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Street View, Then & Now: New York's Fifth Avenue

This entertaining and educational site from the New York Public Library allows readers to explore Manhattan's Fifth Avenue using both photographs from 1911 and paired images from the current iteration of Google Maps. Readers may use the directives "go south," "go north," and "cross the street" to move through the parallel landscapes. The results are hypnotizing. In the opening image, the New York...

http://publicdomain.nypl.org/fifth-avenue/