Zooming out to view this 1836 map of New York in full, the map’s artistic ... “Basically that topography was obliterated, except for Central Park.” The park wasn’t in the original plan ...

No, the ghostly white spikes are New York skyscrapers surrounding an unearthly ... movie is Manhattan as seen by NASA’s Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). The image is available at http ...