This picture in particular stuck out to me; I love how this picture perfectly displays the changes to this end of Wall Street.
You get a balanced glimpse of everything razed for 60 Wall, including a nice little copper roof sticking out from there, as well as another nice building on the left demolished for 75 Wall.
The building with the Western Union sign was demolished in 1960 to widen the streets and is a sad story in itself.
The streets of Manhattan (NYC) in 1911 (In COLOR)
Damn, is that still standing? I’m guessing not
Unfortunately not
Manhattan Life Building.
Broadway entrance
New Street entrance
Directors room
Rotunda in Manhattan Life Building
Foundation plan
Here is a pipe dream.
Imagine finding some worthy developer who is willing to tear down the the ugly 1950s building next to Woolworth and rebuild the singer building right next to it.
That would be incredible.
I think it would look too awkward without the City Investing building hugging it considering how thin it was. Personally when I see renders of singer without the city investing building or Woolworth before the Transportation Building was built it seems off to me as there’s lots of height and not much… visual bulk.
You can practically taste the cigar smoke in there.
These are some renderings of a recent development being proposed in Boston.
Just another example of developers catching on to the fact that people don’t like glass boxes. Stuff like this gives me hope.
Third Avenue and 86th Street 1880s
86 Street 1880s
93rd Street Rupperts Home at 93rd Street
Eagle Hotel N.E. corner of 94th Street and 5th Avenue
Madison Avenue and 55th Street 1875
Grants Tomb
A Woodhouse 1850s Pic from Viktor Prevost
Gothic-Revival-Still 1853
Row Houses 1853
Stone House 1853
Houses near 94th Street
The Woodlawn Hotel Bronx 1853
441 Broadway 1854
No guarantee that Boston Planning and Dev. Agency will approve of more contextual, i.e. traditional, architecture. They carry on the tradition of Boston architectural standards that gave them their city hall.
Also, that’s Adjmi isn’t it? NYC is probably the only major city leading the charge for this kind of architecture.
I think that project was already approved.
Just came across a building called Jefferson Pilot Building that is in Greensboro NC. It was built in 1990 and looks incredible! One of the best new-old buildings I’ve seen. Go look it up on google street view.
I wish there was thread of examples of new architecture build in a classic design. I have a whole list of them.
1907; Singer Building, City Investing Building, Hudson Terminal, and New York Law School Building all under construction, all demolished
New Law School Building c. 1908
Hudson Terminal c. 1950s showing Radio Row tenements after street widening, the old Law School Building and a 1933 taxpayer where the Millenium Hilton is
1969; North Tower and Law School Building
New York Law School Building c. 1978, 6 years before demolition
Just gonna subtly point to my example above. These can be rebuilt! 
