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Originally Posted by FMIII
The City looked mystic back in the days. And paradoxically looked taller and more "futuristic" than now.
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The older skyline, especially Downtown, was more perfectly proportioned. And you didn't have as many tall towers as today. The Manhattan skyline eventually grew and filled out to the point where you could say it swallowed itself. Add to that the fact that office buildings required much larger floorplates than those early days, and the classic romantic skyline of New York was doomed to it's success. That's why the rise of the supertall age in the city is so important. The towers are high enough to rise above the plateau. One Vanderbilt in particular gives us that classic, skyline shaping tower that New Yorkers and people from around the world see as symbols of the city itself.