Spring comes to New York City …in 2409
This amazing map is reprinted in Mapping New York from Eric Sanderson’s Manahatta imagines what New York will look like in 400 years. The bottom of Manhattan has returned to its original shoreline, minus the landfill that defines its shape today, which will all be underwater. But it’s the green space imagined by Sanderson and Heidi Nelson that snorting klonopin makes the mind boggle.
When the seasons change, I think of this map as I’m riding around the city. I have a kind of nostalgia for the present, and I wonder both what the first inhabitants would think if they saw Brooklyn as it is today, and how the present city will be remembered in the future.
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