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What you are looking at is a tiny slice of lower Manhattan from Brooklyn, just across the East River.

By the way, much of Brooklyn is now very gentrified. It's right up there with the Upper East Side in terms of wealth.

Thank you to both....Was raised in upstate NY and moved out when I was 21 and still never saw NYC. Stopped on vacations from CA to see friends/relatives but that was from an airport to their places and back before going upstate...saw some of the Bronx a couple of times, through the city to NJ to see Liberty Island one time, to the old Polo Grounds in 1955. I like that picture that was posted. It’s really a beautiful skyline and the last place in the country I would have picked. I thought maybe San Diego with a building that resembled the Federal prison but not with the water that close...

By the way, much of Brooklyn is now very gentrified. It's right up there with the Upper East Side in terms of wealth.

I second that remark. I live in Crown Heights, which is being overrun with yuppies. The Orthodox Jewish community can't find affordable places to live. I myself am forced to share a 3-bedroom with roommates because the 1-bedrooms cost almost as much.

I predict that a lot of religious communities will repopulate -- and revive -- the American small towns, which offer lower cost of living and more wholesome, insular environments. It's even happening right now, as I see many ads and articles in Jewish magazines for "out-of-town" communities.

Of course, we know what happens then. These places will start attracting the liberals in search of community, because the "hip" urban areas offer nothing in the way of civic cohesiveness.