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This amazing photo was posted by Jularc on another site.

It's a classic.

Sorta big

Where do you get that kind of view from? It's awesome!!! :omg:

This amazing photo was posted by Jularc on another site.

Hey I posted that pic on this site aswell (in other places). ;)

Oh BTW I am Jularc. But it is defenetly 'The Most Enormous Skyline!' It doesn't even include the Downtown, Brooklyn, or the Jersey City Skylines in that pic.

Where do you get that kind of view from? It's awesome!!! :omg:

Based upon all of the trees in the foreground, I assume that it was taken from somewhere in Nassau County.

... It doesn't even include the Downtown, Brooklyn, or the Jersey City Skylines in that pic.

Good point.

PS: Check your e-mail, amigo. I sent you one!

It is truly impressive !

the land is flat so you can see it completely, there are no hills or mountains obstructing it found in other cities.

You give NYC a sorta big? take a helicopter ride around and we'll see if you still say sorta big.

Close to Nassau but not nassau at all. I would say Eastern Queens. Maybe Jamaica or Hillside. Great picture although I wish it were bigger. This pic is getting pimped to death though lots of ny posters displaying it. There is another great pano it's a little older but it's also a little larger I'll get it and post it.

Isn't that a pano?

Isn't that a pano?


Well I guess it could be. It is a rectangular photo. :)

New York is almost impressive.

amazing skyline

Thats indeed amazing!!!

New York is almost impressive.

almost?

Great photo, NYC defiantely has an amzing skyline!

:applause:

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This amazing photo was posted by Jularc on another site.

wow...does anyone have a larger image of this? it is absolutely amazing!! way better than any other skyline in the US for sure!!

almost?

Great photo, NYC defiantely has an amzing skyline!

on a skyscraper forum...

saying New York is almost impressive....

then what the fuck are they here for exactly?

if NYC is almost impressive id like to see one that is to this shmuck. hes givin me oggida.

Sorta big

wtf? sorta?:bash:

Always astonishing!! :applause:

That's like half of the skyline too, Brooklyn, JC, Downtown, The Bronx, and Newark aren't in there. :eek:

Woooow!


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Some guys dont know what sarcasm is.......

Hey I posted that pic on this site aswell (in other places). ;)

Oh BTW I am Jularc. But it is defenetly 'The Most Enormous Skyline!' It doesn't even include the Downtown, Brooklyn, or the Jersey City Skylines in that pic.

http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/308/bestnycpanoramiczb4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

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Those that are saying ny is almost impressive, and that it's skyline is sorta big. I don't think they realize that places building up right now are still no where near the scale of Manhattan. Manhattan is the daddy of all skylines as Chicago is the mommy. AND.. They're still shaking and moving 100 years later. Ya just don't fuck with them. Sorry to the others but .... yer just our spoiled, bratty, children.

Deal with it punks.


Chicago+ NYC>>>>>>>>>>>>> U guys.

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It's so enormous huge, looks like it's much bigger than a couple of some whole countries... *.*
But I think there's missing something... The WTC towers :(

Those that are saying ny is almost impressive, and that it's skyline is sorta big. I don't think they realize that places building up right now are still no where near the scale of Manhattan. Manhattan is the daddy of all skylines as Chicago is the mommy. AND.. They're still shaking and moving 100 years later. Ya just don't fuck with them. Sorry to the others but .... yer just our spoiled, bratty, children.

Deal with it punks.


Chicago+ NYC>>>>>>>>>>>>> U guys.
Very true, but u have to remember that huge and dense skylines like these r at their most impressive at street level rather than in skyline views, because there r so many buildings that r hidden behind other buildings. I mean, just look at NY and Chicago. According to Emporis, NY has 5 & 1/2 times more completed highrises than Chicago, but most people wouldn't consider it to be 5 & 1/2 times more impressive. Personally I would consider it 1.5 - 2 times at the most.

new york and chicago are the best not only because they invented the skyline, but because they have more history (even though they're hardly 300 years old) and more character than any other place on the planet. new york has a vibe like no other place in the world i've lived, every street you walk down is interesting and lively, and the culture beats out any other place on earth. everyone in the world loves NYC...just at look tv shows watched worldwide; seinfeld, friends, everybody loves raymond, mad about you, rescue me, the sopranos, etc. anyone who doesn't love new york is obviously just very jealous that they live in some pathetic, brand spanking new, corporate park city that has nothing to offer but massive banks surrounded by miles of low to mid-rise characterless, concrete shells.

new york and chicago are the best not only because they invented the skyline, but because they have more history (even though they're hardly 300 years old)...

Just to clarify, New York is about 400 years old. (It was settled in the very early 1600's.) Chicago, by contrast, is less than 200 years old. (It was incorporated as a city around 1840, at which time it had a few hundred residents.)

Manhattan has gifted geography.

...and a lot of gifted architects in the 20th century - not only FLW :)

http://pirate.shu.edu/~jamesjan/images/911memorialEagle%20RockRes-NYCview.JPG

this one shows how long the skyline NYC is, and how Jersey City blends in nicely with Downtown. Midtown could use a little more peaks, but all in all its incredible.

It's a little hard to miss.

WOW... These pics are impressing the hell out of me!

I would like to see New York and Chicago combined in one skyline, holy crap! We could call it York-cago! :nuts:

^^ Heck, why stop there. Add HK to the list :omg:

Those that are saying ny is almost impressive, and that it's skyline is sorta big. I don't think they realize that places building up right now are still no where near the scale of Manhattan. Manhattan is the daddy of all skylines as Chicago is the mommy. AND.. They're still shaking and moving 100 years later. Ya just don't fuck with them. Sorry to the others but .... yer just our spoiled, bratty, children.

Deal with it punks.


Chicago+ NYC>>>>>>>>>>>>> U guys.

NYC is still probably the most enormous skyline but as Kowloon develops - as it is much more rapidly than any NY suburb - the panorama across HK and Kowloon will in 6 to 8 years time take over. CHI and NYC are older and more well known but they have already been overtaken for sheer presence and Wow factor and will soon be overtaken for panorama as well. Sorry NYgirl but that is how it is.


The spoiled bratty child is all grown up.

NYC is still probably the most enormous skyline but as Kowloon develops - as it is much more rapidly than any NY suburb - the panorama across HK and Kowloon will in 6 to 8 years time take over. CHI and NYC are older and more well known but they have already been overtaken for sheer presence and Wow factor and will soon be overtaken for panorama as well. Sorry NYgirl but that is how it is.


The spoiled bratty child is all grown up.


Yeah as Kowloon develops thats all wonderful but Ny has JC, Bklyn, Qns. The city has developed it's skyline for far longer than HK has, and it still is. I am not knocking HK so I hope you are not going to twist my words. In 8 years time there will be in NYC 3 supertalls in lower Manhattan, the development of Midtowns westside with the high possibility of a couple 1000' + there, probably another 70 story tower north of the Met Life, the condo booms of Lower Manhattan, Flat Iron, Queens, Jersey City, the construction boom in Brooklyn, 3-4 fresh stadiums.. so what exactly is your point? NY will stop moving forward in 8 years, but hk won't? It isn't like Nyc is going to slow down for the further growth of Hong Kong. Come on HK is experiencing booms we already have, multiple times over. I like to put it this way: You guys got yer notch on the Totem Pole. Fair enough or you want it all? Booms don't always last. It's good to have a 70 year head start.
What is this panorama take-over? A panorama view can be seen in any city so I don't get how we are getting taken over? Build a few distinguishable 600-700-800 footers then come talk to me.

Sorry TigerBoy but that's just how the cookie crumbles.

The child isn't even a teenager yet.

NYC and HK are growing at the same rate, i dont think theyll really outduel eachother, so in 8 years, the numbers would just be more inflated. They cannot completely blow eachother away here, theyre both experiencing booms.

I vote for NY, HK, Shanghai & Vancouver.

NYC and HK are growing at the same rate, i dont think theyll really outduel eachother, so in 8 years, the numbers would just be more inflated. They cannot completely blow eachother away here, theyre both experiencing booms.
Yeah and secondly Tiger I'm really not trying to be Offensive nor am I intentionally trying to alienate you. I guess I'm an aquired taste around here. So if I pissed you off, my bad dude.
I basically share the same opinion with Spooky on this one. Several places will just never fully outdo the other and that is in no way a bad thing. Few cities like Hk, Nyc, shanghai, and chicago will always dominate in this sense but never totally dominate eachother

I'm speechless! :drool:

Wow, great panos. Its easy to forget just how large NYC really is!

Nothing to say ! :uh: :master:

Awesome pictures. I'll never forget the first time I flew into the NYC area at Newark's airport. As we were about to land I looked out my window and was greeted by the greatest skyline of the world. It is still the most memorable moment of my life.

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Courtesy of NewYorker2005^^

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^^ Old

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also old

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Yeah and secondly Tiger I'm really not trying to be Offensive nor am I intentionally trying to alienate you. I guess I'm an aquired taste around here. So if I pissed you off, my bad dude.
I basically share the same opinion with Spooky on this one. Several places will just never fully outdo the other and that is in no way a bad thing. Few cities like Hk, Nyc, shanghai, and chicago will always dominate in this sense but never totally dominate eachother


You certainly didn't upset me NYGIRL so no worries.

I accept some of what you say but I dispute your contention that HK is a teenager. OK its talls are new. So are CHI's. None of CHI supertalls are 40 years old adn that is newish.

Also comparing Kowloon to Brooklyn is highly suspect. Come say 2012 Kowloon will have almost as many buildings in the world's top 200 as Chicago !!!!! Will Brooklyn? I don't think so. There is no comparison between HK development off HK island and non Manhattan NY development The New territorise already has a 300 metre plus tower. Does the Bronx? No way.

I'm not Chinese or from HK. My loyalty to HK stems from seeing it and being wowwed by the "Dream of manhattan rising from the south China Sea" It is a great city and what is happening there now is what happened in manhattan between the World wars which is to say the defining skyline of our time is being built.

I love NY. I live in Paris and regard them as sister cities full of vibrant life and big city swagger but i have to say HK is amazing. If its a teenager then it is one tall outsized teenager I tell you.

NYC and HK are growing at the same rate, i dont think theyll really outduel eachother, so in 8 years, the numbers would just be more inflated. They cannot completely blow eachother away here, theyre both experiencing booms.

Emporis say the following:

HK building 155 and approved 112. Total 277
NY building 108 and approved 38. total 146

It is inaccurate to say they are growing at the same rate when in fact HK is growing significantly faster.

Actually I like the pace we are moving at. Queens and Brooklyn are developing quite smoothely nowadays, as is Jersey City.. just some links on whats in store for us in the Tri-State.

Just some development in Queens:



http://www.richardrogers.co.uk/Asp/uploadedFiles/image/3940_silvercup/design/3940_0037_design_w.jpg

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Here is the favored MSG redevelopment which will be exciting to see what comes about:
[URL=]http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=119637 (]http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=122855[/URL)


The West Side of Midtown finally looking good. Also very excited about this one:



Here is a friend for Goldman Sachs in Jersey City:

[URL=]http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=116974 (]http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=93410[/URL)

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On the other side of the Hudson River:



Basic new developments:

[URL=]http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=103927&page=11 (]http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=79931[/URL)

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My favorite view of the skyline is from Jamaica especially b/c it is very far away.

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i think nyc and hk have their own beauty. u can never compare them because they're both great cities and their skylines differ in character.

accept some of what you say but I dispute your contention that HK is a teenager. OK its talls are new. So are CHI's. None of CHI supertalls are 40 years old adn that is newish


Chicago's "supertalls" are not 40 yet. In a few years though won't JHC be 40? What's with the number 40 anyway? It doesn't really matter though because Chicago gave us the Skyscraper in this sense they should be given a little more credibility than either ny or hk. They have been shaping their skyline for far longer than 40 years ( London Guarantee, 35 Wacker, Chi board of Trade, Mather Tower, c&c, Reliance, Temple Building, the now destyroyed Masonic Temple, Michagan Avenue along Grant Park) There is a plethora of these incredible buildings that outdate and outdo most cities just begining to taste skyscraper success. Whatever variety you can find in Ny, bet anything Chicago can match it. These have been popping up for over 100 years. 100 Years!!! It isn't stopping either.. there are 2 supertalls u/c right now and one 2,000 footer in the works. Lol does that not gain uber respect?




Also comparing Kowloon to Brooklyn is highly suspect. Come say 2012 Kowloon will have almost as many buildings in the world's top 200 as Chicago !!!!! Will Brooklyn? I don't think so. There is no comparison between HK development off HK island and non Manhattan NY development The New territorise already has a 300 metre plus tower. Does the Bronx? No way.

No way in hell I am comparing Kowloon ( 2007) skyline to Brooklyn. The Bronx has no significant cbd for a supertall. There's way more to the Bronx than that. The Art Deco Lined Grand Concourse is enough. I would never want to see the area blossom into a 'Kowloon' of sorts either. Queens is building a "vertical Hollywood" hopefully we will see more development than the incredible resurgeance we are seeing already in Long Island City..and I think we will. I think the film industry will be quite compfortable in Queens. Brooklyn is also nothing to smirk at. At the moment it is starting a boom. Hopefully some more significantly tall buildings go up in Downtown Brooklyn but there would take alot of pushing for that. The thing is I bet Hong Kong has no Nimby's. Brooklyn has more than it's fair share. I think it will be successful though. The city does not sleep. It doesn't hault growth and development. It has been graceully reinventing itself for decades upon decades.


I'm not Chinese or from HK. My loyalty to HK stems from seeing it and being wowwed by the "Dream of manhattan rising from the south China Sea" It is a great city and what is happening there now is what happened in manhattan between the World wars which is to say the defining skyline of our time is being built.


You would have to take away the fact that Ny has a far, far larger stock of Art Deco, Beaux-Arts, Neo-Gothic, Neo-Classical, Brutalist, Italian Rennaiscance, Romanesque, Modern, and maybe post modern than Hong Kong to sway me to believe the skyline of our time is defined by how much it shines. The integrity of the skyline of Nyc comes from the variety it posseses. These buildings are visible in the skyline. They blend in with the skyline. They create substance and Dimension. I find this to be something that alot of people debating the "former skyscraper capital" don't take into consideration. If it's shiney and new and tall it is better? What about individuality? There are tons of boxes built up from the 60's and 70's but I bet anything I can find that most of HK's 7,000+ "Skyscrapers" are ( and I am sorry for being cliche) Cloned apartment blocks. You think not? I know they are new and look much better than red brick and Limestone.. but imagine Ny's apartment blocks and project houses 2x the height they are.
I will glorify the Hong Kong skyline but I am sorry I cannot take the dozens of apartment blocks and pencil towers into consideration.
I will however glorify the trophy line of commercial beasts lining the Northern shore of the Hong Kong Island and the prospect of West Kowloon. It's a wonderful time for Hong Kong and I am syked for you guys seriously but this is not unique to asia.. or the middle east let alone Hong Kong. Ny for example has seen this growth on more than one occassion. No not just between the world wars. The earliest part of the 20th century saw Downtown begin to take shape. Then there were the 20's and 30's with the fascination of Art Deco ( thanks Paris) :), and again in the 60's and early 70's( the box, wtc), The late 80's ( World Financial Center, midtown's Post Moderns, financial District along the East River, Battery Park City ) the Mid and Late 90's ( Trump, Times Square, Jersey City skyline, condo's in the Upper East Side), and even now..
These booms really come and go and come and go again in Nyc. I think that's better than 1 big fat boom, really. The skyline of our time is debateable and since so many cities are neck to neck nowadays it really is a matter of opinion. I'd rather the skyline be timeless. Ny was robbed of that a little with the loss of the twins which were so Iconic to the skyline of Lower Manhattan.



love NY. I live in Paris and regard them as sister cities full of vibrant life and big city swagger but i have to say HK is amazing. If its a teenager then it is one tall outsized teenager I tell you.

I love Hk as well been there. The one thing is you can't knock the place for anything really. I have always admired how accurate new projects come out compared to the rendering. Envious really. I love Paris too. You are right both are amazing. The line about teenager was a cute little joke by the way.

Cheers:cheers:

And in the good old times...
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wow.

theres something way wrong with that last esb shot from the King Kong movie. The area around the Brooklyn Bridge seems way off.

Sorta big

I think that's an understatement

Anyways there's an amazing thread on New York City Panoramic pictures, one of the best photogalleries of new york city you are ever going to see on the internet.

Here it is: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=152847