[rlrl]

along I 95/495 Beltway that looks like Co-op City

I wonder how many folks from Conn know it's called Co-op City when they pass it

[7 Wishes]

Antonio, excellent use of Google Earth; I'll have to check out Shippan Point on the clearest of days (I don't believe the Stamford "Sound views" I've been on were in that part), since it looks like it would be almost like a view on a boat. It's clear from your picture that you have a much better line of sight than Greenwich Point (the other thing that juts out to the right of the line not long after it started).

rlrl, there's also a "mini Co-op City" complex right on the Queens/Nassau line, I see it very easily from the Westchester County sound parks/beaches, especially the New Rochelle ones.

[rlrl]

more than say if you took a boat from point A to point B? For example, i might guess that Shippan Point which is probably at exit 7 or 8 on I 95, is say 20-21 miles from Co-op City because exit 8 plus 13 miles from the NY/Ct line to Co-op City

but if someone boated it from Shippan Pt to Co-op City, would it be less miles?

[rlrl]

Greenwich Pt Park after 11/1 just for the view. Is it safe by the water? I'd imagine it would be since it's an exclusive area. It would be so awesome to see those towers in the distance

[Saltatrix]

Does anyone remember the vacant apt buildings on the cross bronx in the 70's? it was like they were bombed out and scared me quite a bit as a child passing by. Growing up hearing so much WWII/Holacaust talk, that is exactly what it looked like.

[rlrl]

when we went to yankee games in the late 70's my dad drove us past the area he and my mom used to live when they first married, it was all bombed out and run down

[rlrl]

and tho still not good, it was vastly improved from the way it was 16 years prior

today it's a little better

[NewYorkSkyline117]

Originally Posted by Antonio84

This is when Google Earth comes to the rescue.

I put a line connecting the area of Shippan Point from where I took the photo and the location of the Empire State Building in Manhattan. As you can see, the Co-op buildings would still be on the right, and would had been visible had I taken the shot from the estate on the tiny peninsula that juts out into the LI Sound and blocks part of the view of the Manhattan skyline.

If you look closely on the left side of the photo in my other post above, you can barely make out the silhouette of one of the suspension bridges. I used to think that it probably was the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, but now looking at the Google Earth image, I think it's the Throgs Neck Bridge. The buildings on the far left are probably from the Lower East Side/Wall Street/World Trade Center area. Had Bin Laden never destroyed the Twin Towers, this mystery could had easily been solved.

Here's the photo guys of the Bridgeport smokestack, 51 miles to the Northeast from the GE Building.

[rlrl]

absolutely breathtaking (or at least to me because i love LI sound shots between Ny and Conn)

what does GE stand for?

[rlrl]

in pic # 4 taken almost 2 years ago I don't think you can see Co-op City. maybe it's hidden in the trees. would it be to the west of the manhattan skyline?