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Just to piggy back. WFMU is doing its annual fundraiser. It's an amazing station that plays literally everything from punk, classical, mongolian throat singing, to 70s glam rock, to movie soundtracks, to modern alt rock, and so on.

All it takes is 10 bucks to save an institution.

I'm pretty sure this rendering is an exaggeration, Broadway is definitely not this wide if you compare to the size of the people.

For those interested, please search for Adrian Vanderdonk. His work in New Amsterdam and New York left a lasting impression.

That’s valid, honestly just found it funny that people arguing this tack usually look back to like the 1950s and not uhhh New Amsterdam

Little known fact: the warships then went to the west of the island (to the right side of this image), crashed, sunk, floated back to the top, and became New Jersey.

Why they changed it I can’t say

And who pays for that property to convert it?

This is so incorrect, it's wrong at almost every level. NYC was always a capitalist hellscape, it's quite literally the reason for its existence as a modern city. The singular point of this little Dutch colony was to make money, so capitalist needs trumped all others. When the English sailed its warships into the harbor, the city quickly capitulated, because it didn't matter who ran the city, as long as people made money.

Cities are a living and breathing expression of the needs of the time, and NYC is no different. NYC was exploding in growth at the turn of the 19th century, and the 1811 Commissioners map sought to rectify the housing shortage problem. New York is what it is because of the needs of the people before us. These "great cities" may look great today, but they had massive problems before the 20th century, and these problems contributed to our grid style streets. For example, a tax collector in 17th century London probably doesn't know every spot, so many Londoners don't get taxes and some get taxed twice or three times. The Grid makes it easy to conduct governmental business and commerce.

Look at how Paris changed their streets in the 19th century to address their problems of housing and societal control. Paris looks the way it does today because of the societal problems in France at that time. French troops needed to be able to get to any part of the city quickly to put down revolts, so Paris changed its infrastructure to do this. New York is no different, in that changed how it looked to address problems of the time.

That's not my yearning dude, I'm just randomly pointing out that NYC should try to be a healthy, beautiful place to exist, and cater to humans instead of solely working for rich people. And, this would also benefit rich people as well, because, despite their calloused souls they're still technically human and would benefit from living in harmony instead of vehicle exhaust.

Some stuff is missing out in the harbor there.

Still cool nonetheless.

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Lmao bro if you’re yearning for 17th century Manhattan vibes why on earth are you still here

You're down voting that cities should be nice lol

You appear to live right next to the park, must be nice. Most of the city is not nice to exist in. We should probably turn at least every other street into greenspaces with parks and bike lanes. That's what humans with brains and souls would do.

My complaint, specifically, is that NYC does not prioritize quality of life for humans over profit for millionaires and billionaires. Making a city enjoyable and healthy to exist in is important. But you can keep on arguing for cancer if it makes you feel good. It's a major failure to not keep nature in mind when designing a city, don't you think?

>Traumatic brain injuries are no joke. Pretty clear the guy can’t even stand after his head hit the pavement. That’s at least a severe concussion and could be worse.

Need to have a brain in order to have a brain injury.

Lmao bruh...

Actually it is was pretty good. People on it were really gassed up tho

There’s tens of thousands of villages (if not more) like this all over the world. You are welcome to live in any of them. I’m sure “NYC” was just as boring then as those places are now. If you enjoy the amenities NYC of today has to offer, you can’t really complain that’s it’s not a pastoral rural village anymore.

Even old New York was once New Amsterdam…

You appear to be living in a dimension where Frederick Law Olmstead was never born…

Who took this photo?

Having a criminal justice degree is probably the reason he ran. When you really know the full extent of what the police are capable of, just to make an arrest stick, you would be scared of them too. Especially since they can’t beat people like they used to.

Cope