Manhattan: What Henry Hudson Saw in 1609 | National Geographic 

Fun fact: You can still see a bit of original Manhattan from before any development. It’s in a park at the north end of the island called Inwood Hill Park.

Okay, let’s just admit that Manhattan now is really fricking awesome and there’s no place like it. But. Not even the greatest city can beat the awesomeness of nature.

1:09 Those rocks lived to see the growth of a city.

Still the jungle it used to be for thousands of years. Different animals though.

Henry Hudson also saw 2nd Mate John Colman, a skilled member of his crew, dead with an arrow through the neck. Hudson knew about Verrazzano's 1522 journey and was following in his footsteps but there is a reason that the Hudson River was not mapped by Europeans until 1609. Hudson saw lots of people staring back at him from the shores and canoes. The East River had sections that were heavily guarded, likely due to the kinds of oysters and shells that are there. On September 6, 1609, Colman and 3 other crew members seem to have paddled into the indigenous equivalent of Fort Knox. Colman gets shot threw the throat -- a quick, silent fatal hit. That suggests that whoever shot him was highly skilled. Coleman is in a moving boat and the archer may have been as well yet the shot hits its mark perfectly, kills him and keeps him from screaming out in warning to the others. That's Ninja level stuff.

thats sad...

I had first learnt of Henry Hudson from the podcast Island on instagram and seeing the visual representation in this video is truly captivating. It's fascinating how much has changed over the centuries.

i like how manhattan always represent new york, as if there isnt 4 other boroughs that makes up new york city.

I've actually framed some of the photos from this article and hung them on my wall. As a New Yorker, now living in L.A., they remind me of what I knew growing up - and what I wish I had the opportunity to know many years before I was born. I try to imagine what it would have been like if Manhattan had been a national park.

What a national park it would have been.

Its weird to see how it was not even that long ago. I live in a City that has history back to 1200 and the buildings are still the same. I could not imagine living in a city that was just nature about 400 years ago. I think it's a sad fact that people took over this beautiful nature, built borders and claim its theirs

I wish I lived in those days as a Native American running free hunting and fishing

Great video! It's always shocking to see just how much New York has changed.

I’d like to go back to 1609 and buy it all and make it into a nature preserve or a national park for all time.

I wasnt ready for this one 😢

Thank u for teaching many kids in classrooms we are lucky and thankful

Looks like a gorgeous place

Interesting video! Lots of idiotic comments.

Thank you time machine

amazing how everything changed

When I see that,it reminds me of the Adorondacks in Upstate NY.

Wonderfull...NY were beatiful only Nature Architecture and now is Splendid with Modern Architecture too....Thanks for show that perspective sometime forgotten..from Brazil🇧🇷🌎👍🤗

i read this in the magazine last week. I think it would be very interesting if you made a documentary about this. I'd certainly pop some corn and watch

Thank you for this video

They destroyed a beautiful place 😢 Native Americans respected the land and it's animals. I think this country would have been a better place if we learned from them instead of forcing our ways in them. When is the last time you saw a crystal clear river or stream. So sad what was allowed to be done to the land and it's animals in the name of progress! Now those towns in New England the buildings are crumbling, the factories all left and the train doesn't even stop at the rural train stations anymore!

this is why our planet doesnt need people,roll on when people are no more and the world becomes a better place.

we ruined it.

Imagine if the colonists didn’t destroy this beautiful land of the Americas and learned to live with nature not destroy it

It just goes to show that buildings are TOTALY BAD ASS! and trees need to get with the program!

What a diverse piece of land. I wish we would have kept it that way. I wish there were less ppl. I don't think we need this many. Nothing beats the natural topography.

Henry Hudson, ancestor of Rock Hudson and Hudson' Bay 🤫

It's like having a huge survival world in Minecraft, then checking out the seed how it was before you built anything.

It's quite tragic. I think the urban version looks ugly compared to the natural landscape :(

it'd be amazing to travel back, and visit it for our selfs :]

Manhattan island was a natural paradise, so sad that it became so developed.

The good old days!

Oh! The transformation!!!

And the second thing he saw was his own footprint in the middle of a steaming pile of elk dung. "Right then - it's war!"

NY is great!

Right on dude and some of mine lived in Inwood hill park

incredible!

Agreed.

People: New York City 70s 80s 90s Me : lets go back to 1600s

This makes me sad

imagine if they had left a quarter of it as it was, turned a quarter of it into parks, and only half was developed. same for all cities, actually.

Wildlife diminished in a flash.

My god, Manhattan was beautiful! And it still is!

And the only thing left of that natural beauty is Central Park

An area covered with forests and tribes is now the most powerful country in the world

i have lived in the US for almost 20 years and i have never been to NY. This year i will go for new years and when i return i will comment on the city!!!

New york has one of the largest populations of the peregrine falcon in modern times. Its still apart of nature.

Washington used to be a swamp

Sad

bring back the old new York

Oh, there were trees and wild animals back then. Wow I had no idea. I thought New York was just always like that. Could that be the case with all land that man has developed for his needs? So again, there were trees and stuff "before" the buildings and streets. I'm amazed now.

Rumors have it the Brooklyn is older than Manhattan. Brooklyn has been having European settlers for almost 1,000 years.

WOW! ( didnt watch it yet )

So I could comment first of course, lol I watched it now, that's quite a change :) Wonder how it will look like 400 years from now

How do you know?

We've really messed up this earth

I I'm so so happy to be here but I'm late 😂😂😂

one mistake.....near Broadway in 1609 my Indian Canarsie ancestor ..." chief runna muck" had a pawn shop and tavern ...right where the port authority bus terminal stands today💁

about time humanity destroys itself, just look at what we done! >:{

Well, New York has taken over likel 100% of all the green area of the late Manhattan Island. An astonishing city, though.

Wen I was born the city was here 😃

It's too bad we cant have both the forest and the city

De la clase de Vero

In other words, people destroyed it like everything else they touch.

We saw that today in history class :O my teacher bought the new magazine of that and showed to all the class

NY was sooo beautiful before

Proving the world is a better place before humans exist.

My Lenape ( Delaware Tribe) ancestors were the original people ( Lennon Lenape) of Mannahatta. It's never mentioned on 911 how America gave them smallpox blankets and lied about buying Manhattan. They and black slaves were sold into slavery and shipped from Manhattan to Europe. Some people say 911 was karma for what happened to them.

omg thats so cool

Yes it is true, i understand you

Random pictures of forests

Thats why he named that river into Hudson river, haha!

Only 1600s kids remember

hey ive got the same problem. its not we cant view, its because some of their videos are not viewable in some region. where you from?

I love it😏

what a tragic day.

I think the shinnecock Indians lived there.

wow.......

look at all the landfill on old new york where the world trade centre was on the lhs

What he saw, minus all the garbage.

there were unicorns and a leprechaun with a pot of gold too i hear.

Thank you. And have a great day!!!

Hudson had aerial views?

Don't know If I can agree it was better. It definately was much better-looking, but it's easy to forget that cities give us civilization, safe lives from disease, war, and starvation. Not to mention Air conditioning, no mosquitos, houses with roofs, cars to get somewhere extremely quickly, air flight that allows us to travel the world in days, not years. Education, scientific knowledge, and our job is our choice, we don't have to hunt and farm to survive, we didn't even build everything we enjoy

How do you know that that is what he saw

thats cool

hey people, could you send me the name of song what plays in this movie, plzzz! :)

Wow

People dont understand that the colonist had one way of life that is farming and agriculture. That life is unsustainable and incompatible with the natural world. Both fought to protect their way of life. Its now we realize this way of life ends in collapse and die off.

It has been 400 years since the foundation of NYC

The same rock those days and the same today

Wonder what it will all look like in 2409?

There is a lot of plants.

@camiller3754 In seconds sky scrappers rose from the ground, and pavement covered all the visible grass. Every single animal living in the manhattan died that day.

cool..

One has to travel far to get information, it takes 2 hours or more to travel from one island to another by boat, and malaria has no cure. There are no electricity, internet, and large tradings, and water is hard. sure. life is much better before.