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18 photos show how drastically the New York City skyline has changed in the past decade

Katie Warren   

18 photos show how drastically the New York City skyline has changed in the past decade
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REUTERS/Jim Young

Midtown Manhattan in April 2010.

  • $4 skyline has changed dramatically in the past decade.
  • $4, completed in 2014, became the city's tallest building at 1,776 feet.
  • $4 the city's new $25 billion megadevelopment, has transformed Manhattan's West Side.
  • New supertall skyscrapers have risen along the southern edge of Central Park on $4
  • Parts of Brooklyn and Queens are also filling up with skyscrapers and starting to look more like Manhattan.
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The New York City skyline has dramatically transformed in the past decade.

For years, $4 and the Chrysler Building, both of which were built in the 1930s and stand over 1,000 feet tall, as Stefanos Chen recently wrote for The New York Times.

"But New York's horizon has been in perpetual flux now for the better part of a decade," Chen wrote.

In Lower Manhattan, One World Trade Center was completed in 2014 and became $4. The island's west side was also transformed by the new $25 billion megadevelopment $4, which brought luxury residential skyscrapers selling condos $4, office towers, and a massive shopping center to the area. And along the southern edge of Central Park, $4 into the clouds, vying for the best views of the park.

In Brooklyn, $4 is rising downtown. And in Queens, fast-growing neighborhoods like $4

Here's how the New York City skyline has changed in the past 10 years, in photos.



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