Great View Of Empire State Building And Chrysler Building Seen From Roosevelt Island - But Real Building Heights Are Not What You See

The Twin Towers live on 🇺🇸 🗽 🙏 #newyork #manhattan #rooseveltisland #empirestate #chrysler… https://t.co/rz62MgaQ8s

— Massoud Abbasi (@OmegaGroupMA) January 17, 2016

The Twin Towers live on 🇺🇸 🗽 🙏 #newyork #manhattan #rooseveltisland #empirestate #chrysler #twintowers

A photo posted by Massoud Abbasi (@massoudabbasi) on Jan 17, 2016 at 8:54am PST

The black building in the middle appearing to tower over the Empire State Building and Chrysler Building is Trump World Tower.

The view perspective of the buildings from Roosevelt Island is very misleading since the Empire State Building is 1454 feet tall, Chrysler Building is 1046 feet tall and Trump World Tower is 866 feet tall.

Scenes From Last Night's Roosevelt Island Outdoor Movie Showing Of Frozen - Fun Family Event With Great View Of Rainbow Colored Empire State Building Lights

Roosevelt Island resident Irina Hage shares this photo from last night's Southpoint Park outdoor movie showing of Frozen

Image From Irina Hage

and reports:

Open Air Cinema was great!

it was truly a family event - excited kids, nice people as always, good moods - and every square foot of the lawn filled.

… just sharing this picture. And the Empire State Building lighting was amazing !

Image From Irina Hage

The Roosevelt Island Twitterverse reports on last night's Southpoint Park Outdoor Movie showing of Frozen as well:

Outdoor movie night! #frozen @ Southpoint Park, Roosevelt Island http://t.co/nE97OrsysP
— Therese Sonesson (@t_sonesson) June 29, 2014

Movie night with ma gurl #frozen #bestfriends #summer @ Southpoint Park, Roosevelt Island http://t.co/v29HUzYssW
— Tricia Ruiz (@soulandscript24) June 29, 2014

Frozen, in summerrrrrrr! #olaf #rooseveltisland @ Southpoint Park, Roosevelt Island http://t.co/L6VyLfUwMi
— Matt Malerba (@mattmalerba) June 29, 2014

The next Roosevelt Island Southpoint Park Outdoor Movie showing will be Thor: The Dark World on Saturday July 11.

NIghttime View Of Purple Empire State Building And Queensboro Bridge East River Waterfront As Seen From Roosevelt Island Last Night

Roosevelt Island resident Juliana Mendes Braga-Babinsky shares these photos taken last night of the Empire State Building behind the Queensboro Bridge as seen from Roosevelt Island

Images From Juliana Mendes Braga-Babinsky

and comments:

Night, night. Empire State Building alllllll they way in the back lit in Purple & Yellow - In honor of the Westminster Kennel Club. Who would have imagined ..

Great pictures.

Run Up To The Top Of The Empire State Building With A Roosevelt Islander

Image From ESPN You Tube Video

Are there any Roosevelt Island runners out there planning on participating in the 2013 Run Up to the Top Of The Empire State Building? Well, there's at least one and Angelique is asking what you are doing to prepare.

From the Roosevelt Island Twitterverse:

@rooseveltisland is anyone here on the island doing the NYRR Empire State Building Run Up next month?
— Angelique Rutter (@miss_angelique) January 9, 2013

@rooseveltisland Thanks! Yeah, I got selected through their lottery. I'm trying to see what people are doing to prepare. Can't wait!
— Angelique Rutter (@miss_angelique) January 9, 2013

I would say take the elevator - but that's just me.

Here's what the 2011 Run To The Top of the Empire State Building was like.

FANTASTIC Empire State Building LED Light Show With Alicia Keys Empire State Of Mind As Seen From Roosevelt Island's Southpoint Park

Roosevelt Island resident John Lee shares this video he took from Roosevelt Island's Southpoint Park of spectacular Empire State Building LED Light Show.



According to Mr. Lee:

Last night {November 26} the world-famous Empire State Building in collaboration with Grammy Award winner, Alicia Keys, gave a gift to New York City and the world by revealing ESB's new LED tower lights with a first-ever light show on the Landmark. This show marks the official unveiling of a groundbreaking new LED lighting system, developed by the world's leader in LED lighting Philips Color Kinetics (PCK).

At 9:00 p.m. ET, Alicia Keys kicked off the light show by flipping the switch live in Clear Channel New York City studios with Elvis Duran, Z100; DJ Clue, Power105; Helen Little, 106.7 Lite fm; and Cubby, 103.5 KTU—a moment that will be synchronized on-air to two of Keys' tracks—her single from her new album "Girl on Fire," followed by her smash hit "Empire State of Mind."

I filmed the video clips from South Point Park on Roosevelt Island, edited part of the video and added Alicia Keys Empire State of Mind as the background music! Hope you enjoy my video.

Here's another version.

Flying High Above Roosevelt Island, the East River and Manhattan

Central Park - Looking South from Northern Manhattan

Yankee Stadium New and Old

Empire State Building

Roosevelt Island

The pilot of the plane who took this amazing video of a flight up and down the East River corridor sent these images as well.

Take a look at more of his photos including the United Nations, Battery Park, Midtown Manhattan and a neat slide show of Manhattan aerial photos here.

Don't forget to check out the video - it is really worth seeing. It is this week's Roosevelt Island Weekend Watefront Music Video winner. The Neil Diamond soundtrack was pretty good as well.

Thanks Captain Ed.