Evolution of the Lower Manhattan Skyline
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- Опубликовано: 12 июн 2024
- 100+ years of evolution of the Manhattan FiDi skyline. Read more here: www.commercialcafe.com/blog/s...
1. The Equitable Building - Year built: 1915
Its shadow blocked sunlight from so many properties, that the ensuing uproar resulted in the 1916 Building Zone Resolution, which dictated future towers be built with setbacks and stepped façades.
2. 39 Broadway - Year built: 1928
Built on the site formerly occupied by the Alexander Macomb House, which briefly served as the Second Presidential Mansion for the George Washington household in 1790.
3. The Trump Building at 40 Wall Street - Year built: 1930
Part of the three-story penthouse Trump residence was used as a filming location for the 1997 movie The Devil's Advocate.
4. 70 Pine Street - Year built: 1932
One of the last Art Deco towers to be built in NYC, was the first to employ the innovative double-deck elevator system, of which there are still very few in the world.
5. 28 Liberty - Year built: 1963
Lower Manhattan's first International Style skyscraper, envisioned by David Rockefeller as a striking contrast to the sea of 19th-century spires dotting the skyline.
6. 55 Water Street - Year built: 1973
The 3.64 million-square-foot structure is the largest in New York City by floor area, with One World Trade Center as its closest contender.
7. AT&T Long Lines Building at 33 Thomas Street - Year built: 1974
The brutalist building was designed to withstand nuclear fallout, and to make it possible for 1,500 people to survive inside its walls for up to two weeks.
8. Brookfield Place (World Financial Center) - Year built: 1986
Built on landfill consisting mostly of dirt excavated for the construction of World Trade Center. The complex has its own zip code: 10281.
9. 60 Wall Street - Year built: 1989
Bears the world’s tallest roof-mounted solar array - 737 feet above street level - commissioned by Deutsche Bank in 2011.
10. 7 World Trade Center - Year built: 2006
Set the standard for the new World Trade Center master plan. Was the first commercial building in NYC to receive a LEED Certification (Gold).
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Man, seeing those towers disappear from the screen really got to me
If you go to the one world trade center and go to the observatory deck, there's a special elevator you take that's part of the experience. There's screens as walls in the elevators. They show the history of lower Manhattan's skyline. You can see them built and disappear soon after. I got choked up both times I've seen it
@Sky 201 cool
Nostalgy aside, I actually think the Twin Towers were prettier and more interesting than the new towers.
So sad it was an inside job... RIP NY Family!
got you ram it like 9/11
200 years from now, someone watching this video will assume the WTC was disassembled and a new one was built.
If they still have youtube
Not if we continue to teach accurate history in schools...
Angelo Valavanis they will find a way for it to fall through. It was 4/19 the other day and not a single teacher at my school mentioned the murrah building bombing.
I literally live in Oklahoma City and they didn’t mention anything about it
Really putting faith into the longevity of RUclips.
Super Fast Shaw then you must be living under a rock. I’ve known about the Oklahoma City Bombing since I was like 5 and I wasn’t even alive when it happened, it’s in every US History Textbook
Cant imagine someone sleeping through the disaster and waking up to go to work only to say "Where are the towers?"
by the time they woke up, the tower were still there just very damaged so they would know
@@koalaslamber1484 could’ve been someone going to sleep at like 5 am and sleeping through the whole morning
@@sleepyyy_steve and waking up at like 3 during the day
@@artursfilipovs4923 yep
@@artursfilipovs4923 I guess they'd still see all the smoke
I just kinda waited to see what they do/say about the World Trade Center.
BLAIR M Schirmer excellent point.
Hotters 7060 wish I could say I’ve been in NY to see the WTC.
@@Hotters9060 The new building has nothing to do with the 'government'. It was commissioned and approved by the Port Authority of New York. I always thought that instead of rebuilding the original towers, building two of the new towers would have been a way to satisfy both ends.
@@Hotters9060 Well, you have to understand that people suffered and died in those original towers and it becomes a symbolic/arbitrary thing after. I see why people wanted the towers rebuilt just as much as I see the reasons not to rebuild them. Also, I disagree because I believe rebuilding in the first place showed terrorists that they did not and cannot win. The towers were attacked because of economic power in the first place, and rebuilding shows economic strength/perseverance. The tower in itself is a success no matter how it looks; I understand your opinions nonetheless.
@@Hotters9060 It might seem like that now, but a building can't really be iconic with as young as the new World Trade Centre is. When the original towers were built, many people complained about them and said they did not fit New York's skyline(ie-they were "boxey" "out of place" "ugly"). Maybe it'll grow on you.
I can't even compare the Twin Towers with Freedom Tower... They were really beautiful and iconic, the best skyline that New York ever had, Minoru was a legend.
Bruno GELLER NYC just looks like another average city skyline.
The towers were largely considered a blight until the 9/11 attack. Not by everyone of course, but they were definitely controversial.
I really like the new WTC design. It's a good looking building!
@@Utonian21 me too
nah freedom is better twin towers are p#nis
Both towers of original wtc required over six stories of dirt to be removed for each towers foundation to be poured which would also include the subterranean garage below the towers. That dirt would cost too much to haul a great distance so they simply dumped it into the water and created the landfill that is now Battery Park. So tecnically a part of the world trade center is still here. Something to think about while you're strolling through battery park.
Bet. 90% clicked for World Trade Center(s)
@@ulrichfodze355 Remember one thing. Of the 3000 people killed, some were Muslim as well, those who committed that heinous atrocity simply viewed their brothers and sisters as 'collateral damage'.... Just goes to show how sick in the head the terrorists are. Nowhere in Islam are such acts permitted.
How'd you know?
Just facts my man. Best buildings ever
Hotters 7060 the secret service were there minutes before the collapse of WTC 7
@@ulrichfodze355 You are stupid and ignorant ! All the terrorist groups combined during the last 30 years killed less than 3% of the what Madeleine Albright said it's ok to kill in one case and that was before 911. ruclips.net/video/RM0uvgHKZe8/видео.html
It's impressive how forgotten the Singer Building is in NYC history. It's a building that definitely deserved attention in this video but it's not even represented.
Yes, that was missing here. It was demolished to make way for the original world trade center. The floor plans were too small and unable to meet the needs of modern office buildings, sadly. It was a very unusual design, with the top actually larger than the rest of the building, unlike most skyscrapers.
José Ortiz is correct. Singer building was replaced by One Liberty Plaza, across from Zuccotti Park, formerly Liberty Plaza Park, recently known for being the base camp of the Occupy Movement. Singer Building was gorgeous and very cool. I wish it had been kept, it was the tallest building in the world for about a year after it was built, 1908 - 1909.
it's referenced in the article that's linked in the description. City Investing Bldg, too
Agreed JP. The tearing down of The Singer Building about 1963 as a New York City architectural travesty just like tearing out the old Astor, Claridge, Drake, Ambassador, Biltmore and Savoy hotel. I won't even mention the destruction of the old Pennsylvania Station in 1962-66 to build that hot dog grease pit Madison Square Garden. Can you imagine how stately the Singer Building and her lit crown at night would look with late 19th, early twentieth century architecture and the new modern towers of the New World Trade Center Freedom Tower complex with the Municipal, Woolworth, Cities Services Building and the copper redo done in 1990 Bank of Manhattan at 40 Wall now one of Trump's Buildings????? The Singer Building would've looked like a beauty like the Con-Edison Building on 14th and Irving Place or the Metropolitan and Equitable Life beauties at Madison Square Park at 23rd and 25th Street along lower Madison Avenue.
I’ve just googled it and oh my god it is one of the most beautiful and unique building I’ve ever seen. It would be great if it was still here as it is just amazing.
4:10 The Twin Towers would be in green if 9/11 had never happened :(
If 911 had never happened ...
would this video have been made?
🤔
Kim Possible yea
@@K_impossible1 bruh ofc it would
No shit Sherlock. What an amazing comment. You are very smart.
@@muitnecsa3489 I know i am, unlike you lul
Non-New Yorkers be like “WHERES THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING???!1??” 😂
@TraviTrail because its not in lower Manhattan
Travitrail aren't you from Manhattan?😁
It's on 34th Street
Real New Yorkers be like "Where is the damn Singer Building."
No City Investing Building either.
HuH? I didn't even know that building even existed.
I wasn't even aware that the skyline keeps growing to this day. I always assumed it had always been there. When you look at it from the outside it looks like there is virtually no more room for skyscrapers.
Literally thought the same.. It’s quite impressive how they can fit all these sky scrapers on a 34 sq mile island.
Same here! I was thinking, "They're STILL building?!"
It looked pretty much built out when I called by in the 80s.
The way the music swells as the WTC is going up is kinda beautiful
3:15 Aw man..
Lump in throat when WTC disappeared
Larry Silverstein's idea of urban renewal.
WTC was partly a inside job. The support beams where cut on a angle day or days before the planes hit. And there where demolition charges that went off after the planes hit. Only way those buildings came straight down like a controlled demolition.
MuffHam omg you got to be shitting me.
@@MuffHam omg we got a "conspiracy theorist" here to explain how 9-11 was an inside job 😔😂 why would America destroy it's own building? Why would another country say it was them who did it if it was us. You are telling me that Osama bin laden was just some random dude who had nothing to do with 9-11?!?! 😭 i guess our educational system is really going downhill.
@@prestigedank0373 yes but actually no
The singer building NEEDS more love. It was one of the most beautiful building I’ve ever seen (in images) and it seems to be forgotten in New York history. It is so beautiful and I wish they never got rid of it.
I cried a little when the twin towers disappeared :.(
yeah that made me laugh so hard that it made me cry as well
we all did.
Al-Qaeda was the terrorist group that claimed responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.
@@alexlautzenheiser5024 they didn't do it
@@Dulcimerea 19 terrorists associated with Al-Qaeda hijacked 4 planes along the East Coast. 2 of them flew into the Twin Towers.
Superb video. Lower Manhattan skyline dramatically changed over the years. What about the Singer Building which was built in 1908 and once was world's tallest building? Beekman tower is visible but not mentioned. I really appreciate the way you cleverly and discreetly removed the Twin Towers. Looking forward to viewing the same video for Midtown.
"Cleverly and discreetly"
They did it with all other buildings, fade it out and down
They did mention Beekman tower but it was called New York by Gehry.
@hairharbor5080 Thanks 😊. Much appreciated
Can we appreciate the beauty of those towers.
When the towers and 7wtc disappeared. I frowned. Rip to everyone
Worked on 175 Water and the Continental., World Financial Center, the Millennium, and the Trade Center rebuild. 35 years in local 1456 Dockbuilders.& Piledrivers.
Matthew Miller Not if we keep writing comments about the towers for over 200 years.
3:10 Building 7 disappears first.
North Tower's antenna also appears together with the tower in 1973 when it was added only in 1979... not accurate
Cause it was close to the twin towers and when they collapsed it damaged Building 7 so the government decided to drop it cause it would’ve collapsed anyways
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@@benstaten3578 you keep thinking that lol
There's a lot messed up with this animation.
1901-1950 easily has the best architecture.
Yep, after that the buildings became ugly concrete and metal boxes
@U U were metal/concrete boxes too
U U wrong
Gotta love that Art Deco
@@adventure9119 yes art deco architecture is no longer being used in modern buildings...
Even after all these years it still shocked me that the Twin Towers disappeared in this vid...
Twins Towers are the beauties buildings in all New York’s history!!😭💔
I would love to visit them but I was born at 2005😩🇲🇽
They were amazing!!🤩💖
Andrea González i hope you’ll at least get to go to the memorial site someday, its really touching. Especially as it has the names of every victim carved into the walls by the fountains.
I was 5 years old on the 9/11, i remembee when i saw on the news the twin towers falling down, i love those buildings
Windows on the World ... the restaurant at the top of tower one.
I was 3 years old when 9/11 happened. I vaguely remember seeing it on TV. I've seen a bunch of old pics and videos. Beautiful towers
@@john4K47 110A
Here are missed ones (either not included or demolished and forgotten)
1905: 60 Wall Street, 27 stories (Demolished 1975 for the new 60 Wall Street)
1906: 2 Rector Street, 26 stories
1907: 90 West Street, 23 stories
1908: Singer Building, 41/47 stories (Demolished 1967-9 for One Liberty Plaza)
1908: City Investing Building, 34 stories (Demolished 1968 for One Liberty Plaza)
1910: Greater Whitehall Building, 31 stories
1910: Fidelity Casualty Building, 21 stories (Demolished 1968 for Zuccotti Park)
1928: Bank of New York Building, 48 Wall Street: 32 stories
1928: National City Bank Building, 52 Wall Street: 32 stories (Demolished 1982 for 60 Wall Street)
So where are the twin towers
Auschwism metlife
Don't you have any work to do?
Lol
Yes
The "Trump Building" wasn't built in 1930. It was called the "Bank of Manhattan Trust Building", then was bought over by Trump in 1995 and renamed.
DoomFinger511 It was probably just used for a more common name something we all would recognize my guess
@@cripline Yeah you're probably right. Just didn't want people thinking that Trump was building up real estate in Manhattan 100 years ago lol
DoomFinger511 His father could have.
@@car2004 Trumps father (Fred Trump) never built real estate outside of Brooklyn. He was too intimidated to make deals in Manhattan. Donald Trump was the first to buy a piece of land in Manhattan in 1980 when he bought the condemned Commodore Hotel and rebranded it the Hyatt Hotel.
However, too bad back in the mid-seventies he didn't polish up the outside façade instead of that mirrored monstrosity. @@DoomFinger511
3:16 ... The most terrible reality in the presentation.
I agree😢
@@Goblinoid-o Why are you so terrible?
I
Conservative Hamster You’re dumb
@Conservative Hamster what's wrong with you!!!??? Do you know how I feel because im a muslim
New York doesn’t look like New York without the twin towers :( Rip twin towers. 1966 - 2001
I was today's years old when I learned Verizon has been around this long...
Lets not forget. Tower 7 of the WTC fell too.
That was planned
@@leonbiebl5716 Yes, it's a theory but nobody knows what really happened.
TechnicLama 9/11 was planned by the government
@@mike_404 You conspiracy theorists are the core of my stupidity.
@@mike_404 That is not true, the cleanup cost over 100 million nd 2 billion to rebuild, so why would they plan it.
The twins really added a lot. The new building just isn't as bold. It needs 2 WTC baldly. Hope they build it soon.
Nicholas Reynolds it’s still on hold for now until an anchor tenant is found
Great job on this and thanks for sharing. I worked in over a dozen of those buildings in the Financial District between 2000-2015. Lots of great NYC memories from that time. Thanks again!
😪 WTC 1972 2001...
1973*
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@@YehudiAni613 yes I know which is why i said 1973 because thats when the first tower opened
vietnam
Wtf
I came here for the 2001 animations. And you didn't disappoint.
Watching this for the second time and I've just now noticed that Ground Zero is highlighted in green at the end...you kind of have to pause and look past the base of Freedom Tower.
didnt notice that
I'm a truck driver, the first time I made a delivery in New Jersey and saw the NYC skyline was absolutely incredible.
These buildings are impossibly massive!
I saw it at night and it was one of the greatest most amazing sights I have ever scene.
I've seen every major city in the US and none of them even come close to the scale of this skyline.
The only thing more impressive is the night sky at zero light pollution.
That borderline scared the shit out of me.
Everyone should visit NYC atleast one time in ther life, it Is very impressive.
3:15
WTC: "new york i don't feel so good"
Lmaoo sksksk thats fucked up hehe
Weird flex but okay
noax first of all that’s a dead meme 2nd of all that’s disrespectful.
@@gavinslatter cry more
@@noax7635 Sounds like you find this as a joke
The moment the twin towers just disappeared... 😢
The moment building 7 next to the towers dissapeared even tho it wasn't hit by a plane..
RGustavsson90 remember it collapse after carrying collapsed buildings
Lol
Don't worry they replaced with the freedom tower! :)
@@rnb75 no 2 wtc though
I lived there for two decades and it's my favorite city in the country and I've been all over. Your selection of music is perfect. It evokes our national power to build these.
They should have shown that Battery Park City did not exist before 1970 and was made with land reclamation.
Also after 1933-ish to 1960 not much development. Sad that 1933 is when the last of the beautiful buildings was built.
Good point. But, let’s not forget that Pearl Harbor caused us to redirect our available sources toward the effort. Hence the slow down.
More like the Great Depression 1929-1939, then WW2 immediately after.
Also, any one who’s played a city or transportation game knows that at times cities can spend decades building out instead of up. The 50s were known for their extreme new sprawling suburbs being built for retuning soldiers and that happened especially on Long Island.
@@Frost517 very good point.
Yeah, I was expecting the actual land to be shown changing, not just buildings being constructed.
I was hoping it would start from the beginning.
Unbelievably well done! Beyond excellent!
Video like that on Chicago would be great.
The Hudson River development was to extend all the way to 72nd Street. On the East River side it was to extend from Battery Park past the Brooklyn Bridge. Also much earlier Robert Moses wanted to build a Brooklyn/Battery Bridge but was denied by FDR.
4:12 Yellow was the time before the World trade centre
Green was when it was built
Blue was when it lived its life
and red was when it was gone.
No matter what the year, its presence is there and will never be forgotten.
You never mentioned one of the tallest and unknown buildings in 1950 that was a beautiful Art Deco piece being replaced with 60 a Wall Street building. It used to be a beautiful super high skyscraper (87 stories) and incredibly thin (12 meters around) after the first 37 stories that counted as a base to hold it. If you search up financial District 1950's then you will see just how tall it was; and yet no one remembers...
Art Deco city Architecture I can’t find anything of it. Can you send a link or tell me the name?
The Woolworth building is the most beautiful out of those.
Leader of the Lewish People wrong the world trade centers are no mater what people say idc world trade centers was just amazing towers
ツXPLOD Their stark brutalist design simply couldn’t compare with the glamor and exuberance of the neo-gothic planning exhibited in the Woolworth Building.
You should see the singer building
I wish they had designed the new twin tower like the original but obviously with stronger material and stuff. They were so iconic
Seems like this man done a lots of research... Let's appreciate this guy first 🙏🏼
Am I the only one who wanted to cry when the Twin towers dissapeared? :'(
yes
no
Have you read the rest of the comments
Yes
Nicely done and so cool with all the building info, I loved it.
It’s also cool to see a video I saw about buildings that also had several floors and were demolished to build bigger ones, which I, 48 years old, didn’t have the opportunity to see.
lol
I like how you didn't even reference the deletion of WTC.
Because he can’t just say it was planned by the government even though it was
Are you sure you would like to delete: "WorldTradeCenter.avi"?
Yes / No
Osama Bin Laden:
@@mike_404 bruh
Who gives a shit.
It's bot that
3:10 the music aligns pretty well with the world trade center, sounded somber
Beautiful to watch history in such detail.
Such a great video!
Very well done. Would be nice to see some stats on the decade with the most building. Cannot really tell from the color coding
This is really cool. I love watching it grow. Like a game of Cities Skylines!
I play that game on Xbox
I play that on PC
Very well done and interesting, as always.
That's great dude, I love it!
would be great to see this kind of animation with ALL buildings in NYC. That would be awesome. good for educational purposes.
When the World Trade Center towers vanished
I felt that
I didn’t see the Singer building. She was gorgeous! That was a huge loss in 1968. I still look for her in old photos of New York.
WOW!!! What an amazing job. Thank you for sharing.
Trank you. Very interesting. I had been on the roof of the twins 1995.
3:15 🇺🇸🥺
Thanks you for this amazing video full of history 🙏🏼💯👍🏼
Amazing. I wish there were more videos like this
I'm not one for the whole 9/11 thing, but seeing the twin towers just fade like that...
_Ouch._
@Conservative Hamster What's your point?
@Conservative Hamster How did you do that?
still love the empire state building most!
great video hopefully this gets more views
This is how you make an infographic (infovideo). This was flawless
Could’ve at least mentioned the destruction not just make it disappear like that ....
Well... would you rather see them fall ?
I guess the video's purpose is showing a timeline of Lower Manhattan skyline. Making a reference about what happened to twin towers would be a digression from what the video wants to show.
everyone else: here for the WTC
me: just wants to see what's been built since then.
This is beautifully done!
Amazing video... Thanks again for posting this.
2:01 twin towers
3:15 no twin towers...
you forgot the plane animations flying into wtc
Wow kid so funny, you deserve some sort of prize...
Totally loved this animation. Breaks everything down perfectly abt Lower Manhattan. I needed to see this...and im from New Jersey lololol😅.
Excellent work on this video.
If time traveling was real i want to go back before the twin towers get destroyed.
3:15 that hurts me alot
Wow...mind blowing...so much history... so many changes .. there was so much happening before I was born and this will continue for future generations
Good job. Do Evolution of the Middle Manhattan Skyline. :)
Everybody came for the World Trade Center eh?
M3ga Cuber no Canadian
Nope.
No not me.
AE911Truth
lol I wanted to see the chrysler building
2:03 c'mon this is what y'all wanted
it is magnificent this video¡¡¡ thanks a lot :-)
Fsntastic! Thanks for sharing
Damn bush was a great architect... getting rid of the old and building the new, now that’s one envisioning man.
why is there no empire state and Chrysler building?
I've never been to New York but I'm pretty sure it's because it's a timelapse of lower Manhattan(which I dont think the Chrysler and Empire state buildings are a part of)
Absolutely fantastic video
Now this was a cool video!
Am I the only one that didn’t click for the Twin Towers?
3:15 World Trade Center: ight imma head out
Great educational video. Thanks
Very good graphic. Love it!
03:15 ;-( They were built in the same year when I was born.
Ok Boomer
@@daggerman12 dead meme
2:00 for all you kids who clicked for the world trade center(s) e.e
Amazing Work. Thanks
Brilliantly done.