A Vision Of Pre-Colonized Manhattan

"Eric Sanderson, a landscape ecologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society, is trying to determine exactly how Manhattan—or Mannahatta, 'land of many hills,' as some scholars have translated the name used by the Lenape people who inhabited it—looked before the arrival of Europeans. The project is set for completion in 2009, the quadricentennial of Henry Hudson’s 1609 visit to the island, and will include a coffee-table book, interactive exhibits, a series of printed street guides, and a three-dimensional virtual re-creation."