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NYC Is Home To The World’s Second Tallest Skyline
If there’s one thing New York City’s gonna do it’s gonna be have an iconic skyline, but beyond being one of the world’s most iconic, it’s also one of the tallest!
Buildworld analyzed 100,000+ skyscrapers and high-rise buildings from around the world to rank the cities with the tallest skylines, and, though glancing upwards tells us all we need to know, their data shows that the world’s second-tallest skyline belongs to our very own New York City (though it takes the #1 spot in the country).
NYC’s skyline height soars at an average height about 981 feet, but it’s home to skyscrapers much taller than that.
Central Park Tower, for example, is the world’s tallest residential building, standing 1,550 feet tall. It even houses the highest private ballroom and the highest private terrace in the world.
The height of Central Park Tower is even more mind blowing when you consider that the average height of New York’s skyscrapers was about 60 feet in 1900.
Though our friends over in Chicago saw skyscrapers even shorter than that with the Home Insurance Building (which sparked the era of vertical architecture and gave the city the nickname the “birthplace of skyscrapers”) which stood a mere ten stories.
Today, however, Chicago’s skyline is much taller, coming in at an average of about 810 feet and landing them in 6th place–the only other U.S. city in the top 20.
As for the city with the tallest skyline in the world, that title goes to Dubai, UAE, whose skyline has an average height of about 1,062 feet.
The full study can be found here.
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Magic Hour rooftop bar’s latest installation has a Halloween sheen this fall
You can feel it in the rustling wind; see it in the trees. The time of year when the breeze catches a chill, the when leaves begin to change and when the city’s social media venues reorient their photo moments for seasonal appropriateness is upon us.
Magic Hour at the Moxy Times Square, which might be familiar from its lil’ colorful staircase and previous iterations as “The Pink Bunny Beach,” “The Pink Winter Lodge” and “The Pink Winter Lodge: Frosted Edition” is now “Pink Pumpkin Patch.” For fall.
Pink Pumpkin Patch on the hotel’s 18th floor incorporates gourds of unexpected hues—some o’-lanterned—into the grassy Stories/TikTok wall, bench setup and aforementioned steps. There are also the apparently nude, human-sized anthropomorphic bunnies with which Magic Hour has aligned itself, and some hay.
The Moxy’s Magic Hour’s Pink Pumpkin Patch’s menu also includes on-theme treats like a flaming pink pumpkin dessert, “mummy” Krispies and caramel apples and cupcakes with spiders and skulls on top, respectively. In a zag from “I’m gonna do a cute costume this year” to the macabre, timely tipples include the doctor death, a bright red mix of rum and Vita Coco divided into a duo of IV-style bags for you and your boo, and the also moribund kiss of death, containing a way-less-threatening-than-it-sounds combination of rose petal gin, raspberry tea, lemon, and prosecco.