Scroll down the feature menu to the very bottom under Basemaps and check the 3D feature, then check the Aerial Imagery box and you can choose any one of 11 different years dating all the way back to 1924 and as recently as 2016.
Over the years, we've covered a lot of new development in the South Slope. Here's one that we spent a good deal of time with...Lake Windsor a.k.a. 1638 Eighth Avenue, located between Windsor Place and Prospect Avenue. ZoLa offers us a chance to show off the property's unique, elongated land-locked lot over the history of development.
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| In the year 2001, 1638 8th Avenue was a single story commercial warehouse with a driveway entrance on 8th Avenue. There was a very large rear yard that extended down the block between Windsor and Prospect. |
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| In 2006 the building was demolished to make way for a multifamily development. |
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| ZoLa's 3D mapping feature allows you to define current as built mass. |
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| You can tilt and rotate your viewpoint. 1638 8th Avenue as seen from 8th Avenue. |
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1939-1940 Tax photo of 1638 8th Avenue from the NYC Municipal Archives. Over the years the property functioned as an office?garage for a home heating fuel oil delivery company. Old timers say that's where they would buy their block of ice for their home iceboxes. In 1922 ice plants in NYC and Long Island electrically manufactured over 1 million tons of ice, with an additional 20 tons of ice still being naturally harvested. |
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