Posted on January 28, 2010, 7:52am by Dyske Suematsu

The School Building in 1924

New York City’s website has an amazing interactive map that lets you compare the current satellite image of the city with the high resolution aerial photograph from 1924. The image you see on the right is our school building in 1924 compared to the satellite image today. You can see that, on the same block and the surrounding blocks, the only building still standing is our school.

On the interactive map, you can click on the camera icon to slide the time selector to see how the area changed over time. They did an amazing job aligning the aerial photo with the satellite photo.

I also discovered that they demolished a long series of buildings along Houston Street to make the street wider. Check out how your own block looked back in 1924.

http://gis.nyc.gov/doitt/nycitymap/