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[VIDEO] World Metropolis: The Past and Future of New York

2025-10-16T12:00:00-04:00

Since 1898, New York has been a world city. And since 1918, it has often been called "the world city." There have been numerous speed bumps along the way—including the Great Depression, white flight to the suburbs, the rise of the defense industry in the South and West, the financial crisis of 1975-76, the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001, and the COVID-19 pandemic. What does the past suggest to us about the city’s current challenges? Will the epidemic do what previous crises could not do—end the primacy of the great metropolis?

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[VIDEO] 10 Reasons Why New York is Different From Other American Cities

2025-09-12T12:00:00-04:00

On this video we explore 10 ways which New York City is different than other American cities.

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[WATCH] What I Spend Living in NYC vs BALI (Shocking Results)

2025-02-07T12:00:00-05:00

Breaking down what I spend in a typical day living in NYC vs BALI

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[VIDEO] Where’s Worse For Your Wallet: New York or London?

2023-06-27T12:00:00-04:00

New York ranked one of the most expensive cities in the world in 2022 whereas London ranked 28th, according to Worldwide Cost of Living 2022 from Economist Intelligence. It would cost approximately $9,500 US dollars to maintain the same lifestyle as about $7,200 dollars would get you in London, according to data collection project Numbeo. Watch the video above to learn more about the cost of living in New York City and London and why people choose to live there despite the inflated price tag.

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[VIDEO] A Colorized Trip Around The World in the 1920s

2022-05-19T16:00:00-04:00

This great vintage film from the 1920s shows vintage scenes in streets of New York City and others. While the color and sound are not original, they were added to the video to enhance the scene. Check it out!

a time travel in streets of cities around the world 1920s - including , New York City, Chicago, San francisco, London, Berlin, Paris and more..

Video Restoration Process:
✔ FPS boosted to 60 frames per second
✔ Image resolution boosted up to HD
✔ Improved video sharpness and brightness
✔ Colorized only for the ambiance (not historically accurate)
✔added sound design only for the ambiance
✔restoration:(stabilisation,denoise,cleand,deblur)

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[INFOGRAPHICS] New York City is the Most Popular Book Setting for American Books

2022-05-12T12:00:00-04:00

American literature is big. It’s not easy to find your way around. So, Crossword-Solver used Goodreads data to build a new interactive tool for the armchair traveler: enter your zip code, and we’ll reveal the book set closest to you. Further down, we use the stats to discover the literary nature of each state and the towns where you’re most likely to find yourself in a book.

Key Findings
- New York City is the most common literary setting in the U.S., appearing prominently in 2,609 books.
- New York is also the most-seen state in literature, although California is number one if you discount both states’ top locations.
- Every novel set in Pearl Harbor is listed as ‘historical’ on Goodreads.
- 92.59% of all books set in Bloomington, Indiana, belong to the romance genre.

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[WATCH] World Metropolis: The Past and Future of New York

2022-04-20T16:00:00-04:00

Since 1898, New York has been a world city. And since 1918, it has often been called "the world city." There have been numerous speed bumps along the way—including the Great Depression, white flight to the suburbs, the rise of the defense industry in the South and West, the financial crisis of 1975-76, the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001, and the COVID-19 pandemic. What does the past suggest to us about the city’s current challenges? Will the epidemic do what previous crises could not do—end the primacy of the great metropolis?

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[WATCH] A Colorized Trip Around The World in the 1920s

2022-03-25T12:00:00-04:00

This great vintage film from the 1945 shows a short drive through Manhattan, down 8th Avenue. While the color and sound are not original, they were added to the video to enhance the scene. Check it out!

a time travel in streets of cities around the world 1920s - including , New York City, Chicago, San francisco, London, Berlin, Paris and more..

Video Restoration Process:
✔ FPS boosted to 60 frames per second
✔ Image resolution boosted up to HD
✔ Improved video sharpness and brightness
✔ Colorized only for the ambiance (not historically accurate)
✔added sound design only for the ambiance
✔restoration:(stabilisation,denoise,cleand,deblur)

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This Vintage Map From 1970 Shows New York City as the Center of the World

2021-03-18T12:00:00-04:00

Created by an anonymous artist back in 1970, this great illustrated vintage map shows New York City—well, mostly Manhattan—at the center of the world. The map is one of hundreds of unique digital specimens in the David Rumsey Map Collection.

Colored pictorial map of New York City with the buildings rendered as a bird’s-eye view in isometric perspective, presents detail view from New York City to the rest of the United States and the world showing New York as the center of the world, with a strip along Hudson River representing New Jersey, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Texas, Miami, and Washington, D.C. Flattened land masses labeled China, Japan and Russia, Ireland, England, France, Spain and Italy on left and right panels. Each buildings, restaurants, places of interest labeled. Shows Empire State building in top center and Statue of Liberty on lower cent of the map. Date estimated. No Publisher and cartographer.

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[VIDEO] Watch New York Expats Try L.A. Bagels

2020-05-26T12:00:00-04:00

New York City is known for our better pizza, our better bagels and our DGAF attitude towards food in lesser cities like Los Angeles.

Could some New York expatriates distinguish a New York Bagel from an L.A. one in a blind taste test? Watch this video from Buzzfeed to find out.

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