New York Citys Wild Past Life - The Picture Show Blog : NPR

New York Citys Wild Past Life - The Picture Show Blog : NPR:

"Although Hudson will never see today's Manhattan, we can now get an idea of what he saw that September of 1609 -- thanks to The Manhatta Project (no, there's no N), the brainchild of ecologist Eric Sanderson. His project, featured in National Geographic's September issue, shows New York like we've never seen it before: rural enough to make any Manhattanite shudder."