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Tall Pauls: 1901

Manhattan circa 1901. "St. Paul's Chapel and St. Paul Building -- Vesey Street and Broadway, New York." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

Manhattan circa 1901. "St. Paul's Chapel and St. Paul Building -- Vesey Street and Broadway, New York." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

 

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Skinny is as skinny does

The St. Paul Building was an anticipation of today's skinny skyscrapers, the reductio ad absurdum of New York's tall-is-better-than-wide thinking.

How do you rest in peace

in a city that never sleeps?

If I'm counting fence sections correctly, the building with Lofts To Let is still there; the three-bay Italianate with a parking garage entrance. None of the buildings on the right are still there. But the sliver of the building at far left is also still standing.

[Not to mention the Park Row Building, a very early contender for world's tallest. - Dave]

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