New York City

[Asterion 3]

Hi everyone this is my first city journal and it is for my version of New York. The population is currently 10,863,433. In terms of realism please refer to the later pictures.

New York from the air (a recent image).

[Chiverito 11]

Welcome to Simtropolis, Very realisic first image. More images would be cool. Also 1 tip, If you upload the images to a image site such as photobucket and link it to your comments in the message menu it would make your City Journal alot easier to view!

Keep it up!

Chiverito

[Chiverito 11]

You can embed images by puting the URL of your image inbetween the image brackets of the message menu... Hope this helps

[Asterion 3]

Thanks for your help Chiverito, I'll put some more pictures up in a few moments.

[jim 546 43]

It's very nice, but it does not properly display in your post. Follow this LINK to see how to show images.  You can edit your posts to show the pictures properly click "Edit" at the bottom right of the post.

[Asterion 3]

Thanks everyone for your help. Sorry that some of the offices haven't been constructed yet, it does slightly ruin some of the photos. Here are some more pictures:

The Empire State Building and Downtown

Brooklyn

Brooklyn Skyline and Manhattan

The Manhattan Housing Projects

The Village with One Court Square (Queens) in the background

Road Layout

Ariel View: notable features include ground zero (at the bottom tip of Manhattan), Broadway (running diagonally across the main grid layout) and Columbus Circle (bottom left Central Park).

Manhattan from Brooklyn

Midtown, Central Park and the Upper-East side

Surburban New Jersey

[Warmonkey 0]

This is really great.

[jim 546 43]

One smiley for this :  

[jazyje 1]

Great stuff!!!! One correction -- I just came back from NYC yesterday.... The first photo -- it is Jersey City rather than Newark west of Manhattan... Newark is about 5-6 miles due west from Jersey City...

[Xidillon 0]

I honestly have no idea how you can run this game with all that development. Nice work.

[Nuclear550 3]

As a resident of New York City, this a perfect replica of it in a game.

[Josh6 873]

WOW. That was great! Any more?

[Asterion 3]

Hi all, thanks for all of your kind responses and for the correction jazyje Here are some more pictures:

Manhattan

Midtown

The Chrysler Building

Manhattan from Jersey City

Lower Manhattan

Manhattan Bridge

Lower Manhattan from Brooklyn

Another bird's eye view

Empire State Building

Manhattan

Midtown at night (sorry it's not very clear)

[lucky7 73]

Oh, this is looking really great so far! Additionally, the off-angled roads look really good, definitely a bonuspoint for realism.

I just try to imagine how cool this would all look with all the buildings from real life...

Wonderful start, keep going and

looking forward to more,

lucky7

[Stef42 0]

Very good! I like it

[Skimbo 304]

Is it possible to find an appartment on 6th avenue in your city? Or are they as expansive as in real live?

Great. a ++ says more than words

[Asterion 3]

Hi all, I'll be posting some more pictures soon (especially more at street level) and I'm going to update the city slightly. The changes will include: editing Central Park to place in small roads and trees in the correct places; constructing the unbuilt offices; developing Governor's Island and Roosevelt Island; adding in some extra high rises to the area surrounding Central Park (mainly to the West); extending Broadway beyond Columbus Circle; adding in extra parks in Manhattan (small ones in the correct places) and adding in the Queensborough Housing project.

@lucky7 Thanks for feedback - especially since you are the creator of that extremely realistic New York City Journal on Sim City 4! The lack of realistic buildings is a little frustrating, I agree with you that it would dramatically improve the city (especially the Metlife building). Hopefully someone might create some custom content at some point.

@Stef42 Thank you

@Skimbo Sadly I think the appartments would be very expensive as the demand for them is so great, atleast that's realistic though ! It's a shame there isn't such a large demand for new offices but hopefully I'll fix that soon.

[Jeffmaster223 24]

brilliant.

[TekindusT 3,809]

I don't usually follow CXL journals, but I think I'm going to make an exception with this one... What an excellent job!

[gio10469 24]

I agree with TekindusT....I don't know the game well but from my point of view it seems you're pushing this game to the limit and you're showing the true potential that it has. Hopefully down the line there will be custom NY buildings, and it will really bring this city out. Your aerial views are very realistic. Great job!

[Aaron Graham 4,417]

WOW!!! Great Job on the city, looks so real.

[Asterion 3]

Hi again all, here are some new photos. Sorry they are mostly of the same areas I just thought some of them looked good with the camera mod. When I have completed the aforementioned changes I will post new photos.

Manhattan

40 Wall Street

View from the Statue of Liberty

View down an avenue

MIdtown aerial view

Extreme bird's-eye

New camera view

[Benedict 3,119]

Absolutely fantastic! I had no idea such an amazing recreation would be possible in CitiesXL.

[jazyje 1]

Can you zoom in to Lower East Side?

[GlobexCo 33]

That's exactly what I wanted to see when I started programming my unlocker mod...

Amazing work!

Hope to see more... maybe a strange development in a strange future? 

[nba_94 29]

that is amazing

[socalwu 0]

Just to note, I notice that the FDR on the edge of manhattan facing queens and brooklyn is an avenue. In actual new york, its mostly a little highway so try grade separation in that section.

[Asterion 3]

Hi all, I have updated the city slighty making all of the changes I said I would bar constructing Roosevelt Island as it didn't look very good. I have also removed the farms. As there are no longer any construction sites some of these pictures are the same as the originals - I just thought they looked better now. I have pretty much finished the city now so if anyone would like anymore pictures just tell me the location

Midtown with updated Central Park

Queensbridge housing project

Peter Cooper Village - Stuyvesant Town

Lower East-side housing projects

Lower East-side housing projects

Lower East-side

New York

Governor's Island

Aerial shot

Midtown with updated Central Park

Central Park

Aerial view of Manhattan

Downtown

Lower East-side

Midtown from the Williamsburg Bridge

Downtown

View uptown

Midtown

Midtown zoomed

Street view

[Asterion 3]

Replys to messages:

@Benedict, Aaron Graham, Animaniacs, TekindusT and nba_94- Thank you all very much !

@jazyje - Hope you liked the photos, if you would like anymore please say.

@GlobexCo - Glad you liked it. Your mod was extremely useful - thank you!

@socalwu - Thanks for pointing that out but for a lot of the way that road is 6 lanes anyway I think. I would change it I just fear that I don't have enough space

[Androv 6]

Amazing work, I'll have to try and recreate my home town now!