Yeah that’s it: LIC, Midtown, Brooklyn, Downtown and JC. Due to the compression, LIC is a little harder to see but in the video, full screen, can be seen better.
In a way yes. The whole East River though is adapting and expanding, which I think in time a segment of it will very much fuse with LIC. Ideally, a skyline stretching from LIC to downtown Brooklyn would be ideal, if the East River continues to develop as it has been.
Does the ESB webcam count as aerial imagery? Here are some shots looking at the observation deck in One Vanderbilt.
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Flushing could be its own city.
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Wonderful capture. A lot of cranes in LIC. The slow creep of that wall of buildings along the East River is nice. Hunters Point and Greenpoint are doing their part.
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Thanks!
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Seeing this really makes me think Hell’s Kitchen’s lower zoning days are numbered. It’s such an abrupt cutoff of heights, which does look cool but I don’t know if it’s sustainable when we need housing.
Perhaps it’s safe because it’s cheaper to build in the outer boroughs but I’m not a real estate expert.
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I really appreciate having Hells Kitchen as is - not everything in this city has to be build up (probably not a popular position, here at YIMBY 
). I’m having seconds thoughts about this push for housing - on one side, yes we need it, on the other I can see this as another tool for developers to build more high end housing on areas that were out of limits before.
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I think Hell’s Kitchen should be upzoned but with a more European approach of preserving facades and “neighborhood character” while also densifying and adding units. You could conceivably build 20-30 story buildings behind the walkups.
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Even if you kept 9th and 10th low, along 11th and to the water is mostly warehouses and non residential – could all be towers and you’d still have the unique low density core of hk
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i mean, it’s inevitable. the one consistent thing about nyc is change. always has changed, always will