[REPOST] Learn About the George Washington Bridge's Origin in This Short 34-Second Video

From the very top of One World Trade Center, One World Observatory can see just about everything in New York City. While up on the 102nd floor, you can rent an iPad which has a special app on it containing augmented reality bits of information over the skyline you are seeing, plus these short, informative videos telling you what you are looking at. The One World Explorer app videos are now online, and in this one, learn the origins of the George Washington Bridge in just 34-seconds.

Check Out This Vintage Photograph of Bowling Green and Broadway Office Buildings Circa 1900

Bowling Green, New York, New York, ca. 1900
Bowling Green, New York, New York, ca. 1900
Photo: Imgur

Long before Charging Bull landed controversially at the Northern tip, long before the destruction of Fort Amsterdam which lied on its Southern face, long before it housed public protests against the British during the Colonial era, the small patch of land we now know as of Bowling Green was set aside in 1733 as the first public park in New York City, then called New Amsterdam.

In this vintage photograph captured about 167 years after the park's opening, we see Bowling Green and its surrounding office buildings on Broadway from above. Check out the specimen page on the Library of Congress for more info on the photograph.