Watch Manhattan Transform in 400-Year Timelapse
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A YouTube channel called CITY 3D TIMELAPSE produced an eight-minute animation compressing over four centuries of Manhattan's transformation, opening in the mid-1500s and tracing the island from marshland and Dutch trading posts to the dense metropolis of 2026. The video replays the entire evolutionary process three times at different scales—full Manhattan, Lower Manhattan, and Midtown—to show how each district developed distinctly.
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