What city

[-GR2NY-]

Its a screen from a music video. I have some ideas but I'm not sure.

[Mayfd24]

One part looks like the skyline to the right of Battery Park in NY

[KevinFromTexas]

The buildings to the left look like New York, Woolworth Building and the tallest World Financial Center tower and then some of the other hulking office towers downtown. The right side of the pic sort of reminds me of Seattle. I know there's no hill like that in New York, though.

[Cro Burnham]

Looks like someplace in Jersey City or Hoboken looking SE toward Lower Manhattan

[Coldrsx]

san fran?

[-GR2NY-]

You guys are running thru the same exact analogies that I had when I first saw it.

[rockyi]

I thought San Francisco when I saw it.

[LMich]

Funny, I also thought of both downtown Manhattan and downtown San Francisco when I saw this.

[Nouvellecosse]

Yea, I'm going with Sf as well, since that pointed building on the very left is looking more and more like the Trans Am pyramid.

[JManc]

yeah, the NY area is not that hilly.

[Cro Burnham]

Jersey City is very hilly. They have the "Palisades" there. I'm 95% sure it's Jersey City looking at Lower Manhattan. You can see the silhouettes (from left) of American International Bldg, former JP Morgan HQ, Chase Manahattan, Marine Midland, former Merrill Lynch HQ, then a the big bldg in the middle in the foreground on the Jersey side, then the World Financial Center.

[-GR2NY-]

Haha even with 4 more posts you guys are coming up with the exact same things that I was thinking. Also, the architecture in the foreground seems to be right in step with SF. However, the hill could be an optical illusion from Jersey. But, the spike does look like the transamerica. But, the tallest building on the right could be the WFC (forgot which #) exactly in proportion with WFC-4. But, the horizon might be the ocean and not brooklyn which would make it SF, however the far left spire might be the trump.

**EDIT** from jersey city the WFC area would be slightly to the left of 55 water, trump and others. It could be from west of hoboken somewhere, while using a crazy-zoom.

[Cro Burnham]

The more I look at it, the more I believe that the background (taller buildings) and the foreground (truck, street, low-rise blgs) are two separate photos spliced together. The background is lower Manhattan viewed from the north somewhere along the Hudson (on the NY side, NOT NJ), maybe in the 30s or 40s. The big building in front of WFC to its left is the Citigroup/Travelers building.

[-GR2NY-]

Originally Posted by Cro Burnham

(on the NY side, NOT NJ), maybe in the 30s or 40s.

I dont follow, whats 30s and 40s mean? Also if it were from NY along the hudson the zoom would have to be upwards of 20x, right?

[DANTHEDISCOMAN]

Its got to be Frontier, North Dakota.

[Cro Burnham]

Originally Posted by -GR2NY-

I dont follow, whats 30s and 40s mean? Also if it were from NY along the hudson the zoom would have to be upwards of 20x, right?

I think the picture was taken from the roof of a building (or maybe the aircraft carrier) on the Westside Highway somewhere from 30th Street to 50th Street in Manhattan looking south south east toward the financial district. The foreground - car, hill, street, some low-rise background buildings - are all spliced in from a different photograph.

[Goody]

I am thinking San Fran as well

[newplace]

Memphis, TN, or Atlanta

[giovanni sasso]

i'm with cro -- that looks like NY from weehawken or JC. from that tiny screencap, i think i'm making out 70 pine, chase manhattan, the tiptop of 40 wall, one liberty and the WFC. there is definitely a hill that rises from JC to weehawken, and the camera looks like it's lying on the ground.

[Chicago3rd]

Seattle