An intriguing 1925 postcard has re-imagined a utopian New York City as a city of skyscrapers that we already knew today. The 1920'...
An intriguing 1925 postcard has re-imagined a utopian New York City as a city of skyscrapers that we already knew today. The 1920's version of the future features multi-level skyscrapers with elevated train systems, weird yet beautiful flying vehicles, and meandering maze of bridges and overpasses. Who wouldn't be fascinated with the Big Apple's future with the mixture of monolithic structures and Jules Verne flair.
Then again, New York has always been a favorite apocalyptic setting but in this case, you wish you were there even in fantasy!
FUTURE NEW YORK will be pre-eminently the city of skyscrapers. The first steel frame structure that was regarded as a skyscraper was the Tower Building at 50 Broadway, a ten story structure 129 feet high. There are now over a thousand building of that height in Manhattan. 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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