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This 10 km² world puts the Empire State Building in the middle of Midtown Manhattan, roughly from the Flatiron area north to Times Square and Rockefeller Center, and from Chelsea east to the East River. Streets, towers and parks come from OpenStreetMap at one block per metre.
The Empire State Building is simplified: a flat-topped tower that reaches Minecraft’s build limit (Y 319), without its setbacks or spire. Other towers are footprint-and-height models too, so the skyline is right in scale and layout but leaves façades, crowns and interiors open for builders.
Players spawn on the Bryant Park lawn, between the New York Public Library block and the towers of 42nd Street, with the Empire State Building a short walk south. It is one of the denser maps in the library, best for city builds, parkour and vertical survival.
Inside the world
The tower is generated from its mapped footprint and height as a simplified, flat-topped shaft without the stepped setbacks or the spire. It runs up to Minecraft’s build limit at Y 319, so it still dominates the skyline and gives you a frame to rebuild the Art Deco top.
Around Times Square and Bryant Park, office towers of very different heights crowd the avenues. Each one comes from mapped outlines and heights, which makes Midtown a dense playground for parkour, elevated rail or a vertical survival city.
Seen from above, the 10 km² covers the Manhattan grid from the Flatiron area north to the Times Square and Rockefeller Center blocks, with the round Madison Square Garden near Penn Station and the East River on the eastern edge.
From another direction the towers stack into a recognisable Midtown skyline. Streets stay open between them, so you can fly, build bridges between rooftops or run a taxi route through the canyons.
Plus mapped streets, buildings, land cover, water, and terrain elevation converted from OpenStreetMap and open elevation data. Java and Bedrock editions are both included. The verified Java ZIP and Bedrock MCWORLD are published and ready to download.
The download card is the source of truth. Only formats marked as published have an active download button.
Choose a published format, sign in, and use the protected download button. Pending formats cannot be unlocked.
Extract a published Java ZIP into the saves folder, or open a published Bedrock MCWORLD. Keep one clean copy before editing.
A Java Edition ZIP and a Bedrock Edition MCWORLD of the same 10 km² area. Roads, building footprints and heights, water, land cover and terrain come from OpenStreetMap and open elevation data. Interiors and fine architectural detail are not modelled.
About 3.2 × 3.2 km (10 km²) of Midtown Manhattan around the Empire State Building, from the Flatiron area to the Rockefeller Center blocks and from Chelsea to the East River. Downtown, Central Park and the outer boroughs are not included.
The spawn is outdoors on the Bryant Park lawn at 40.7536, -73.9832, about 600 m north of the Empire State Building.
For Java Edition, extract the ZIP and move the world folder into your Minecraft saves directory. For Bedrock Edition, open the MCWORLD file and Minecraft imports it. Keep an untouched copy before installing mods or making large edits.
No. The worlds open in standard Java and Bedrock. Shaders, resource packs and building tools are optional.
Created by
CartoVoxel Studio turns OpenStreetMap features and open elevation data into playable Minecraft terrain.
OpenStreetMap data attribution
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