VINTAGE VIEWS OF NEW YORK .

Future New York, "The City of Skyscrapers," New York
. FUTURE NEW YORK will be pre-eminently the city of skyscrapers. The first steel frame structure that was reguarded as a skyscraper was the Tower Building at 50 Broadway, a ten story structure 129 feet high. There  are now over a thousand buildings of that height in Manhatten. The best known Skyscrapers are the Singer Building, 612 feet high; the Metropolitan Building, 700 feet high, and the Woolworth Tower which towers above them all and rises to a height of 790 feet. The proposed Pan American Building is to be 801 feet high. .
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Postmarked:   10/9/1917
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