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NYC That Never Was
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The NYC that Never Was: The Half-Finished St. John the Divine
“We live in a half-made world. So it ever has been since the Tower of Babel was left uncompleted, and
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NYC That Never Was: Trinity Church Gets Eclipsed by a Massive Skyscraper
Source: Library of Congress “The Future of Trinity Church” is a wood engraving from 1907 by Albert Levering from Puck’
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NYC That Never Was: A Methodist Skyscraper Church on Broadway
In 1923, four years before construction on the bridge began, the congregation of the Methodist Church in Washington Heights received
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The NYC That Never Was: Broadway’s Moving Sidewalk
Chicago’s moving sidewalk at the 1893 World’s Fair. Public domain photo via Wikimedia Commons from from the book
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The NYC That Never Was: Skyscraper Bridge Apartments Across the Rivers
The prosperity and opulence of New York in the 1920’s spilled from the speakeasies and jazz parties to the
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The NYC That Never Was: A Hudson River Bridge to Dwarf the Woolworth Building
Beneath a tree on a (landlocked) college campus in New Jersey, there’s a cornerstone of a bridge that leads
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Weekly Map: Filling in NYC’s Hudson River for “A Really Greater New York”?
At the break of the 20th century, industrializing cities were growing voraciously and needed more room. A lot of cities
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The NYC That Never Was: What Central Park Could Have Looked Like
One of at least five man-made waterfalls in the park. With its sprawling acres of green, it doesn’t seem
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The New York City That Never Was: A Dream City to Rival Rockefeller Center
A 1946 proposal for the UN headquarters, the eventual fate of the dream city site. Some of these original elements
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The NYC That Never Was: Midtown's Dream Rooftop Airport
Delta Airlines has a new rooftop lounge at JFK, but there could have been an entire rooftop airport in midtown
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The New York City that Never Was: The Coney Island Globe Tower
As one of the largest and most varied metropolises of the modern world, New York City is home to some
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The New York City That Never Was: The Gaudi Hotel
This is a conceptual sketch of NYC’s proposed Gaudi Hotel, drawn by Juan Matemala. As one of the largest