New York City Manhattan 3D Model

Explore a detailed 3D model of Manhattan, New York City, capturing iconic streets, landmarks, and building silhouettes. Perfect for visualization, presentations, and design projects—accurate, immersive, and optimized for clear viewing at any angle.

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Overview

Download the New York City Manhattan 3D Model available in MAX, FBX, OBJ, BLEND, C4D file formats.

This textured and UV mapped polygonal 3d model compatible with 3ds Max, Maya, Blender, Cinema 4D, Unreal Engine, Unity, Lightwave, Softimage, SketchUp, and other 3D modeling, animation, game design and AR/VR packages.

This 3D model in projected spatial NAD83 UTM zone 18N planar Cartesian metric coordinates centered on XY-plane with Z-axis points up. Centering on XY-plane is required for correct rendering and animation to prevent z-buffer floating point precision inaccuracy for every camera angle, zoom and position.
To get true North American Datum 1983 Universal Transverse Mercator Zone 18N SRID 26918 coordinate reference system based on the WGS84 datum for calculations, if needed, simply 2D transform every vertex X coordinate by 583217,815782511 and every vertex Y coordinate by 4506488,6095344.

All vertices in 64-bit double-precision floating-point format with correct DEM for ground elevation data and with correct buildings heights and positions.

Entire scene bounds (in GPS coordinates):
Top-Left corner (-74,02587890625 / 40,6972990086367),
Bottom-Right corner (-73,927001953125 / 40,8470603560712).

0.3 meters per pixel ground textures resolution.

.OBJ is native file format for this 3D model.

This 3d city can be used for many applications like 3d presentation, GIS data analysis or 3d printing.

For any questions about this 3D model please contact me on Support page with custom 3d city modeling request.

3D Model was built with my custom software using DEM elevation data map and building positions. Model textured using free ground textures available on internet.

4096x4096 ground patches and buildings textures resolution.

Model includes: Battery Park, Castle Clinton National Monument, Robert F Wagner Jr Park, New York Stock Exchange, South Street Seaport, South Cove, NY Downtown Hospital, World Financial Centers, Esplanade, City Hall Park, City Hall, New York Mercantile Exchange, North Cove, Thomas Paine Park, Columbus Park, Governor Nelson a Rockefeller Park, Washington Market Park, Tribeca, Chinatown, Brooklyn Bridge, Schermerhorn Row and more buildings.

Uploaded by Andrew Lock on October 2010.

Use Cases

  • Urban context visualization
  • Real estate marketing
  • Film, TV, and VFX backdrops
  • Virtual reality city walkthroughs
  • Smart city visual digital twins
  • Emergency and disaster simulation
  • Infrastructure and facade inspection
  • GIS and geospatial visualization
  • Games and simulation environments
  • Cultural heritage documentation

License

  • Royalty-Free License.
  • Commercial and editorial use according to site license terms.
  • Redistribution of source files is not allowed.
  • Please review the full license details before using the model in published work.

Reviews

Very well done imagery, really did the job for me!

Stephen Moore 19.05.2014 15:02

3D File Formats Compatibility

Polygonal 3D Models

Downloadable formats:

.max, .obj, .fbx, .blend, .c4d

Compatible with:

3ds Max, Blender, Maya, Cinema 4D, Houdini, Modo, Unity, Unreal Engine, SketchUp, Substance 3D, ZBrush and more.

Exportable formats:

3D Studio Legacy (.3ds), AutoCAD (.dxf; .dwg), Alembic (.abc), Rhino (.3dm), SketchUp (.skp), Collada (.dae), Stereolithography (.stl), DirectX (.x), Graphics Library Transmission Format (.glb; .gltf), Universal Scene Description (.usd; .usdz), Virtual Reality Modeling Language (.vrml; .wrl), Extensible 3D (.x3d)

CAD Solid Models

Downloadable formats:

.step (AP214), .iges (5.3)

Compatible with:

SolidWorks, Inventor, Creo, Siemens NX, Fusion 360, Solid Edge, Plasticity, Rhinoceros, CATIA, ACIS and other CAD/CAM/CAE software.

CAD models can also be exported as polygonal 3D meshes.