NYC 🗽 Evolution Timelapse

New York City

Evolution of the Lower Manhattan Skyline

100+ Years of Evolution of  Manhattan FiDi Skyline
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100+ years of evolution of the Manhattan FiDi skyline. 

1. The Equitable Building – Year built: 1915
Its shadow blocked sunlight from so many properties, that the ensuing uproar resulted in the 1916 Building Zone Resolution, which dictated future towers be built with setbacks and stepped façades.

2. 39 Broadway – Year built: 1928
Built on the site formerly occupied by the Alexander Macomb House, which briefly served as the Second Presidential Mansion for the George Washington household in 1790.

3. 40 Wall Street – Year built: 1930
Part of the three-story penthouse Trump residence was used as a filming location for the 1997 movie The Devil's Advocate.

4. 70 Pine Street – Year built: 1932
One of the last Art Deco towers to be built in NYC, was the first to employ the innovative double-deck elevator system, of which there are still very few in the world.

5. 28 Liberty – Year built: 1963
Lower Manhattan's first International Style skyscraper, envisioned by David Rockefeller as a striking contrast to the sea of 19th-century spires dotting the skyline.

6. 55 Water Street – Year built: 1973
The 3.64 million-square-foot structure is the largest in New York City by floor area, with One World Trade Center as its closest contender.

7. AT&T Long Lines Building at 33 Thomas Street – Year built: 1974
The brutalist building was designed to withstand nuclear fallout, and to make it possible for 1,500 people to survive inside its walls for up to two weeks.

8. Brookfield Place (World Financial Center) – Year built: 1986
Built on landfill consisting mostly of dirt excavated for the construction of World Trade Center. The complex has its own zip code: 10281.

9. 60 Wall Street – Year built: 1989
Bears the world’s tallest roof-mounted solar array – 737 feet above street level – commissioned by Deutsche Bank in 2011.

10. 7 World Trade Center – Year built: 2006
Set the standard for the new World Trade Center master plan. Was the first commercial building in NYC to receive a LEED Certification (Gold).

Head over to www.commercialcafe.com for more skyline features and all things commercial real estate.

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 Future NEW YORK 

Biggest Mega Project - 2020

New York city ,the biggest city in the united states(USA) will have the honor to welcome the biggest mega project named Hudson Yards for 2020. It will include 6 skyscrapers ,a mall,school subway station and more.
the New York  skyline will never be the same again.The future is there.It's the most expensive real estate project too in the us.
The first phase will be completed before 2020.
The whole project will be completed before 2030

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CGI Timelapse

New York City 2016 - 1811

The shot rewinds New York City from present day to its early days, showing the port city in 1811.

To create the shot we built NYC as complex computer generated (CGI) models in different decades. To add to the complexity, many of the construction of the buildings is animated and played in reverse.VFX Supervisor - Nigel Hunt

I create content to engage global audiences for world-leading brands, with expertise in Real Estate, Film and Television.

For more information or licencing please contact; nigelbhunt@gmail.com

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How highways wrecked American cities

The Interstate Highway System was one of America's most revolutionary infrastructure projects. 

It also destroyed urban neighborhoods across the nation. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO 

The 48,000 miles of interstate highway that would be paved across the country during the 1950s, '60s, and '70s were a godsend for many rural communities. But those highways also gutted many cities, with whole neighborhoods torn down or isolated by huge interchanges and wide ribbons of asphalt. Wealthier residents fled to the suburbs, using the highways to commute back in by car. That drained the cities' tax bases and hastened their decline. 

So why did cities help build the expressways that would so profoundly decimate them? 

The answer involves a mix of self-interested industry groups, design choices made by people far away, a lack of municipal foresight, and outright institutional racism.

Read more on Vox: https://www.vox.com/2015/5/14/8605917...

And see before-and-after maps of how highways changed cities like Cincinnati, Detroit, and Minneapolis: https://www.vox.com/2014/12/29/746055... 

Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines.

Check out http://www.vox.com

Alexia's Shado:
My first childhood home was 420 Tahoe St., Rialto, Ca. You can search it now and find it dead center of a freeway. The city destroyed my home and the entire neighborhood in the mid-1980's to build a freeway. This was a poorer, mostly white neighborhood, and no one was happy about the news. It led to my mother buying a house they couldn't afford, and when she realized her blunder, she took me and left my father. The divorce and subsequent bankruptcy destroyed him and he escaped into heavy drug use, which he served prison time for. My life got worse from the divorce onward until I ended up on the streets and then into foster care. Did it all happen because of the freeway? No, but it certainly was a catalyst for some major and awful changes to my family. Had we stayed, I know life would be very different in some way. I never thought about it until now, seeing this. Displacing poor families rarely leads to good things.

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Natural Insomnia 🛌Cures

🛌 20 Natural Insomnia Cures 🛏
And the Science Behind Them

by Joe Auer - September 27, 2019

If you have trouble sleeping at night, you’re not alone. Roughly 60 million Americans suffer from insomnia each year.

If you fall into this camp, never fear. We’ve put together a guide featuring 20 natural insomnia cures. With any luck, some of these options will offer the aid you need to enjoy better sleep.

What Is Insomnia?

Simply put, insomnia happens when you have trouble going to sleep or staying asleep. You may also wake up early and have a difficult time going back to sleep after waking up in the middle of the night.

The Mayo Clinic lists the following as other common symptoms of insomnia:

• Not feeling well-rested after a night’s sleep
• Daytime tiredness or sleepiness
• Irritability, depression, or anxiety
• Difficulty paying attention, focusing on tasks, or remembering things
• Increased errors or accidents
• Ongoing worries about sleep

There are two basic types of insomnia: acute and chronic. Acute insomnia occurs when you have a hard time sleeping for three nights a week for a duration of anywhere from two weeks up to three months. If you are having these issues for more than three months, then you enter chronic insomnia territory.

While 60 million Americans deal with insomnia yearly, they’re not all experiencing the same type of insomnia. A new study at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine discovered that, out of a cohort of insomniacs, around 75 percent recovered within 12 months and had no further issues. Twenty-one percent reported occasional bouts of insomnia, and six percent dealt with continuing chronic insomnia.

Thus, the national rate of insomnia may vary a bit depending on whether you’re talking about acute or chronic insomnia.

 

What Causes Insomnia?

There are many reasons you might not be sleeping. It’s possible these factors might be very specific to an individual’s situation, but in many cases, insomnia is brought on by one or several common causes. Here are some of the most common reasons why people develop insomnia.

Stress

Stress can come in many forms, and they can all lead to insomnia (both acute and chronic). Traumatic events, such as a death in the family, can disturb your sleep. Or worries about finances, family, and work could keep you up at night.

Work stress, in particular, is a major culprit when it comes to poor sleep.

Accountemps, a global staffing firm, surveyed 2,800 American workers about work and sleep quality. Out of this group, 44 percent said they lost out on sleep because they were thinking about work. This group cited trouble with their boss or coworkers and worry about job security as their main stressors.

Meanwhile, a recent study at the University of Iowa found that being a bad coworker could also be a cause for insomnia. In a release, lead researcher Zhenyu Yuan said, “After people engage in bad workplace behaviors, they come to realize such bad deeds threaten their positive moral self-image, which creates stress. As a result, they may keep ruminating over their stress from work, and thus have trouble falling and staying asleep at night.”

Travel

While there are some lucky people who can sleep anytime and in any place, most of us deal with acute insomnia when we travel. This is most likely because we tend to have difficulty sleeping in a new place.
A 2017 study from Brown University found that we are more alert during our first night in a new location. Researchers observed that subjects reacted to random sounds more during the first night and less during the second night. If you travel a lot, you could be waking up more as your body is no

Along with the change of location, the jet lag can throw off your circadian rhythm as well. Our circadian rhythm is like a body clock that controls our sleep/wake cycles, and it is seriously affected by time changes.

Changing Work Schedules

Irregular work schedules also affect our circadian rhythms and can lead to insomnia. Shift workers, such as nurses and doctors, are particularly susceptible as they move from day to night shifts constantly.

Some people have irregular sleep schedules because of work and other commitments. Others can sleep and wake when they like, and end up setting an unhealthy schedule in the meantime.

This is a major issue in teens, who can be known to stay up late and sleep in late. A recent study at the University of Hong Kong found that, out of a group of night owl teens, 23 percent reported struggling with insomnia. Only 18 percent of a group of morning-types reported any issues with insomnia.

Using Technology Before Bed

This is more of a recent phenomenon, but it can be common practice to use technology such as cell phones and tablets right before bed. This can have adverse effects on sleep quality.

The main reason cell phones, laptops, and tablets affect sleep is due to the blue light they emit. This light has been shown to interfere with our circadian rhythm.

During a recent study, which was published in the journal Physiological Reports, researchers compared the quality of sleep in subjects on nights where they used light-emitting technology and nights without. On nights when they were able to use their tablets and phones, the subjects went to bed 30 minutes later on average, fell asleep later, and said they felt more awake before bed and more tired after waking.

Their melatonin levels were also suppressed, and the secretion of melatonin was delayed. Melatonin is a hormone that is produced by our pineal gland. It helps regulate our sleep-wake cycle.

The authors of the study explained: “In the evening hours around bedtime, light exposure suppresses melatonin secretion and causes a phase delay shift in circadian rhythm timing such that melatonin secretion is reset to begin at a later time on subsequent nights.”

Coffee And Alcohol

It’s no secret that too much coffee (or caffeine in other forms) can keep you up at night.

How does this happen? First, the caffeine in coffee tricks your body into thinking you are not tired by affecting receptors in your nervous system.

Also, coffee is a diuretic, which means it increases your need to urinate. This can wake you up over the course of the night.

While coffee works quickly and can have immediate effects on sleep quality, there are also potential long-term impacts that coffee can have on our sleep quality. Researchers at Seoul University in South Korea discovered that a lifetime of coffee drinking could shrink our pineal gland, limiting the amount of melatonin it can secrete. This, in turn, could increase our chances of developing insomnia in our golden years.

Alcohol, on the other hand, can be tricky. We have a glass of wine before bed and believe it helps us sleep. And it’s true that alcohol might help us drift off to sleep. However, like coffee, alcohol can actually increase our chances of insomnia throughout the night.

That’s true for several reasons. For starters, alcohol is also a diuretic, so it can cause you to wake up during the night in order to head to the bathroom.

In addition, as a 2010 study at Taipei Medical University found that alcohol can affect our circadian rhythm and interfere with our sleep-wake cycle. While it may feel like alcohol puts you to sleep, it can actually increase your chances of waking up throughout the night and experiencing insomnia.

In fact, one 2018 study from the journal JMIR Mental Health found that even one alcoholic drink could interfere with your ability enjoy high-quality sleep. Meanwhile, another 2018 study from the Journal of Neurochemistry found that just one night of binge drinking could impair sleep quality for up to two days afterward.

The Negative Effects Of Insomnia

Besides the exhaustion, there are some more serious issues that can arise when you are dealing with insomnia.

Dangers On The Job

As noted above, one of the symptoms of insomnia is an increased risk of accidents or difficulty focusing on the job.

If you sit at a desk, you may send an email with bad grammar. If you work with heavy machinery or operate on patients, the effects of sleep deprivation can be much more catastrophic.

A recent study looked at the effects of sleep deprivation among medical professionals. The researchers followed 33 new medical residents for eight months. The study, which was published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, compared the two months before residency with the first six months of residency. On average, the residents lost 2 hours and 48 minutes of sleep each week and reported worse moods.

Increased Chance Of Car Accidents

Insomnia can cause drowsiness, and drowsy drivers can be dangerous on the road.

One 2018 study from the journal SLEEP reported that drivers who slept for less than seven hours a night were significantly more likely to cause an auto accident.

Additionally, a report by the AAA Foundation For Traffic Safety found that 9.5 percent of all crashes are caused by a drowsy driver.

Mental And Physical Health Issues

Insomnia has also been linked to major health issues.

For instance, according to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, “Insomnia is associated with reduced quality of life as well as depression. In turn, depression can lead to sleep problems. Insomnia can also lead to feelings of anxiety, frustration, hopelessness, exhaustion, and an inability to concentrate.”

Besides these mental ailments, insomnia and sleep deprivation have also been linked to a range of serious health conditions including high cholesterol, breast cancer, and Alzheimer’s.

On the other hand, one 2018 study, which was conducted by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, found a possible link between healthy sleep and a decreased chance of Alzheimer’s. During sleep, our system flushes out beta-amyloids, a plaque that has been associated with the disease. The researchers concluded insomnia and poor sleep could increase the risk of developing Alzheimer’s.

Overall

Insomnia can be a frustrating condition that results in fatigue (at best) or more severe mental and physical conditions (at worst). While the 20 natural remedies outlined here may improve your odds of enjoying quality sleep, it’s important to consult a medical professional if you’re struggling with persistent insomnia. They’ll be able to support you in developing the habits and tools you need to enjoy sound sleep on a regular basis.

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NYC 🗽Footprint Amid The COVID-19🛫Outbreak

🛫 NYC's Footprint 🛫

Amid The COVID-19 Outbreak

We analyzed movement of mobile devices active in the heart of NYC across the United States just days ago in March. What we saw was a stark picture of just how far a single city's footprint can stretch, and why it is so important we adhere to #socialdistancing. #StayInside

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Continuing our look at #SocialDistancing impact on #COVID19 ... This week @NYGovCuomo took decisive action calling for New Yorkers to #StayHome We took a look at mobile device movement leaving NY this week and the data shows strict policy is needed!

 

Americans traveled despite warning

This heat map reveals that mobile devices traveled not just around the country but across the world two days after Gov. Andrew Cuomo told New Yorkers to stay at home.

The system is then used to track the devices as they continue to travel. The heat was spreading to the East Coast, Great Lakes, Gulf of Mexico, the southern states, and even similarly west.

It also showed the extent to which just one metropolitan location can result in an extra spread across the world. 

Data points are cropping up in almost every state - including Mexico, Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and Haiti.

 Below is the final scary result of the visualization. 

 

This visualization was created by Tectonix, which specializes in visualization of massive data sets; data was collected by location technology company X-Mode. The visualization was created by accessing location data for thousands of cell-phones over the month of March and using special geo-spatial big-data analysis software. 

 

The data was anonymized to hide user identification. For those who are alarmed by privacy concerns, keep in mind that our location data is available minute-by-minute to cell-phone companies, whether we like or not. (And they also have access to the searches we make, the sites we visit and the texts we write).

The company noted the mobile device movement was leaving New York this week. "The data shows that strict policy is needed!' Tectonix said.

The agencies observed up with statistics on Seattle, wherein the U.S. experienced its first outbreak and Rome, the capital of Italy in which Europe's worst outbreak has been seen.

Companies have stated that the mobile phone information is anonymous and is gleaned from data' aggregated at the dvertising ID level and associated with the device and not a physical person.'

'We by no means collect, handle, or shop for my part identifiable records (PII), along with your name, cellphone number, email, date of birth, or gender,' the enterprise's website online states.

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Below is the final scary result of the visualization.

Spring Break ✈️Where those Phones🌎Traveled
 ✈️ Spring Break vs. COVID19 🛌
The Real Impact of Ignoring Social Distancing

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https://paulcpw.blogspot.com/2020/03/spring-break-where-those-phonestraveled.html

 

Spring Break ✈️Where those Phones🌎Traveled

✈️ Spring Break vs. COVID19 🛌
The Real Impact of Ignoring Social Distancing

Tectonix GEO @TectonixGEO

Want to see the true potential impact of ignoring social distancing?

Through a partnership with @xmodesocial, we analyzed secondary locations of anonymized mobile devices that were active at a single Ft. Lauderdale beach during spring break. 

🌎This is where they went across the US🌎

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A new “heat map” using cellphone location data shows the terrifying consequences of Florida’s beaches remaining open during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
As you can see in the video, cellphones on a single beach in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, during spring break were selected and tracked, and then seen sprawling all over the Eastern half of the country, potentially spreading the virus even further.

The video was created to show human movement during the coronavirus pandemic and uses data collected by a location technology company called X-Mode, which was then put into the Tectonix data visualization platform.

There’s a few takeaways here.

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This is just one beach, in one small part of the country. The same companies also released a graphic for New York, which is much much worse. 

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Social distancing works and is important. Had these spring breakers, and others across the country, actually cared in the beginning of this outbreak, we wouldn’t have to endure countless apology posts.

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Your cellphone gives off a ton of data, and while this type of data isn’t specifically inked to your identity, it’s incredibly easy for anyone to “re-identify” people to their phones. This is troubling to say the least.

Florida Spring Break

Location Data of Phones During. 

Then Shows 

✈️  Where those Phones Traveled! ✈️ 
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What Coronavirus Symptoms Look Like

🧬 Day By Day 🧬

After being exposed to the virus that causes COVID-19, it can take as few as two and as many as 14 days for symptoms to develop.

Cases range from mild to critical.

The average timeline from the first symptom to recovery is about 17 days, but some cases are fatal.

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 https://paulcpw.blogspot.com/2020/03/what-coronavirus-symptoms-look-like.html

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🛫 NYC's Footprint 🛫
Amid The COVID-19 Outbreak
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 https://paulcpw.blogspot.com/2020/03/nyc-footprint-amid-covid-19outbreak.html

What Coronavirus🧪Symptoms Look Like

What Coronavirus Symptoms Look Like

Day By Day

After being exposed to the virus that causes COVID-19, it can take as few as two and as many as 14 days for symptoms to develop. 

Cases range from mild to critical. 

The average timeline from the first symptom to recovery is about 17 days, but some cases are fatal. 

Here's what it looks like to develop COVID-19, day by day.

 

Bill Gates makes a prediction

about when coronavirus cases will peak

Bill Gates, co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, weighs in on the coronavirus pandemic, saying the number of US cases has not yet peaked and the country won't likely be able to return to normal life by April.

Ventilators Made From🐳Snorkeling Masks

The Ventilators

🐬Made From Snorkeling Masks🐳

Italian engineers make emergency medical gear with 3D-printed valves to help hospitals battle corona-virus

1. A startup firm based in Brescia, in the crisis-hit region of Lombardy, is making the emergency ventilators
2. The crucial part of the equipment is the 3D-printed 'Venturi valve' connecting the mask to an oxygen tube
3. The company is gearing up to make 100 of the valves a day and supply them for free to local hospitals
4. Coronavirus symptoms: what are they and should you see a doctor?

Italian engineers are making ventilators out of diving masks and fitting them with 3D-printed respiratory valves in an inventive plan to keep hospitals supplied at the height of the coronavirus crisis.

A Brescia-based startup firm has offered the contraptions for free to local hospitals in the region of Lombardy which is at the centre of Europe's worst virus outbreak.

The crucial part of the equipment is the 3D-printed 'Venturi valve', a device named after 18th-century physicist Giovanni Battista Venturi which connects the mask to an oxygen tube.

The company is gearing up to make 100 of the chess piece-like valves per day and hand them out to medics who are trying to bring the crisis under control.    

Engineer Alessandro Romaioli wears a diving mask which has been modified with a respiratory valve - meaning it can be used as a respiratory mask to help coronavirus patients

 

Italian engineer Romaioli demonstrates the mask in Brescia today. The valve is 3D-printed and attached to the tube and mask to make a ventilator for Italian hospitals which are running short

Four of the respiratory valves are displayed in Brescia.

 

Cristian Fracassi, the founder of the startup firm Isinnova, offered his company's services after hearing about the valve shortage by word of mouth.

'We were told the hospital was desperately looking for more valves. They're called Venturi valves and are impossible to find at the moment, production can't keep up with demand,' said Fracassi, 36.

The valves connect oxygen masks to respirators used by coronavirus patients suffering from respiratory complication.

Respiratory problems are among the most severe symptoms of Covid-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus which has killed more than 5,400 people in Italy.  

But some patients have had to be treated in makeshift hospital conditions as virus cases pile up, prompting a desperate appeal for more equipment.  

1. Pictured left: CEO Cristian Fracassi and engineer Alessandro Romaioli pose for a photo while delivering valves to a hospital in Chiari;
2. Right: a 3D printer producing some of the valves at the company's base in Brescia

A view of the respiratory valves on a table. The company can make 100 of them per day and is offering them for free to a local hospital in Chiari, a town in the hard-hit province of Lombardy

1. Pictured left: Engineer and CEO Cristian Fracassi displays the diving mask in Brescia today after it was modified with a respiratory valve.
2.  A close-up view of the 3D-printed valve is shown right

The local hospital to Fracassi's firm is in Chiari, near Brescia, a prosperous northern city now in the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak.

Fracassi and his team were able to replicate the valves using a 3D printer at Isinnova's headquarters in Brescia.

'When we heard about the shortage, we got in touch with the hospital immediately. We printed some prototypes, the hospital tested them and told us they worked,' Fracassi said.

'So we printed 100 valves and I delivered them personally.'

Although specialist masks and ventilators are in short supply, engineers hope to combine the valves with more plentiful equipment such as snorkelling gear and gas masks.  

Engineer Alessandro Romaioli (left) displays one of the diving masks modified with a respiratory valve which a company in Brescia is supplying for free to local hospitals

Fracassi said he did not meet a single car as he drove through the streets, an eerie sensation caused by the transport ban in place. At least 10 patients were using equipment containing the valves by the evening.

He said it cost next to nothing to produce the valves, which weigh around 0.7 ounces (20 grams) each and are made of plastic.

'I'm not going to charge the hospital ... It was the least I could do to help doctors and nurses who work all day long to save human lives,' he said.

The company’s usual products range from hi-tech luggage for fashion brand Gucci to a special paint it is currently developing to survive temperatures of 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit (1,000C).

Two of the diving masks and some of the ventilator valves, showing how they can be fitted together to make a respirator

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