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- Stevethegreat, on 10/12/2007, -4/+40In 10 years time we 'll laugh on how inaccurate these pictures are.
- rbvmusic, on 10/12/2007, -6/+35reminds me kind of futurama
you know with the new new york and all the old stuff underneath - sm150MP, on 10/12/2007, -2/+30pictures form the future!!!!
sweet
i want that camera - pmcall221, on 10/12/2007, -3/+25Flying cars are there too. It's about time we get flying cars!
- jpwhitmore, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23I really doubt it will look anything like this. If you look back at all the "Tomorrowland[s]" of the past nothing ever ends up looking like what was expected.
- rebrad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19I think I read this article in a 1962 Popular Mechanics and they said that this would happen in 1978.
- felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22Especially considering all these pictures are based on current projects, with timetables that schedule them to be done before 2016...
- frem001, on 10/12/2007, -4/+21meh the freedom tower is an embarrassment. New Yorkers should stage a protest over it and get something nice built in its place. Something that isn't designed by SOM!
- EochaidRiata, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17Apparently by 2016 we have run out of oil and must travel in hydrogen blimps again.
- Suits, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16Looks like someone high jacked Moby Dick and it's about to crash into the Freedom Tower.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Surefire way to get on the front page (with pictures).
- mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -5/+18parts of seattle are already like that..
- Gardenhead, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16They forgot the whole underwater bit.
- d3dm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Yeah, sure. Who cares what it looks like in 2016??? We all know in 3978 a bearded man wearing a loincloth will be standing on the shore of what was NYC, shaking his fist in the air and screaming something about apes.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12They are converted into food.
- Durinthal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12I wonder if it was intentional to have the flying.. thing right beside the Freedom Tower in that picture.
- theone3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I wonder if there are any articles from 1996 predicting what 2006 would be like.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9blech, I doubt it'll look any different than it does today, except dirtier.
- millixaw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I'd be all for just rebuilding the same exact Trade Towers as they once were.
- aplusplus, on 10/12/2007, -6/+12I bet Marty Mcfly is behind this...
- TheBrandman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8This is a picture of me when I'm older. ***** man. Where'd you get that camera?
- felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6First, that photo is a fake: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/computer.asp
(Even a cursory glance was enough to make me suspicious. It took all of five seconds and a Google search to debunk that.)
Second, RTFA. These aren't "predictions," they're current proposals in various stages of approval or even construction. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7The poor are burned for energy.
- mcbesq, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6You've never paid rent in NYC, have you?
- EsotericBoredom, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7New york is constantly changing. Having been born, raised and still living here for 27 years I've seen that change first hand. When this article talks about big projects, green buildings and new neighborhoods built from scratch it omits one key word that should be focus of at least a few of this public works...Affordable housing! While the avg pay for people who live and work in new york is somewhat more then people in comparable jobs across the country what we who live in the 5 boros (yes new york is more than Manhattan) pay for housing, gas, food and transportation is astronomically higher then most of the county. In the last fiscal quarter the consumer price index for new york city increased by .3% more than the CPI increase for the rest of The country. De gentrification is still running rampant though the North Brooklyn / Western Queens areas. Rent in my old neighborhood of Greenpoint / Williamsburg area increased from approx 900 for a 2 bedroom 7 years ago to almost 2k for the same 2 bedroom. More and more homes are being listed for and selling for close to or over 1.0M dollars and that's not even in what was once considered upscale areas. The city administration has done nothing to very little to try and stem this tide of inflated prices. If anyone can name things that the current admin has done in regards to this issue please let me know, I'm all ears. So perhaps instead of planning the "city of the future" these forward thinkers could try to plan the "city of the affordable",
(BTW to head off any "get a better job comments" i already have one and i make a decent living, also if anyone knows of a 1 bedroom in flushing/fresh meadows queens close to the train for less then $1100 let me know) - Hermitwise, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Mitch Hedburg is spinning in his grave.
- shelby1076, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9Where are all of the homeless and dead bodies?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Everyone knows the Antarctic ice shelf is going to fall into the ocean by 2015 and raise the shore half way up the Empire State Building. Who cares?
- lnxaddct, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Well yea, a good portion of those pictures include projects currently underway. Whether or not they'll be completed by then is a whole different story. Assuming all goes as planned, this will be fairly accurate (cities are picky about their skylines). None of the pictures had flying cars, so it seemed pretty grounded to me :)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5This is nice speculation but it will take 1 of 2 things to get these dreams moving.
1) A new Robert Moses, the man that single handedly dragged NYC into what it is today. The highway system, the tunnels, bridges, everything needed for greatness was set up by a guy that no elected politician had authority over. He bulldozed through entire slums to make way for progress. Nowadays every great idea gets bogged down in red tape by politicians that only think in the short term so they can get votes and stay in power.
Or:
2)NYC needs to throw out the last of the vestigial radical dems that regulate the city to death. It takes years to get a zoning change, months to perform basic repairs in "historic" neighborhoods...
Meanwhile draconian rent control laws from decades ago make it unprofitable for owners to reinvest in old buildings. There are tenants living in buildings for decades paying rent at 1970 rates. It puts landlords into the red. That's a perfect example of out of control radicalism strangling the city's growth and development. - mancat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5In 2012, the "Freedom Airliner" was installed as an addition to the Freedom Tower. The Freedom Airliner is a representative art piece designed by former actor and revolutionary macrosteel sculpter Tom Cruise. It is held in place by an antigravity generator, which was also invented by Cruise. The Freedom Airliner symbolizes the sacrifice made by the passengers of the two airliner jets. In its permanent pose of imminent collision, the Freedom Airliner reminds us all of the unfortunate truth: that some people have to die every now and then, so that we may retain our freedom.
"Remember them not as people, but as Americans. They were Citizens of Freedom. They were the people of the Freedom Airliners. They fought for our country the only way that they knew how: in the skies." - Tom Cruise, Commencement Ceremony, September 12th* 2012
*In 2010, the anniversary of the September 11th attacks was rescheduled to September 12th, as "Freedom Day" was made the official national holiday celebrated on September 11th. - mcbesq, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The stacked boxes building is a condo building to be constructed on the Lower East Side. It features only a couple dozen condos, each going for several million dollars. I believe that Mr and Mrc Gwyneth Paltrow bought one of them. Its design is fairly hated
- mcbesq, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Flying cars plus bad drivers equals death on a large scale. Maybe we should figure out how to safely drive on the ground before we whiz around the skies hundreds of feet in the air at 200 mph.
- Doofy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Expect the next 10 years to see the popping of the real estate bubble, and the city to go broke again.
All it's tax eggs are in Wall Street's basket, and NYC finances are a slave to the market.
Those $1 million 1BR NYC condos will drop by more than 50%. - mcbesq, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3One of the great rules of investment:
Invest in real estate. God isn't making any more land.
NYC real estate goes up, not down, and certainly not by 50%, in ten years, or in ten decades. - monkeybutler, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4It takes 10 years to fill a pothole. How the hell can they redo a city in such short time.
- felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3There will still be an affordable city here in the future. It's called Hoboken.
- tylerni7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It looks a lot like Futurama... and the name is even the same 'New New York'
- Vector713, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3digg for the cool architectural concepts :D
- thirdtenor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3are you kidding? looks like it did in '96
have you been to times square lately? or how bout the meat packing district? what about the lower west side highway... - SaintStryfe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3And there'll still be a giant hole at 1 World Trade Centre Plaza.
Thanks Pataki. - felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2In all seriousness, though, why is it the mayor's job to "stem the tide of inflated prices?" If I own a piece of property, I would want to get the most I could for it. It's the free market.
- trunkster, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4So by 2016 NY will allow helicopters and airplanes to fly close to the buildings? Either this is because we have a better defense, or they have become relax again with security.
- MackPrime, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3From Gotham to Metropolis?
- kazsymonds, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yes its like those old 1950s "what will life be like in 1999" videos!
New york looks now roughly like it did in 1996 (appart from 2 landmarks unfortunately) and its prolly not dis-similar to 1986, i look forward to flying cars though! - mcbesq, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The buildings in the picture are all in the works now (except for the "Freedom" Tower which is a giant boondoggle)
- Pixellore, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That's funny because I can't find a nice one bedroom in downtown Toronto for less then $1100.
- spamzor, on 10/12/2007, -2/+410 years is nowhere near long enough for such a huge change, the economics involved will sadly only slowly change the city. It will never be completely green.
- Mr.Germain, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5dumbest thing i have seen in a long time. these are always ridiculous
- frem001, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I think the families that lost a loved one and the people of new york should make their voices heard on TV. This is ridiculous something as ordinary as that should not represent a life lost never mind the thousands that died. It could be so much more and although not everyone will like a design they should spend time in getting it right. Less focus on business and profits more on real people, their emotions and history. Not saying that it shouldn't incorperate office space to make money off the site, but it shouldn't be done in a cookie cutter fashion. If you look at archinect.com there is a huge topic in the discussions section blasting the design. Maybe they need to hold constructions until things are thought through...afterall it's going to be there for a very long time.
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