A new exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York uses computer simulations and visualization to show what Manhattan island looked like when it was first discovered back in 1609.
The show’s imagery, created by Markley Boyer, even allows us to envision Manhattan as it might have looked in 1609, when Henry Hudson and his men sailed past. It was a verdant paradise. Its temperate climate and its location atop an estuary, where freshwater and saltwater meet, created, Mr. Sanderson suggests, a habitat of extraordinary diversity.
