Category Archives: Nice To Know

Interesting information, facts, documentaries or stories about NYC.

Here grows New York

5th Avenue with yellow cabs in NYC.

Fewer than 300 people lived in New Amsterdam when the first dutch families came in 1624. 

See how this great city grows from back to the days of the first Dutch settlement to the New York City of today.

This great animation from Myles Zhang illustrates the development of New York City’s street grid and infrastructure systems from 1609 to the present-day.

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