Evolution of New York City 1900-2022

to all those brave workers, first responders and firemen, who helped save 1000’s of lives. RESPECT.

Did you know? The World Trade Center (1970s - 2000s) was supposed to be finished in the ‘50s or ‘60s but because we didn’t have technology for that height yet the project was postponed until the late ‘60s and ‘70s.

Twin Towers were something else, their design was so simple but beatiful. I think they should rebuilt them in another location of New York.

i was in the North Twin tower when the plane crashed in will never forget that felling and lost a friend that was friends with me for years.

Man Why Cant We Just Have The Twin Towers Back😭

12:30 was extremely sad. I remember that day as if it were yesterday and you can tell something was missing from 2002 onwards. It was nice seeing all those pictures of those towers being built in the late 1960s all the way into the 70s and seeing their best images from the 80s, 90s and early 2000s.

0:00 1900's 0:34 1910's 1:12 1920's 1:39 1930's 2:17 1940's 2:50 1950's 3:23 1960's 4:36 1970's 6:35 1980's 8:28 1990's 10:15 2000's 12:54 2002-2009 14:23 2010's 15:55 2020's

I love watching videos like these. It’s like I’m traveling back in time to other people’s worlds. 😍

I say this in a most gratifying way you have brought tears to my eyes. I'm 62 and as a child me and my father would go down to the west side and just sit and watch those buildings being built. I remember when the West side highway was elevated down there and you could drive past and look down at the construction. I also must have a couple of hundred pictures of those buildings. I was obsessed. Sometimes I would get up at 3 in the morning on my day off and drive down by Liberty State Park to get pictures of the sun coming up somewhere behind them and stay until the sun set behind me. If you were there at the right time when the sun was setting it looked like someone threw neon orange paint across the middle of the buildings. I must not have had the right filter to capture it. In the pictures they show up looking like they're solid brass. Week after they went down my company donated some equipment to the workers. Before we even got off the triboro you could smell burnt electrical and death. We took 14th Street to the west side and as soon as we got there it looked like a sci-fi movie. Flood lights everywhere everyone in full hazmat. My truck had to get sprayed going in and out. I talked my way into the rooftop of a building across the street and we looked down at the horror. I cried like a baby. Not something I'm prone to. Anyway I'm glad I got to live in the time of their construction and beauty. Brooklyn heights was another great place to get some good shots. The contrast between the gothic structure of the Brooklyn bridge and the modern almost sterile architecture of the twin towers made for some nice pics. I remember some famous architect referring to them as two Giant cheese boxes , but I loved them . BTW at 7:38 I took the exact same picture what looks like had to be the exact time of day. ♥️ I will not watch this to the end because well, you know. In closing I cannot thank you enough. ♥️

13:02 seeing this picture with the towers then without is heartbreaking

I’ve been on holiday/vacation to New York 3 times. All 3 times I’ve loved every second of it! Such a fabulous city always has been always will be! ❤ Respect from Britain! 🇬🇧🇺🇸

12:36 made me cry 😭

This turned into a remembrance of the World Trade Center real fast. I’m mean I get it but this was a evolution of the city not lower Manhattan

from 1970 on, this video is about the Evolution of the World Trade Center

I love how this is organized with the music of the decades.

You never realize how integral or important something is until it's gone. You could tell just by how the photos from the early 19's through the 50's everything was taken from the ground level looking out and up and it was more or less showing time square and the surrounding areas, homes and whatnot (though I'm not a New Yorker, so take my understanding and processing of the areas with a grain of salt). When the 60's rolled around everything started to get taller and so were the photos, or much more of a landscape, panoramic type of photos. Once the Twin Towers were complete, there wasn't a single photo that didn't contain them, no matter where in the city or the surrounding areas. They defined the New York skyline for decades! A symbol if you will. Not only the skyline but everything about NY City itself when it comes to photography. It seems that nothing was right after that tragic day. Though admittedly seeing and remembering the Empire State lit up like it was after was so hauntingly beautiful. I was fortunate enough to go to NY in '99 and to walk right next to and stare up at these monstrous buildings. So tall it seemed like you had to turn around and look up to see the top as if it were looming over you. Only being 9 at the time I couldn't truly grasp the simple and sleek yet beautiful architecture of these towers. My mom has photos (Somewhere) of the one and only time our family was there, taking photos from Liberty Island looking back over the Skyline and just thinking WOW! Would love to find those pictures one day. I remember everything about that day, the day that everything changed. I was in a doctors office having a check up to a broken ankle that I had suffered the previous school year. Spent the entire summer in a cast, not getting to enjoy the freedom of summer that every kid loves and looks forward to. On that day, at only 11, I learned that regardless of my pain and suffering, and the freedoms I was so upset about losing that summer... paled in comparison to what others lost, freedoms that were stolen from entire lifetimes of people, and their families. The pain of losing that much by any means (much less from a terroristic attack) was too great for me to, from that point forward, try to receive sympathy from anybody. That day changed many people, myself included. Some people choose to look on the bright side of life knowing that whatever you're going through- there's people out there that have dealt with the same and MUCH worse, and they've made it through. They persevered. Others were changed in negative ways and not just those who were involved first hand. And to the ones who felt compelled or obligated to pick up arms and go to war. The families who had to bury loved ones from it. To say that only 2977 (2996 including the hijackers) were lost on this day is inaccurate. So much more has happened in the domino effect of this that it's impossible to give an accurate number of fatalities. But being honest, I feel like everyone who was old enough to comprehend the gravity of the attacks, were lost that day. I know personally a part of me was lost. I can't even begin to imagine how the older crowd felt as an 11 year old. It's wild to me that I now work with people who weren't even born until years after. The term Never Forget can't apply to them. They know of the event, through history books, but the books only describe so much. That gut wrenching feeling is something I'll never forget and something that a book can't tell you about. Not looking down on the younger generation here. Just pointing out that the noticeable differences could boil down to this one, tragic event. Considering there's only a 12 year span (not really that long). You can tell the difference. So for anyone to downplay the significance of this or to make jokes is beyond asinine. Thanks for uploading this video. It was nice to see the ending with ONE WTC being built and finished and it seemed like it was back to the "NORM" as far as iconic goes. The new tower is majestic and is starting to define the new skyline. It won't ever be the same, but it is almost as if to say- We're back! Not a photo without it in the background. I know, a small sample size but I bet it's harder to find Images since it was finished without it in frame, than with it still. Sidenote: in the aftermath, the music also suffered. Definitely prefer the older music. Rather bump the songs from the 30's and 40's than MOST of the music of today haha. Great video showing the evolution of the City that never sleeps. Well done!

7:53 this is so beautiful to a point where I set it as my background. It looks like the nostalgia 90s videos. It just looks so amazing.

I'm Brazilian and I'm fascinated by this beautiful city of New York, which 100 years ago was already overpopulated. Just like the city of São Paulo here in Brazil, São Paulo was founded in 1554 and also grew and evolved at a fast pace, and today it is considered the largest city in South America.

‘90s was the peak! ❤

This such a moving and wonderful video so warm for our heart ❤ I really admire the view of the New York city from the beginning of 1900 despite the fact that i was born in 2004. You also mentioned the tragedy in 2001 that we will never forget this. How much grief people went through at the moment! May God protect them in heaven! ❤🙏