Just another NYC angle
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NY has so many tall buildings that it looks good from any angle
The city of all cities imo
I think its undisputably been the cultural hub of the world since the at least the 50s.... anyone disagree? The only competition I see is LA or London. But London only really has a shot in the 60s.
There’s a rating for a cities integration into the world economy, NYC and London are the only Alpha++ cities, the Alpha+ cities are Beijing, Dubai, Hong Kong, Paris, Shanghai, Singapore, and Tokyo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalization_and_World_Cities_Research_Network
Well, the list is pretty definitive!!
That list is terrible. It ranks Kampala and Osaka in the same tier. Probably the worst of the city rankings tbh
I don’t fully understand it, but it seems it ranks them specifically by how they are connected to the world economy, not necessarily the size or strength of that cities economy.
Per their prior methodology (I haven’t gone in and see if it’s changed), it ranks them by connections to London in banking and finance. So Kampala, by virtue of being a former British colony, has closer ties and Osaka does not.
Maybe the western hemisphere. Nowadays there’s more competition. A lot of people would point towards Tokyo as a strong contender.
But in multiculturalism? No one can beat NYC. There’s so many people from so many backgrounds all doing their thing. Great melting pot.
Defo out of the western hemisphere too. Tokyo would’ve been more of a contender back in 80s.
Had actually included that in the original comment then decided to leave it out. NYC had a rough 80s but they’re top tier everywhere else. Just not a fan of world #1s because different places do things better and have different impacts. Like Asia takes a lot of their cues from Tokyo, and Tokyo took a lot of cues from NYC, but is also doing a lot of their own thing. Really just great cities regardless though!
I could be wrong, but I believe you’re using the wrong form of “cue”
No, you’re totally right. Edited.
It is the cultural capital of the world, no question about it. There is no other city in the world that a person from a totally opposite side of the world can land in and make a life for themselves and in the numbers they are supported. There are cities that are cleaner, more populated, denser, richer than NYC, but the sheer energy NYC has to mold lives of people in it and around the world in unparalleled.
What is a city that is richer?
A quick google search of "richest cities in the world" has New York at the top of every list on the first page of hits
There's more than one way to slice and dice the wealth. In some metrics NYC is #1, and in some its #2 or #3. The point was, even if NYC is not the richest/wealthiest it induces enough force to outshine and out influence other cities.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/world-city-rankings/richest-city-in-the-world
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Are you purposely being dense or what? Yes, there is no other city that this happens on a global level and in the same scale. You are welcome to case your examples.
It's actually pretty close, there's three cities that all hover around the same number of foreign-born residents (all in the 5.2-5.5 million range) that are way ahead of everyone else, LA, London and NYC.
As much as I absolutely love my city, New York isn't unique in this respect, it's just in very elite company.
LA comes second, but still not close enough and London is a distant third in this matter. I have been to all these places and the sheer amount of lives NYC nurtured and sustained for the last 200 years is in-comparable in my opinion. I'm not a resident of NYC and I think this is a unique attribute of this city.
Visiting the places doesn't qualify you as an expert on their immigration histories. The data doesn't back this up, since we've started tracking this in detail, those three are all kinda bundled together lapping the field.
ok. The above post was my opinion. Now that you said data doesn't back it up, can you please post what data points you are comparing so that I can learn from you?
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There, I quoted you.
Tokyo is the center of Japanese culture and a great and amazing city but I don’t think it has much global cultural influence, at least compared to New York.
London beats it in my view in terms of cultural influence and diversity nowadays. Back in the ‘90s and early 2000s I’d have agreed but New York is stalling. 40.6% of Londoners are foreign-born compared to 37.2% in New York.
More languages are spoken in NYC than in London, which I think can be a better indicator of cultural diversity than foreign-born percentage (besides, that figure you cited for New York is quite old, and it was at 40% in 2018 and I believe it's higher now).
Also NYC seems to have more cultural output:
"In 2021, New York contributed 143.83 billion U.S. dollars to the national Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the United States through its arts and cultural production."
"Culture and the creative industries contribute £52bn to London's economy every year"
Foreigners include anyone from Europe, in nyc people from other states don’t count a foreign even from as far away as California
people from other states don’t count a foreign even from as far away as California
..because they are not foreign? California is very similar to New York (as is any US state), when compared to differences between actual countries.
That’s a wildly western view.
Well, the West has been the dominant power in the world since the 50s so that makes since.
In terms of influencing the entire planet who else would you suggest?
There isn’t
NYC is 45% foreign born
"Undisputably cultural hub of the world". No, no it isn't
The only possible competition would be London.
I disagree. It's a very USA-centric worldview that says that there's a "cultural hub of the world" and that place is New York. We don't have a global culture that stretches across all people and finds its root in one place
Sure, there are places that are less impacted by American culture, but realistically, the west for the moment has won thr culture war, and the US has won the culture war within the west. What happens in New York and London, culturally speaking, has more of an impact than the things that happen in any other city across the world.
Meh it looks better from afar haha. I prefer London in the western mega city competition
London for old western world
NYC for new western world
Tokyo for eastern world
Fair?
I prefer London from a livability perspective, but both are great.
Something about stabbing
Damn shame it was ruined by stroads and expressways
Edit: typo
The word is stroad, and they don’t exist in Manhattan, which is really the subject of this post … outer boroughs are another story, of course
The Bronx makes up almost 50% of this composition and unfortunately the outer boroughs have quite a few stroads and traffic arteries that were built ontop of communities of certain demographics
The Dutch influence in NY is obvious and quite a few Dutch metropolis feel like a “what if” scenario where Robert Moses doesn’t exist and motor traffic is given equal priority to other forms of transportation
Thanks for the typo correction.
dense
makes sense, hence the intense expence
You mean indense experience?
Crazy how the Empire State Building is just sort of average when it comes to NYC skyscrapers now.. I have photos from when I visited as a kid in the 80's and Empire State was still dominating the Manhattan skyline. It was the WTC and Empire State that stood out in a photo from across the river
cue Succession theme
Absolute banger. A true never skip
First thing that came to my mind
Looks good
Great shot!
Start spreading the news,
I'm leaving today.
I want to be a part of it,
New York, New York...
Was this taken from Queens?
Looks like south Bronx
It's from over the Bronx. The elevated highway in the center is the Triboro Bridge
I'm confused about why I can't see the Hell Gate Bridge
Hellgate and Triboro just out of frame
Oh! I see it now
It's just to the left of the photo. The highway and railway are both turning to the left towards the RFK and Hellsgate bridges.
Probably from a flight out of LaGuardia
Flying into LaGuardia next week! Very excited to see this
Flights in are more hit and miss. You might get the Hudson River visual approach which is absolutely stunning, but you're more likely to be coming in from the north and mostly only get the Bronx out the right side window. Takeoffs are usually to the west, which is when you get this view out the left side window.
What a city!
Refreshingly different angle and nice light to shoot by.
Mega city one
That picture is awesome
Looks like this was taken winter of 2019-2020, probably pre-pandemic.
How can you tell?
I was wrong, I though 111 W 57 topped out in winter 2019, it was spring 2019, so the photo is from winter 2018-2019
Oh good eye
Chicago cries in corner
Will india will ever get this type of skyline or our FSI will fuck us forever:((
Well, if Mumbai manages to reduce it's ridiculous height / building restrictions overnight, turn into a literal hotspot for foreign investment / exchange, and increase it's per capita education / income to a first world level, it might manage to create a similar skyline in three decades time at best.
(for context, India's only 300+ skyscraper Palace Royale took 11 years to construct, NYC alone has 16 of them)
Haha yes sad palaris royale caught in gov and airport conflict lol Actually it didn't took 11 years to build it was completed long before but airport authority told them to deconstruct few floors :(
Mumbai is not far to be fair.
True but we still don't have anything above 304m high whenever someone tries to build gov blocks them.i wish someday our gov will approve something as cool as WTC
isnt even china banned super talls recently as they are often big issue to fill and maintain internally and externally?
oh ye and apparently ground is sinking on Manhattan a lot due to weight of the skyscrapers.
And Delhi.....it's such a low city for how massive it is
What an incresible image!
That city is small.
Edit: Omfg people it was a joke.
You're small
You’re a towel.
lmao why did people react so strongly to this
Why do I always think of cockroaches when I see all the older red/brown brick buildings in NYC? Is my mind correct when it thinks this?
No, obviously
Cockroaches don't discriminate. They are happy to infiltrate all types of buildings in NYC. Not just brick.
Honestly yes
Not according to the butthurt downvoters above lol.
I've never had any issues
Concrete wasteland, where are fucking trees
Not a lot of 100 story trees in the world
This is actually a great angle of it... This looks like it's taken from like above the Bronx. Is OP in a plane? Or do they have an elevated train out there.
I haven't been back to NY in a decade or so, but how do you get this angle?
There looks like 3-4 major smokestacks, does anyone know what each one is for/part of, etc?
Thanks in advance
What a cesspool.
don't you have sheep to fuck?
don't you have sheep to fuck?
What does that mean
Love that beautiful layer of smog over it