NEW YORK - 3D TIMELAPSE

Watch Manhattan grow in 3D from the forested island of Mannahatta to the biggest city in America: the night of the Great Fire of 21 September 1776, the Lenape island before Europeans arrived, the Dutch fort and New Amsterdam's wall (now Wall Street), English New York, the 1811 grid, the Erie Canal port, the Great Fire of 1835, the Brooklyn Bridge, Greater New York in 1898, the skyscraper race, the World Trade Center and 9/11, and the city of today. Nothing in this video is AI-generated. ACCURATE: every standing building in the five boroughs from New York City's building footprint records (construction year, height) with OpenStreetMap and PLUTO tax-lot dates; the year each Manhattan block was first built on, from maps of 1797, 1808, 1824, 1836 and later; terrain from Copernicus GLO-30; the census population series; landmark positions and dates (Trinity Church, St. Paul's Chapel, Federal Hall, City Hall, the East River bridges, the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, the Twin Towers, One World Trade Center); Collect Pond's size and position; the burned area of 1776 after David Grim's map (493 houses). ESTIMATED: the 1776 town outline and the British fleet's anchorages (after the 1767 Ratzer and 1782 British Headquarters maps); the 1609 shoreline, marshes, grassland and Lenape sites; house counts and the look of individual colonial houses; build-out dates of neighbourhoods outside Manhattan; which earlier building stood on a lot before today's. Sources: NYC Building Footprints and PLUTO (NYC Open Data); OpenStreetMap contributors; Copernicus GLO-30 DEM; HISDAC-US (Leyk & Uhl); Angel & Lamson-Hall, NYU Marron Institute (Manhattan block dating); Sanderson, Mannahatta (Wildlife Conservation Society) - this product has been created with data from the Wildlife Conservation Society's Mannahatta Project; Burrows & Wallace, Gotham; Ratzer Plan 1767 and the British Headquarters Map (public domain). Music: "Deified" and "Stats" by The Grey Room / Density & Time, "Oumuamua" by Alex Hamlin, and "Wind-Up Mountains" by Schwartzy (YouTube Audio Library).