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I know this is about the ESB but I love those photos of the old MetLife tower. They took off a lot of ornamentation in the 60s and there aren't many photos that show it's old splendor. btw, I never knew it had horseshoe arches 3/4 the way up.

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Originally Posted by lakegz (Post 6062303)

I see what your talking about i just googled the building and alot of detail has been taken away. Im guessing it must have gone through a reclad.

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport (Post 6052790)

S-T-U-N-N-I-N-G!

nothing beats NYC shots from the 1910s-early 1960s. Esp the financial district pyramid of spires. Singular achievement.

What a joy to look at these images... Totally forgot Met Life tower had been denuded like that. Happened during its '60s "modernization" - harumph

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Originally Posted by jd3189 (Post 6073103)

To add to the fun...

^ That is just awesome (and I don't use that word lightly)

Thanks, man. :multibow:

Yeah I know that pic, but nevertheless thanks for reposting it. :tup:

That shot alone shows that the 1930s New York skyline would be one of the best even today.

I'm guessing that at the moment, if I commented about how I prefer the modern NYC skyline, it would not be taken kindly.

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Originally Posted by PhillyToNYC (Post 6074826)

I'm guessing that at the moment, if I commented about how I prefer the modern NYC skyline, it would not be taken kindly.

I personally like both the modern and the 30's skyline. Both have diffrent features that make them uniqueand in my opinion the best! :D

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Originally Posted by PhillyToNYC (Post 6074826)

I'm guessing that at the moment, if I commented about how I prefer the modern NYC skyline, it would not be taken kindly.

Not at all... to each his own:cheers:

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Originally Posted by DURKEY427 (Post 6056387)

These pictures really show how much New York has changed in the last 80-90 years.

Yeah, I'd say the skyline was better THEN. The skyline of today is littered with big, bulky boxes that cover the old art-deco skyscrapers that are so beautiful!

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Originally Posted by nlangosborne (Post 6090084)

Yeah, I'd say the skyline was better THEN. The skyline of today is littered with big, bulky boxes that cover the old art-deco skyscrapers that are so beautiful!

At times it makes me wish that New York after 1936 was handled the same way as Rome or Florence.

^^^ If that was the case, forget NY still being America's premier big city. Those boxes, although mostly devoid of vision, were the reason business stayed here.

Those fat boxes indeed hurt the New York skyline (especially Lower Manhattan), but at least they added a "big city feel" to Manhattan and the city in general.
We are lucky that taller skyscrapers are going up as we speak. Thin, supertall residential towers are popping up all over the place. So there will be some balance ... once again.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/...icle-1.1326967

SKY FALL! Man tumbles off Empire State Building
After 'leaping' one story security talks man out of jumping a second time to avoid death plunge.

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SCARY SIGHT: A man straddles the ledge of the Empire State Buidling before being talked down.

By Joseph Stepansky , Joe Kemp , Bryan Calcano AND Daniel Beekman
April 25, 2013

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Two tourists were taking in the sights Wednesday night, when right before their eyes a man hovered between life and death on the 85th floor of the Empire State Building.

Argentinians Luis Ariel Jofre and Julieta Paola Barambones said they saw the man, who had apparently already fallen one floor off an observation deck, swing his legs into the air as if he meant to drop again.

He was in his own world, like he was lost,” a shocked Jofre, 29, said of the 11:45 p.m. incident. “He was calm looking down, like it was nothing, but it was 80 stories high.”

Security guards talked the man off the ledge, said Jofre, who added, “We’re relieved that he didn’t die.”

FDNY officials said the man — wearing a white shirt and black pants — was transported to Bellevue Hospital as an emotionally disturbed person.

A cop at the scene said the man suffered a broken ankle and cuts to his hands and faces a trespassing charge.

The officer also said it had not been determined whether the man’s fall from the 86th floor was intentional.

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