TimeWalk Manhattan 1609-1660

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Work in progress: Building a recreation of 1609, 1660, 1776, and current-day Manhattan. Visit TimeWalk.org for more information.
1609 Manahatta: near completion.
1660 New Amsterdam: 20% complete (Fort Amsterdam, Stuyvesant house, waterfront homes & taverns)

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@josephbennett3482 3 ай бұрын

Totally unbelievable how the land was nothing but trees at one point and then with the invention of tall buildings and asphalt roads all of the trees disappeared and a concrete and steel jungle took their place.

@GenericYoutubeGuy 2 ай бұрын

I’m not a liberal but manhattan could have been one of the finest nature reserves in the country had it remained its natural, astonishing old ecosystem with the small Dutch town. It’s terrible to see wonderful environments that were designed by God be ruined by human race but that is our nature, but the city now is just as good in its urban form without mosquito swamps and immense density of woods. I may be overthinking it, but hell, they overthought it too so.

@MothersBambi 2 ай бұрын

São Paulo BR is worse

@BK_718 2 ай бұрын

@@GenericKZbinGuyas an atheist it’ll get like that again once humans go extinct

@jerseykevin27 2 ай бұрын

There's more reserves, mountains, streams and forests in the world then you can imagine... It's nice to see some places a concrete jungle.

@birdrocket 2 ай бұрын

And if the population of NYC was as densely populated as Phoenix, it would destroy so much more natural land

@liltoaster7308 2 ай бұрын

The tip of Manhattan wasn't entirely just barren wilderness. There were several villages in the area, the one on the tip of the island being Kapsee village. They northern Leni-Lenape people there also practiced fishing and agriculture, so there may have also been a lot of small farms, trails and oyster shell middens in the region.

@DS-lk3tx 2 ай бұрын

Sounds like barren wilderness and some wildlife. 😂

@leobriccocola8141 2 ай бұрын

@@DS-lk3tx No, there were several villages in the area. There was likely additional structures and human traces from supporting them too.

@Coastalhobag 2 ай бұрын

@@DS-lk3txhow are villages from native americans barren wilderness? It's like saying that new york today is basically just 3 suburbian houses

@jerseykevin27 2 ай бұрын

I want to see more of this... I also like the idea of showing where the landmarks are like with Washington square Park Arch.

@jamesseaman2950 2 ай бұрын

The journals of the earliest settlers described arriving in a paradise of abundant game and water. After 2-1/2 months at sea, they knew they were nearing landfall because 30-miles out they could sense a change. They could smell the vegetation and the trees of an unspoiled wilderness largely untouched since the end of the last Ice Age.

@Uaarkson 2 ай бұрын

Uhhhh except there were already people living there lol

@sheismymom 2 ай бұрын

In my opinion it has changed a lot

@ma2566 2 ай бұрын

I rarely hit like this time I did. It’s subtle, good eye.

@Chanticlair47 2 ай бұрын

Where were the Lenape natives? I know for a fact that they used to spend the summers on what is today Staten Island because there was practically an endless supply of mussels and other shell fish just off the beaches there.

@tomcarl8021 2 ай бұрын

This is just focusing on the Battery to Washington Square. Did you watch the video?

@krist6074 2 ай бұрын

I can't believe the Dutch sold their "New Amsterdam" to the US. What an amazing port that would've been for international trade these days!

@speedbrake22 2 ай бұрын

Can you imagine America having some sort of Afrikaans language instead English?

@liltoaster7308 2 ай бұрын

The Dutch actually gave up New Amsterdam to the English under the threat of conflict in 1664 when the English took over New Netherlands as a whole.

@gidmichigan1765 2 ай бұрын

The US didn’t even exist yet when it was called New Amsterdam.

@tomcarl8021 2 ай бұрын

They sold New Amsterdam to the British.

@JohnDoe-fu6zt 2 ай бұрын

@@tomcarl8021 No, the British took it at gunpoint. They were at war.

@tcreate.s 2 ай бұрын

So many trees! 💚

@cisium1184 2 ай бұрын

Seems like it was a lot nicer then. I'm sure it smelled better.

@CaesarDarias 2 ай бұрын

I believe there was an abundance of flowers and colors. Moreover, there were so many flowers that their fragrance could be smelled from a ship in the middle of the Hudson River, according to the book, Gotham. The first men to arrive said they had never witnessed such natural beauty. When they reached the vicinity of present-day Gutenberg, N.J., Indians began to shoot arrows. They also mentioned the thousands of bird species. Soon they would disappear to avoid starvation.

@ThymeHere 2 ай бұрын

How is this so unknown, this is like the exact video I’ve been searching fir for Unironicaly a year or two

@Ariel_Saturn 2 ай бұрын

went from a simple hometown fill with dense forest to one of the bustling city of all.

@ItsToXxy 2 ай бұрын

I much prefer this than the concrete jungle it is now

@mokolabs 2 ай бұрын

Love this! One minor suggestion: can you add Bayard's Mount to Collect Pond?

@anythingyounameit-t9g 2 ай бұрын

신선하네요

@stephaniegormley9982 2 ай бұрын

I always chuckle at those who say "We bought it for only $24?" Yeah, that's how much it was worth on those days. Only later when the white man brought in Broadway, Wall Street and the NY Yankees etc did it get any value.

@CarlosEduardo-rz5ww 2 ай бұрын

Nice done

@Aib-q4l 3 ай бұрын

Nature

@treehouse157 2 ай бұрын

Song name?

@SlickMopar Ай бұрын

Well, at least we have a little of it left. Central Park 🤷

@BiggyCheese-sf8pm 3 ай бұрын

Cool

@tcprelude 2 ай бұрын

I wish we could learn to live with nature rather than destroy it.

@jerseykevin27 2 ай бұрын

Even in this time the Hudson River was extremely dirty.. when Henry Hudson sailed up it, he had a hard time finding fresh water and had to go to a stream in New Jersey

@drinny26 2 ай бұрын

Henry Hudson said it was the cleanest river he’s ever seen. The Hudson river and harbor was home to billions of oysters. No way it was dirty. No reason for it to be dirty.

@jerseykevin27 2 ай бұрын

@@drinny26 the river mud made it dirty. Henry Hudson has a spring in highland NJ in order to get clean water

@thelibyanplzcomeback 2 ай бұрын

Some random guy's house was right where the twin towers were. 💀

@Dr.TJ_Eckleburg 2 ай бұрын

Actually no, the land the Twin Towers were built on didn't exist back then. The island of Manhattan was widened a few times, and WTC site is actually on landfill that was poured between 1800 and 1965. But back in the time this video depicts, the WTC site is very much underwater.