Which buildings does the New York City set include?

Among others, the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building and a tower styled after One World Trade Center stand together on a shared base.

Are there minifigures in the set?

No, the Architecture range never includes minifigures, keeping the focus entirely on the buildings themselves.

How many pieces does set 21028 have?

The set has 598 pieces, 90 of them distinct elements.

Skylines

New York City

The Architecture set New York City (21028) renders the Manhattan skyline as a flat display model built from 598 pieces. The Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, One World Trade Center and other landmarks stand side by side on a shared base. As with every set in this line, there are no minifigures, since the architecture is the whole point.

Set number: 21028
Year: 2016
Pieces: 598
Minifigures: 0
Theme: Skylines
Different parts: 90

What can I build with it?

View the official building instructions at LEGO® ↗

Parts list 90

As BrickLink list (XML)

Import on BrickLink: Wanted → Upload, upload the file (or paste its content), pick a Wanted List and add the parts.

Spare parts (12)

These extra parts come with the set in case one gets lost.

Alternative models

Fan models by Rebrickable users that you can build (mostly) from this set’s parts. Instructions are available from the designers.

All 2 ideas at Rebrickable ↗

What can I build with it?

Description

A skyline on a single base

Rather than recreating one building in fine detail, the set lines up several New York landmarks in heavily simplified form so the city's silhouette reads as a whole. The colour mix of tan, light bluish grey, sand blue and clear transparent plastic tells the buildings apart and hints at window rows and glass facades. Depicting a whole city instead of a single structure is the defining trait of the Architecture Skylines sub-line that this set belongs to.

Famous landmarks at a small scale

Among the recreated buildings are the Empire State Building with its distinctive antenna spire, the Chrysler Building with its stepped crown, and a tower that echoes One World Trade Center. Each building is reduced to a handful of defining shape cues that still read correctly even from a distance. That deliberate reduction is what allows several structures to fit onto such a small footprint within an Architecture Skylines set.

A model built for a desk

With no minifigures and a narrow, elongated base, the set is clearly built for display on a shelf or desk rather than for play. A small nameplate on the base identifies the city, a recurring design element across the whole Skylines sub-line. Anyone collecting several city sets from the same range can line them up thanks to the shared base design and present them together as one coherent series, even on a fairly small stretch of shelf.

90 elements in a compact set

With only 90 distinct elements out of 598 total pieces, New York City is clearly one of the structurally simpler sets in the whole Architecture range, largely because a handful of basic shapes get reused across the building facades. The build focuses on clean layering rather than many specialised parts. The full parts list on this page shows every element with its colour and quantity, useful for sourcing transparent window pieces or tan bricks for other architecture-style builds.

FAQ

Which buildings does the New York City set include?: Among others, the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building and a tower styled after One World Trade Center stand together on a shared base.
Are there minifigures in the set?: No, the Architecture range never includes minifigures, keeping the focus entirely on the buildings themselves.
How many pieces does set 21028 have?: The set has 598 pieces, 90 of them distinct elements.

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