Now, the future was being charted on this side of the Atlantic. The Singer Building was an icon of this moment. Rising 612 feet above Broadway (at the corner of Liberty Street) its sheer ambition ...
The Singer Building, the city's first skyscraper, topped out at 612 feet. New York played host to the world's tallest building for the next 66 years, until Chicago's Willis Tower took the title in ...
The World and Tribune buildings were demolished in 1955 and 1966, respectively; the Times building still stands (though it's no longer home to the newspaper). The Singer Building in lower ...