New York City

[dc82 1]

oh shoot! to be honest, i kinda forgot about checking the city journal forum that i did for new york. i didn't know that there'd be that big of a response. wow... to be honest, ever since the announcement of the expansion and then even the lot editor, i've been hesitant to update my city. i know it's gonna be crazy redoing all the streets to one-way streets, avenues (although in my view the only ones i'll change for that is Park Ave. and West St. only 'cuz those are the only two that have tree and more boulevard structure (the other avenues are more like major roads). but yeah, i guess i'm gonna get cracking on my city again so that i can post new pictures.

to answer any questions... yeah i do live in new york city. born on st. vincent's which i def. put in the game and grew up in flushing, queens (which i have to do justice!). i go to nyu and now live rite next to the west 4th street station by nyu (i'm a student at the stern school of business at nyu!). i mean yeah i try to emulate the city as much and as exactly as i can from my own experience here (i'm really anal-retentive when it comes to this so yeah i'm kinda perfectionist when it comes to it.) so there are relative similarities to traffic, crime, wealth, etc. i was pleased to find traffic in midtown and i tried to force people to take the bridges which was nice.

with the lot editor i'm gonna change around the parks with the lot editor. i'm thinking about changing washington square arch to a smaller lot size. i'm def. shrinking the city colleges, especially for nyu and other city colleges (sva, parsons, barouqe, pace, fordham, etc...). that parking lot has to go, at least for manhattan schools. so yeah.. hopefully i'll update soon. sorry no pics today. =P

[simbuilder 1]

Good to know. I thought you where going to leave this one to us and are imagination.

[+Guest]

Nice job...but your missing the Long Island Expressway, The Grand Central, and the BQE. (i take them almost everyday)

[azhan_21 4]

Hello!! i luv NYC!! I wish to study there sometimes...well I don't have nething 2 say bout ur city but seems 2 me its good..I need 2 know how to get that type of city...lotsa skyscraper..highly populated and rich...can any1 help me since I'm still new in SimCity 4

[dc82 1]

well actually i do have the LIE, GCP, Belt, etc... it's jsut that i didn't finish them in queens and brooklyn 'cuz i've only worked on manhattan and the western side of the two boroughs. i'll get shot soon, but i have the LIE turning into the Queens Midtown tunnel, which exits aroudn 34th st, and extending into the lincoln tunnel. grand central turns north in long island city and turns into the triboro bridge as you can see sorta... in the map, then again it's a bit dated too... i'll update my region map again soon.

but yeah, there's a lot of highways that i gotta put down.. Long Island Expressway, Grand Central Parkway (which turns into Northern State Parkway in LI), Belt Pkwy, Henry Hudson Pkwy/West Side Highway, FDR Drive, Cross Bronx Expressway, Major Degan Expressway, Interboro/Jackie Robinson Parkway, Southern State Parkway, Van Wyck Expressway, Cross Island Parkway, Harlem River Drive, etc. etc. etc. (and that's just New York City... u got Jersey too!)... yeah that's y it's hard to update rite now 'cuz i wanna wait for the transportation pack as well. i'll see what i can do. =P

[Sharp Dressed Man 0]

That's amazing. I tried to do the same thing once, but although I'm an ok mayor, and have built a couple really big cities without cheating, I suck at the regional thing.

[Yellowlab 11]

Wow, that is amazing dc82. You must live in NYC or go there a lot because that is right on the money!

[dc82 1]

yep, born and raised in new york city...  i've been hesitant to update my city much with rush hour coming.  one big problem i have with my city was large sections of abandonnment.  to help alleviate the problem i've tried to put some of the subway systems in now.  i've built the lexington (4,5,6) line as well as the a, c, e, b, d, f, v, and 7 lines.   hopefully this will reduce traffic.  i've also tried to make it more authentic, not only by placing stations in their real locations (although real stations don't take up an entire tile, they're on the sidewalk), but i've also tried to make the express lines and local lines, by placing the express line adjacent to the local, meeting only at express stops.  kinda like this...

 

59th Street Station (4, 5, 6)

 

68th Street - Hunter College Station (6)

 

Grand Central Station (4, 5, 6, 7, and Shuttle to Times Square)

 

here's some other pictures of manhattan...

 

New York Public Library (42nd St. and 5th Ave.)

 

Silvercup Studios (in Long Island City, Queens)

 

Central Park Zoo

 

i'll see what else i can update, but yeah, once rush hour comes out, it'll be all over! 

[dc82 1]

i turned on my simcity before only to realize my midtown has turned into a giant grassy field!!! arg, good thing i have at least a backup version, but it's from april, meaning that i still have to catch up a lot of stuff.... maxis has gotta change the way it saves the game, this isn't the first time this happened to me. sigh....

[+Guest]

when RH comes,you have to put the EL trains and also the 125th st station for the 1 train(which you might need some terrain fixture)

[ed_diaz 10]

outstanding!!! work!!!!. you've outdone yourself here lol.  pretty good variation in buildings. i like. anywayz one thing im REALLY curious about is your commute time? can you post a pic showing it? seems like it'll be like 100+ considering you have tons of RED stops throughout your roads. have you tried modding it? maybe increase the capacity of your roads abit more so it can decrease some of the traffic.

[Road Warrior 0]

Great Job!  Just got back from the city today.

[Birdfang 12]

Great job! I really like what you've done. Keep up the good work!

[OriginalAndy 1]

great city... better than my New York thats for sure... but im only using the region cuz it looks good... and not for creating a real NY...

[spanish harlem 0]

hey i can see my apt...sick job..very detailed n realistic...using farmers market as the subway station at union square..thought that was cool, looks kind of like it. u even got the little slanted road on the SW corner of the park...u should update this with rush hour..u could do alot of things, like the el over queens blvd., staten island ferry, etc...keep up the good work

[Damion 1]

I'm impressed.

wish I could get my hands on this one.

the guy making the SF city now has competition

[dc82 1]

quick update: so yeah, i had to go to an old back up of my midtown... sigh... this time, i just used to new surface water lot instead of digging a huge hole in central park.  i redid the subways although i haven't done the 1/2/3/9 lines yet.  also, i was at grand central yesterday so i picked up the free bus maps of all five boroughs, so now i can really get cracking on the other cities... i'll be posting up more pictures soon, maybe even today...

[lateefkirk 0]

Wow man, great work, I've been building this same region and your far ahead of me, I' still laying out the roads over all the boroughs (that is WORK), anyways man I just wanted to know how you got the Lincoln and other tunnels underground like that.

hmm.. maybe I'll make NYC of the Dinkins era.. whoa Crime.

[sahbaun7 2]

I've admired your journal from the jump. After seeing your screen shots I went and recreated NYC as well, as a kid growing up I'm sure you had a chance to visit Flushing Meadow Park's - Queens Museum of Art:
"http://www.queensmuse.org/exhibitions/panorama.html>The Panorama of New York City is really something else! Should you be a tourist or a native you really need to see it. It captures virtually every corner, every building, every site of this city. Also, the lighting changes to show the scenery in a night time sort-of-perspective. City Lights come alive as the room's lights dim. Also note that this structure isn't small at all...'it's rather large. The model is about 9,335 square feet in size."
http://www.queensmuse.org/exhibitions/panotransparency.jpg>
http://www.queensmuse.org/exhibitions/vacuum-guy-color.jpg>

To help acheive accuracy in SC4 I came across the http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/home.html> NYC Dept. of City Planning website. They go into detail beyond belief. Forget Map Quest all you need is this site, and thehttp://www.mta.info> MTA website for all your Mass Transit maps

When your at the City planning site roll-over Reference and scroll to Zoning Profiles, it will bring up a map NYC, click on any district to get maps like this : http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/lucds/qn2profile.pdf > Queens District 2

on that note, PEACE!

[Vlad788 13]

I'm an New Yorker and I like that!!! I would've started my New York region a long time ago but I'm waiting for Rush Hour first. That City looks awesome. Where is ground zero though? and I-495 (Long Island Expressway)

Maybe I didn't see them.

 

The_New_Vlad

[Vlad788 13]

I'm a New Yorker (henchforth the avatar WTC) and That looks almost the same!! as New York!!! Sweet!! but where is the LIE and Ground Zero maybe I didn't see them, but nice work on New York!!!

 

The_New_Vlad

[dc82 1]

hehe thanks... well... i've done the LIE in LIC so far, 'cuz i haven't really done my queens cities much, but if u see, the LIE leads straight into the Queens Midtown Tunnel (although i have to redo it after my midtown got leveled by the bad save...).  in terms of ground zero... well i mean i can try to make it a construction zone, but for now i just used the Bank of China tower to represent "Freedom Tower" which should be built in a few years.  i also placed some museums and plazas there.  i'll try to post more pcitures up soon... =)

[dc82 1]

YES! now that i have rush hour, i was able to start updating my cities.  i had to bulldoze and redo all my roads into avenues and one way streets.  but anyways, as you were all waiting for... new york city..

American Museum of Natural History

 

Lincoln Center

 

Holland Tunnel and Jacob Javits Center

 

Queens-Midtown Tunnel

 

Staten Island Ferry

 

59th Street Bridge- Queensboro Bridge

 

Brooklyn Bridge

 

 

 

World Trade Center Planned Site, City Hall, West St, etc.

 

Traffic at Times Square

 

New York City Region Transit Map

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[SIMpleton 2]

Wow That is quite simply awesome! I would be interested in downlaoding that for a closer look. New York is definately my favorite city

[ead88 0]

I'll be interested to see how u build the brooklyn battery tunnel. (if you do.)

[sahbaun7 2]

After getting Rush Hour Tuesday, for the last couple of days I've been re-creating a whole new NYC region. So far I only got the Avenues layed down. I used the same map but I blew it up 2 times its size, its now 8x12 large city maps. You can easily fit in all the Avenues in Manhattan from 1st Ave all the way to 12th Ave.

[UrbanLegend 63]

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On 8/3/2003 2:59:44 AM spanish harlem wrote:hey i can see my apt...sick job..very detailed n realistic...using farmers market as the subway station at union square..thought that was cool, looks kind of like it. u even got the little slanted road on the SW corner of the park...u should update this with rush hour..u could do alot of things, like the el over queens blvd., staten island ferry, etc...keep up the good work

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I think he's using the farmers market as the farmers market at Union Square (fresh vegies every weekend).

 

 

[dc82 1]

yup, i used the farmer's market for union square.  the reason y i didn't use a bigger map was 'cuz, i want to divide up the city into too many cities, 'cuz the industrial areas of the city r kinda split far (jersey, long island city, etc.) so if i divi up the land too much, it'll be hard to keep the rci balance for more centered cities in the middle.  but yeah, expect more updates soon (although i gotta leave for a retreat in a bit)

[MoSh316ddp 0]

I would really like to download this city and what are the measurements of your blocks.

[dc82 1]

each block represents about every two, three, or four blocks in real life.  some of the avenues r combined.