# Lower Manhattan drawn by year built

> An interactive architectural drawing of every building standing in Lower Manhattan, each drawn in the year it went up with real footprints and heights; tap a tower for its story. Fable 5.5 made it from one prompt as a Claude artifact, the creator says.

- Kind: Interactive reference
- Live interactive reference: https://claude.ai/artifact/Tx5L1sQeXd4e7vp9DifrwK
- Page: https://meetreference.com/v/lower-manhattan-buildings-by-year-built/
- Ready-to-use agent handoff: https://meetreference.com/v/lower-manhattan-buildings-by-year-built/agent.txt
- Exact prompt as plain text: https://meetreference.com/v/lower-manhattan-buildings-by-year-built/prompt.txt
- Authorship: AI-made, per the source
- Made with: Claude.ai
- Model: Claude Fable 5.5
- Built with: not stated
- Style: Interactive explainers; architectural drawing, line drawing, map, interactive, history, data viz
- Shared by Nathan Rozendaal in X, Oct 3, 2026: https://x.com/nroze22/status/2106183281293381661
- Prompt fidelity: Paraphrased. The creator described the prompt in their own words rather than publishing it.

## Before you start

Guidance from Reference, separate from the creator's instructions.

1. Read the reference and inspect the project, installed libraries, and available agent skills before writing code. Reuse suitable tools already present.
2. Prefer the creator-reported libraries and skills when they fit the task. Explain what useful additions help with, and install missing project dependencies or relevant skills from official sources when the environment and the user's existing permissions allow it. Respect the project's package manager and setup rules; do not ask again for routine setup already authorized.
3. Distinguish tools used by the creator from your own recommendations. A listed tool is not automatically required, and an empty tools or requirements list means the setup is unknown, not that nothing is needed.
4. Ask concise questions when missing inputs or choices materially affect the result: paid services, credentials, the user's assets, or a different production approach. Use existing answers and permissions; continue independent work while waiting.
5. If a useful library, skill, or service cannot be installed or used, explain an available alternative and its expected effect on quality, features, or effort. Get the user's choice before a material compromise; otherwise state the fallback and continue. Never silently simplify the result or claim to have used a tool you did not use.

## Recreating this interactive reference

These are the creator's published instructions, unedited.

To adapt it: Change "an architectural drawing style" to another drawing style, and name the area you want drawn instead of leaving it open.

## Prompt

```text
something cool and accurate in an architectural drawing style
```

## What it looks like

Written by Reference from the video frames, not by the creator.

A cream axonometric drawing of Lower Manhattan that fills with outlined buildings as a year counter climbs, with that year's new buildings picked out in orange-red and a chart below.

- Color: Warm cream paper, black and grey line work, and one orange-red for new buildings, the year, and the chart's tallest-roof line.
- Type: A bold black sans title "Lower Manhattan" with a small subtitle, a huge orange-red year top right, small sans stats ("1,107 of 1,614 buildings standing", "Tallest: Woolworth Building, 780 ft"), and monospace building labels.
- Framing: 4:5 frames split into a header, a large isometric map of the tip of Manhattan, and a bar chart of buildings added per five years with a tallest-roof line along the bottom; tapped towers open a small info card.
- Structure: 1801 with a few buildings, 1887, 1928, 1969, 2009, 2025 with One World Trade Center selected, then back to 1930 with 40 Wall Street, 1932, and 2025 again.

Storyboard, nine frames spread across the video: https://meetreference.com/media/lower-manhattan-buildings-by-year-built/storyboard.webp

- Frame 1 at 1.2s: https://meetreference.com/media/lower-manhattan-buildings-by-year-built/f1.webp
- Frame 2 at 3.7s: https://meetreference.com/media/lower-manhattan-buildings-by-year-built/f2.webp
- Frame 3 at 6.1s: https://meetreference.com/media/lower-manhattan-buildings-by-year-built/f3.webp
- Frame 4 at 8.6s: https://meetreference.com/media/lower-manhattan-buildings-by-year-built/f4.webp
- Frame 5 at 11.1s: https://meetreference.com/media/lower-manhattan-buildings-by-year-built/f5.webp
- Frame 6 at 13.5s: https://meetreference.com/media/lower-manhattan-buildings-by-year-built/f6.webp
- Frame 7 at 16.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/lower-manhattan-buildings-by-year-built/f7.webp
- Frame 8 at 18.4s: https://meetreference.com/media/lower-manhattan-buildings-by-year-built/f8.webp
- Frame 9 at 20.9s: https://meetreference.com/media/lower-manhattan-buildings-by-year-built/f9.webp

## How it was made, per the creator

- One-shot: yes, a single prompt with no follow-ups
- Notes: "One prompt later", the creator says. The result is shared as a public Claude artifact; the video is the creator's recording of it.

> Real footprints, real heights, true scale.
> (Nathan Rozendaal)

## Links

- Open reference: https://claude.ai/artifact/Tx5L1sQeXd4e7vp9DifrwK
- Watch: https://x.com/nroze22/status/2106183281293381661
- Original post: https://x.com/nroze22/status/2106183281293381661
- Claude artifact: https://claude.ai/artifact/Tx5L1sQeXd4e7vp9DifrwK