Compare neighborhoods
Side‑by‑side time travel
Put two corners of the city next to each other and scrub through history in sync. Watch how different parts of New York speed up, slow down, or stand still.
Times Square
The Crossroads of the World
2011
Bloomberg's Bold Bet
The pedestrian plaza experiment goes permanent. Folding chairs in the middle of Broadway. New Yorkers are skeptical; tourists are delighted.
Chinatown
Holding On
Pano ID Needed
Run python scripts/collect-panos.py to collect real historical panorama IDs.
2007
Dense, Chaotic, Alive
Sidewalk fish markets overflow onto Mott Street. Hand-painted signs stack three stories high. The smells, sounds, and colors are overwhelming in the best way.