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New York World Building, 1890-1955. Demolished to expand the ramp for the Brooklyn Bridge

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« The Bayonne Bridge between New York and New Jersey. If you look you can see them building a new set of arches on top of the old ones to raise the roadway for larger ships. [2100×1055]
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Comments

  1. Russian_Bot_737 says

    What a stupid reason to demolish a beautiful building.

  2. LancasterWiddershins says

    Which one is the World Building?

  3. kinlen says

    Highways destroyed our cities.

  4. bluthru says

    This building is a bad hodge-podge of styles and odd proportions.

  5. yourhaploidheart says

    This one is ugly, though. It’s a building that does not know what it wants to be.

  6. hisroyalyesness says

    What’s the white building on the left? It’s nice too

  7. wildgriest says

    Tallest building in the world at the time of its completion, first building to surpass 300’ of structural height on an occupied floor (difficult way of explaining that yes – church steeples were taller but…)

  8. just_a_thought4U says

    Looks like a robot that lost its arms.

  9. DutchMitchell says

    I like how they resemble European buildings but just stacked much higher.

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