New York Now and Then shows before and after photos from New York City shot 1872-1887 compared to my photos shot 2013 and 2014. New York Now and Then includes photographs of New York from between 1872 and 1887, and then and now part is in regard to the fact that I shot the images in present day in the same locations.
This short film New York Now and Then pays tribute to a forgotten 19th century photographer. Be sure to also watch the behind the scenes video New York Now and Then: The Documentary.
Behind the scenes film:
Original trailer:
Shot and Edited by
Jordan Liles
Music in “New York Now and Then”
Composed by Claude Debussy
Performed by Frederic Bernard
Music in “The Creation of” Video
“30 Minute Meditative State”
Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com
End Credits Music in “The Creation of” Video
“Sidewalks of New York”
Composed by Charles B. Lawlor
Performed by Jordan Liles
Special Thanks, Image Credits and Inspiration:
Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, New York Public Library
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
The Brooklyn Institute
Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection
Green-Wood Cemetery
Museum of the City of New York
The New York Historical Society
Long Island Historical Society
Theta Xi
Special Thanks, Image Credits and Inspiration:
Lois Fischer Black
George Bradford Brainerd
Ric Burns
Anthony Caruso
Rachel Danzing
Tracie Davis
Melanie Evans
Lynn Ferrara
Thomas Rushmore French
Adi Goldstein
Henry Goodyear
Ruth Orr Graydon
Henry W.B. Howard
Brian Keane
Moses King
Clara Lamers
Wallace Goold Levison
Stephen Low
Clark S. Marlor
Barbara Head Millstein
Julie C. Moffat
The Moffat Family
Terri O’Hara
Liz Reynolds
Naomi Rosenbum
Carol Rusk
William Schmid
Harriet Senie
Marthe Smith
Marie Cimino Spina
Henry R. Stiles
Jack Termine
Irene Tichenor
Judith Walsh
Herman de Wetter
Elisabeth White
Dan Wilson
Deborah Wythe
Bonnie Yochelson
Some people are asking for a slower video, which is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U083YeeTOvE. Others want to know the locations of the photos. Here ya go:
Photo #1
Google Maps coordinates: 40.6891405,-73.9814919
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6892989,-73.9819302,3a,75y,318.72h,91.68t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1souonVLtLii1Qhocn8jYoWA!2e0
Photo #2
Google Maps coordinates: 40.686753,-73.996041
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.686753,-73.996041,3a,75y,213.64h,93.45t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sy6nMTBrCDWVyU6DhphZomA!2e0
Photo #3
Google Maps coordinates: 40.650616,-73.9534146
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.650616,-73.9534146,3a,75y,151.47h,100.03t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s0rJfQRWN_7MdXzwWk3lpug!2e0
Photo #4
Google Maps coordinates: 40.6860492,-73.9962178
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6860492,-73.9962178,3a,75y,324.94h,91.3t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sIuF0Hb5C-zuTtwVP7eoNFQ!2e0
Photo #5
Google Maps coordinates: 40.6606499,-73.965181
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6606499,-73.965181,3a,31.9y,279.34h,88.7t/data=!3m5!1e1!3m3!1s2izG2W-mCXbfmJFtyHyrxg!2e0!3e5
Photo #6
Google Maps coordinates: 40.775333,-73.972667
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.775333,-73.972667,3a,41.1y,73.98h,89.02t/data=!3m5!1e1!3m3!1sxND4oa0x77IAAAQWmqTpnA!2e0!3e11
Photo #7
Google Maps coordinates: 40.6584474,-73.9648038
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6584474,-73.9648038,70m/data=!3m1!1e3
No Street View available in this part of Prospect Park
Photo #8
Google Maps coordinates: 40.6923687,-73.9897991
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6923687,-73.9897991,3a,15y,338.86h,88.82t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s7pfm70FrzSMGIT9-yh296Q!2e0
Photo #9
Google Maps coordinates: 40.6503507,-73.9589646
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6503507,-73.9589646,3a,49.2y,56h,92.33t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s97IZqjQtkeneg15IMIwnSA!2e0
Photo #10
Google Maps coordinates: 40.692934,-73.9902651
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.693024,-73.9907398,3a,75y,53.69h,92.6t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1scA4SCG_HfTa_uece192jKQ!2e0
http://www.green-wood.com/2012/brooklyns-city-now-borough-hall/
Photo #11
Google Maps coordinates: 40.6485681,-73.9571933
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6485681,-73.9571933,3a,75y,47.98h,95.91t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s-xOUtl_HHGubTiKioQXzEA!2e0
Photo #12
Google Maps coordinates: 40.7020739,-73.9959887
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7014024,-73.9956246,3a,28.8y,16.93h,94.77t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sByeqHtd-dk7qU0A4Y8aWMQ!2e0
Photo #13
Google Maps coordinates: 40.690484,-73.9844297
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.690484,-73.9844297,3a,75y,153.56h,94.39t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1szXg6ynh3hq7ziVMFoSrjFA!2e0
Photo #14
Google Maps coordinates: 40.692082,-73.9912195
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.692082,-73.9912195,3a,31y,44.69h,92.63t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sS2KKB04rBhyF3IRQAL9g_w!2e0
Photo #15
Google Maps coordinates: 40.6728312,-73.9663358
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6728312,-73.9663358,3a,75y,164.75h,93.68t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s3ICRexKHmHYAXbjiVk3rFA!2e0
Photo #16
Google Maps coordinates: 40.6504921,-73.9563483
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6504921,-73.9563483,3a,75y,152.4h,96.86t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sS-E9tE24YzJVNAQDC2LDCA!2e0
Photo #17
Google Maps coordinates: 40.6928166,-73.9896818
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.692385,-73.9899037,3a,17.7y,6.11h,89.72t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sBHqU9exq60QmVGO4JvlAWQ!2e0
Photo #18
Google Maps coordinates: 40.7737368,-73.9708287
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7737368,-73.9708287,3a,31.6y,3.11h,84.02t/data=!3m5!1e1!3m3!1sK8SVZnXucAlNmmgzt-8WIw!2e0!3e5
Photo #19
Google Maps coordinates: 40.6924202,-73.990131
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6924202,-73.990131,3a,49.9y,292.3h,89.77t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sIDJn7xARRxmpKNZzRd1zTg!2e0
Photo #20
Google Maps coordinates: 40.6569713,-73.9910899
No Google Street View in Green-Wood Cemetery
Photo #21
Google Maps coordinates: 40.7173045,-73.9990378
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7173045,-73.9990378,3a,75y,322.22h,89.74t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sXMkZQj2gkItaoz9CPObTnA!2e0
Photo #22
Google Maps coordinates: 40.7010977,-73.9950096
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7010977,-73.9950096,3a,75y,21.34h,88.45t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sy0Xck3jBhcloVu3OOXcBCg!2e0
Photo #23
Google Maps coordinates: 40.671114,-73.9677736
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6710118,-73.9679976,3a,75y,237.42h,96.33t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s5FNsLoo3GdDUnFmJ-mofhw!2e0
Photo #24
Google Maps coordinates: 40.7127357,-74.0070365
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7130043,-74.0073045,3a,17.4y,111.79h,91.48t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sixPQ1EAmB9BvrXYQn3ioKA!2e0
Photo #25
Google Maps coordinates: 40.7025487,-73.993718
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7025487,-73.993718,3a,50.8y,331.4h,93.91t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sxzbQ65PPbNRdVwacdw45MQ!2e0
Photo #26
Google Maps coordinates: 40.6617417,-73.9675623
Small Waterfall: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6617417,-73.9675623,3a,38.7y,298.56h,83.36t/data=!3m5!1e1!3m3!1s9UNID-MO28yMUtC0g7lO2A!2e0!3e5
Binnen Falls: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.661756,-73.9662777,3a,75y,166.05h,68.6t/data=!3m5!1e1!3m3!1swg5m2BPFdVCHUzrQrLc3Hw!2e0!3e5
Photo #27
Google Maps coordinates: 40.7742089,-73.9715075
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7740936,-73.9716544,3a,42y,98.98h,84.61t/data=!3m5!1e1!3m3!1sj4lvEgqjlXvOJOqCfD2zaw!2e0!3e5
Photo #28
Google Maps coordinates: 40.6723584,-73.9684586
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.672486,-73.9689756,3a,75y,327.8h,95.15t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s15KzgmPnQ0Ds-b7LYLHKKw!2e0
so still a shit hole
Great, now I’m scared of New York thanks
Just imagine if it were a time lapse of then and now . That'd be awesome!
Why they doing it backwards it should be from old to new😒
Better world then than now… for MANY reasons!! Hands down!
I appreciate this!
He died at age 42!?
Them trees like me… ain’t change for shit
Excellent short film production!
Fascinating!
"They" say one tends to always look at the past as if it were a better time in history, yet conviently dismiss the conflicts and concerns of that increment in time. Fair enough but the way the world is today its not just that people are harsher its than there arent rules/standards that should they be broken, the person who did something wrong would also be rejected completely by society as a "morally corrupt" person. Now one simply has to be poor to suffer the same treatment that had previously been reserved for those who actually did something wrong. They mistreated the poor up until the 20th century and for the next 100 years. Now we've come full circle, today, if you are poor you are looked upon as morally corrupt once again. YOur thoughts?
I didnt thought cities (even such a big one as New York) where so developed back then as these pictures show.
I wish someone would make a video about how daily life was in the 1870s.. not New York so much as the old west though. In it, they should explain the economy, businesses and prices of goods and housing, favorite foods, what sort of jobs there were, how men courted women, what weddings were like, child birthing, dr visits and housecalls, mail, and international and national travel.. plus whatever else they could think of.. I've yet to find a video that attempts such a feat.
How did ur go back to take those pictures? What app u used? iPhone????
Well we're here know these are our times let's enjoy life on the good way we only live once
That is amazing, an image taken on the same spot 120+ years apart. And in that time every person, every cat, dog, mouse, bird, ant, fly, fish, dolphin, all of it around the world died. All of it.
just think of all the people that has lived and died , New York must be hunted..
In 100 years from now someone will be doing a comparison video (with government permission) on how things were in 2019-2020. Viewers will request permission to leave a comment about the green haired hipster and the lady walking and texting.
Beautiful
Clair De Lune, Great Mozart Choice….