New
York City has a long and sprawling history, but looking at the city today, it's hard to tell what it looked like in the past. Luckily, an enterprising coder has solved that problem by creating a Google Street View map for New York City for the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Developer Dan Vanderkam collaborated with the New York Public Library to plot all the old photos from the Photographic Views of New York City, 1870s-1970s collection on an interactive map.
The project, called OldNYC, lets you browse 19th-century New York as easily as you would click around on Google Maps. The collection contains over 80,000 original photographs.
Visit the OldNYC site here, or look below for some of the best photos of the city in the past, marked with their locations.
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| Brooklyn Bridge under construction, 1873 |
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| Fifth Avenue, east side, 1885 |
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| Wall Street, west across Broad (left) and Nassau (right) Street's, to Broadway, 1894 |
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| Fifth Avenue at N.E. corner of 46th Street, 1899 |
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| Broadway, west side, north from West 34th Street, 1901 |
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| Skating on the frozen pond at 110th Street and the Botanical Gardens in Central Park, 1905 |
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