New York City Skyline: Update #12

New York City Skyline

Hey. Sup. Long time no post. Here's the current status of the NYC Skyline. Looks pretty close to done, but there is a lot of detail in there that still needs to be filled in. New buildings since last update include 375 Pearl St. (AKA The Verizon Building) and the Thurgood Marshall U.S. Courthouse. Zoom below.

New York City Skyline: Update #8

New York City Skyline vector

Only new building this week is 180 Maiden Lane. I spent most of my time since the last update on the waterfront. This week's big addition is the South Street Seaport. It has only just been added, so it's not complete. The two tall ships (see zoom below) are part of the South Street Seaport Museum. They are (left to right) the Wavertree and the Peking.

New York City Skyline: Update #6

Call this one the Wall Street Update. Buildings added in this installment: 20 Exchange Place, The Trump Building (40 Wall St.), Deutsche Bank Headquarters (60 Wall St.), and  75 Wall St. Here's a zoom-in on what I've worked in the last week.

New York City Skyline: Update #5

I know I said I was going to work left to right, but I couldn't really resist jumping ahead to the Brooklyn Bridge. It's way too interesting. But now you have an idea of how wide the final image will be. The final skyline will incorporate everything between those ferry terminals on the left and easternmost pillar of the Brooklyn Bridge on the right. Here are some zooms of the two pieces as they are now (click to get a larger image):

New York City Skyline: Update #4

Some of the buildings added in this update: The William Beaver House, 3 Hanover Square, and 32 Old Slip.

New York City Skyline: Update #3

Mostly background buildings added. The waterline is taking shape a little more, including FDR Drive. The New York City Police Museum just got added in the lower right of the frame.

New York City Skyline: Update #2

A little more detail on the ferry terminals. The Downtown Manhattan Heliport and 55 Water St. are new additions.

New York City Skyline: It begins!

I've received a lot of positive feedback about the Austin Skyline project that I finished last year. So I've decided to expand the idea to other cities. First up: New York! As you can probably tell, this is going to take a while. New York has a huge skyline. So huge you can't really get it all from one vantage point (see the picture at the bottom). The vantage that I've chosen is from the Brooklyn Heights Promenade and stretches from the very southern tip of Manhattan (Battery Park) to the Brooklyn Bridge. Obviously, this gives some preferential treatment to Lower Manhattan, but the Empire State Building and the Chrysler building will still be visible in the background. I'll be posting updates frequently, so people who are interested can watch the progress. I started a few days ago and here is the progress so far:

I'm working left to right (south to north). So what you've got here is the southern tip of Lower Manhattan with the Staten Island and Governor's Island ferry terminals (incomplete, obviously), One New York Plaza and 125 Broad Street. As I said, this is just the very beginning, this thing is huge and is going to take a long time. But I like big detailed things, and hopefully other people out there do too and you'll stay tuned for more.

This is what I'm dealing with. Freakin' huge.