NYC, the city of verticality on the horizon, to the horizon

when i first arrived in NYC from JFK, what surprised me the most was its density of skyscrapers and proximity of them to each other. they were just standing like salary-men in tokyo on tubes in the morning as if there were nowhere to spread out (in fact there werent). as a tokyo urbanite, ive seen a lot of skyscrapers and the life surrounded by them is nothing new. but such a density and proximity of skyscrapers was something totally different from what ive known. the city was grabbing the sky. 

although NYC is no doubt a vertical city, it does not mean to make u deny to consider the horizon. when i was on the boat to the super touristy statue of liberty, this vertical city was on the horizon. it was kinda funny.

and when i climbed up to the super touristy empire state building, i found out that this vertical city actually spread to the horizon without much of verticality . this was rather different from what i optimistically imagined. 

technically it has become much easier to pile floors to the sky than ever before (although socially it has become much more difficult to build skyscrapers in modern society). yet the lights on the horizon made me understand that our lives cannot be piled up to the sky like concretes.