New York Trip: Skyscraper

I was truly amaze with Manhattan for the skyline that you can actually see from any of the bridges linking it to the other parts of New York. Reason being? It is one of the longest I have seen. The entire Manhattan is full of high rise, tall buildings that lights up the entire Manhattan Island. I have seen Hong Kong, I have seen Shanghai and Singapore night scene, but New York by far is the most beautiful because it feels like there is no end to it...

Due to the fact my dad loves photography, we actually went to 2 of New York highest Skyscrapper, the Rockefeller-Top of the Rock and the more famous Empire State Building (my Dad can take photos for 2 hours up there on those buildings, and i kinda snooze off after 20 minutes of walk)

Well obviously Empire State building is much taller, just to give an idea, I went to top of the rock first and this is the view,

The tall building on the far right is the Empire State Building, which even from this pic, it looks taller.

And this is how it looks from Empire State building, practically nothing hindering it, and this side actually overlooks the south (downtown) of Manhattan all the way to wall street and the sea port..

Beautiful isn't it?

The first place I went was actually Top of the Rock, it was used for radio station back then, and till now, and this pic was taken at the highest spot of it. U can see all the "poles" poking out... and that's the highest point of this building..


And at the empire state building, I was kinda asking my dad,

Me: "Dad, is this taller than the Rockefeller centre?"

Dad: "Yea, this shud be the tallest building"

Me... = =" why did we spend like 40 bucks to go up to rockefeller to see the same thing, when in this one u see more..

Well the only difference is prob, at rockefeller, u hardly have to queue. But the Empire State Building, as u see in the pic below, takes like 2 hour to reach the lift, which takes u up to 80th floor to QUEUE for another lift... = ="

In case you think this looks familiar, yup, the Monster Gorrilla once was hitting helicopter off from this building...

This is how it looks, just 4 sides of walk way of this width, on the 86th floor... It was really crowded and u can actually finish within like say 10 minutes?


My dad caught this photo which I was laughing very awkwardly cause the problem with the narrow walk way is u can hardly take a photo without blocking a huge group of ppl staring at u.... it was kinda embarassing...


The view was no doubt spectacular, and my dad was truly enthusiastic about taking photos and at one of the day, he was complaining about the weather being cloudy and misty.. so i replied something from a non-photo-taking-fan point of view, which come to think of it, sounded a little offensive... I said,

"Dad, if you want nice photo, you can just google it"

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But thanks to dad, I got more self portrait photos...