Erect all you want, compete for size - but the tide still rises and will win in the end.

Suggestions for Manhattan's loftiest: Read Shelley's "Ozymandias"; stock lifeboats; and choose some music for the band to play.

Life above 800 feet? Meh. I lived above eight *thousand* feet in Colorado for a time. Now THOSE were some dramatic views. And my neighbors were deer, elk, porcupines, beavers and a pair of golden eagles, not absentee financiers.

This entire issue was a gift to the city's all-powerful real estate industry. From the articles' content to the layout to the ads, it very effectively blurred the lines between advertising and editorial. It may surprise the editorial team that not all New Yorkers agree that these towers are a boon to the city, and don't want to either live in them or live in their shadow. The rich may like to live in their aeries, but the view from the street is that they are sterile monstrosities.

It is surprising that in this package you suggest that Chinh Chu, a prominent New Yorker, is a sinister, "mysterious" foreign "finance" titan. His story is hardly mysterious. He was a partner at Blackstone for nearly twenty years; when he departed last year, to start his own venture, he was described by Bloomberg as Blackstone's "longest-serving dealmaker." A few years ago, the New York Times extensively covered Mr. Chu's involvement in Blackstone's attempted takeover of Dell. Mr. Chu came to live in Queens as a young boy and is a New Yorker through and through. It is offensive to imply that Mr. Chu is the equivalent of an Asian oligarch, when in fact he is an American success story, as the quickest perusal of the Wall Street Journal or Reuters or the Times could confirm. The fact that Mr. Chu has an Asian surname should not have led him to be referred to in such an exoticizing manner.

This main photo needs to be available as a poster.

The print edition was a perfect match for the tall buildings popping up in mid-town: annoying to look at, unnecessary, and an example of just-because-you-can-do-it-doesn't-mean-you-should.

This article (in all its sections) is exactly why I subscribe to NYT. As far as I'm concerned it just paid for my entire year's subscription. Fantastic writing, great layout, great variety of content.

Well, you've finally done it. Taken the magazine to unimaginable heights of illegibility and pretentiousness. The headline font is unreadable and the landscape orientation doesn't celebrate New York's new architecture so much as squashes the skyline. Can we take a break from the gimmicks please?

This issue is a keeper. The stunning photography is a real treat to look at; kudos to the photographers for such beautiful captures. (Also thanks for the NYTVR cardboard cam that came in the mail!)

Views to die for, but what horrid neighbors you'd have to put up with.

The article was great and I look forward to my first to NYC sometime.

However, why are these very rich people receiving property tax benefits at the expense of regular citizens? It is shameful that the rich feel that somehow they are owed something because they are rich. The rich find ways to make the system work for them.

Its lonely at the top
but what a great feeling

Beautiful article. Congratulations! NY is amazing, the most gorgeous city in the world.

I think they are beautiful and terrible. Where as most of the tall building being built up until the last century had some public use these new ones are all for private development. So, they rob the common person of sunlight. The streets of Midtown going south to Battery Park are turning into cold, dark alleys and it makes me even sadder to know that so many of the apartments are just investments; not occupied. There is so much to NYC. Stop being afraid to move off of Manhattan Island. NY is going to lose what is unique about the neighborhoods in Manhattan and that would be a shame.

Thanks for listening,

I find it mystifying that coastal areas of the World could look like Venice within decades, and NYC with environs are one. We keep investing and building on an island and coastal wetlands? The future will be interesting and I hope we and FEMA are not stuck with the bill.

"You only see the top of their heads.” Spoken like a true 1%'er. Everyone else is figuratively a small person.

What a gorgeous article! But would you really want to live that high off the ground all the time? The people in the apartments might as well be constantly circling NYC in a dirigible. Can't really open a window to feel a snowflake on your cheek, or smell the spring rain. I'd rather be in the world, not sadly isolated in my luxurious cell block in the sky.

It truly is lonely at the top.

Typeface game is on Fire.

Finally, a worthy reason to use VR. I actually got that weak-in-the-knees sensation you get when looking down from a high point. Glad I could experience it without having to buckle myself onto a skinny little ladder thousands of feet above Manhattan. Jimmy Chin, you are one gutsy shooter.

NYC is gorgeous from all angles!

All the super-highs seem to be in Manhattan. What about urban expansion into the other boroughs?