Mapped.Earth

You picture Manhattan as glass towers. Watch every building appear in the year it was finished, oldest to newest, and almost the whole island lights up in one wave: roughly 1900 to 1930. The supertall skyline everyone pictures barely moves the count. The glass towers are a thin, recent layer on a city that was mostly finished a hundred years ago.

Each building is colored by the year it was built. Data: NYC Building Footprints, Dept. of City Planning.

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