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I have always preferred the Midtown skyline. I think the buildings are nicer and more iconic. Chrysler, ESB, Citi, etc.
Lower Manhattan is of course also very nice. I especially like 40 Wall Street (currently called Trump something or another) and the bridges are cool. I never cared for the design of the WTC towers, but they certainly added impressive height. Even when they were standing I liked Midtown better. It will be interesting to see how things look once the Freedom Tower is completed (and hopefully WTC 2 as well, I actually prefer the design on 2).
Together Lower and Midtown make my favorite skyline in the world...just so massive and iconic. Hong Kong is second and Chicago and Shanghai duke it out for third.
Voted for Midtown but regretted it as soon as I did. There is just something so amazing about Lower Manhattan. Besides the WTC, my favorite is 40 Wall & AIG, the original "Twin Towers."
Went to NYC this summer and saw the new 1WTC. It looks much better in reality than in projections.
Midtown has way more of my favorite buildings than Downtown, so I would have to chose Midtown.
However, one thing I like about Downtown is that the streets are not in a grid pattern, which gives the area a somewhat intimate feeling that simply doesn't exist in the highly rational Midtown. But, this is ground level differences, nothing to do with skylines.
The Chrysler building is my favorite in New York, but I love all the historic buildings in New York. It had 8 world's tallests in a row, and 5 have been in lower, but Singer and 1WTC are destroyed.
I can't really vote on this because I love both!
Can't wait for the WTC complex to get completed though. It'll make a difference. Here are some pics I love.
Some of Brooklyn with Midtown
Downtown Brooklyn With Lower Manhattan
Btw Brooklyn (Downtown mostly) is building a lot of supertalls (at this very moment)
to be completed within the next few years AND we're getting an arena! Brooklyn's future is looking bright =)
Brooklyn isn't building any supertalls (1000+ ft.)
It's suppose to be at least 800-1000 Ft. With the spire (not pictured above) I can see this reaching 1000ft.
Super-tall skyscrapers can stay in Manhattan, but Brooklyn IS building higher skyscrapers than ever before.
It's going to be very interesting to see what New York will be like in 5 years with all the proposed supertalls. Some of my favorites are 15 Penn Plaza and Tower Verre.
I have seen the skyline from 2 spots in Rockland County (Nanuet and Pomona) and once in the early 80's while driving on the Merritt Pkwy in Connecticut around Greenwich
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