interloafer says:
Dusk, from the top of Rockefeller Center, shows a view of NYC with incredible depth. The city can seem endless. We're in the midst of one skyscraper district, looking, actually at three more in the distance. At left is downtown Brooklyn, which here appears diminishingly small but in reality has a substantial skyline in its own right. At center, partly obscured by the Empire State Building, is the canyons of Downtown New York, the Financial District. At right, across the Hudson River, is Jersey City. Thanks to the latter's vertical growth, "the air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame," in Emma Lazarus' words, is actually now framed by three cities.
interloafer says:
Here is a similar view. More lights are on, so it must be darker, although the photo appears lighter overall. "New York is big, and it's been big for a long time." Two distinct points with quite separate implications, both uttered in one meaning laden sentence by Kenneth T. Jackson to Ric Burns. These first two photos clearly demonstrate the first point. Illustrating the second, we see skyscrapers from the 1920s to the 2000s, and all the decades in between.
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