Your Favourite NYC Icon (New York, Hudson: live, park, metropolitan)

[Trimac20]

What is it?

For me I'd have to say the Empire State Building. Nothing embodies the spirit of the Big Apple, or represents it visually better, than the ESB.

[Bronxguyanese]

You forgot the uniglobe Queens and Coney Island.

[Kefir King]

I had trouble deciding between FAVORITE and ICON. They are not the same. For example, The Empire State Building is certainly representative of NYC, i.e., ICONIC, but I prefer the looks of the Chrysler Building, Grand Central, or the Metropolitan Museum of Art, i.e., FAVORITE.

So I went with ICONIC, the ESB.

[85dumbo]

I can't support the ESB as an icon, especially when they sold out to the communist Chinese who paid to have it light up red and yellow.

Brooklyn Bridge will forever be the NYC icon. Love seeing it everyday with the American flags flying high in the sky.

[bill83]

Most items on that list are just tourist attractions. I wonder how many out-of-towners voted. I pick Central Park, and Brooklyn Bridge as a runner up. They are the true icons and New Yorker's favorite.

[skinnayyy]

Originally Posted by bill83

Most items on that list are just tourist attractions. I wonder how many out-of-towners voted. I pick Central Park, and Brooklyn Bridge as a runner up. They are the true icons and New Yorker's favorite.

I'm an out of towner and I still picked central park

[craigslist]

[Kefir King]

^^Ahhh, the true iconic smell of the City!

[r small]

Williamsburg bridge. That's where Sonny Rollins used to go to woodshed (practice his saxophone).

[urbanlife78]

There are so many iconic buildings in the city, but for me it has to be ESB because I see it so often, especially from across the Hudson. It is always my reminder to where I live now.