This panorama was originally a custom shot for a client in Florida. He needed a panorama of NY with a 5:1 aspect ratio and more than 1 gigapixel resolution. It turned out not to be fruitful at all. The extreme wide aspect ratio prevents me from taking it into my fine art portfolio, but maybe it has a future in stock photography. So, if you like to license it, contact me.
Most of the good locations can be found by just walking around (in sometimes stranges areas). I t took me about an hour to find this spot, with an almost perfect view of the south-west side of Times Square, and the brand new New York Times building. It’s not really a hyper-wide panorama since it’s only 80 degrees view, but I think it still fits into the family. I posted a zoomify version with the full gigapixel resolution on portfolio site at luminous-newyork.com
About 1 gigapixel.
I went back to the Brooklyn Bridge to take another panorama, this time only a 200 degree panorama, with nothing but water in the foreground and all the focus on the bridge and a quite nice moon. It’s stitched from 50 tiles.
About 280 megapixel.
The New Yorker has a big red neon sign on 34th street. Not many people in NYC actually see it, but surely all residents on the NJ side of the Hudson see it each night, just in case they forget where NY is 
About 770 megapixel.
Some panoramas I have to revisit, because they weren’t perfect the first time. Times Square is one of them, and this is my 5th attempt to capture it. While I would never really consider doing one of the “traditional” panoramas of Times Square, I still like the light it emits, and it looks so much different from different view points, than how it looks down from the ground. I think I got it right this time, with a lot of texture and detail. It will be 112×60 inch (285×152 cm).
About 770 megapixel.
While it seems that many stores in Chinatown sell the same things, there are a couple of speciality stores, like this pet fish store. The fish and the neon light looked unresistable, and I simply had to take this panorama, like so many other tourist who were walking by and looking at this swarm of fish.
About 500 megapixel.