The Empire State Building VS The Sears Tower (largest, life, best)

[petion2000]

You can't compare the two.

[Newarkbomb]

Originally Posted by lrfox

Yup, but you're a good 8-10 miles away and you're looking at it from a slightly higher elevation and seeing it from behind small hills and rises. It's all perspective.

Even still, it looks pretty imposing here and look how far it is from the larger cluster of buildings in Midtown Manhattan. Also note how tiny the Citigroup Building (white slanted roof towards the left of the large cluster of towers) looks in this. Again, when you can pick out a few buildings in this picture (from Giant Stadium) and you realize that many of them are 800+feet tall, you get a REAL idea how imposing the ESB really is.



I still think the most impressive view of the Empire State Building is when you're looking at it from the area around like 5th Ave and 27th, 28th and 29th. While you have the dense streetwall of 5th Ave right there, the ESB just TOWERS above you. for anyone who doesn't know, just check it out in google street view. ( link: E 34th St & 5th Ave, New York, New York, New York 10001 - Google Maps , despite the name of the link, this is from about 28th street and 5th)

Very true, but it still doesn't look that powerful on the turnpike around the Giant stadium in jersey, but it is impressive since your still about 6 miles away. But the best view i think is in the Hoboken area right over the Hudson.. You see the WHOLE city with a great perspective. You don't get such a view anywhere else.

[BigCityGuy]

Heres a nice pic

http://rgfletcher.org/images/nyc_empire_state_building_009.jpg (broken link)

[Rachael84]

It's always cool/funny when you see flashes of cameras going off on top of the ESB.

[Buffalonian4life]

Nothin compares to the iconic Empire State Building. Nothing. Except for maybe the Inspiration for the building that came a few years before the Empire was built - In Buffalo, the other side of New York State, the Rand building was built as a new "stepped back" art deco style, and later was considered as being the inspiration for the Empire State Building on the other side of NYS. Here are a few pics:


When it opened in the "City of Light" - Buffalo, New York:




Some of my current photos of the tower:






My Favorite building in Buffalo and even perhaps tops my list in the world. Same art deco - stepped back style. Really nice. 2nd tallest skyscraper in Buffalo.


See: http://www.buffaloah.com/a/lafsq/14/ext/index.html

And: http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=126211


http://gapfel.com/EllicottSquare-EmpireState.jpg (broken link)

[gichicago]

^^^ Very nice!!

[Rachael84]

Wow, that actually looks pretty similar to the ESB.

[Buffalonian4life]

Originally Posted by Rachael84

Wow, that actually looks pretty similar to the ESB.

It's the Buffalo-NYC connection. It's amazing how many things can be pointed out in similarity between both cities within some of their various structures. NYC has one statue of liberty, while Buffalo has two on the top of a 30 story Liberty Bank Building downtown:


(This Photo by Joe Cascio, rest by myself)


(top of Liberty Building in Downtown Buffalo ^ ) an article on Liberty Towers here: Secrets of Buffalo: Lady Liberty x 2 | City | Buffalo Rising









The Lady Liberties that point both east and west symbolize Buffalo's unique geographical local as the center of cultural diffusion and as a historical gateway from the convergence of the East and the West. You used to actually be able to go up a small spiral staircase up both Lady Liberties and see out many, many miles out. Today only construction workers are allowed up there to change the powerful beacon lightbulbs on both statues. A prominent Buffalo skyline feature.


And one last view at the Rand:




Buffalo is often considered Mini Manhattan on Lake Erie...

[Buffalonian4life]

This photo on Flickr by Jeffrey.mills depicts the top of the Liberty towers and the statues with their beaming light torches.

[LINative]

Nice work Buffalonian. I read somewhere (it was a Buffalo website though!!!) that Buffalo is considered to have the second best architecture in the country after Chicago. Obvisously that is just one opinion lol!