side-by-side video of NYC streets, 1930s & now

and while I'm at it, this article has photos of NYC when it was still farmland!

www.businessinsider.com/manhattan-nyc-farmland-photos-2017-6


This picture here?

It's a block from where I live.  Trust me, this is not what it looks like now!

Footage of New York in 1911, eight minutes of it. Just amazing.

www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/3858?locale=en

eta:

in case you have not figured it out, I am an absolute sucker for anything historical.  Never go to a museum of any kind with me unless you share my passion.  I guarantee you'll want to leave before I do (and I'll let you go -- but alone!).

If you come across any cool links about historical stuff, you can make me squeal like a little girl if you post it.  Anything, really -- mummies, ruins, ancient weaponry, old photos, vintage machinery.  Post it! Post it!  

I like science-y stuff, too.  Post it! Post it!

And if it is both historical-y and science-y, I faint with delight.  Post! Post!

(Also, I need breaks from the political stuff.  Every once in awhile it starts depressing the hell out of me.)

Another fantastic set of gifs showing the same spots in NYC at some point in the past and today. Love this stuff!

www.businessinsider.com/new-york-city-history-2017-7/#one-of-the-five-locations-farris-scouted-is-the-brooklyn-bridge-here-is-a-view-of-the-promenade-during-the-blizzard-of-1888-and-today-1

Ooh, yes! I'm FB-ing and Tweeting that one! Thanks for tagging me.