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Battery Park
Bryant Park
Chrysler Building
Coney Island
Daily News Building
Empire State Building
Flatiron Building
42nd Street
George Washington Bridge
Grand Central Station
Herald Square
Metropolitan Life Building
New York Hospital
New York Pubilc Library
Presbyterian Hospital
Waldorf Astoria
Union Square
Wall Street
West Street
3rd Ave El
Bryant Park
Chrysler Building
Coney Island
Daily News Building
Empire State Building
Flatiron Building
42nd Street
George Washington Bridge
Grand Central Station
Herald Square
Metropolitan Life Building
New York Hospital
New York Pubilc Library
Presbyterian Hospital
Waldorf Astoria
Union Square
Wall Street
West Street
3rd Ave El
The tower of the Metroplian Life Insurance Company Building was designed to reflect the bell tower at St. Mark's Square in Venice, Italy.
Architects Napoleon LeBrun and Sons had an eye for beauty, as their design of the expanding Metroplian Life Insurance Company on 23rd Street was to replicate the San Marco Bell Tower in Venice, Italy. The building stands 700 feet high and was no doubt one of the world's tallest when it was completed in 1909.
When this picture was taken in 1925, it still reigned in as one of the tallest (Chrysler and Empire were still in the planning stages). Maybe not one of the top ten, but surly still one of beautiful architecture.
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