Big boxes ruined lower Manhattan...are pencil towers ruining Midtown's skyline? - Page 6

MolsonExport · #**101** Posted **Jul 4, 2022, 9:38 PM**

I love those stormy-looking NYC shots. Amazing.

dc_denizen · #**102** Posted **Jul 4, 2022, 10:21 PM**

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Originally Posted by Maldive

(Most of) the Manhattan skyline is astonishing (best in the world still) and I dutifully, definitely love the city itself (half a dozen wonderful visits).

But the first minute or so of that video features a lengthy pile of seriously butt ugly urban eyesores. In fact huge swaths of the riverfront obviously need a $200billion make-over.

Our little Metropolis (see what I did there ;-) is spending (and planning to spend) about $10billion on former waterfront industrial wastelands downtown ... stuff underway includes such things as a new river valley (and eventually a neighbourhood on a new island).

So NYC could come up with the needed $200billion. Call me when it's done.

lol, I can bike from lower manhattan to the gw bridge and beyond, passing parks and urban vistas the entire way, right now .

Crawford · #**103** Posted **Jul 4, 2022, 11:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by dc_denizen

lol, I can bike from lower manhattan to the gw bridge and beyond, passing parks and urban vistas the entire way, right now .

You'll shortly be able to bike from Lower Manhattan to Quebec. And even all the way to Niagara Falls.

dc_denizen · #**104** Posted **Jul 4, 2022, 11:57 PM**

Ah the empire trail , that will be glorious . We need more bike highways