We’ve all grown accustomed to Google Street View and its growing coverage of the world. It’s hard to imagine a time without it.
There may not have been Street View between 1870 and 1970, but people did take a lot of pictures — especially in New York City. Thanks to the New York Public Library, these have now been scanned and archived.
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Thanks to OldNYC, we can now see all of this imagery on a map of NYC. It’s impressive how much of the city has been covered, from downtown Manhattan all the way to Brooklyn.
The pictures give an amazing view of a city in transition. Particularly the images of the early days of Brooklyn being built and Manhattan being so very different than what it is today.
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