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and châteaux, and Building that represented New
were built around York in 1932 in the International
courtyards not Style architectural survey.
visible from the The World Trade Center was
street. Favorite New York’s tallest building until
landmarks are the September 2001 (see p56). It
five Twin Towers represented the Modernist style,
on Central Park now super seded by the Post-
West, the San Modern style, such as the Citigroup
Remo, Eldorado, Center (1977). In 2013, One World
Century, the Trade Center became the Western
Beresford, and world’s tallest building, reaching
the Majestic. Built 1,776 ft (541 m), a reference to the
during the peak year of American Independence.
of Art Deco
(1929 to 1931), DIRECTORY
they create the
The Dakota Apartments, built in 1884, on the Upper West distinctive skyline Where to Find
Side across from Central Park seen from the park. the Buildings
Carnegie Hall pp144–5
Insurance Company Building, Skyscrapers Chelsea pp126–35
1928; United States Courthouse, In 1902, Daniel Burnham, a Chrysler Building p151
1936); the teams of Warren & Chicago architect, built the Citigroup Center p173
Wetmore (Grand Central Flatiron Building, so tall at City Hall p84
Terminal, 1913; Helmsley 300 ft (91 m) that skeptics said Empire State Building pp132–3
Building, 1929); Carrère & it would collapse. By 1913, the Flatiron Building p123
Hastings (New York Public Woolworth Building had risen Frick Mansion pp196–7
Library, 1911; Frick Mansion, to 792 ft (241 m). New zoning Grand Central Terminal pp152–3
1914); and McKim, Mead & laws demanded that skyscra- Helmsley Building p154
White, the city’s most famous pers be built in such a way as to James A. Farley Post Office
Building p131
firm of architects (Villard allow light to reach street level. Lower East Side Tenement
Houses, 1884; James A. Farley This suited the Art Deco style. Museum p92
Post Office Building, 1913. The Chrysler Building (1930) McGraw-Hill Building p143
was the world’s tallest until the The Metropolitan Museum
Apartment Buildings Empire State Building (1931) of Art pp186–93
As the city’s population grew was completed. Both are Art National Museum of the
and space became ever more Deco classics, but it was American Indian p77
precious, family homes in Ray mond Hood’s McGraw-Hill New York Life Insurance
Manhattan became much too Company Building p122
expensive for most New Yorkers, New York Public Library p142
and even the wealthy joined the One World Trade Center pp74–5
trend toward communal living. Schermerhorn Row p81
In 1884 Henry Hardenbergh’s SoHo Cast-Iron Historic
Dakota (see p212), one of the District pp98–9
first luxury apartment buildings, Twin Towers of Central Park
West p208
started a spate of turn-of-the- United States Courthouse p84
century construction on the Villard Houses p172
Upper West Side. Many of the Art Deco arched pattern on the Woolworth Building p85
buildings resembled castles spire of the Chrysler Building

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