# The New York Metropolitan Skyline Photo Collection **URL:** \ **Category:** Photo Threads\ **Created:** [May 20, 2016, 2:05am UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/the-new-york-metropolitan-skyline-photo-collection/2730 "2016-05-20T02:05:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 32
**Author:** ![mchlanglo793](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/mchlanglo793/32/178706_2.png) [@mchlanglo793](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/mchlanglo793)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2018, 5:05pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/the-new-york-metropolitan-skyline-photo-collection/2730/625 "2018-02-08T17:05:16Z")
Thank you Thomas! ---
**Author:** ![mchlanglo793](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/mchlanglo793/32/178706_2.png) [@mchlanglo793](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/mchlanglo793)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2018, 5:06pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/the-new-york-metropolitan-skyline-photo-collection/2730/626 "2018-02-08T17:06:34Z")
Thank you! And now we wait,shortly, until we see this with our own eyes 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![YIMHudson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/yimhudson/32/2304_2.png) [@YIMHudson](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/YIMHudson)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2018, 11:43pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/the-new-york-metropolitan-skyline-photo-collection/2730/627 "2018-02-08T23:43:43Z")
coming to a river near you… TOWERS lots and lots of TOWERS. [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/yimby/original/3X/1/f/1f1268d2ec75880d3228b0750db176f14288a57b.jpeg)](https://flic.kr/p/236bdDb) [Unobstructed River Views](https://flic.kr/p/236bdDb) by [Halstead Property](https://www.flickr.com/photos/halsteadproperty/), on Flickr ---
**Author:** ![Tectonic](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/tectonic/32/186763_2.png) [@Tectonic](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/Tectonic)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2018, 11:58pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/the-new-york-metropolitan-skyline-photo-collection/2730/628 "2018-02-08T23:58:50Z")
Remember when Citylights was the only one, with of course Citicorp. ---
**Author:** ![baronson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/baronson/32/190290_2.png) [@baronson](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/baronson)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2018, 6:28pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/the-new-york-metropolitan-skyline-photo-collection/2730/629 "2018-02-09T18:28:04Z")
Taken by me today. Amtrak has some of the best views of the city. From Astoria. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/yimby/original/3X/a/d/ad7b2ae59dc182923076ac4d76e929875b520adb.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![JC\_Heights](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/jc_heights/32/90668_2.png) [@JC\_Heights](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/JC_Heights)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2018, 7:40pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/the-new-york-metropolitan-skyline-photo-collection/2730/630 "2018-02-09T19:40:45Z")
Original from above( what it looks like today). And a massing/quick render of what it could look like in 10 years if all propsed towers go up. From left to right. Toyoko hotel, plaxall anable cove redevelopment, hunters pt phase 2, hunters pt phase 3, greentpoint landing, williamsburg waterfront, domino redevelopment, and way on the right of the UN is 9 dekalb. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/yimby/original/3X/5/4/5449f3f19bfa11e9a9aefc233a190276937be864.jpeg) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/yimby/original/3X/7/d/7d67fbe16d525e4f949958e4682d774277598e4f.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![streetscaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/779978/32.png) [@streetscaper](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/streetscaper)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2018, 1:49am UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/the-new-york-metropolitan-skyline-photo-collection/2730/631 "2018-02-10T01:49:36Z")
Amazing visual JC!! ---
**Author:** ![Wiggleworth](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/wiggleworth/32/6605_2.png) [@Wiggleworth](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/Wiggleworth)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2018, 4:03am UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/the-new-york-metropolitan-skyline-photo-collection/2730/632 "2018-02-10T04:03:45Z")
In a few decades NYC could be like hong kong with some skyscraper canyons right on both rivers ---
**Author:** ![Oppix56](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/oppix56/32/26099_2.png) [@Oppix56](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/Oppix56)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2018, 10:41pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/the-new-york-metropolitan-skyline-photo-collection/2730/633 "2018-02-12T22:41:33Z")
lots of amazing architecture by Kaufman in this shot ![IMG_4129](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/yimby/original/3X/2/f/2f7bba75230b81f04852aabb75024f92304f295f.JPG) ---
**Author:** ![baronson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/baronson/32/190290_2.png) [@baronson](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/baronson)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2018, 12:51am UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/the-new-york-metropolitan-skyline-photo-collection/2730/634 "2018-02-13T00:51:58Z")
LIC skyline. I really like the blue lighting on that building in the center. Something different. [https://www.instagram.com/p/BfE4G1sDkl7/?taken-by=killahwave](https://www.instagram.com/p/BfE4G1sDkl7/?taken-by=killahwave) Photocred: [@killahwave](https://www.instagram.com/p/BfE4G1sDkl7/?taken-by=killahwave) on Instagram. [https://www.instagram.com/p/BeaRhdcFMgn/?taken-by=bonz1257](https://www.instagram.com/p/BeaRhdcFMgn/?taken-by=bonz1257) [@bonz1257](https://www.instagram.com/p/BeaRhdcFMgn/?taken-by=bonz1257) on Instagram ---
**Author:** ![YIMHudson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/yimhudson/32/2304_2.png) [@YIMHudson](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/YIMHudson)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2018, 12:57am UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/the-new-york-metropolitan-skyline-photo-collection/2730/635 "2018-02-13T00:57:47Z")
the lights draw attention to the blank wall which is unfortunate in retrospect. ---
**Author:** ![baronson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/baronson/32/190290_2.png) [@baronson](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/baronson)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2018, 1:02am UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/the-new-york-metropolitan-skyline-photo-collection/2730/636 "2018-02-13T01:02:42Z")
Do you happen to know what the building is or a link to its thread? I think I took a pic of it a little while back but didn’t know where to post. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![YIMHudson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/yimhudson/32/2304_2.png) [@YIMHudson](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/YIMHudson)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2018, 1:10am UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/the-new-york-metropolitan-skyline-photo-collection/2730/637 "2018-02-13T01:10:41Z")
> [@NEW YORK | 43-22 Queens St | 598 FT | 54 FLOORS](http://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/new-york-43-22-queens-st-598-ft-54-floors/277): > > Continuing the discussion from [NEW YORK | LIC Queens Rezoning - Queens Plaza Subdistrict](http://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/new-york-lic-queens-rezoning-queens-plaza-subdistrict/241): [Eagle Electric site to sprout 40-story apt. tower](http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20130129/REAL_ESTATE/130129891) Purchase of site for $37 million is part of a shift away from the increasingly built-up Long Island City, Queens, waterfront toward Queens Plaza. By Matt Chaban January 29, 2013 The two-story, neon Eagle Electric sign, a long-time landmark in Long Island City, that was replaced by a regular billboard over a decade ago, is slated to get a high-profile su… ---
**Author:** ![streetscaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/779978/32.png) [@streetscaper](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/streetscaper)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2018, 3:14pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/the-new-york-metropolitan-skyline-photo-collection/2730/638 "2018-02-17T15:14:31Z")
[https://instagram.com/p/BfOYmXjA5Tc/](https://instagram.com/p/BfOYmXjA5Tc/) @yishen\_h. [https://instagram.com/p/BfQ9pvfgBWB/](https://instagram.com/p/BfQ9pvfgBWB/) @yishen\_h ---
**Author:** ![streetscaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/779978/32.png) [@streetscaper](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/streetscaper)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2018, 11:35pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/the-new-york-metropolitan-skyline-photo-collection/2730/639 "2018-02-17T23:35:37Z")
[https://instagram.com/p/BfQnWwdF84H/](https://instagram.com/p/BfQnWwdF84H/) @craigsbeds ---
**Author:** ![JC\_Heights](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/jc_heights/32/90668_2.png) [@JC\_Heights](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/JC_Heights)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 2:54am UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/the-new-york-metropolitan-skyline-photo-collection/2730/640 "2018-02-21T02:54:50Z")
Today ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/yimby/original/3X/0/4/04575c5bf04c31d7e529456f9036b74b4378a5cd.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![streetscaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/779978/32.png) [@streetscaper](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/streetscaper)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 3:07pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/the-new-york-metropolitan-skyline-photo-collection/2730/641 "2018-02-21T15:07:02Z")
[https://instagram.com/p/Bfdhsu4Axl-/](https://instagram.com/p/Bfdhsu4Axl-/) @cheryl.hills [https://instagram.com/p/BfdbdxChyrn/](https://instagram.com/p/BfdbdxChyrn/) @zura.nyc ---
**Author:** ![baronson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/baronson/32/190290_2.png) [@baronson](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/baronson)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 9:31pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/the-new-york-metropolitan-skyline-photo-collection/2730/642 "2018-02-21T21:31:08Z")
OOF that first pic. I’m a sucker for hazy/foggy skyline photos. ---
**Author:** ![arbre\_vert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/90ced4/32.png) [@arbre\_vert](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/arbre_vert)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 11:28pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/the-new-york-metropolitan-skyline-photo-collection/2730/643 "2018-02-21T23:28:31Z")
Weird the empire State looks way taller than it should be from this angle… ---
**Author:** ![streetscaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/779978/32.png) [@streetscaper](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/streetscaper)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 12:20am UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/the-new-york-metropolitan-skyline-photo-collection/2730/644 "2018-02-22T00:20:52Z")
Well here’s another for you! [https://instagram.com/p/BfeWPJ0HuYb/](https://instagram.com/p/BfeWPJ0HuYb/) @m\_bautista330 [Previous page](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/the-new-york-metropolitan-skyline-photo-collection/2730.md?page=31) [Next page](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/the-new-york-metropolitan-skyline-photo-collection/2730.md?page=33)