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Pics taken from the Empire State Building observation deck:

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Density shots like these would make any urban afficionado wet their pants with NYC's endless skyline cannons.

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Wasn't this tower inspired and named after some pre-fab condo tower in North York??

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Only in NYC where you can make such individual architectural gems look like nothing in contrast to the skyline and how many buildings there are.

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Oh Metlife, as hideous and oppresive as you might be, you're just one small piece of the never ending NYC urban fabric.

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You can see Foster's Hearst Magazine building in contrast to the skyline

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If you could steal a building and smuggle it into Toronto???

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*sigh* Only in NYC...If those beautiful apartment building lining Central Park were built in Toronto they would be considered gems but in NYC they are just another building.

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Yonge/Esplanade??? I wish...

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Now thats my kind of urbanity. I think this would be a great model of what the land west of the MINT cluster could become in Toronto. The King West district with its preserved factory warehouses and infill condo and loft projects.


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Regent Park * 10000

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Those are some good pics! Impressive!
Yes, NYC looks awesome indeed. It´s so dense, there are few cities that could beat it.
 
In the shot where you highlight the Hearst building you can see the new Bank of America tower starting to rise just next to the Verizon building.

And regarding the Regent Park comment, Robert Moses, the builder of most of the highways and bridges in NYC, wanted to turn all of Greenwich Village and Soho into a similar styled development. Imagine what a disaster that would have been. That picture would have been 100% Regent Park. Luckily Jane Jacobs and her gang came along to stop him.
 
I wonder what sort of lovely neighbourhoods those beasts replaced. Moses... Ugh...
 

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