These days, it seems like a new skyscraper rises in New York every minute. There are, in fact six supertowers (buildings over 1,000 feet tall) currently under construction, with another 14 officially proposed. A handful of these are located on Billionaires’ Row, a stretch of West 57th Street known for luxury high-rises, which lines the south side of Central Park. In 2013 the Municipal Art Society of New York published a paper analyzing the effects of such supertowers on the open space in the city, particularly on the sunlight in the park. Blog Cube Cities has created an animation depicting just that. See the shadows cast by eight planned or constructed supertowers in midtown over the course of an average fall day below.

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