I <3 NYC

Looking good.  There are some handy HD sidewalk mods over at SC4Devotion by Gobias.  You should check them out here: https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=2850

 

Also, you may want to get a mod that has trees on the sidewalks, as a former resident of Manhattan I can tell you that there are a lot of trees on the sidewalks.

Hey! yeah... Im using his sidewalk mod right now... about the trees.. well... trees on sidewalks are a problem... most of the streets are on way streets, and they barely show up on one way streets... so any help on that would be great!!!

Nice looking NewYork Downtown Neighbourhood. I like the building with overbridge on road in the 2nd pic:) Yet it can be better to have unified colour scheme, some of them are too pinkish or too orange, which can be done by photoshop if you like =D

Looks great! I have loved NYC myself ever since I first visited. Grids going nicely, Look forward to see how your going to implement street side trees or stick with one way roads. Impressive!

The buildings you selected work OK. Be careful not to make it all that way though. Brooklyn does have some nicer parts. You might want to try some Gascooker rowhouses. They are British but the look and feel of them could give some added variety to your areas.

How are you dividing up the city tiles.  It seems a shame to divide Manhattan down the middle, but then you also want to be able to recreate the bridges to Long Island and NJ.

Ok, so... just a check in... first off... 1000+ views... thats a great achievement for someone with only 4 entries I guess...

 

Now, I divided the the map in a particular way so that I could basically do all the bridges... and at the same time make the most comfortable out of it to build...

 

For the trees.. this is something weird...

 

1) if going for realism, streets should be used since those ARE streets, and are full of trees..

2) at the same time, they are one way... so... see the dilemma?

 

I dont know what to do... if go with the looks or functionality... streets with NAM have a greater capacity than streets before.. but they arent one way...

 

There are some pictures ready, and some development... but I think its time for a twist on this CJ... people are eager to see some development... and Im ready to give them development... question is... looks vs functionality...

 

 

2) The reason why central park is empty is because I haven started playing yet, and as we all know, central park can easily take me a month to get it complete. well... Im doing a recreation so the plazas wont work, I have to build it from scratch, an the plazas and parks you mentioned wont do the work, so you are gonna have to wait for that, but I appreciate your concerns about the city =)

Non Sense it would only take my about 5 hours of playing to zone Central Park Into a Park. havent you noticed the really big parks in my simulation? This sounds alot like How i made Mellon Square (Steel Plaza) in My Pittsburgh ,PA city Journal. Originally i had just Zones regular Park but then i converted it to look like the real thing. also i made Point state park look like the exact thing with the trees going in the right spots. At first you should Zone Central Park as ordinary Parks but over time you will trasform it into the real thing and even have to Build the Central Park Zoo.