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Sunday, March 22nd, 2026.

The Starrett Lehigh Building.

Chelsea, Manhattan.

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Wall Street skyscrapers. View looking east from Irving Trust Building. 1938.

The Irving Trust Building  (Trowbridge & Livingston, 1912) is at left, foreground. The 71-story Bank of Manhattan Building at 40 Wall Street (Henry Craig Severance-Yasuo Matsui, 1930) is at center. The 42-story 15 Broad Street Building  (Trowbridge & Livingston, 1927) are at right with the 35-story 100 Wall Street Building (Ely Jacques Kahn, 1930) at background.

Photo: Berenice Abbott.

Source: Yochelson, Bonnie. "Berenice Abbott: Changing New York". New York, The New Press, The Museum of the City of New York. 2008.

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Lower Manhattan’s Financial District skyscrapers. Panoramic view looking west from St. George Hotel in Brooklyn. Summer, 1931.

The 120 Wall Street Building (Ely Jacques Kahn, 1930), with the City Bank Farmers Trust (Cross & Cross, 1931), Irving Trust (Voorhees, Gmelin & Walker, 1931) and Bank of Manhattan (Henry Craig Severance-Yasuo Matsui, 1931) are at left. The steel skeleton for the future Cities Service Building (Clinton & Russell, 1932) under construction, begin to rises up on the center of this picture. Next is the Singer Building (Ernest Flagg, 1908). Transportation (York & Sawyer, 1927) and Woolworth (Cass Gilbert, 1913) are at right.

Photo: William Frange. 

Source: Richards Tropical Encyclopedia, Vol. 11. New York, The Richards Company, Inc., 1961.

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Lower Manhattan’s Financial District skyscrapers from Brooklyn Bridge in this view looking southwest in May, 1966.

The City Bank Farmers Trust (Cross & Cross, 1931), Cities Service (Clinton & Russell, 1932) and 40 Wall Street (Henry Craig Severance-Yasuo Matsui, 1930) Art Deco towers are at left with the 80 Pine Street (Emery Roth & Sons, 1960) modern glass building. The One Chase Manhattan Plaza (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1961), the steel skeleton of Marine Midland Trust Building (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1967) under construction and the Home Insurance Plaza (Alfred Easton Poor, 1966) are at center of picture.

Photo: Ephraim Zackson.

Photo courtesy of  Saul Zackson/Flickr. 

Link: http://bit.ly/2Frhy5J

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The 71-story Bank of Manhattan Building at 40 Wall Street. Henry Craig Severance-Yasuo Matsui, architects. 1929-1930. View looking northwest of the Bank of Manhattan tower in spring 1930, showing the steel skeleton of 51-story Irving Trust Building (Voorhes, Gmelin & Walker, 1931) at background, left.

Photo: Bettmann/Corbis. 

Source: Ric Burns, James Sanders, Lisa Ades. "New York, an illustrated history". New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.