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Im digging up an old topic, but downtown Manhattan will never be on the level of Chicago Loop. We invented the skyscraper, and Downtown Manhattan is our little sister. The Loop is the second biggest CBD, not Downtown Manhattan. Only Midtown has a chance, but Midtown is also overhyped because of midrises in the area that people try to define as "skyscrapers". Manhattan's skyline is not intact, in between Midtown and Downtown is a gap of midrises that NYer's try to pass as "skyscrapers" to gullible out of towners. Some of you people watch too many movies. And if Im lying, then look at these pictures, Midtown and Downtown is not attached. If you want to see an attached skyline, look at Chicago.
Im digging up an old topic, but downtown Manhattan will never be on the level of Chicago Loop. We invented the skyscraper, and Downtown Manhattan is our little sister. The Loop is the second biggest CBD, not Downtown Manhattan. Only Midtown has a chance, but Midtown is also overhyped because of midrises in the area that people try to define as "skyscrapers". Manhattan's skyline is not intact, in between Midtown and Downtown is a gap of midrises that NYer's try to pass as "skyscrapers" to gullible out of towners. Some of you people watch too many movies. And if Im lying, then look at these pictures, Midtown and Downtown is not attached. If you want to see an attached skyline, look at Chicago.
Once the new world trade is done it will be better than the loop i think. I don't see how chicago invented the skyscraper when the chrysler building was the first true skyscraper, followed by the empire state building. These were the first two buildings to literally scrape the sky at over a thousand feet.
And people are well aware that midtown and downtown do not connect. Its more impressive to have two big skylines anyway
Im digging up an old topic, but downtown Manhattan will never be on the level of Chicago Loop. We invented the skyscraper, and Downtown Manhattan is our little sister. The Loop is the second biggest CBD, not Downtown Manhattan. Only Midtown has a chance, but Midtown is also overhyped because of midrises in the area that people try to define as "skyscrapers". Manhattan's skyline is not intact, in between Midtown and Downtown is a gap of midrises that NYer's try to pass as "skyscrapers" to gullible out of towners. Some of you people watch too many movies. And if Im lying, then look at these pictures, Midtown and Downtown is not attached. If you want to see an attached skyline, look at Chicago.
Not one person from NY tries to pass anything between midtown and lower Manhattan off as skyscrapers. Quit it. And Chicago never invented the skyscraper, you invented short little steel buildings that they thought were skyscrapers back then. New York invented the modern image of the skyscraper with the Woolworth, Chrysler, and Empire State Building among others. The Chicago skyline is one of the most impressive in the world no doubt about it, but to completely wipe yourself with NY like that is pathetic. The Chicago Spire is a dead project and the Freedom Tower will be in downtown Manhattan opening as the tallest building in the country with I belive two other buildings being taller than the Empire State Building and a third one being taller than the Chrysler Building.
Also midtown is not full of mid rises, that is stupid to say when midtown Manhattan has a density far greater than the Loop. Chicago has a few tall buildings and many shorties in between the Sears and JHC. Midtown is a constant sea of skyscrapers and has way more skyscrapers over 700 feet than Chicago and will soon like I said have the Freedom Tower and 3 other new skyscrapers standing next to it.
Lets be honest, Lower Manhattan's arms are too short to box with Chicago. Its not on the same tier as Chicago, it's a poor man's Loop with no significant buildings and it would take divine intervention for it to catch us. The real argument should be Midtown Manhattan versus all of Downtown Chicago. Downtown Chicago is made up of the Loop, River North, and Streeterville.
Chicago's skyline is technically seperated by the Chicago River, but it was built to look like one singular skyline. Because of our vastly superior city planning, we didnt get stuck with a gap of midrises like Manhattan did. Manhattan being on an island makes some buildings look bigger than they actually are. Chicago has more buildings in the top 15 of America's tallest buildings than New York. I know that New Yorkers aren't good with facts or mathematics, but Im just saying. Lower Manhattan needs to do work to catch up.
Lets be honest, Lower Manhattan's arms are too short to box with Chicago. Its not on the same tier as Chicago, it's a poor man's Loop with no significant buildings and it would take divine intervention for it to catch us. The real argument should be Midtown Manhattan versus all of Downtown Chicago. Downtown Chicago is made up of the Loop, River North, and Streeterville.
Chicago's skyline is technically seperated by the Chicago River, but it was built to look like one singular skyline. Because of our vastly superior city planning, we didnt get stuck with a gap of midrises like Manhattan did. Manhattan being on an island makes some buildings look bigger than they actually are. Chicago has more buildings in the top 15 of America's tallest buildings than New York. I know that New Yorkers aren't good with facts or mathematics, but Im just saying. Lower Manhattan needs to do work to catch up.
lol at vastly superior planning. There are numerous wonderful neighborhoods between mid and downtown. Thats the only reason theres no skyscrapers there, they would destroy the community.
The freedom tower will be the tallest in the US
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) close to nyc so far (not in america)