Before he designed Rockefeller Center, Raymond Hood imagined constructing grand bridges across the rivers, held up by skyscraper apartments--a city on a bridge.
A proposed bridge to span the Hudson River would have been taller than the Woolworth Building and twice as long as the George Washington Bridge.
Since the early 20th century, there have been plans to fill in the Hudson River, East River and more around Manhattan. Maps by Dr Kennard Thompson, and more.
Central Park, one of the most iconic public spaces in the world, could have looked a lot more like Versailles had another plan been used instead.
William Zeckendorf's X City was supposed to rival Rockefeller Center, but the dream city became today's UN Headquarters instead.
Delta Airlines has a new rooftop lounge at JFK, but there could have been an entire rooftop airport in midtown
Spectacular, spectacular: Learn about why Coney Island's proposed 700-foot tall, 11-story Globe Tower never came to host the four circus rings, bowling alley, ballroom, and observatory its creator promised in 1906.
Discover the story behind the hotel that Antoni Gaudi designed for NYC, and why it never came to exist.
What if Carrère and Hastings hadn't designed the Main Branch of the New York Public Library?
The eerie, beautiful drawings that demonstrated the possibilities of 1916 Zoning Resolution were not unlike the imagery in Fritz Lang's Metropolis.