Skyline of Manhattan - July 2001
Skyline of Manhattan from Ellis Island in July 2001. Population of New York City in 1980 was 7.1 million people and, in 2000, 8.0 million. The Twin Towers of the WTC dominated the Manhattan skyline for three decades before their destruction in 2001. Photograph by Carol M. Highsmith. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
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Another skyline of New York City taken in the same day by the same photographer.
17 State Street, completed in 1988.
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Skyline of Manhattan - July 2001
Hudson River
Enlargements of the center part.