The INSIDER Summary:
• In the past 100-plus years, New York City has changed drastically. But in other surprising ways, it looks the same.
• Here are some photos of NYC landmarks and important spots circa 1900 compared to today.
New York has been one of the world's biggest and most important cities for centuries. Even in the year 1900, it was a sprawling metropolis.
Since then, it's only grown. The towers are taller and more tightly close together, there's more people than ever before, and billboards sweep across the city's buildings.
We dug into the Library of Congress photo catalog and found some images of New York City landmarks and important spots from around the year 1900, then and compared them to what they look like today. Some of the dates aren't precise because the year the photos were taken in are unknown. Nonetheless, the comparisons demonstrate just how much the city has changed — and how it's surprisingly stayed the same.
Drag the slider tool across each image to compare how the same places look — 100 years apart.
Times Square has changed a lot in the past century. It's still the center of theater life — but it's now a lot more commercialized.
Sheep Meadow in Central Park used to have actual sheep!
A hundred years ago, people were playing tennis in the park's tennis court. It's since gotten a bit of an update.
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