More about those pictures.

According to Duck from NY, who took the present-day picture, the church spire that you see at the bottom of the hill is not the same in both pictures, since the original burned in the 90's. I did noticed that in the newer picture, the spire was just side by side to that cubic orange building, while in the older one it was much more separated to the right, something that couldn't be explained for a different angle of vision, since the difference between the exact point from where the pictures were taken couldn't be more than a few steps.

I decided to search the church in GE and I found out that it is the Brighton Heights Reformed Church, and indeed the old, 133 year old church burned down on june 28th 1996, on an accidental fire, and was later rebuilt and completed by october 30th 1999 and dedicated at a worship service held on Saturday, October 14, 2000.

Curiously enough, from that point of view, the spire of the church is aligned with the WTC,which also was destroyed, less than a year after the church was dedicated, and later was also rebuilt.

Here it is the website of the church were you can read the history of it along with pictures, some of them I am posting here.

http://www.bhrcforgod.org/#!photohistory/c17wz

The same view of the other picture and at about the same date, but with a better quality.

http://static.wixstatic.com/media/a9...0_0.00_jpg_srb


The old Church.

http://static.wixstatic.com/media/a9...0_0.00_jpg_srb

http://static.wixstatic.com/media/a9...0_0.00_jpg_srb



The new Church (from Panoramio) http://www.panoramio.com/photo/81402...=kh.google.com


http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/81402372.jpg

Sky pods show rise of New York skyline from 1500s till now :

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This is amazing. 80,000 vintage photos in an interactive map where you can click the location, and see it like it was back in the good old days.

Vnitage Interactive Map: http://www.oldnyc.org/

The whole city too. :slob:

OLD WTC View vs New WTC View:

Old: August 8th, 1996

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...1996-08-19.jpg


New: May 19th, 2015

https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8779/1...cb5954e6_k.jpgLooking North From One World Observatory by Paul Katcher, on Flickr
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Credit for 1st pic: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...1996-08-19.jpg

Before and After Series (8 Pages of it)

* Includes sliders showing the street in the past, and then current.

Before & After: http://www.nyc-grid.com/home/tag/before-after

Hunser found this cool gif showing the transformation of Midtown.

http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/l...psohj1wrc1.gif
Credit: (Celt67) and Hunser

New York, reminds me of my many business visits to this incredible place. The atmosphere, the people, the buildings, the skyscrapers. Wonderfull!

Especially the Pan Am building gives super memories.

Missieraishwarya thanks for joining. In the future try not to quote 10 plus pics in the same quote from a previous post. It makes it hard to navigate for all of us.

Thats like somebody quoting the first page of a compilation, and having a post that you need to scroll down for 3 minutes.

Yankee Stadium, 1968
http://cdn01.boweryboogie.com/conten...adium-1968.jpg
boweryboogie.com

Led Zeppelin:
https://www.google.ca/maps/place/94+...636903!6m1!1e1

My friend Fran lived at 90. Pretty colorful place during the 90's

The holidays back in the 30's. The good old days you know. Where men wore hats, men smoked cigars and drank lots of beer after a hard day at the port, and you can get an old fashion for 5 cents. ;) The era where the mob protected the community and kids played outside.

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Before and After:

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1341/...807dbb97_b.jpg
Panorama of Lower Manhattan and Bay From Top of Woolworth Building - New York, New York by cardboardamerica@gmail.com Jordan Smith, on Flickr

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/357/1...3fe46758_b.jpg
Downtown, everything's waiting for you by Tom Reese, on Flickr

Interactive Map: http://chriswhong.github.io/urbanscratchoff/#

Probably one of the greatest losses in NYC history next to the WTC.

Before:

http://cdn.cstatic.net/images/gridfs...6202071228.jpg
Credit: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/31/ny...-so-great.html

Current:

http://gratefuldean.com/wp-content/u...015/09/MSG.jpg
Credit: http://gratefuldean.com/phish-playin...d-january-1st/

:(

I always like doing these sort of comparisons, so I tried to find images closest to each other to see the change. 432 Adds so much. Inconceivable years ago. 2020 should provide a great comparison to below.

Before and After: 1950 vs Late 2015
https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2706/...edf504cb_b.jpg
aerial view of manhattan island looking north november 1955 by eralsoto, on Flickr

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5797/...a28b357d_b.jpg
Lower Manhattan and One World Trade by David Berry, on Flickr

http://l7.alamy.com/zooms/0df3ad73e6...ack-bj7hxd.jpg

1950 vs 2014:

https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3938/...2e4b850e_b.jpg
Rockefellar Center by Philip Schade, on Flickr

http://www.geh.org/fm/feininger/m197806060367.jpg
Credit: https://www.google.com/search?q=new+...QWIpr2NpohM%3A


https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5534/...b1f5c6ba_b.jpg
Foggy Hudson by Bee Collins, on Flickr