VINTAGE MANHATTAN SKYLINE

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)