are you from the future? 
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MW 1 is massive. Even fro ma far just look at that dominance when the shot is enlarged.
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Whoops, wrong forum! But I can certainly make it look like the future, a render of course. Still around the city, stopping at 3-4 more places and I’ll be heading out. I think you’ll all be pleased
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Manhattan from Queens, May 1990 by mplstodd, on Flickr
Manhattan Skyline - Sept 1990 by mplstodd, on Flickr
Midtown Manhattan from New Jersey - Sept 1991 by mplstodd, on Flickr
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ca. 1931 Midtown Manhattan skyline view! New York. by cobravictor, on Flickr
(ca. 6/19/1943). New York skyscrapers. Park Avenue. by cobravictor, on Flickr
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I love how the skyline continues to evolve. Nothing else like it! Also, fun fact: those are actually phragmites, or common reeds, not wheat 
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My bad, I get them mixed up a lot. I’ve seen a lot of them around here in South Jersey too
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Any seeding grass looks like wheat to me
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THIS is an actual wheat field:
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- No idea where I got it from, but I instinctively snipped it and put it as my background on every device a few months ago.
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Is there something on the Singer Building in that shot from 1955?
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If you mean the white stuff I think that’s smoke coming from the City Investing Building’s massive smokestack. It functioned at least to 1965:
Seen here on the left of the slanted roof sections:
On the subject, another good picture of both from 1938… in color (from Instagram)
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Man we lost a gem with the Singer Building
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Agreed. An ex-WTB, a rare french renaissance skyscraper, an icon, a prototype of setbacks and zoning regulations, and just a gem in general. If I remember right, it was March 2 1969 that a news article announced it’s full demolition. It’s coming up on 50 years since that day.
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https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt7ia-Zhs6D/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=14a4gk714b0a8
1979, small antenna being replaced with the bigger one
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