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Click to explore the native ecology of New York City, or enter your address or a landmark name (e.g. Empire State Building) in the text box above. Use the slider control to fade between 1609 and today and the streets button to turn on/off the roadways. Click to Begin.
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Find out here, by navigating through the map of the city in...
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Find out here, by navigating through the map of the city in 1609. You can find your block, explore the native landscape of today’s famous landmarks, research the flora and fauna block by block, and help our team continue to rediscover 1609. Launch the application below.
5 sty 2017 · The interactive map allows users to locate a block in Manhattan and check out what was (or wasn’t) going on in 1609 before Europeans arrived. For example, at Times Square—43rd Street and 44th...
28 wrz 2015 · The Welikia Project, formerly known as the Mannahatta Project, has gotten a powerful update that now lets you explore the city’s historic ecology using a satellite map that imagines how Manhattan might have looked back in 1609—and all the years between then and now.
28 wrz 2015 · The Welikia Project map lets you explore the city's ecology using a satellite visualization of how the island of Manhattan might have looked back in 1609—and all the years between then and...
29 wrz 2015 · This map overlays 1609 Manhattan with today's island, here zooming in on the East Village and Stuy Town. If a particularly terrible commute has got you longing for the days when New York...
29 wrz 2015 · In addition to seeing what the topography of Manhattan was like 400 years ago, you can also zero in on specific blocks to see what wildlife you would probably find there.
