Posted on 04/14/2022 6:00:23 PM PDT by SamAdams76
New York City as it was 111 years ago.
Thank you!
Where’s the diversity? Where’s the graffiti? I would actually feel completely safe walking around NYC in 1911.
It would be interesting to see a video from today taken from the same locations.
Great picture.
The Gangs of New York were
not as clean cut or as well
Armed but intimidating.
I was once inside one of those pointy rooms on a higher floor of the Flatiron Building. I think it was the Children’s Book Association or something like that. The person who interviewed me had her desk right in the north corner of those huge triangular rooms, with the rest of the room largely empty. Strange and grand.
Some of it is pretty recognizable, Chinatown, Flatiron Bldg, Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges, Central Park. The El’s are gone now, and I wasnt sure the church, I don’t think it was St Pats.
I wonder if the background music is Joshua Rich. It lends itself to the video in a good way. Some music serves just about any visuals well. James Fairs of the oldies group, The Cryan’ Shames, has a guitar piece called The New Road that would fit nearly any video.
There were no cranes or heavy motorized machinery back then.
How in God’s name were they able to make those buildings so high back then?
The Holland tunnel was dug by hand with men working behind airlocks and tunnel shields with compressed air holding back the Hudson River from instantly crushing then drowning them. They somehow managed to not only dig under the Hudson but also meet up with shafts sunk vertically through the river and river bed used for ventilation. Then the four tubes meet in the middle 90 feet below the Hudson head to head for the break trough. This wiukd be impressive engineering today let alone in the 1920s. Sandhogs were men with big brass ones.
A Trip Down Market Street - 1906 San Fransico.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Trip_Down_Market_Street
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NINOxRxze9k
They described it on an episode of Impossible Engineering. My husband and I love that show - you always learn something.
Same with Mysteries of the Abandoned and Engineering Catastrophes.
The year my Great-Grandfather came to America.
We had steam-powered equipment long before 1911.
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