This was the world’s tallest for a while, yes?
For 17 years, then Chrysler was built in 1930, then ESB the next year
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World was for 4 years, Woolworth was for 17
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Thank you both!
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I’m trying to find more pictures of the west half of Big Chungus under construction. I swear there were some from the Hudson, any ideas?
Around April 1974, undated
June 1974
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^ 1940’s?
Is the Empire State Building finished? Because it looks like they’re still working on the antenna.
For the 1940s, a few buildings are missing, including Rockefeller Center.
Antenna as we know it was completed in 1953.
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wish i was able to see this with my own eyes 
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That would make you pretty old!
Could the old Brown Brothers & Company Building be under construction in the background?
It is considered one of the first buildings to feature the Phoenix columns, which later became very popular.
These special columns were manufactured in just one workshop (patent) and were used in a large number of buildings.
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Grand Central train yard looking north-west from 44th Street, 1904
Grand Central Yards from 47th Street during the early stages of excavation, Ewing Galloway, 1907
top) Park Avenue looking north from 50th Street, 1890. Courtesy of New York Transit Museum.
(bottom) Park Avenue looking north from 50th Street, 1906. Courtesy of the National Museum of American History.
View south of 50th Street of Grand Central Terminal, 1913, Box 8, Folder 6, Grand Central Terminal Collection, Drawings and Archives, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.
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It’s a good thing they did this back then as it probably would not happen today.
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would be 40 billion dollars
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