check out this NYC skyline photo . . . (dialup warning) . . .

[OneBlueSky]

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[Bluebear]

1. Holy cannoli!

MOST awesome!

[Rainscents]

2. It's very beautiful!

[clmbohdem]

3. that is too cool!

[drdtroit]

4. Did you take that from the Empire State Bldg O.D.? n/t

[shockingelk]

5. I see Wren Insurance

(inside joke for SimCity fans)

(really, look - third white building in from the lower - left corner)

[sandnsea]

6. That is OUTSTANDING

I've never been to New York, that is the coolest picture I've ever seen of it. Feel like you could jump right into the picture and walk around. Thanks so much for sharing it!

[LVdem]

7. Fantastic...and there are a lot of PROGRESSIVES down there...nt

[Swamp Rat]

8. I love New York!

Great photo! :applause:

[bluedonkey]

9. What's

that black thing right of the chrysler building?Doesn't look like a building,more like 'colored-in' for a proposed building,maybe?

[Laughing Mirror]

10. It's the latest Donald Trump erection

A real beauty ain't it?

[alcibiades_mystery]

15. Nope...that's a building

Trump embarrassment.

He's an architectural douchebag.

[zanne]

24. Oops! My bad.

I posted that it looked like one of the Twin Towers without reading your post.

[newswolf56]

11. Looks like the PanAm Building is now the MetLife Building.

That tower out in Queens is new too. (But then I haven't been in the City since '86.)

[alcibiades_mystery]

16. The tower out in Queens went up in the mid-late 90's

Citigroup headquarters.

[phylny]

12. Nice, thanks!

The Chrysler Building was by far the BEST office space I've ever worked in. The windows actually OPENED and the interior of the lobby is deliciously beautiful.

Of course, we'd never cease to be amazed when we saw ants on the the 47th floor or whatever :)

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

14. Lol! I had an office on the 48th floor of the Chrysler building! I had a

tiny space but yes, open windows and a breathtaking view of the East River. :)

I loved riding the elevators. They were all designed differently with that gorgeous inlaid wood and steel.

I worked there from 1979 to 1986.

[QuettaKid]

20. wow...you worked in the Chrysler building?

Did you ever make it up to the Cloud Club?? I snuck in there once back in the early nineties.....it was sureal....like a time machine. 3 floors of an art deco nightclub suspended in time at the base of the pyramid.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

22. I never saw it but I heard it was amazing.

[annabanana]

35. (far and away the most beautiful building in the city)

Nothing has ever even come close, although I've always had a soft spot for the Ansonia, victorian horror that she is

[QuettaKid]

38. where is the ansonia?

your right that IS a beauty....CPW?

[annabanana]

40. 2109 Broadway

between 73rd & 74th

[Clintmax]

13. Wow!

That's a FANTASTIC photo! Almost 360 degrees! Beautiful!

[Northwind]

17. QTVR of Same

Threw the photo into Quicktime this morning and created a QTVR for ya'll's viewing pleasure. Download is about 5.5 meg.

There is a little mismatch at the seam (the MetLife building) owing to horizon drift in the original image. I was able to brush most of it out but some will still be there. Enjoy!

http://www.strangegaze.com/picshare/NY.mov

[newswolf56]

39. Can't view it. I don't have QuickTime and for some reason I've...

never been able to install it: it simply won't load. Probably has something to do with an incompatibility with Microsoft Windows XP or perhaps my Norton Security. Pain in the ass, too, because there's so much only QuickTime will open.

But thanks anyway.

[Skidmore]

18. It's something alright.

But, guys, I wouldn't do more than visit. Sorry, those concrete canyons block out the sky and the smell of ozone and exhaust is no substitute for that of fresh breezes bearing the scents of fall fruits and grains and the earth.

[DeepModem Mom]

19. Thanks, OBS -- beautiful! nt

[DoYouEverWonder]

21. Go to the end of the Queensboro Bridge in LIC

hang a left and go about 6 blocks and you can see my old neighborhood.

[zanne]

23. It looks like one of the towers is still there...

What is the name of the building that looks incredibly like one of the Twin Towers?

[sinkingfeeling]

25. Nice. Taken on a very clear day!

[Fla Dem]

26. OK, couldn't resist...my hometown skyline...Boston

[phusion]

36. I love Boston!

It's the only US city I've been to East of the Mississippi :)

Had a great time, though...So much American history.

[banana republican]

27. Seattle

[DS1]

28. Looks like it's been trimmed a bit

[RumpusCat]

29. ::waves from the Metlife building::

Scroll aaalll the way to the right--there's the building I'm sitting in right now! I'm a flunky so I don't have a window in my office, but I am like three feet from a huuuge floor-to-ceiling window looking out at the East River.

I <3 this city.

[MsTryska]

30. hey..what's with the random skyscraper in Jersey?

who's idea was that?

[gasperc]

31. a 360 photo that was wild

[devilgrrl]

32. That would make a really groovy screensaver

:-)

[porphyrian]

33. I think the Chicago skyline is prettier. - n/t

[RevolutionStartsNow]

34. Beautiful, thanks! I just got back from NYC

It's my favorite city by far.

I think the Chrysler Building is one of the most beautiful modern buildings I've ever seen.

[Ferret Annica]

37. Portland, Oregon

Portland, Oregon looking toward Mount Hood, Oregon's highest point.