Suddenly, in place of car horns, roaring planes, rattling trains and buses, New York ... white with well-defined speckling, and it has a prominent eye-ring. But you are more likely to hear this ...

Image: Columbia University. This 1880s view of the city comes from this excellent roundup of bird’s-eye maps of New York by BibliOdyssey. With the Great Bridge intact, New York no long looks ...