From the top you can see 60 miles away -- and back to 2004 when construction started in the midst of a real estate frenzy.
When construction started in 2007 at Stone Hill at Muttontown, a gated community of $2 million-plus houses, wireless technology "wasn't a big thing yet," said Sammy Janowitz, the vice president of the Janowitz Group, the developer.
When construction started in 1897, The New York Times described a picturesque scene: Italian women and children "carrying wonderful burdens of wood" on their heads away from the demolition sites.
Al-ʿĀmiriyyah's modern development began in the late 1970s, when construction started on major industrial plants in the district, including an oil refinery and textile, steel, and chemical plastics plants operated with energy from the natural-gas field at Abū Qīr Bay.
There is also uncertainty about when construction started, although it is generally agreed that the majority of the fortress was built early in the 14th century.
Sources conflict as to exactly when construction started: one cites June 1929 to May 1930, while another says the construction permit was delivered in December 1929 and construction began in June 1930; a third gives only years: 1928-1930.
