New York Metropolitan Vintage Photo/Video Collection

Both those buildings were/are great, they just did a bad job buying all of the lots needed to make the buildings fit their environment

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In this view of the Chase National Bank Building from 40 Wall Street, we get rare angle of the Mutual Life Building (now One Chase Plaza) and the 1888 section of the building that was normally in shadow.

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Lower Manhattan’s Financial District old skyscrapers from the Cities Service Building looking west in 1938. At left is the Equitable Building (Ernest Graham, 1915) and the 48-story Singer tower (Ernest Flagg, 1908) are visible at center, at background with the Hudson River docks behind it.

Photo: Berenice Abbott

Source: Bonnie Yochelson “Berenice Abbott: Changing New York” (New York, The New Press, The Museum of the City of New York. 2008).

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Penn Station Design 1905

Grand Central Terminal Design 1905

Design 1909

Penn Station Design 1909 with a unbuilt Post Office Design 1909

Grand Central Terminal 1911

Penn Station 1911

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1961

Trinity Place looking north

West up Pine Street, showing the 60 Wall Tower, new 80 Pine Street and old Hardenburgh designed Building (1893, demolished 1963)

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The Heckscher Building at 57th Street & 5th Avenue 1922.

https://collections.mcny.org/Collection/Buildings,-Heckscher-Building,-5th-Ave.-&-57th-St.-2F3XC58063YA.html

https://www.instagram.com/p/B_IOFCZAHp7/

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Beautiful building ! It’s nice to see than they renovate.

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Whenever I see pictures of the original Penn Station

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A Documentary Film from the old and unforgettable Penn Station

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Our pewter replica building stands 1-5/8 inches tall x 5-1/4" x 3-1/4" and is finished in antique pewter (brown stain).

https://www.replicabuildings.com/proddetail.php?prod=192

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The way you say our, do you work for them?

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I don‘t work for them

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https://old.skyscraper.org/tenandtaller/observations.php

https://old.skyscraper.org/tenandtaller/slender.php

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This is awesome, you get a good look at the skyline at the end. And I wish they didn’t scrap this ship

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