NEW YORK - 3D Timelapse

Wall Street was named after a real wall: a wooden wall around a tiny Dutch village. Watch the whole story, from a forest island in 1609 to the New York of today, as a 3D timelapse. 0:00 New York in 17 seconds 0:20 Mannahatta: forest, hills and the Lenape 0:50 Henry Hudson sails in 1:26 The Dutch arrive: New Amsterdam and the $24 deal 2:03 The wall that gave Wall Street its name 2:26 The English arrive: New York 3:07 1776: war and fire 3:39 The grid 4:05 The Erie Canal and the Great Fire 4:35 Central Park 4:51 Building the Brooklyn Bridge 5:46 The Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island 6:46 The race to the sky: Chrysler and Empire State 7:10 The United Nations and the Twin Towers 7:34 Hard times, then the comeback 8:01 September 11, 2001 8:28 One World Trade Center 8:59 New York today 9:16 Then and now 9:28 The whole story in 20 seconds Pictures: Wikimedia Commons, public domain; One World Trade Center photo: Steven Lek, CC BY-SA 4.0. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors. Terrain: Copernicus DEM. Music: Tam Lin, Transcendence, Skeleton Keys and Untold Stories by Alexander Nakarada (https://creatorchords.com) Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Adventure, Harmony and Sea Shanty 2 from Old School RuneScape (Jagex). Created under Microsoft's Game Content Usage Rules using assets from Age of Empires II. Not endorsed by or affiliated with Microsoft.