The problem with defining a city isn’t that there aren’t any good definitions for what makes a city, a city; there are many. The question becomes, can any explain what happened on Manhattan? When we say “the city“ moved uptown, does it mean anything more than the fact more buildings were built? A linguistic lifeline […]
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42nd Street to the Battery: 1855
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Jun
Jun
The last post showed the city from 63rd Street to the Battery by putting together two pictures from the 1850s. Here they are again; click here to read the original post. A painted line runs down Fifth Avenue in both pictures, and you can see the dome and flag of the Crystal Palace on 42nd Street in both. The top one is from 1855, the […]
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May
May
Old landscape drawings and panoramas of the city can be mesmerizing, in addition to being information-rich artifacts of the past. In a time when we record more data about the city in an hour than we did for the first 300 years of history, these images only become more important with time. This post takes […]