If I get it it should be October or November, and the recovery process that I sit on my ass is 3-4 weeks so we’ll see how it goes
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No updates right now, but I thought I’d memorialize a legend.
Today it has been 51 years since the Singer Building began demolition.
RIP to in my opinion the most legendary skyscraper New York had to offer.
5/01/1908 - 9/15/1967 - 3/02/1969
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Nice!!! You know what’s stupid? They Replaced the most BEAUTIFUL building in the city, with the UGLIEST building in the city😡 pretty Ironic
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Lol I often bring that up to people too. My favorite building and my least favorite building are at the same corner on the same block
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Hey, I know your nowhere near finished and Im not sure if your gonna quit building once this projects done but if not, id like to suggest an idea for a future project which is Downtown Boston Massachusetts, for ive always wanted to see Boston built in Minecraft, and litterally noones done it!!!
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I’m still a NY person and by the time it’s done I’ll probably have moved on from the game but maybe someone will come along or you could try one. Originally the reason I built the first 2001 project I had was because the only map there was was Daget’s and none anywhere else.
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Have you seen this? Pretty interesting:
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Id say start developing Chatham Square, then you can get to the 3rd ave El, and create some great views of the city with smaller buildings in front and sskyscrapers behind them
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I think singer has a few flaws in the model but the rest are spot on, Penn Station especially. I was amazed by that.
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Well I built up some motivation, and my plans for the next 1-2 months so far are:
- Finish the Broadway-Maiden-Nassau-John Block
- Add 42 and 32 Broadway
- Add the Standard Oil Building
- Add the 2 blocks that became 7WTC
- Rebuild the Washington Market
- 1 or 2 blocks of the old district north of the NY Telephone Building
- And either the few lots near the tunnel site or the very few empty lots near Radio Row.
Here are a few pictures I found to motivate me, enjoy everyone
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Updating my to-do list:
I started working again, 30 Broad is complete and 42 Broadway is laid out, but by Halloween I need this stuff done:
Washington Market
Buildings on the site of WTC7
American Stock Exchange/ Curb Market Building
68 Trinity Place, demolished in 2015
74 Trinity Place rear facade
Hudson Terminal interior
and (possibly) the Church-Vesey-Broadway-Barclay block.
If this is done in a month we can have a massive purge on the map.
Here’s a picture for good luck
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Awesome work!
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Thanks.
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how did you do all the angles? just wanting anytips you might have
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Best way I can say it is guess and check. I trace an outline of a building or block from the 50s Bromley landbooks, and then try to line it up with the trace piece as good as I can from above until it’s the perfect angle.
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yeah thats true, do you build this on xbox and if you do could i get a tour of it
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Not really any I can think of other than try to lay areas out first before building as that leads to downfall often. Make sure everything lines up so you’re saved the suffering of demolishing whole buildings
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New update.
Additions:
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Added the block that holds Liberty Tower
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Finished the block east of Singer once and for all
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Added the two blocks that later became 7WTC (one has an adorable flatiron tenement, the other an anorexic building only one block wide)
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Began some buildings on the block of Maiden-Broadway-John-Nassau
Other:
- Renovated the Guaranty Trust Building. It now has a copper roof as well as a renovated facade. The annex building also has renovations to it. (The annex building, 60 Liberty, is the 17 story white building directly connected to it)
- Renovated the American Exchange National Bank / Guaranty Trust Building. It now has roof access.
I have a plate from the 1955 landbook that shows Radio Row, and I thought I’d show the progress on this plate alone.
I have 595 buildings as I write this. I will add 4 more buildings, then I’ll add the Washington Market back. It’ll get me to 600 buildings total and finish Radio Row once and for all at the same time.
Bonus:
I thought I’d add pictures of buildings I find underrated or overlooked in the map or in NY in general that were demolished without a whimper. Every time I post I’ll share two.
1: The Fidelity Casualty Building, at 92 Liberty Street. Liberty and Temple. Built in 1910 and demolished in 1969.
2: The North American Trust Building, 135 Broadway. Broadway and Cedar. Built in 1899, cut down to 2 stories in 1969, and demolished in 1980.
I’ll be back soon.
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looks really good bro great work!
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