The horror of new New York

That's a long walk down if the elevators aren't working.

As ugly as they are, they are Manhattan's future. They might block out the sunlight, but they are great for laundering money.

Don't know what the fuck they're doing , other than chasing money. Brooklyn looks the same. The landmark commission is run by a foreign born individual ..

The "sway" factor is significant enough to make some residents feel sea sick.

If they stop as is, I think the difference in height looks rather beautiful.

They go up so fast, though. You can’t use streets around them for six months.

Then, overnight, you have blackened windows or the awkward furniture that nobody will ever sit on. Signs of life come from cars trying to mow you down as they exit the mega-garage.

I can't imagine living that high up in the sky.

How did New Yorkers fail to learn that very tall skinny buildings sticking up by themselves are a helluva bad idea? Seen through a 9/11 lens, these things look like slalem poles.

Another thing, what is MoMA doing encouraging this extreme aesthetic hideosity? Shocked when I learned they're expanding into one.

NY’s bizarre rules concerning airspace and allowing the purchase of unused airspace are responsible for these. There is no other city with these kind of structures as they would prove uneconomical in any other city.

Rules meant to protect the city quality of life were perverted by developers and politicians and have turned the skyline into a nightmarish dystopia.

Very Blade Runner. Welcome to the future.

Pencil towers

I hear lots of whining that they're indistinguishable. Just like the generation of towers built in the 20s, like Hampshire House, Essex House, Majestic, The Century, Eldorado, San Remo they have similarities but they're all very distinct. I think of them as symbols of progress and they aren't going anywhere. They won't be empty trophy apartments forever.

I have no complaints about how they look. And they are in a high rise area anyway. I think they add to the skyline.

The good thing is they add housing which NYC desperately needs. The bad thing is it’s for billionaires from elsewhere to own and keep empty except for the occasional weekend they are in town. With all the new construction in NYC, I bet the number of net new units has barely moved - because with the concentration of wealth, the super rich just keep buying up more space to live in and squeezing out the poor. (Ex, converting brownstones from six 1BR units to 1 huge single family house)

Ugh

That they do, OP.

R14 from the city’s self proclaimed “top real estate photographer”

I bet Ryan Serhant can’t wait to knock around some Arab dong to sell those units

Yeah. Looks good.

2B or not 2B, r11?

[quote]Rules meant to protect the city quality of life were perverted by developers and politicians and have turned the skyline into a nightmarish dystopia.

Right. How come it used to look so beautiful?

But, even in the 70s it was getting fucked up. The Park Lane Hotel (on the left) and GW (behind the statue).

But these new horrors cast a shadow over the park which should NEVER have been allowed and they're WAY TOO tall.

R18 We already did that.

In a way they look very much like how you might have imagined the New York of the future.

Same story on the ground.

It’s very neat to live up high like that. It’s just going to look like Beijing Shanghai

There was a long thread on this here. It's a very DL topic.

And this one, R24.

And this.

haha - I was only in 1 of those threads. Of course there are four.

That first one that went up looks so out of place, like a giant middle finger in the center of Manhattan. I see it every day as I don’t work very far from it. It depresses me.

Thanks, vulgar ultrarich people!

Except r23 those copycat towns are trying to look like nyc so why should we reciprocate?

True Bootsy. How very true.

R28 You’re right, it is a middle finger, both visually and intention. Purely about money, #latestagecapitalism

That building on the left of OP's pic looks like Gene Rayburn's microphone on Match Game '73.