Hey all,

These days I've been working on the NYC portal, if you don't know what a portal is, here's an example:

http://nl.skyscrapercity.info/

Anyway, I'm busy adding skyscrapers and all, but I'm having some trouble on the pictures for each tower. This is where you can all pitch in.

If you have a picture you would like to add or offer to appear on the portal page, feel free to respond in this thread with the pic. All credit will be given to you below the picture and let me know which name you want to use as credit, whether it's your forum name, real name, etc. The pics won't be sold or anything like that, we don't do stuff like that around here.

I'm gonna list the buildings I'm in need of most pictures of, but of course great ESB, Chrysler and other shots are welcome. These are basically for individual tower shots.

Buildings needed...

American International Building (70 Pine St.)
40 Wall Street (The Trump Building)
GE Building (30 Rockefeller Plaza)
The Cityspire
One Chase Manhattan Plaza
Metlife Building (PanAm, ugly one @ Park Ave)
Woolworth Building
One Worldwide Plaza
Bear Stearns
One Penn Plaza
AXA Center
1251 Avenue of the Americas (tallest of XYZ)
60 Wall St.
One Astor Plaza (at Times Square)
Metropolitan Tower (black one near Carnegie Hall Tower)
JP Morgan Chase World Headquarters
GM Building
500 Fifth Avenue
2 World Financial Center
Sony Building
Chanin Building
712 5th Avenue
245 Park Avenue
Irving Trust Company Building
599 Lexington Avenue
Paramount Plaza
Four Seasons Hotel
Random House Tower
1585 Broadway (Morgan Stanley Building)
277 Park Avenue (Chemical Bank)
Marine Midland Bank Building (one near WTC with red box sculpture)
Americas Tower

More's needed, but that's all I'll list for now.

The pictures MUST be taken by you.

Thanks for your help, I hope this portal turns out well and serves as a reference for all of us.

Ask 7 World Trade to use some of his from his 7 different photo threads. It'll probably cover most of those towers!

Guess not...:runaway:

hey savethewtc, if u want to use my pics, it's totally fine with me. if u want to give me credit (u don't have to of course), my real name's Jeremy Wu, just to let u know.

i think u'll be able to cover the skyscrapers in midtown with my pics (except for the cityspire trio). as for downtown, i only got pics of buildings within the immediate vicinity of the wtc site.

hey! metlife's not ugly! lol

edit

The pictures MUST be taken by you.

And wheres 570 Lexington!? ;)

oooops... disregard all that

hey savethewtc, if u want to use my pics, it's totally fine with me. if u want to give me credit (u don't have to of course), my real name's Jeremy Wu, just to let u know.

i think u'll be able to cover the skyscrapers in midtown with my pics (except for the cityspire trio). as for downtown, i only got pics of buildings within the immediate vicinity of the wtc site.

hey! metlife's not ugly! lol

Cool, thanks. I just need a name to put below the picture, so where it says "Source: [name here]," it could be the forum name or your real name, let me know which one you wanna use it, either is cool with me.

I'll have to go snap up pictures of the towers I'm missing myself, but it's always good to have shots from different people rather than the same person.

Metlife is totally ugly and downright nasty man...:runaway:

If anyone wants, PM me and I'll give ya the link of the portal page, I don't want to make it public just yet, but I'll give you NYC forum locals a sneak peak.


J - The pics gotta be by you, since we don't want any copyright issues and stuff like that. Plus everything will be hosted onto SSC's servers, no remote linking.

i don't really care whether u use my forum name or real name. how about this, if u use ur forum name for sourcing ur own pics, do the same thing for my pics, and use my real name if ur gonna use urs, just for the sake of consistency.

If I can help with pictures just ask me (sending PM or so)
Which buildings you still need after all those 7 WT pics! ;) :D :)
must I send them to you or how does it goes?? Let me know Jack! Good work! :okay: NYC

J - The pics gotta be by you, since we don't want any copyright issues and stuff like that. Plus everything will be hosted onto SSC's servers, no remote linking.

yeah...I saw that after the fact... got excited http://img326.imageshack.us/img326/3538/excited7cy.gif

Unfortunately, I don't own a digital camera, so I can't put any pics that were taken by me personally. :(

Alright, nearly 100 down in the portal, no clue how many more to go. :runaway:

That's just the basic info for these towers too, still gotta get facts, historical info and the pictures up for each.

Plus gotta add the new under construction, proposed, approved projects. :nuts:

should we also add the countless number of residential buildings?
What is the requirement for buildings to come up there, 100m?
I'll see if I have anything else interesting beside what I showed you, also I might actually move my butt and go into this humid hell outside this weekend

should we also add the countless number of residential buildings?
What is the requirement for buildings to come up there, 100m?
I'll see if I have anything else interesting beside what I showed you, also I might actually move my butt and go into this humid hell outside this weekend

Basically no requirement, we could do as we see fit, but I think stopping at 90 m/300 ft temporarily will be good idea then if we get bored we could always keep adding on more. Right now I'm up to the 175 m height range.

In the addresses of each tower I also added what street they are on, this way if any tourists or anyone wants to pin point it (sometimes can't tell where the tower is at by the official address) they have a better chance to do so.

Everyone, send me what you got, seriously...maybe not all the popular skyscrapers but any towers you have full shots or single tower shots, are good.

I'm definitely going to make a checklist of buildings I don't have and eventually get around to hitting them all, don't know when though.

Eventually the portal link when at a respectable viewing stage will be linked from the main NYC forum here. The two will interact with each other. This is our hope for all of NASF and the metro/city forums, NYC is the first one to start this up.

Here's all my NYC pics:
http://www.pbase.com/rclick/newyorkcity

Take what you need.

I also have some I didn't upload, so I might go through those later.

I can also give you my pics from a few years ago.

I did here that recent projects such as Park Ave Place, 540 5th Ave, 10 Liberty St, 2 Gold St, 455 CPW, Morton Sq, Perry West Towers, The Helena, The Marc, and The Milan Condos are all completed.

I did here that recent projects such as Park Ave Place, 540 5th Ave, 10 Liberty St, 2 Gold St, 455 CPW, Morton Sq, Perry West Towers, The Helena, The Marc, and The Milan Condos are all completed.

Recently completed towers I'm going to check out myself and snap them up since I can't expect lots of people to have pics of these.

This is great, I have around eight or so people who are offering pictures, so it's going to take time to sort through them all and put 'em up, but it's gonna be worth it.

599 Lex:

Taken from the roof of my aunt's apartment building on E. 49th on a lousy day (12 floors up):

http://tinypic.com/97pug3.jpg

http://tinypic.com/97puz7.jpg

http://tinypic.com/97pvt0.jpg

I have other towers including Trump World, the one near Trump World w/ the triangle top, basically any other tower in the vicinity. These are basically my only Manhattan pics on my computer....I need to get out more!

Yeah they are poor quality so I doubt you'll want them lol....it was drizzling and I had my camera in the wrong mode.

Yeah they are poor quality so I doubt you'll want them lol....it was drizzling and I had my camera in the wrong mode.

Thanks for sharing, I'll definitely use the first shot for the 599 Lex page.

Here's a more centered one I found......

http://tinypic.com/97s879.jpg

Def. glad I could help.

Alright, got alot of pics up now, need some more pics of towers with very few and some towers don't have any. If you got any on the lists your help would be appreciated...

Towers that have pics but could use extra:

The Cityspire
One Chase Manhattan Plaza

Carnegie Hall Tower
1251 Avenue of the Americas
60 Wall St.
One Liberty Plaza
Times Square Tower
Metropolitan Tower

Marine Midland Bank Building
55 Water Street
277 Park Avenue
1585 Broadway
Four Seasons Hotel
Bertelsmann Building
McGraw-Hill Building

712 5th Avenue
245 Park Ave
Chanin Building
Sony Building
GE Tower (570 Lex)
888 7th Avenue
Central Park Place
Olympic Tower
Mercantile Building
Tower 49

Towers that need pics:

3 WFC (single tower shot only)
Irving Trust Co. Building
345 Park Ave
Home Insurance Plaza

One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza
Burlington House
Trump Palace Condominiums
919 Third Avenue
New York Life Building
Credit Lyonnais Building
Three Lincoln Center Condominiums

---------------------------------
Basically if you have individual tower pics to share, I'd like to see them if you're willing to contribute.

We can also use pictures of towers from architects website, that's ok, we'll be given them proper credit anyway.

hey savethewtc, if u need pics of 345 park ave, i got a pic of it in my nyc trip part 4 photo thread. the pic of the building's just before the seagram building pic (i called it by another name, bristol-myers squibb building, since that company's hq-ed there, but that building and 345 park ave is one and the same).

there's a pic of 919 3rd ave in the same thread too, in case u didn't see it.

Well my problem is that I don't know the names of all buildings, I know many by their look though. Also I just can't recognize any of those international style towers on Park avenue from the other, they all kinda look similar :P
Otherwise, does anyone know what tower this is?
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/4994/20050129image00040yf.jpgand here's a shot I've never paid attention to of that curved tower on 57th street
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/6475/20050129image00768an.jpg

pictures are nice :)

Well my problem is that I don't know the names of all buildings, I know many by their look though. Also I just can't recognize any of those international style towers on Park avenue from the other, they all kinda look similar :P
Otherwise, does anyone know what tower this is?
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/4994/20050129image00040yf.jpgand here's a shot I've never paid attention to of that curved tower on 57th street
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/6475/20050129image00768an.jpg

No problem, if you got individual tower pictures like these, post them in this thread and we'll identify them. I get confused at times with all the boxes on the Avenue of the Americas. 7 World Trade is our skyscraper expert, no doubt. The first one is Tower 49 (anyone see the resemblance with this one and Park Avenue Plaza?) and the second is the Solow Building, one of the 2 sloped/curved towers in the city.

Oh, btw Phil, I got those Citibank in Queens pictures of yours from an older thread here, GREAT shots.

7 World Trade, thanks for pointing me to those two, your contributions to the project are amazing, you visited for so little time and yet snapped up so much!

Hey 7 World Trade, I'm a bit confused here...what's the name of this one?

http://207.44.228.232/photopost/data//508/8245parkavenue8sr.jpg

^That's the Chase World Headquarters in Midtown. ~700ft I believe.

^
yep, STR's rite! that's j.p. morgan chase ur looking at there.

thanks for the compliments savethewtc. yea, i just pretty much took pics of any tall buildings i passed by. but hey, when ur all busy snapping away all these pics, u tend to forget to slow down and enjoy the feel of the city, and check out each building's architecture in details. that's something i regret not doing.

Jack u can use all the pics u want of my november trip

We should probably add The Biltmore, Bloomberg Tower, 7 WTC, Bryant Pk Hotel, and the remaing Trump Place buildings since they are all completed or nearing it soon.

Thanks guys for the picture help. More pictures added, I now need photos of these...

One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza
Burlington House
Trump Palace Condominiums
Credit Lyonnais Building

Three Lincoln Center Condominiums
Celanese Building
RIHGA Royal Hotel
United States Courthouse
Museum Tower
Time-Life Building
Javits Federal Office Building
W Times Square
520 Madison Avenue
Merchandise Mart Building

One Financial Square
Lehman Brothers Building
Socony-Mobil Building
International Paper Building
600 3rd Avenue
780 Third Avenue
450 Lexington Avenue
Paramount Tower Apartments

Helmsley Palace Hotel
Continental Bank Building
Swiss Bank Tower
Park Avenue Tower
Sperry & Hutchinson Building
Madison Belvedere
Continental Center
Reuters Building
The Galleria

There's more...but I'm dividing them into sections, working on them at one time before going to others.

As soon as the weather becomes bearable outside, I'm going to go snap some pics.

I also need the names of these two...

http://207.44.228.232/photopost/data//508/8unknownblackbox.jpg

http://207.44.228.232/photopost/data//508/8nyci90sz.jpg

^
the 2nd one's 1250 broadway (i figured it out from a book that identifies a whooping huge amount of buildings and sights that u see from the esb).

no idea about the 1st one. there're so many skyscrapers in nyc that look like that. maybe it's dag hammarksjold plaza, but that's just a wild guess.

^
the 2nd one's 1250 broadway (i figured it out from a book that identifies a whooping huge amount of buildings and sights that u see from the esb).

no idea about the 1st one. there're so many skyscrapers in nyc that look like that. maybe it's dag hammarksjold plaza, but that's just a wild guess.

Thanks the 2nd one was killing me, these boxes man!

1st one looks Seagram-like but without the class and elegance. I was looking at Dag Hammarksjold plaza pics and I think you're right. Compare the above pic with this one:

http://www.emporis.com/files/transfer/sixwm/2005/01/329377.jpg

Should have the link up from the forums here to the portal, this is how it'll look:

http://207.44.228.232/photopost/data//500/8portalscreen.JPG

Need any skyline shots? (From the Intrepid, last weekend)

http://tinypic.com/b8moac.jpg

While I was takin pics of BOA this is a good one of Times Square Tower (Conde Nast wants all of teh attention tho)

http://tinypic.com/b8mqmb.jpg

I have Bear Stearns, Trump World, Citigroup (crown). Those are easy to find and you probably have enough though. Just ask. :)

^Anyones you're willing to share is fine with me, I'll take a look and then see if we have any similar ones of each tower and if not, then I'll put them up.

Hey 7 World Trade, need some help with these ids...

http://207.44.228.232/photopost/data//508/8nyc080_patrick.JPG

http://207.44.228.232/photopost/data//508/8nyc081_patrick.JPG

http://207.44.228.232/photopost/data//508/8nyc048_patrick.JPG

http://207.44.228.232/photopost/data//508/8nyc053_patrick.JPG

#1 - Corning Glass Works Building at Fifth Avenue/56th Street, next to Trump Tower
#2 is IBM Building, next to Trump Tower
#3 is Carlyle Apartments, on East 76th Street (yea I cheated on that one ;))
#4 - unknown
:)