SOUTH VIEW
EMPIRE STATE BUILDING
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
The view south from the Empire State Building provides a
spectacular panaroma of the East and West Village, the World
Trade Center Towers, and the Inner and Outer bays of New York
Harbor. On a clear day the southern horizon displays the high
ridge of the First Watchung Mountain, the crest of the highest
headlands on the eastern seaboard: Todt Hill on Staten Island, a
ridge of Paleozoic serpentine (ancient oceanic crust). The
towers of the Verrazano Bridge between Brooklyn and Staten Island
are barely visible in the distance beyond the World Trade Center.
The low buildings dominating the buildings of the "Village" are
in-part a reflection of the lack of solid bedrock for foundations
in that area (unlike the Wall Street and Midtown areas). East of
this picture are the Manhattan, Williamsburg and Brooklyn bridges
across the East River (connecting Long Island Sound to the harbor
at the mouth of the Hudson River). The Statue of Liberty is a
speck in the harbor to the right of the World Trade Towers.
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March, 1997