Today 108 Years ago the fire in the old Equitable Life Building
interior
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56 Pine Street
The old Wallace Building from 1894
Down Town Association Building 60 Pine Street from 1887
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I’d like to add one of my favorite buildings in the city, and I think it’s quite overlooked. The Bayard-Condict Building at 65 Bleecker Street by Louis Sullivan. Completed in 1899. Not built in the same classical style as other buildings posted here, but a beauty nonetheless.
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Louis Sullivan really is underrated. His attention to detail really makes his work stand out. The Wainwright building in STL is gorgeous.
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Guaranty Building in Buffalo, Carson Pirie Scott Building and the Auditorium Building in Chicago to name a few others. Very underrated. He was able to merge old and modern architecture beautifully. It’s a shame we don’t have more of his designs in the city.
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Yea, that is a building beautiful!
Lol what the heck was that building that used to be next to it? A power plant?
I’m really bummed that the development next to it is going to be so lame.
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The New Jersey Zinc Building on Front Street designed by Henry Hardenbergh, still standing
Another Hardenbergh Building at Front and Depeyster Streets, built in 1893 and demolished around 1963 for 88 Pine Street
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The City Investing Building:
View of the Broadway entrance archway
Looking west from the Broadway entrance through the arcade floor
Looking northeast towards a spiral staircase and the Broadway entrance
Looking southeast towards the elevators
Lobby Plan
The entrance at the light court on Cortlandt Street
Building’s floor diagram seen from the west
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the city investing building & singer are the two buildings I wish I could bring back.
More so then Penn
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Jeez, that’s probably one of the biggest mistakes the city has ever made. How can you demolish something so beautiful
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What a loss man. This is one tower that deserved to remain standing.
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That lobby was Incredible!
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Just look at that craftsmanship!!!
I don’t mean to get critical but for as great as capitalism once was is sure has lost its way. What’s the point of advancing as society when the pinnacle of the stuff you make is it of lesser quality?
Isn’t that regressive? Yes technology, medicine, living standards etc… have all gotten better but our relentless quest for profit has made society cheap and lifeless. We live is a throw-away culture where people don’t care about the result and only want to consume, consume, consume!
I heard a good quote once that goes something like:
“maybe a society should be judged less on what it builds and more on what it tears down”
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I agree on everything that has been posted today
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The last of the CIB and 22 Cortlandt Street yields to growth 1969
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I like the way the two boxes and the Singer just kinda cascaded into the sky towards the deco towers in the heart of the city. 1967 was an interesting year until hell broke loose.
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You mean until they walled in the city with more boxes!
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Not just profit motive, the Bauhaus/International Style/streamlined cultural zeitgeist (“out of with the old, in with the new/modern”) was very strong mid twentieth century. Not just buildings either. They dovetailed and amplified each other.
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