The elevator in the Freedom Tower shows NYC throughout the years. This particular screenshot shows the first skyscrapers popping up in the year 1827. Is that possible?

by tnyp

Here is the screenshot of the Freedom Towers elevator view at the year 1827. You can see the Brooklyn Bridge at left and the bay and lower Manhattan at the right.

Samuel_Gompers

That year is amusingly wrong. The Brooklyn Bridge started construction in 1869 and opened in 1883. The church to the south is Trinity Church. The skyscraper across the street appears to be 100 Broadway, also known as the American Surety Building (at least that's what's approximately there now and Trinity would have been taller than any preceding structure). That building was completed in 1896. The closer church is St. Paul's Chapel. Across from it is the St. Paul Building, which was completed in 1898.