article_snippet.sent: At the start of the ascent, the film shows the city as an expanse of wild vegetation and marshes before the city was settled by the Dutch in the 1600s.
article_snippet.sent: Houses, churches, markets and bustling ports begin cropping up across Lower Manhattan as the Europeans make the city Houses, churches, markets and bustling ports home before high-rise buildings start jutting into the sky throughout the 1800s.
article_snippet.sent: The Brooklyn Bridge can also be seen stretching across the East River to Brooklyn.
article_snippet.sent: But The Brooklyn Bridge's throughout the 20th century when the skyline begins to change most dramatically, with scores of skyscrapers emerging, including the Woolworth Building and the Singer Building.