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by ssl-3
3 days ago
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Censored is a very strong word. Are you sure they aren't just lost/never-digitized/unlicensable/Occam's-razor/something-else? Because, I mean: Historic Aerials[1] seems to cover that period pretty well, despite their resolutely awful user interface and extraordinary reluctance towards allowing useful links. [1]: https://www.historicaerials.com/ |
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The gap in the 1951 aerials is around the 40°34'51.42"N 73°49'54.81"W coordinates in the Rockaway Beach/Hammels area.
From an organizational perspective the gap makes sense because they took the 1951 aerial pictures, then they noticed several symbols that are definitely not aligned with US winning WW2, and then they removed/replaced those buildings and took the 1954 aerials to confirm and actually deliver an aerial without those bad symbols.
This is not baseless speculation because it neatly ties into a chain of really badly-shaped buildings and construction projects in other places - NYC would've been the most in-your-face one.
In the limited footage from 1954 onwards the shapes of new construction still resembles the original "very bad" shape (especially depending on garden layout), but any of those X-shaped building has plausible deniability and could be anything from "normal" design to a KKK cross.
[1] https://nyc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.html?layers...