In 1976 the Unification Church's made its headquarters in New York in the New Yorker Hotel, a 40-story Art Deco building, as well as the one of the first skyscrapers in the world.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the corporate culture of New York was a primary center for the construction of skyscrapers, and was rivaled only by Chicago on the American continent.

In an interview, Fritz Lang reported that " the film was born from my first sight of the skyscrapers in New York in October 1924 ".

Gilbert was one of the first celebrity architects in America, designing skyscrapers in New York City and Cincinnati, campus buildings at Oberlin College and the University of Texas, state capitols in Minnesota and West Virginia, the support towers of the George Washington Bridge, various railroad stations ( including the New Haven Union Station ), and the United States Supreme Court building in Washington, D. C .. His reputation declined among some professionals during the age of Modernism, but he was on the design committee that guided and eventually approved the modernist design of Manhattan's groundbreaking Rockefeller Center: when considering Gilbert's body of works as whole, it is more eclectic than many critics admit.

Despite the New York City setting, additional skyscrapers in Chicago, Illinois provided inspiration for the opening sequence of the skyline, such as the Merchandise Mart, Aon Center.

Adler was not only an architect but also a gifted civil engineer who, with his partner Louis Sullivan, designed many buildings including influential skyscrapers that boldly addressed their steel skeleton through their exterior design: the Guaranty Building in Buffalo, New York, the Chicago Stock Exchange Building ( 1894 – 1972 ) and the Wainwright Building in St. Louis, Missouri.

Unlike New York's early skyscrapers, which took the form of towers arising from a lower, blockier mass, such as the contemporary Singer Building ( 1902 – 1908 ), the Flatiron Building epitomizes the Chicago school conception: like a classical Greek column, its facade – limestone at the bottom changing to glazed terra-cotta from the Atlantic Terra Cotta Company in Tottenville, Staten Island as the floors rise – is divided into a base, shaft and capital.

New skyscrapers were built downtown.

The majority of New York City's skyscrapers, including its tallest hotels and apartment towers, lie within Midtown.

Ironically, at Central Park, views of park scenery in the foreground and skyscrapers in the background have long been iconic New York images.

* Citigroup Center in New York City, NY — Designed by William LeMessurier and completed in 1977, it was one of the first skyscrapers to use a tuned mass damper to reduce sway.

Before 1915, there were few skyscrapers in New York City, and after 1920, the city authorities had legislated to outlaw buildering.

His father, a sheet metal worker, helped build the early New York skyscrapers.

A new central ferry terminal railyard, car-float bridge and rapid transit terminal was constructed over fill barged in from the excavation of New York " skyscrapers ".

The Seagram Building and Lever House, which sits just across Park Avenue, set the architectural style for skyscrapers in New York for several decades.

During the first decades of the 20th century, many families from the reserves lived in Brooklyn, New York-the men were ironworkers on the skyscrapers and bridges under construction.

The Time Warner Center is a pair of interconnected mixed-use skyscrapers developed by AREA Property Partners ( formerly known as Apollo Real Estate Advisors ) and The Related Companies in New York City.

Category: Residential skyscrapers in New York City

Lower Manhattan is home to some of New York City's most spectacular skyscrapers, including the Woolworth Building, 40 Wall Street ( also known as the Trump Building ), the Standard Oil Building at 26 Broadway, and the American International Building.

However during the advent of early skyscrapers, New York architectural critics warned developers not to exceed the height of the 13th floor.

Category: Residential skyscrapers in New York City

This takes us from the industrial landscape of nineteenth century England to the skyscrapers of twentieth century New York.

Forced to realize that this was the end of a very short line I scanned a road marker and discovered what the end of a slightly longer line would be for the old Mexican: Moriarty, New Mexico.

It would be interesting to know how much `` integration '' there is in the famous, fashionable colleges and prep schools of New England.

New ideas were dangerous and must be repressed, no matter how.

New Orleans had a notorious red-light district extending over twenty-eight city blocks, and the business-minded mayor of the city journeyed to Washington to present the case for `` the God-given right of men to be men ''.

He was a captain, he said, in the army, and on the train to New York his purse and all his money had been stolen, and would I lend him twenty-five dollars to be given him at the General Delivery window??

They would go to New York together, where parties would be piled on weariness and on misery.

Blackman was to be in New York by February 2, because they were sailing at 12:01 next morning.

After a dinner party for which she had come down to New York, Mrs. Lewis and Casanova arrived to see them off, and Elinor Wylie made tart observations that indicated that Lewis had been less discreet than he had promised to be about the real nature of their separation.

New machinery of coordination should not be our primary objective in the foreseeable future -- though perhaps the `` political general staff '' of Western leaders proposed by Sir Anthony Eden would serve a useful purpose.

If this choice is less exciting than New York Democrats may wish, it nevertheless must be made.

New Jersey folk need not be told of the builder's march to the sea, for in a single generation he has parceled and populated miles of our shoreline and presses on to develop the few open spaces that remain.

Another attempt will be made this year in New Orleans to resume the program.

The New English Bible ( the Old Testament and Apocrypha will be published at a future date ) has not been planned to rival or replace the King James Version, but, as its cover states, it is offered `` simply as the Bible to all those who will use it in reading, teaching, or worship ''.

Certainly, the meaning is clearer to one who is not familiar with Biblical teachings, in the New English Bible which reads: `` Then Jesus arrived at Jordan from Galilee, and he came to John to be baptized by him.

Mr. Richard Preston, executive director of the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission, in his remarks to the Governors Conference on Industrial Development at Providence on October 8, 1960, warned against the fallacy of attempting to attract industry solely to reduce the tax rate or to underwrite municipal services such as schools when he said: `` If this is the fundamental reason for a community's interest or if this is the basic approach, success if any will be difficult to obtain ''.

F. L. Lucas's article in SR's April 1 issue seemed to be a very fair and objective analysis of the New English Bible.

If he had any worries, it was only the small ones, about Mother in New York, and his daughter Edwina and what she might be doing at this hour, with her Aunt Asia, in Philadelphia.

She and her husband had formerly lived in New York, where she had many friends, but Mr. Flannagan thought the country would be safer in case of war.

Such payments shall be made to small domestic producers of lead as long as the market price for common lead at New York, New York, as determined by the Secretary, is below 14-1/2 cents per pound, and such payments shall be 75 per centum of the difference between 14-1/2 cents per pound and the average market price for the month in which the sale occurred as determined by the Secretary.

If these services are to be maintained, the New York Central must have the revenues to make them possible ''.

My heartiest congratulations go to their successors, Orvil E. Dryfoos and John B. Oakes, who can be counted upon to sustain the illustrious tradition of the New York Times.

the attitudes of a U.N. delegate who experiences difficulty in finding adequate housing in New York City, or of a foreign diplomat in similar circumstances in our Capital, can easily be directed against the United States and all that it stands for.