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The history of skyscrapers in New York City began with the construction of the Equitable Life, Western Union, and Tribune buildings in the early 1870s. These relatively short early skyscrapers, sometimes referred to as "preskyscrapers" or "protoskyscrapers", included features such as a steel frame and elevators—then-new innovations that were used in the city's later skyscrapers.
0–9. 1 Lincoln Plaza; One Manhattan Square; One Riverside Park; One Sutton Place South; 1 Wall Street; 8 Spruce Street; 15 Central Park West; 15 Hudson Yards
"New York City's economic arrogance, cultural ambitions, and overall theatricality combines to create a skillful, intense, and, for the most part, jealous eclecticism. The making of compositions, the making of streets, and the making of theater — it is these things that define the architecture of New York far more than does any single style."
111 West 57th Street, also known as Steinway Tower, is a supertall residential skyscraper in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, United States.Developed by JDS Development Group and Property Markets Group, it is situated along Billionaires' Row on the north side of 57th Street near Sixth Avenue.
The Big Bend is a proposed megatall skyscraper for Billionaires' Row in Midtown Manhattan. The skyscraper, which was designed by the New York architecture firm Oiio Studio in 2017, would be the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere at 2,000 feet (610 m) if it were built. Reception to the proposal has been mixed.
One Vanderbilt is a 73-story supertall skyscraper at the corner of 42nd Street and Vanderbilt Avenue in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City.Designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox for developer SL Green Realty, the skyscraper opened in 2020.
The Trinity Building, designed by Francis H. Kimball and built in 1905, with an addition of 1907, [1]: 1 and Kimball's United States Realty Building of 1907, [2]: 1 located respectively at 111 and 115 Broadway in Manhattan's Financial District, are among the first Gothic-inspired skyscrapers in New York, and both are New York City designated landmarks.
520 Fifth Avenue is a mixed-use supertall building under construction at Fifth Avenue and 43rd Street in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. The building occupies the former site of three structures. Mickey Rabina is developing the building, and architectural firm Kohn Pedersen Fox designed the structure and serves as architect ...