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Aerial view looking southwest of Midtown Manhattan’s skyscrapers, between Rockefeller Center (above, left) and 59th Street (below, right), in spring, 1987.
Photo: Robert Cameron.
Source: Cameron, Robert “Above New York”. San Francisco, Cameron & Company, 1988.
The Twin Towers of World Trade Center (Minoru Yamasaki-Emery Roth & Sons, 1973. Destroyed, 2001), with the new posmodernist skyscrapers of World Financial Center (Cesar Pelli & Associates, 1982-1988), in Battery Park City, nearing completion in this view looking northeast from Jersey City in Summer of 1987. The old neo-gothic Woolworth Building (Cass Gilbert, 1913) can be seen at center, between the Twin Towers.
Photo: Unknown.
Source: Michael George “New York Today” (New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1988)
Night view looking southeast of Midtown Manhattan from the top of Times Square’s Marriott Marquis Hotel, in the Summer of 1987. The 45-story Interchem Building (Emery Roth & Sons, 1969) are at left, and the 40-story New York Telephone Building (Kahn & Jacobs, 1974) with the 102-story Empire State Building (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1931) are visible at center.
Photo: Unknown.
Source: Michael George “New York Today” (New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1988)
Midtown Manhattan as seen from the top of World Trade Center’s South Tower observatory. View looking north in Summer, 1987.
Photo: Unknown.
Source: Michael George “New York Today” (New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1988)
Aerial view loking southeast of the new World Financial Center's (Cesar Pelli, 1985-1988) skyscrapers in Battery Park City in the fall of 1987. Buildings at left are the 4 WFC (Merrill Lynch. 1986), 3 WFC (American Express. 1985). The glass arches of Winter Garden are visible at center. The new 2 WFC (Merrill Lynch, 1988) nearing completion are at right. The 110-story Twin Towers of World Trade Center (Minoru Yamasaki-Emery Roth & Sons, 1973-74. Destroyed 2001) are visible behind the new posmodernist complex.
Photo: Unknown.
Source: Michael George “New York Today” (New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1988)
The recently restored Statue of Liberty with its new golden torch and Lower Manhattan skyscrapers in the distance in the Spring of 1987.
The 110-story Twin Towers of World Trade Center (Minoru Yamasaki-Emery Roth & Sons, 1973-74), at center, domiantes the skyline. Behind it appears the new 48-story 7 World Trade Center (Emery Roth & Sons, 1988) under construcion. The new posmodernist skyscrapers of World Financial Center (Cesar Pelli, 1985-1988), at Battery Park City's development is at left, including the 51-story, piramidal-rooftop, 3 WFC (American Express) Building (1985) and the new 44-story round-dome 2 WFC (Merrill Lynch) Building (1988) under construction. The Woolworth Building (Cass Gilbert, 1913) and the 54-story One Liberty Plaza (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1973) are visibles at right.
Photo: Unknown.
Source: Michael George "New York Today" (New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1988)
