more nature but lets not act like we arent apart of the earth aswell

Ethan🇩🇴 :

I fucking love this so much

IDK :

It’s sad seeing the wtc come and go like that

Leo DeMaio :

Bro, that one guy who paused at 2001 to see what would happen

Mads :

So cool to watch in the elevator in WTC 1!!

Idk :

These comments might actually be overly woke

The Drive :

0:19 is my favorite part :)

maroonuu :

What app is this?

Ai lab🤖 :

Game name