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Theres a myth that you can see both NYC's & Philly's skyline from the top of Kingda Ka at Six Flags Great Adventure, the park is in Central New Jersey and is equidistant from NYC & Philly (about 60-70 miles away from both cities downtowns).
Kingda Ka is about 450 feet tall and goes at nearly 130 miles per hour so you wouldn't get a great view of either city if you could even find them in such a short amount of time (like 2 seconds).
Another myth is that you can see Philly's tallest building (the new Comcast one) from NYC's current tallest building (the Empire State Building) on a clear day. One WTC (the Freedom Tower) will probably give better views because it's taller and further south than the Empire State Building.
Yes you can! Here's a link everyone to a picture of Kingda Ka, & NYC in one picture! You can make out Midtown, and Lower Manhattan in the center of the image if you zoom in with the tool bar at the top. IT IS PICTURE NUMBER 30. The pictures are labeled in the bottom right corner. You might want to tilt your screen (or your head) to get rid of the brightness. REMEMBER TO ZOOM IN TO THE TOP CENTER OF THE IMAGE WITH THE GIVEN TOOL BAR.
Well my home town of Bedford, Massachusetts its about 500-600 yards across the common you can see the chirch spire, and town hall clock tower.
The Nearest city Lowell, only ha mill towers, which can be seem mybe a mile away.
yeah, there was some discussion on whether that was an urban legend or not. Some people said you could see Philly & New York on either side of you for a split second.
I live on Long Island and many people don't realize this, but you used to be able to see the WTC pretty easily on a clear day from the Robert Moses Bridge which is about 50 miles from Manhattan now that the new WTC will be even taller, you will definitely be able to see it when it's done and you can also see the empire state building. Also Melville which is also in Suffolk County about 35 miles away in certain taller office buildings. New Jersey is just very hilly, that's why you can see Manhattan, but if LI had a mountain or some 1,000 ft skyscraper, you could probably see Manhattan 60 miles away on a clear day. I think what that guy meant before when he said Manhattan isn't an NJ skyline is that so many people from NJ want to claim NY as their own. I don't care if you live in Hoboken and can hit NYC with a rock. You still don't live in the state of New York and I hate when people from Jersey act like it.
Could do without people trying to 'claim' skylines though. I don't care what state or city you live in, it's not like you ****ing built them.
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