Aerial Views of New York City

Pretty nice photos.

Great photos...makes me a little homesick.

Just not the same without the Twin Trade Towers!  I remember being on the observation deck of one of them and watching the other one sway in the wind...or maybe it was the one I was on swaying in the wind......

Originally posted by Strogey:

Just not the same without the Twin Trade Towers!  I remember being on the observation deck of one of them and watching the other one sway in the wind...or maybe it was the one I was on swaying in the wind......

You are not kidding! IT may not have been the tallest but it was the only skyscraper that had an open observation deck that you could touch the sky!

this new one is lacking that important detail as are the other taller buildings in the world!

There are eight million stories in the naked city . . .

Or maybe it was just you swaying.

 

The Trade Towers never did anything for me, design-wise - just two shoeboxes on end. The new building I find more interesting. But prrhorseshoecurve is right - it's a shame losing the open observation deck.

Very nice.

Thank you.

 

Peter

As a kid, I was OK with the Empire State Bldg obs deck.   (It was fun seeing it again in "You've Got Mail"...GREAT movie!).

 

However, the top deck of WTC...swaying in the wind....not so much.  ("CLEAN UP ON THE DECK!!  CLEAN UP ON THE DECK!!)

 

The other ones we don't do are the glass floors of CN Tower and the Grand Canyon Skywalk!!  (MEDIC!!  MEDIC!!  OMG!!  'Mommy, what's wrong with that green man?')

 

 

Acrophobic wuss....and OK with it.  

 

I have Stereoview (3-D) cards very similar to the top 2 photos that were taken from a plane in the 1930s. The photographer would take 2 photos, one right after the other. The 2 slightly different photos would let you see the image in 3-D. In real life, your eyes would only see these views as "flat" because they were so far away. But viewing it as a 3-D image, it appears as if it were a model or train layout.

Great post, thanks for the memories. I remember the swaying on the WTC, but that could have been because I was enrolled at the Windows of the World Wine School at the time. You got to sip and look our the window, that was fun.

 

Jay

I recently went to the top of Taipei 101 in Taiwan which is the 2nd tallest building on the planet. The view was spectacular, but not as spectacular as the views from the Twin Towers, and the Empire State Building.

In Queens at the Museum of Art is the huge model of all 5 boroughs of New York City that was an attraction at the 1964 Worlds Fair. It is in a scale smaller than Z but the planes take off and land at the airports. It is my favorite view of the city. A cool thing about the model is that it is kept up to date. Prominent buildings get placed on the model when the get built. In the 90's sections were refurbished and "somehow" I ended up with some dumpster dived sections. The buildings have some phosphorescent paint for night scenes.

As far as the Trade Center I saw them come down and yesterday  I watched them raise the last section of the mast of the replacement Freedom Tower. I am proud of the new one and the strength, hope and resilience it shows of the city and the country.

bobboy

Outstanding collection of the worlds greatest city