The New York Of The Future Will Have More Animals, Less Garbage, And Huge Skyscrapers

Abby Rogers

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In 50 years, Manhattan's dumps will be parks, the Upper East Side will be a geriatric haven and floating swimming pools will grace the much cleaner East and Hudson rivers.

At least, that's how the New York Post sees it all going down.

The Post recently published a map showing all of the proposed projects that will forever alter the landscape of the Big Apple.

The map boasts everything from a new subway line to a building nearly the same height as the Empire State Building.

Here's a look at some of the monumental projects that will change the New York skyline over the next 50 years; check out the Post's map here.

15 Penn Plaza is scheduled to be completed in 2014 and when it's done, it will be only 34 feet shorter than the Empire State Building

A model of 15 Penn Plaza

Image: SkyscraperPage Forum

Source: New York Post

A new subway line already under construction will eventually stretch along 2nd Avenue from 125th Street to Lower Manhattan

Map of the 2nd Avenue Subway line

Image: Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney

Source: New York Post

The new downtown location of the Whitney Museum will sit at the southern end of the High Line and should be finished by 2015

High Line at Gansevoort and Washington streets, next to the site of the new Whitney Museum

Image: High Line Blog

Source: New York Post

What is currently a 2,200-acre dump on Staten Island will be transformed into Fresh Kills Park, an outdoor space slated to be even bigger than Central Park. The transformation is expected to be complete by 2041

Plans for Fresh Kills Park

Image: New York City Department of City Planning

Source: New York Post

The reincarnated World Trade Center will be the city's tallest skyscraper when it's completed in 2013, clocking in at 1,776 feet

New World Trade Center plans

Image: New World Trade Center

Atlantic Yards, a 22-acre project slated for Prospect Heights, includes 16 highrises with Barclays Stadium, home of the Brooklyn Nets, as the star attraction

Aerial photo of Atlantic Yard

Image: Municipal Arts Society of New York

Source: New York Post

A 62-acre former ash dump in Queens is slated to be transformed into Willets Point, a site boasting public parks, housing, a public school, and more

Plan for Willets Point

Image: New York City Economic Development Corp.

Source: New York Post

An applied science campus is expected to generate $6 billion in economic activity for the city by 2046. Schools like Stanford, Columbia, and Cornell have submitted proposals for the project.

Stanford University's proposed plans for the applied science campus

Image: Stanford University

Source: New York Post

The proposed East River Greenway, which will stretch from 38th to 60th streets, is slated to fill the last gap in the 32-mile Manhattan Greenway. The project is expected to be finished within the next decade

Construction plans for the East River Greenway

Image: Upper Green Side

Source: New York Post

Hudson Yards will transform 360 acres of former railyards bound by West 42nd and West 30th streets and Eighth Avenue and the Hudson River into office space, residential towers and a convention center

Hudson Yards

Image: Hudson Yards Development Corporation

Source: New York Post

By 2016, the Farley Post Office building will be reincarnated as Moynihan Station, a new grand entrance for Penn Station

Moynihan Station

Image: OpenHouseNewYork

Source: New York Post

In the future, it might be easier to get to New Jersey. Mayor Michael Bloomberg has floated a plan to run the No. 7 subway line underneath the Hudson River into the neighboring state

No. 7 subway line

Image: Kingly Heirs

Source: New York Post