Here's A Side-By-Side Comparison Of The Streets Of New York From The 1930s And Today

The New Yorker has put together a fascinating video that gives a side-by-side comparison of the roads of New York City from the 1930s and now
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This isn’t the first time The New Yorker has put together something like this. A little while ago, the publication created a comparison video showing the streets of LA from the 1940s and today, but this time, the difference is arguably much less striking.

Thanks to the explosion of building activity in Manhatten during the early 20th century, much of the city’s skyline as we know it today was already around in the ‘30s. It looks considerably busier in the modern footage though, and Times Square is shown to be vastly different place nearly 90 years ago.

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RodriguezRacer456 (Aventador SV) (Lambo Squad)

New York native here, never clicked this so fast

06/17/2017 - 12:24 |
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Not an NYC native but it was my first home in the states; so I totally feel you fam

06/17/2017 - 17:40 |
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Anonymous

Very interesting! Although I don’t think living in New York at that time would’ve been particularly great.

06/17/2017 - 12:27 |
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FUGL_S60 (Tesla Lover 800)

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Totally not! During the time in that video, it’s not far away till Germany bombed Poland and the whole f*cking war broke!

06/17/2017 - 16:25 |
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Tito_Not_Richard

Dang tht 1930 car was a early Audi/BMW driver

06/17/2017 - 12:29 |
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Yeah, this guy’s just taking up the whole road! Guess some driving regulations and rules were more lax/non-existent back then

06/17/2017 - 16:24 |
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And it’s really sad that those cars are usually only found in museums now

06/17/2017 - 16:26 |
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Anonymous

1930s definitely have less Prius than we are now….

06/17/2017 - 12:33 |
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Niko Ala-Rämi 🇫🇮

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That’s why climate is changing

06/17/2017 - 13:12 |
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Nerdy moustache

The one difference is that there are more Priuses. The car gods are not happy.

06/17/2017 - 17:06 |
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Whoami26

The feel when 30s new york has better drivers than india in 2017…and then findung people whining about how bad traffic then in ny was bad for critical damage

06/18/2017 - 08:41 |
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Anonymous

Or this:

06/18/2017 - 13:02 |
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